The Derby Post Match Thread

Bluep*ss said:
OK - I have read up to 59 pages - so I am going to ask a serious question . ? As it was Ferny 1 who was booked - Was it his 5th yellow card of the season?
If so will we lose him for 1 match.?.
Also I like Danny Murphy on MOTD. - talks sense. and also said that Rags claim for a penalty was ludicrous - Herrera collided with Sterling and made a meal of it.
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will miss the match on wednesday
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Me neither.

It seemed more like our traditional away following eg compared to last season at Chelski
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In the £45 seats,the first 11 rows off 25 seats per row were 95% tourist.
That is approx 250 tickets,so now do people understand why you didnt get tickets,through your loyalty points.
 
Chappie said:
In the £45 seats,the first 11 rows off 25 seats per row were 95% tourist.
That is approx 250 tickets,so now do people understand why you didnt get tickets,through your loyalty points.
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There must have been 5 kids around us all young with their parents no idea how they would have managed to get 14,000 points so quick.

Having been at the game yesterday you can see it wont be long till these CAT A away games are full of the Corporate and the 93.20 season ticket holders. Still some of the usual faces there but that wont be for long.
 
The most disappointing aspect was just how poorly we played offensively. The lack of ability to string passes together at almost any point was disappointing. Yaya dropped very deep at times, but even when he was in a position he was more familiar with, we never really saw him run things. Away from the ball, there was rarely any energy from him or Bony and that helped make it easy on them.

Nasri is a recycler and would have been useful yesterday with Silva being out.. Kevin, Navas and Sterling are all a bit more direct so we missed that guy who would help us knock it around and try to open them up. As it stood, we just looked disjointed and the defenders were happy to hoof it away since United were pressing quite a bit.

Not a pleasant game to watch, but pleased with the point in the end.
 
Lucky Toma said:
Only seen this twice - once in real time and again in slo-mo - and would like to see it again before making a definite judgement. But from what I saw it appeared ambiguous with Rojo not significantly changing his stride nor jamming his boot down.
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I don't really think Rojo meant to stamp him, but him not getting a yellow card for that foul in general after simply accumulating as many as he did was shocking.
 
I hope to god we don't have to play like that again this season. OK we had silva and aguero out but the manager is into his 3rd season and should have cover for aguero and turning down the chance to sign a striker in the summer could bite us on the bum long term

the game was crap from city point of view we never did break them down and just sat back to a point it was just coming back all the time we just sat to deep but saying that united never hurt us really and if the main aim was getting the point to go back top of the league then job done move on
 
Wilf Wild 1937 said:
Don't expect to see it again! I agree it was ambiguous but how many times did we see the Mario incident with little Scotty (top,top player) Parker? That was a total witch hunt. I've seen WC winning goals analysed less.
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Still grates with me, that particular incident.

That ex-Pool nob couldn't wait to tell his corrupt father about it so he could blame Spurs loss on that one millisecond.

Of all the pundits he is the one I detest the most especially because of that one event.
 
I'm not having that Pellegrini would ever set us deliberately defensively. It's just not his nature and he was clearly pissed off reading between the lines after the game.

The game I watched was pretty straight forward. They stifled us. Got into De Bruynes face, two men at a time. Same with Sterling and Bony. They were pressing high and winning the 50/50s and second balls. They're intention was to stop us playing football because they knew if they had allowed that, they would have took a beating. In doing so, the daft cunts forgotten there was a football match to be won and were absolutely toothless going forward, I think Joe made one save. I'm fucking thankful I don't have to watch that every week, because I'd throw myself off the nearest bridge.

I thought we were OK in the first half and terrible, in terms of not playing our natural game, in the 2nd. As a consequence we had to defend and defend we did, very fucking well. We were compact and solid and showed a side to our game that I didn't think existed. It was forced on us and that concerns me because that is the type of performance in the 2nd half that would serve us well in the CL.

Happy with a point and back to where we belong so job fucking done as far as I'm concerned.
 
I've gone right off bony! Got me a 24 hour ban mid match day thread!!
 
