City v Chelsea post match

[Chi-town blues]

The system IS NOT the problem. It's the players in that or any system.

Yup that is our problem .The players not the system but we still play back 3 in games this magnitude .

 

[simon23]

Conte not wasting any time in getting that squad playing well.

Not Pep's fault.

Txiki and co had a huge plan to bring in Pep but has allowed the squad to have bad players in Otamendi, Clichy, Kolarov, Fernando, Navas etc, hasn't shifted players passed their prime and hasn't fixed problem areas like full backs and DM.

I think it is Peps fault....he knows his players and should know by now that Kolarov and Ottemndi are not good enough to do the job he wants them to do...therefore he either changes something or carries on the same way and we will continue to lose against all the teams that are fighting for the title....liverpool and arsenal will do exactly the same to us

 

[Cellarite]

The defence is wank as is Bravo. Look at how near to the middle of the goal Willian's finish is.

Agüero is struggling but wouldn't dream of replacing him.

KDB can't be blamed either - it was a Gascoigne 96 moment.

Fabregas is a shithouse and (not Agüero's challenge) but I for one am proud of them at the end.

That **** of a ref needs to be stopped from reffing City, United, Liverpool and any top game that affects the top 6 in the league.

Pep will sort this, no problem.

 

[BlueMedic]

we played well going forward.........in our build up play

we were horrendous from the first minute defensively till the last minute

Not true; we conceded with the only 3 shots on target. We had Hazard under control all game (minus the last minute), Costa wasn't involved at all for 60 minutes.

Yes when we started chasing the game from 1-1 we were poor, but until then we hadn't been as bad at all.

It's an obvious weakness but to say they were bad for 95 minutes isn't true.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Best manager in the world my arse. He's been found out. Even I could have a go at winning the league with Barca and Bayern. Mancini ohhhhhhhhh

Just fuck off ! Barely played any of the season and we've lost one game. Grow some balls and stop overreacting. This place is full of whiners when we lose

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

It's no good saying it could have been 5 or ref was a cheat, we say it every week. Same v Everton same v boro. You just know it's coming. Truth is teams know our weaknesses.

Banks of two 4 when we are in possession and we will pass it side to side all day long. Long ball up and chances will be given to the opposition.

It's the same boring predictable tripe. Even at then end with 8 mins to go we are tapping it around back and side to side it's so frustrating and with 6 mins of injury time.

Kolorov and navas played ok but the defence is utter shite and we are so vulnerable to long balls.

And don't get me started on shooting.

 

[Barcon]

The clue is in my reply to posters like this mate........

Job done!

Cheers mate. Still trying to catch up here. ;)

 

[Chippy_boy]

It looked to me that he knew where that hoarding was and he deliberately went over it. Fernandinho is a complete idiot though. He's gone right down in my estimation. We needed leaders out there and all he could do is rise to the goading. Pathetic.

I'd have been happier if he twatted him to be honest. May as well get a red for something worthwhile.

 

[capiloton]

Aguero and Fernandinho hang your heads in fucking shame.

yeah, go fucking kill your self.
chelsea playing dirty all time, and you blame our own players reaction.
they obviously upset with referee incompetence.

 

[Skip Donoghue]

Ottamendi can't defend 1v1 bullied today by Costa....
Bravo 2nd goal positioning was shocking for an international goal keeper wouldn't expect an U12 keeper to leave that much space for Willian to roll the ball into....
Iheanacho at the moment for me is no where near good enough to be in this squad, reminds me so much of Bony, when he came on he gave the ball away to often and lost the ball for there 3rd we need another top class forward....
Add Aguero and DeBruyne not at their best....a cheating **** of a Rag supporting ref ( I don't care what anyone says he is a Rag, no fucker from Manchester picks a team like Altrincham to follow sorry but the ****s a rag it's plain to see).... And it's not to be

I wouldn't be surprised if that was a bent game when you look at it...and is Anthony Taylor the new John Moss...

 

[bazbarrybazzer]

Just fuck off ! Barely played any of the season and we've lost one game. Grow some balls and stop overreacting. This place is full of whiners when we lose

Well said that man.

 

[kippaxking79]

A bit obvious mate—stick with your strengths: rationalising your club's slow slide into oblivion.

My club WILL be sliding into oblivion with shit defend like we saw today. 2 games against top 4 opposition and we've come up short. 4 home games without a win. It's all the in black and white. Stats don't lie.

