Post Match Thread: City vs West Ham

Very unlucky today played really well for the vast majority of the game, credit to west ham for their performance, Sergio in form and we would have won easy enough

Bony sub was plain wrong and navas the usual scapegoat on here

Kdb and otemendi very good players
 
Pellegrini lost that game by leaving Navas on. He is an absolute liability in that kind of compact game because you need inch perfect balls in those situations and he just cannot offer them. There were at least 5-10 attacks that he absolutely killed with his inability. Should have given Roberts a chance or left Sterling on... something else was needed though. I like Pellegrini as a manager, but he can be very, very naive at times.
 
BLUEMATT23 said:
[QUOGeorge Hannah, post: 8884426, member: 15946"]Pre Match Tension transformed into Post Match Trauma twice in five days - too much for me. And Manuel I suspect.
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Yes but the failings of last season seem to be resurfacing[/QUOTE]

This is the worry for me, too.
 
Kevin Debruyen was class today .
West Ham Goalie played well today Adrian .
A part from that a very disappointing defeat at the Etihad .
I hope i never see that shit undefeated thread again .
Talk about being cocky !!!
 
abellwillring said:
Pellegrini lost that game by leaving Navas on. He is an absolute liability in that kind of compact game because you need inch perfect balls in those situations and he just cannot offer them. There were at least 5-10 attacks that he absolutely killed with his inability. Should have given Roberts a chance or left Sterling on... something else was needed though. I like Pellegrini as a manager, but he can be very, very naive at times.
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and he panics everytime we go behind, i mean Sterling was bad today but sub him for Bony? Disgraceful, lost momentum after that. Not the first time either strange sub.
 
Very bad day at the office for us. The first goal was Mangala not closing down and for me a so called world class keeper should'nt be getting beaten from that distance.

2nd was a joke. Kolorov makes a mess of his clearance and gives a stupid corner and the defending from that was a mess.

Aguero awful, sterling awful, bony awful.

De bruyne great, Toure good in second half but should have scored, Navas worked hard but couldnt pass the fucking parcel.

The rest average to poor.
 
Hello i'm from Belgium and fan of KDB.
I watched the game. City was dominant. I actually like Navas kind of play. He is just not lucky in finishing his last pass.
KDB was ok. He can do better.
Every season you have 2 or 3 matches like this.
 
hilts said:
navas the usual scapegoat on here
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Scapegoat implies a lack of causation. There is a reason he is being singled out as a weak link -- he is one. If it's not a wide open game, then he offers nothing of value. He's great to have when we need someone who can track back and provide defensive solidarity, but in a game like this with 11 men behind the ball, you need a player who can pick out a pass and not just hit and hope. He simply lacks the quality for that.
 
Big positives in De Bruyne and Otamendi.

Reality check that the 11 point lead is nothing and there are still signs of last season with some of the defending by Kolarov and the sub decisions with Pellers
 
as poor as navas delivery can be his threat is key to the way we play imo without him we just play to slow, i personally think he is very good at picking players out for a shot on the edge of the box
 
almir said:
Criminal sub and then he added to it with taking Kolarov from that side too. But left his boy Navas there, he must know some Pele's dirty secret for sure.
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Odd, odd sub. He just killed our creativity on the left with that sub. Sterling wasn't great but he's sure miles ahead of Bony.
 
I don't see why people are on Navas' back he got praise from their manager for the threat he posed, his crossing accuracy wasn't the best today true enough but there's more to it than that he was running at their defenders very well giving them more to think about. I do wish he could sort out his shooting and passing accuracy though, a few assists and a goal here and there and his confidence and composure will return I reckon.

Luck isn't on our side recently not just with the ball not dropping right for us after dominating today, the amount injuries we've had, the unlucky loss against Juve. Just about everything that could disrupt our rhythm has happened this month but once our key players are back to 100% and Silva Sterling KDB gel we'll be brushing teams aside with ease. Would like to see iheanacho get more game time in the coming weeks while Aguero and Bony find their shooting boots. Roberts surely deserves some game time after his displays in the EDS I think.

As gutting as this weeks been we haven't got it that bad at all, I'd like to see the home crowd really getting behind the players and geeing them up more than they do currently, make the Etihad intimidating for teams to come to. At times the noise levels were impressive but it kept petering out too soon and didn't happen often enough.
 
One of those games. Hart and Aguero poor. On another day though we would have won that comfortably.
 
We win 5 on the bounce , and then we lose 2 games , we certainly didnt deserve to . So let Sky / Talkshite / Media , twist the truth as much as they want , what i dont want to see is our fans jumping on the bandwagon and faintly agreeing with them , we have battered every team we have played this season , and with a bit of luck and better finishing we would have won 7 on the trot . Looking forward to much changed team wiping the floor with Sunderland , the quadruple is still on :)
 
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