Spurs Vs City Post Match Thread

simon23 said:
people need to stop hiding behind the excuse of the offside goals.......we were dreadful especially in the second half.......spurs deserved the win and to say otherwise is just to act like that tw*t that manages chelsea
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Good point - fact is without Silva and to an extent a keeper capable of actually being a keeper we are poor. Spurs won because they used momentum and we showed lack of desire, lack of work rate and De Bryune aside a lack of movement up front. Simply they worked harder and took their chances. Sterling and Sergio need to sort out getting a shot off early - they take so long it gives defenders time to close them down.
 
simon23 said:
we were dreadful especially in the second half
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No, we were dreadful ONLY in the second half, we played very well first half, and once again our attacking "force" let us down by not scoring when the chances came. The game should have been over by half time, but for poor finishing, again.

We cut them open for 40 minutes, and they had about 3 half chances until de Bruyne's clearance, which was a pass to a breaking Fenandhino, had he made it, we'd probably have gone in 2-0 up, not 1-1, as we were at least 4 on 3, if not 2, it didn't come off, and a hit and hope went in the corner, just like last week.

Nobody is 'burying their head' about the second half, it was woeful, unacceptable, incompetent, call it what ever you wish, it wasn't good enough for this team, and Spurs played well, but lets not change the first half, we played very well, but for the final ball/finish.
 
With Silva out and YaYa pushed further up, the control of the midfield was lost. Normally, YaYa and Silva metronomically recycle the ball, and this is base from which a lot of our attacking play develops. Without a ball playing midfield player of YaYa's quality alongside either Fernandinho or Fernando, we couldn't dictate the speed and pace of the play and so were unable to control the middle as we most often do. That's how I saw it, but I probably don't have a fucking clue so never mind!
 
Well we were awful in the second half, as much as I'm an optimist usually looking at the team line up today I just knew, I would of left Toure in with Fernandinho with Kdb behind Aguero and Navas on the right. Anyway a long way to go so C'mon City !
 
Bluebee2 said:
Well we were awful in the second half, as much as I'm an optimist usually looking at the team line up today I just knew, I would of left Toure in with Fernandinho with Kdb behind Aguero and Navas on the right. Anyway a long way to go so C'mon City !
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This is how I thought he would have set up. We'd have been weaker defensively but would have been able to control and dictate the play more with YaYa as the passing fulcrum of the team.
 
cleavers said:
No, we were dreadful ONLY in the second half, we played very well first half, and once again our attacking "force" let us down by not scoring when the chances came. The game should have been over by half time, but for poor finishing, again.

We cut them open for 40 minutes, and they had about 3 half chances until de Bruyne's clearance, which was a pass to a breaking Fenandhino, had he made it, we'd probably have gone in 2-0 up, not 1-1, as we were at least 4 on 3, if not 2, it didn't come off, and a hit and hope went in the corner, just like last week.

Nobody is 'burying their head' about the second half, it was woeful, unacceptable, incompetent, call it what ever you wish, it wasn't good enough for this team, and Spurs played well, but lets not change the first half, we played very well, but for the final ball/finish.
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I thought Lloris was immense in that first half and we could have been 3 or 4 up before their goal
 
cleavers said:
No, we were dreadful ONLY in the second half, we played very well first half, and once again our attacking "force" let us down by not scoring when the chances came. The game should have been over by half time, but for poor finishing, again.

We cut them open for 40 minutes, and they had about 3 half chances until de Bruyne's clearance, which was a pass to a breaking Fenandhino, had he made it, we'd probably have gone in 2-0 up, not 1-1, as we were at least 4 on 3, if not 2, it didn't come off, and a hit and hope went in the corner, just like last week.

Nobody is 'burying their head' about the second half, it was woeful, unacceptable, incompetent, call it what ever you wish, it wasn't good enough for this team, and Spurs played well, but lets not change the first half, we played very well, but for the final ball/finish.
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You're living in cuckoo land if you think that first half performance was anything but below par. Yeah, we were better in the first than the second and yeah, we created a couple of half chances in the first aside from the goal.

Yet every time spurs came forward (which was aplenty) they looked like they'd score. We had guys like Sagna and Otamendi swiping at the ball while getting nowhere near it. The first half was amateur, the second was utterly shambolic.
 
coleridge said:
Agree with every word and taking your advice regarding alcohol.

Also, Dzeko was left with no choice but to go once Bony was bought. Looking like a very bad decision now.

Finally, WTF is going on with all these injuries?
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I second the bit about the alcohol being my solution of choice to ease the pain from these typical City week-ends.

I join the consensus that our injury-record to key players is way above the average of our direct competition, and it has been for several years running now ( Aguero, Silva, Kompany, Nasri being injured for weeks/months each and every season since 2012 ).
Yaya is the only one whom i acknowledge being injury-free so far.
The chances for us to play a full strength team at full potential week-in week-out are very slim, due to our injury history,
that is what kept us from running away with the league and hinders our progression and allows others to catch up.
Stop and go all the way till the 38th game that is the only City way it seems...
 
it amazes me how some on here dont seem to mind the fuckin ref giving the opposition 2 goals, guess some just like to moan.
 
I am more worried about Yaya's injury than the loss.

Our win percentage without Yaya is not that good.
 
zandvoort blue said:
We have today witnessed one of the worst performances by officials in the Prem this season. But because it involves City losing all the headlines will revolve around a City loss. I honestly believe going in 1 up at half time it would have been a different story. The third goal (offside again) killed us off, and from that point it was no longer a contest.
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Hate to say it mate but our goal was also confirmed as offside on replay highlights......so that "worst perforamce by officials" helped us in the 1st half.......Spurs beat us on every level....we not sharp upfront and were poor at the back in the 2nd half....we only have ourselves to blame for the result today but after getting beat 3 of the last 4, its not flap time as too early in the season but we should be alittle concerned......
 
guvnors son mcfc said:
Two weekends on the bounce ruined :) we've not had that for a while.

We won't have many games without Hart, Kompany and Silva.

Aguero isn't fit and we had no other striker available which limits the managers options.

Nasri should of started alongside Ferna and Yaya, with De Bryne and Sterling.

I'm not a fan of Fernando he isn't good enough and the keeper is poor, very poor. The whole back 5 was a shambles today.

As good as DeBryne is, he has changed the whole dynamics of the team and I'm not sure Pellergrini knows how to set us up and where he actually fits but that will come.

Alcohol will numb the pain, no match of the day two weeks running for me :) and no Sunday papers. It takes me about a week to get over a loss.

So tonight Manchester City

FUCK OFF

And Pellers, keep Willy, or Dick, prick or cock whatever his name is for the three handled cup.
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I agree mate....and to make it even worse...I just looked at who is sat at the top of the prem tonight!:(
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
I don't know it's all ifs and buts. Nobody knows and that includes you with your everything would have been ok summary.
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I never said everything would be ok, we may well have lost anyway but at 1-0 we were very comfortable and the biggest part of the job (getting the all important first goal) was complete. We had used a lot of energy and stamina to get us into that position by pressing and defending aggressively, then we're suddenly back level through absolutely no fault of our own and having to get ourselves back into a "chasing the game" mindset.
 
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