City v Everton post match

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blueinsa said:
Todays performance was for me our best yet.

Imo of course.

Bookmark this post because over the course of the next 3 years, Pep will make us one of the greatest club sides thats ever existed and im in no doubt about it.
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its remarkable what he has done in just 3 months or so.

As Ive said previously he doesn't have all the players to play the exact way he wants ....G.Jesus is another piece of that puzzle as are the fullbacks.

This season is going to be a close run thing between us Spurs, Liverpool and Arsenal....spurs and pool have a head start on un in terms of the fact their teams are bedded in and managers have all the pieces of the puzzle in place. Pep is just starting and today showed how we can bounce back from a disappointing display vs spurs. Individual errors cost us today (missed penalties and failure of last pass) and everton defended very well, but the way the team was set up and played show real signs of what is coming.
 
Very frustrating not to win that.

One missed pen is bad enough but to then miss a second in exactly the same spot as the keeper saved the first one is fucking criminal. Aguero needs to come off penalties. He misses too many. I never feel confident when he takes one.

Some very nice football again and the pressing was good but the final ball was poor at times from the byline and we didn't create enough clear chances.

Kelechi was average to say the least although other than miss a pen Aguero did nothing either.

Silva and De Bruyne good.

One big problem we have is our inability to keep clean sheets. Everton were no threat at all but get one chance and score mainly due to Stones over committing and feeble defending from Clichy. We need to learn how to win games 1-0.
 
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blueinsa said:
Dont bother with the first 26 pages mate as there are far worse, trust me!
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Ha mate, just got in, I'll save the bother of reading the thread.

We played some magnificent football today, 2 wank penalties and Stekelenburg had one of those days.

Want to see the replay of their goal but to me Clichy was fucking pathetic by leaving Lukaku on his left, surely he needed to make him come inside?
 
Good to see Sane and Gundogan getting better. When they hit top form it's going to be special.

I wish Sterling would take on the fullback more often, with conviction. If he lost the ball more often than not I wouldn't care, just as long as he was more positive.
 
Rammy Blue said:
Ha mate, just got in, I'll save the bother of reading the thread.

We played some magnificent football today, 2 wank penalties and Stekelenburg had one of those days.

Want to see the replay of their goal but to me Clichy was fucking pathetic by leaving Lukaku on his left, surely he needed to make him come inside?
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Agree on everything mate although Lukaku is an absolute beast of a player, so strong and will beat most players on his day.

Ive never enjoyed us missing 2 penalties or dropping 2 points like i have done today as i thought we played sublimely at times.
 
Very neat approach play, but no end product - bloody well shoot some times.

The two penalties were atrocious, how much do these clowns get paid they should be able to score from ten yards with only the keeper to beat.
 
Pep tries Sane' partnered with DB at the right and Sterling partnered with Silva at the left before swap around the position. I think Silva at the left and KDB at the right is the way to get the most of them. Both Sane' and Sterling are not effective as left wing. Nolito is good but still not good enough. I am waiting for Gabriel to try on left wing. If I have to choose between Sterling and Sane' as right wing, I prefer Sane' because he has more dimension. Sterling only do one thing trying to take on. Just my opinion.
 
I think we really need to see this a season of transformation. That way nobody is going to be disappointed. We had an ageing side with a poor season behind them. Pep has already started rebuilding with great younger players. Personally I think Pep has been surprised at the re-building work he needs to do. We all know the full backs need replacing, a new central defender and possibly a new striker over the next couple of windows. Pep's style will take a while to implement completely. Watch us next season and you will see the difference, although the football we are playing now is great to watch. I think expectations are too high for this season, let's give Pep the time to build his team and just accept this season may be a transformation period. The future is exciting and next season is going to be something special. In the meantime let's enjoy the football and how this team will continue to play. Anything we can win this year is a bonus.
 
One thing I think is fair to criticise today other than the penalties, were the corners. I feel this is an area we need more variety in, constant out-swinging corners to no one in particular just aren't providing us with anything - and if anything provide counter attacking opportunities as the ball naturally swings out of their box.

We had 13 corners today & not once did we get even close to creating a chance from them, add some in-swingers and come more creative ones, we don't have a large team so whipping out-swingers in to a fairly sizable team like Everton just plays into their hands.
 
Manc in London said:
I didn't go today. After the game, I thought I would read this thread to find out what happened. Thus far, I have established:

We were all over them but they controlled the game.

We created nothing but we should have scored plenty.

Sane played well but he did nothing.

Silva and De Bruyne, our creative players, were very good but they created little.
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Lol
 
BlueMedic said:
One thing I think is fair to criticise today other than the penalties, were the corners. I feel this is an area we need more variety in, constant out-swinging corners to no one in particular just aren't providing us with anything - and if anything provide counter attacking opportunities as the ball naturally swings out of their box.

We had 13 corners today & not once did we get even close to creating a chance from them, add some in-swingers and come more creative ones, we don't have a large team so whipping out-swingers in to a fairly sizable team like Everton just plays into their hands.
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Very good point,we should take them short sometimes unless vinny is playing then aim for his head
 
karen7 said:
Very good point,we should take them short sometimes unless vinny is playing then aim for his head
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Yup, some short, some training ground routines, some in-swinging (particularly De Bruyne as his deliveries will be far harder to collect than Silva's floatier deliveries). Just a bit of variety. Felt we got in a rut with Pellegrini's out-swingers to the near post & hoping for a flick on, and feel similarly we're in a bit of a rut with deeper out-swingers under Pep.

No qualms with this being Pep's favoured corner & being say 75% of our corners, but a bit of variety every now & then can't do any worse than we seem to be at the moment from corners.
 
Happy to watch us play that way week in week out. But for their gk that would have been an easy win.
 
Where do some of these clueless fans come from!
If this forum was around in 97/98 then they would have something to moan about ffs!
 
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