Match Thread | Manchester City vs. Brentford (09/05/26)

[super_city_si]

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away Tijani Reijnders was Serie A Midfielder of the Year

And then Scott McTominay turned up and took the crown.

 

[OldhamBlue94]

Who the fuck is this **** they’ve pulled off the corrupt conveyor belt of fresh referees

 

[blue moony]

What is reijnders…. He’s deff no footballer

 

[jimharri]

Sick of this refs absolute incompetence

Don't complain too much. We could (repeat, COULD) have had two sent off. Would they have been harsh? Possibly. But a different ref could have interpreted the rules differently.

 

[homerdog]

Why the boo's?

Ref, I imagine, he's been shit.

 

[bondsman]

We need too speed up everything. They’re comfortable defending at moment.

 

[waspish]

Don’t Doku tell the players where he is going to put it if he gets past his man? Because it doesn’t look like it and it looks like it’s the first time Haaland and few of the other players have played with Doku! It’s fucking mad Doku been her 3 years and they don’t talk about where the ball going or a sign that they know where the balls going!

It looks like a team that just come together

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

Boo is just right.

We have set standards at this club.

This team falling short.

I thought the boo's were for the ref.

Team definitely needs to up their level though. Very laboured.

 

[Stoned Rose]

That old friend lack of ruthlessness in full effect.

 

[tornandfrayed]

Well we've dominated, created chances and created opportunities for chances. Doku is great

That's the way I see it. I'm not sure what everyone's moaning about. I mean some goals would be nice but we're not playing badly.

 

[Goater=Legend]

Players making the same movement in the box when it's all congested.

Games like this is where we miss KDB.

 

[Tb1981]

Haaland a total spectator. Hopefully he can stumble onto a Doku cross some time before the end of the game.

Not one player on the pitch gonna play him a decent pass

 

[Gibblue]

That’s fucking shit not helped by the ref blowing for any contact

The worst thing is that opposition are allowed to man handle Doku or Haaland and the moment we lightly brush against their players it's blown up for a free kick. Getting tired of it each and every week

 

[The Norfolk Blue]

Man of the match is going to be tough....

Doku, at least he’s having a go …. no one else is.

 

[madloaf]

What is the point of Reijnders if he is not even ghosting into the box to get on the end of these pullbacks from Doku?

Him and Cherki will be lucky to come out second half, both completely anonymous.

His spitting image impression of Mason Mount is not enjoyable.

 

[SWPISHOME]

Doku is the only one who can take any credit from that first half.

Nunes, Reijnders and Semenyo not doing enough on the right hand side for overloads.

Really poor.

 

[borassic]

We’ve absolutely battered them. Some of the finishing has been comical though as usual

 

[jaiguruKun]

For the referee, we won possession back high up the pitch and he blew the whistle.

Kelleher had the ball for near a fucking minute of that 2 minutes added on.

One minute between when the free kick was given to when he took it.

 

[Blue Tooth]

Exactly the sort of game I expected from Brentford. Think we have controlled the game well. Keep doing what we are doing for me. Chances will come.

 

[TKSG]

Nico on for Reindjers and Foden for semenyo next half please