Match Thread | Brentford vs. Manchester City (05/10/25)

[ysmsa]

Enjoyed that, more of the same second half

 

[calumdown]

Nico O'Reilly has been solid again. He looks like he's played there for years and it's not even his main position. He's doing brilliantly.

it's no use posting positive thoughts in this thread, mate :)

 

[WesthoughtonJohn]

Some of our shooting has been poor.

Phils attempt after the pass inside from Bobb stands out - especially as I have Bobb for an assist on my feckin bet builder :(

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Hamstrings can be anything from a week to three months. Depends how bad it is. I didn’t see it how bad did it look?

It'll probably take a day to know. Just happy it's not a recurrence of the ACL tbh.

 

[Beanhead]

Doku looked goosed last time out, we need to be able to rotate him, shame it’s Savinho and not Marmoush though.

If I do remember correctly, Doku has struggled with muscle injuries and Peps mentioned his inability to play 3 times a week in the past.

Not surprised given how much the fucker runs, and at speed.

 

[phargrave]

Rodri over stretched for a ball, probably pulled his hamstring.
I wonder if he's not warming up enough because of his knee

Only positive is he won’t be involved in international duty

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

I hope Haaland is in there reminding them all about what happened on Wednesday.

Yes we've got them absolutely nailed to the wall, but this is the kind of game where a title winning City team would put it to bed with another 2 or 3 goals.

No complaints other than that, we've been great. And I have faith in Nico G, he's played some really nice balls since coming on, he doesn't need to be as good as Rodri - he just needs to be good enough, and I think he can be.

 

[ysmsa]

Has that Brighton feel this game hope to fuck we don’t come out second half half asleep as has happened a few times this season..

Nah mate.

We were crap at Brighton, they were worse.

We've been good today

 

[King Jay]

My issue is everytime we score a goal the team just starts to go into cruise control. As if we’re 4 goals up. I don’t like that. I want them to start the 2nd half going for the kill ! We know we’re not clinical but you’re leaving the door open for the opposition

We are literally attacking them where are we on cruise control? Goals aint gonna happen like the last seasons where we easily scored 4-5 . We need to stop expecting to destroy each opponent

 

[.db.]

You can see why Neville was a failure as a manager. You'd get more insight from a Guinea pig.

Funny thing about Neville as a manager is that he had a better record at Valencia than Amorim has at United!

Gary Chuckle: 10 wins, 7 draws and 11 losses in 28 games at Valencia
37 points in 28 games.

Ruben Interim: 10 wins, 7 draws and 17 losses in 34 PL games at the Rags
37 points in 34 PL games.

 

[malg]

Hamstrings can be anything from a week to three months. Depends how bad it is. I didn’t see it how bad did it look?

He had to airlifted off the pitch by a Wessex from RAF Valley.....

 

[bluemoonste]

It'll probably take a day to know. Just happy it's not a recurrence of the ACL tbh.

Any chance he's just cramped up or defo a hammy ?? I missed it

 

[bluestevei]

we need to up the pace and not just fucking pass all the time, need a few more goals over the top and let haaland foden run behind

 

[I'm Blue]

Hamstrings can be anything from a week to three months. Depends how bad it is. I didn’t see it how bad did it look?

Hopefully it just means he ain’t going away on international duty and back soon after.
Knowing our luck it’ll be the latter.

 

[deano ou812]

In a perfect world we come out and grab a second within 5-6 minutes,on the flip side we come out half asleep and are holding on ..

 

[Gabriel]

Savinho is holding the wing well and stretching play, as is Bobb. Brentford have thus had to do a heck of a lot of running, so hopefully Doku can exploit any tiredness in the final 30 minutes.

 

[calumdown]

Hurting us? In what way? 9 shots to one (4-1 on target), over 73% possession

and about the same amount, 73%, of negative posts in this thread compared to positive ones :)

 

[come-on-barney]

Such a shame we don’t have echeveri on the bench. We are desperate for another goal scorer. Gutted we loaned him out

Very odd decision, given the game time he’s having on loan.

 

[heslops barnet]

All it needs is a ball over the top of our defence when we push to far up the field looking for the second goal….

 

[TFC]

Gutted for rodders, but Nico needs to step up here and show he can deputize. Cos he's going to have to a lot while the big lad gets back up to speed