Match Thread | Manchester City v. Wydad AC (CWC) 18/06/25

[lee one pen]

Some nice stuff but fitness & heat having an impact on us.

Pitch is wank to mate.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Savio had a good half I thought. Reijnders a rolls-royce, promising flashes from Phil. Cherki trying too hard to impress and the poor pitch isn't suiting his silky style.

 

[Ajm1985]

Get Reijnders a #6 in there and let him run the game higher

This. Lad is superb

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Cherki been terrible.

Looks a bit like he doesn't quite know his role. You've got Savinho and Foden both playing in the sort of areas you expect he'd want to take up.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Fuckin hell can’t wait to see the first team in action

 

[Cassandra]

Have to say I’m finding it hard to identify individual players most of the time on 5 wide angled views have the players looking like Subbuteo men with blurred out numbers.

 

[bert38]

Not bad considering we only have one midfielder-I must say Reijnders looks the business. We have some player there.

 

[northendenton]

Oh ok then

If you want to do a good sarcastic reply try harder

 

[Longballutd]

Been looking forward to this. Decent game so far. Rico being Rico and Reis looking a bit suspect but good otherwise

 

[SamBlue]

This is how Cherki plays - he’s not treating it like a friendly, that’s just his style.

I personally like it, it’s nice to see a player not being robotic and trying to make things happen out of nothing.

Cherki already thinking, what the f.....

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Never change Match DayThread.

 

[falcon117]

right back position has to be sorted out otherwise will cost us alot next season

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

Bit of a Mish mash first half players taking each others space.reinders looking good cherki trying to many flicks keep it simple.saviniho looking ok as well I'd like to see a few subs but no rush yet.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Fuck me kolo looks like he’s eaten Micah!

 

[AirbagsOptionalTheReturn]

Kolo looks like he lives under a bridge :)

 

[rice10]

Well we look pretty decent going forward, not amazing but pretty sharp. Reijnders looks very good Cherki doesn’t look great but it’s one half of football. Off the ball we were terrible, a better team and we’d have conceded two.

I like the players we have signed but the issue we had all of last season was our off the ball work and we haven’t signed anyone to help with that, yet.

To expect the likes of Savinho to suddenly turn it to good players after a couple of weeks though is me asking for way to much.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Kolo. Kolo, Kolo. Kolo, Kolo,. Kolo.. Kolo Toure...

 

[Longballutd]

right back position has to be sorted out otherwise will cost us alot next season

Real problem position. I prefer Nunes there but also got mistakes in him

 

[robbieh]

A bit of a silly lineup to be honest. 5 attacking midfielders/wingers.
One too many and that's why we're being caught on the break too often.

González or Rodri alongside Reinjders who has been great, would be a more coherent set up.

 

[Lavinda Past]

This game is crying out for Kalvin Phillips.

Seriously though... Not a bad half. Good to see Phil looking sharper. Reijnders looks top class. Rico looking good with his nice trim.

A few changes later on... 6-0 City