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Game should of been over by HT
Just bewildering how we managed that second half after they brought on Calvin Lewin.
Every defender woeful in that half after having fook all to do in the 1st
 
SkyBlueFlux said:
A good job a game is made up of two of them.

Even in this supposedly dominant Leeds second half where we were shit, they had zero shots on target outside of the three we gifted them. Seems an odd definition of shit to me when your opponent can't fashion a single shot on goal.
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'They had zero shots on target outside the three we gave them.'

So we are fucking shite and concede chances where the opposing team has to do fuck all.
 
waspish said:
Remember being piss poor till January when won the treble we need that big of a turn around this season to even have a sniff of the league! At moment we look piss poor
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So basically we're half way there. Done the easy bit, now just need to be brilliant for five months.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
It was quite alarming to see the players running over to Pep to get instructions less than 15 minutes into the second half with Donna pretending to be injured.

whatever he said didn’t seem to make any difference, the ball over the top was leaving us in panic mode time and time again, particularly on the left.
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Nunes had an error prone 2nd half and so did Gvardiol and both defenders decision making terrible at times . Teams are definitely exploiting our defensive frailties even teams the calibre of Leeds Utd which is a huge worry .
 
jrb said:
We got away with that one.

The second half performance was absolutely dreadful.

Once again our play is slow, walking football, predictable, passing backwards, sideways, etc.
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That’s what worrying. We seemed to have abandoned the quick breaking through the lines style that was working pretty well.it appears we have too many sideways,easy option passing type players in the team. Haaland was back to dealing with scraps like last season.
 
Gundoggin said:
Nunes had an error prone 2nd half and so did Gvardiol and both defenders decision making terrible at times . Teams are definitely exploiting our defensive frailties even teams the calibre of Leeds Utd which is a huge worry .
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Yeah. Both did and I thought O’Reilly was poor too. It concerns me how a team as bad as Leeds (Awful first half) could get us so panic stricken so easily.

Unfortunately this team is an absolute shadow of teams gone by and we are doing well to be where we are really.

It’s been a poor few days performance wise but as least we won. At 2-2 I thought they would win and had they shown any sort of intent instead of playing for a draw, they may have done as our heads had dropped.
 
waspish said:
Remember being piss poor till January when won the treble we need that big of a turn around this season to even have a sniff of the league! At moment we look piss poor
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Agree.

At least then we had players like Mahrez, Alvarez, De Bruyne, fit Rodri and Gundogan all in their primes to help us out.

This team has 3 world class player in it in my opinion. Haaland, Donna and Rodri. One of them may never get back to the player he was and in regards to leadership we have very little.
 
Gundoggin said:
Nunes had an error prone 2nd half and so did Gvardiol and both defenders decision making terrible at times . Teams are definitely exploiting our defensive frailties even teams the calibre of Leeds Utd which is a huge worry .
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Gvardiol had nobody to pass to every time he got the ball. NOR wasn’t showing for him. Doku the same. Nico on his own in the middle and couldn’t be in two places at once to show for the ball.

Felt sorry for Gvardiol quite a bit in that second half.

However, that tackle for the penalty was criminally poor.
 
Blue Maverick said:
We need a leader someone who can pul this team together we don’t have one and I’m not sure who’s available to get, we have a weak mentality especially when we concede.
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We have one, he’s slowly coming back from an ACL tear.

Problem at the moment is an inability to turn first half dominance into bigger leads and keep allowing the opposition stay in matches. We could and should have been 4 up at half time. Second half a series of howlers from Nunes gives them a goal and then poor decisions from O’Reilly and Gvardiol give them a penalty. More mistakes from Nunes keep us under pressure.

For me we really struggled to get Doku and Haaland involved enough. Would like to see Marmoush get some time wide right as we don’t have enough other threats that allow teams double up an Doku.

Gvardiol is on fumes and should be rested. Nunes is showing he’s a midfielder. Reijnders has been really disappointing recently, constantly in good positions but never scores and not good enough out of possession. Hopefully he will improve working with Pep.

The team needs a right back, a midfielder and a right winger.

At least our keeper finally saved a penalty. We have some really good players but not great team yet as too many flaws. Still feels we’re moving in the right direction albeit occasionally staggering forward. At least we won a match without Erling scoring.
 
GaudinoMotors said:
Our best 11 struggling at home to canon fodder. Even at 2-0 the game was in the balance. Shambolic, but the flock wallpaper winner saved the weekend.
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but it wasn’t. They looked woeful and created nothing. There seemed no way they could get back unless we gave it them. Which we did - twice. The game wasn’t realistically ok the balance though - unless you argue every gam is always in the balance. At half time the only thought was why only 2. should be 4 or 5
 
.db. said:
Indeed!

A lot of our fanbase need to get real, get used to this City side not being a very top side anymore and just get behind the players we have.

Plus football is like this anyway. Even very top sides can be utterly shit from time-to-time. We were no worse today than we were at home to Crystal Palace in the Fourmidables season, at home to United and Leeds in 2020-21, or against Brentford and Everton at home in the treble season. Yet we had much better sides in those seasons than we do now.

Having a top side is 90% down to pure chance that a team needs players in positions where top players are available and want to sign for you at that very moment in time. Sometimes teams have long runs of that happening but, it never lasts forever, then it’s someone else’s turn at the top.

That’s English football. Unfortunately, at the moment we’ve just slid in quality somewhat from our very top sides a few recent years ago. Add to that we have a small number of players who are in their prime years in our squad, loads of young lads and loads who’ve not played more than a dozen to two dozen PL games. But that shouldn’t make us carbon copies of slapped-arse Rags and Scousers because these players aren’t performing to levels we’ve seen from much better to players than them.

I hope the early leavers enjoy watching the 349th City goal they’ve missed after the 80minute mark since the takeover, and it was a match winner to boot!, on Match of the Day, experiencing none of it themselves.
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I was pissed off because of how badly we approached the second half - both the players & Pep - however I do disagree with you.

I don't think this is indicative of the level of this squad of players - if this was the best they could do, then fair enough but it's not. There are players underperforming and lots of players yet to achieve their potential. For me, I have a lot of optimism about this squad because I think if Pep gets them all clicking, it'll be exciting as fuck.
 
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