KdB was a non factor. Good thing he didn't cost us a goal with careless passes out of defence like before in the CL. Some lovely touches but crap crossing. Could only remember one good pass into the box which yaya missed. Other than that he was contained very well by Rojo, whom I had always never rated but he played well for them yesterday. He was Their motm. Ours was probably otamendi.
 
Bluep*ss said:
OK - I have read up to 59 pages - so I am going to ask a serious question . ? As it was Ferny 1 who was booked - Was it his 5th yellow card of the season?
If so will we lose him for 1 match.?.
Also I like Danny Murphy on MOTD. - talks sense. and also said that Rags claim for a penalty was ludicrous - Herrera collided with Sterling and made a meal of it.

PS. Milner getting praise for his cross to Benteke but how about Kolorov's cross in the last minute - superb - Oto just missed turning it into a goal.
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Yes he will miss crystal place match.

Neville also agreed it was just tangling of legs in the commentary. Nothing in it.

Kola's cross was a beauty indeed.
 
BringBackSwales said:
Yes it was great, great in a gritty, tactical, well managed, excellent point without Dave and Sergio kind of a way
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A draw against an inferior team cannot be described as "great". Great is defined as: notable;remarkable;exceptionally outstanding. If yesterday's result was truly great then United would have to be the better team. As even a neutral knows that City is the better team even without Silva and Aguero there is no way to consider a draw against them great.

I do think that, in the grand scheme of things, a draw was all that was needed to keep pushing towards the title though. United absolutely had to win and they couldn't do it. City played it safe and got the point they needed. But at the level City are at right now, nothing less than a win can be considered great in any domestic competition.
 
I think that's the sort of performance we should be putting in when playing away against top European opposition.
We looked very solid at the back at the expense of our usual attacking game.
I think the manager's hand was forced by Silva and Kun's absence, but I don't mind seeing us play that way v quality teams.
 
Burtonblue said:
I think that's the sort of performance we should be putting in when playing away against top European opposition.
We looked very solid at the back at the expense of our usual attacking game.
I think the manager's hand was forced by Silva and Kun's absence, but I don't mind seeing us play that way v quality teams.
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We were playing United though
 
buckshot said:
A draw against an inferior team cannot be described as "great". Great is defined as: notable;remarkable;exceptionally outstanding. If yesterday's result was truly great then United would have to be the better team. As even a neutral knows that City is the better team even without Silva and Aguero there is no way to consider a draw against them great.

I do think that, in the grand scheme of things, a draw was all that was needed to keep pushing towards the title though. United absolutely had to win and they couldn't do it. City played it safe and got the point they needed. But at the level City are at right now, nothing less than a win can be considered great in any domestic competition.
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The dictionary you swallowed is making you take things a bit too literally. However for a manager who is often panned on here as being too gung ho to play so much more defensively and pragmatically made me feel fucking great, still does
 
We were without most of our possession players and if LVG's Utd is good at anything it's keeping the ball (at least in safe areas). Without Silva and/or Nasri we couldn't camp outside their box like we have done in recent years so it would have been stupid management from Pellegrini to do anything other than what he did.
With just Aguero yesterday we probably would have grabbed a couple on the break so we weren't as effective in what we wanted to do as we could be.

Even with a full strength team this is how we should be setting up against Barca, Bayern, Real home and away.
 
Silva_Spell said:
We were without most of our possession players and if LVG's Utd is good at anything it's keeping the ball (at least in safe areas). Without Silva and/or Nasri we couldn't camp outside their box like we have done in recent years so it would have been stupid management from Pellegrini to do anything other than what he did.
With just Aguero yesterday we probably would have grabbed a couple on the break so we weren't as effective in what we wanted to do as we could be.

Even with a full strength team this is how we should be setting up against Barca, Bayern, Real home and away.
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Maybe away but not at home. We didn't look like scoring at all yesterday. Sometimes you have to take the odd risk. Somewhere in between the usual gung-ho European performance and yesterday's performance would be good.
 
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