 

[AntonDonJuan]

Goals are the whole point of the game. Doesn't matter if you play the best football.

The players constantly needs 5-6 chances before they score. Not good enough currently.

It's also a problem that we have defenders that can't defend and a keeper that can't stop shots.

How us poor finishing pep's fault? Half the posts on here are slagging pep off. Set us up perfectly and first half we were great. It was only first 10 mins of second half we couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo. Defending is shite but that's more to do with having shit defenders than poor tactics. Pep not at fault today, ref and players were

 

[Damanino]

Conte had only 3-4 months working with this Chelsea side and they just keep fucking winning, big games as well Spurs home winning from behind, City away winning from behind, lot of mental strength there and clinical front of goal while strong at the back. How many last second blocks they made today either locking crosses or shots? Fucking hell.
They are the team to beat this season imo. Today was a big statement for Conte.

While we finally had a whole week to prepare , Pep even said he gave players two days off, well next time keep them on training only for finishing chances maybe because it cost in all our home games where we didnt win.
Kun Agüero would have missed Costa's chance, Hazard's chance and Willian's chance as well today. Too much fucking misfiring, and then KDB's open chance WTF was that? At 1-0 up going 2-0 up?

Our defensive displays are not much different imo to what we had under Pellegrini. We spent another huge load money on Stones, next season 100% we spend another 50-60m on one defender but until the system starts to work we wont have clean sheets.

Chelsea won 8 league games in a row, conceded last week vs Eriksen and today that Cahill own goal. In 8 games only 2 goals conceded.

After Pochettino, Conte did his homework on Pep too, and its a big worry after last season how shit we were against top8 teams generally,this season hardly better so far, Spurs loss, Chelsea loss at least we beat United away. Wenger, Klopp imo will know what to do against us.

We still dont really know what to do with Sane and with Jesus coming Sane's limited game time could be even less so that doesnt look very well for the German...

As for Chelsea they won 8 in a row, now they have WBA, then Sunderland ala Moyes...
Thats 10 win in a row right there easily.

Conte knows his team, the strenghts, the weaknesses what he seen after first couple of games then came up with a plan 343 finding the right place for everyone in it and so far it works. Now he needs to keep up the hunger, motivation over a long season and we will see their reaction if their form will drop a bit, but the way they won two big games from behind last week and today that just makes me angry.

 

[blueinsa]

What? for having an OPINION on a FORUM. Did we watch the same game? Shit formation, shit subs cost us, as well as poor finishing. Clichy was awful when he came in, as was Nacho.

You have a post history that tells us all we need to know thankfully....

 

[Chevelle]

Are you totally pissed ??? Red card all day long.Had it been a Chelsea player doing that you`d have been screaming for a lynching.

Yup you are right I am screaming for a lynching of luiz when he should have been red carded right at the start of the damn game.. but I guess it's cool just to bag out our players indiscretions?? I see.

 

[super_city_si]

When you end up with Ota, kolarov, clichy and Bravo in goal can you seriously expect a clean sheet against a relegation side let alone a top team like Chelsea. Feel sorry for pep he's got slot of shit defenders to choose from perhaps that's why he goes all out to attack.

Haha too true but it was pep who put us in that situation.

 

[doobyedoobye]

I'm not sure what people expect. We are rebuilding and on the whole doing pretty well in the competitions that count. We have brought in the necessary attacking personnel and now need to upgrade part of the defence.

 

[Heisenberg's Blue Sky]

What? for having an OPINION on a FORUM. Did we watch the same game? Shit formation, shit subs cost us, as well as poor finishing. Clichy was awful when he came in, as was Nacho.

For being a nob. Where were u when weve won or even tonked barca. Didnt see your name pop up calling manager a fraud then. Shite result against an inform chelsea and a biased ref giving us nothing. When we get back to winning ways i ll be looking our for your handle to see how u feel then.

 

[Mr HJ]

Stones and otamendi both have to go. Lescott is even better than them ffs.

Don't be stupid - Stones is 22 for Gods sake. Agree to an extent with Otamendi because not only does he rarely dominate a big centre forward he has no clue about defending a counter attack based team. I would say the two biggest problems in our defence are Kolarov who gives no-one in the team confidence and I'm sick of seeing his face facing his own goal as a player who has run away from him scores, and Otamendi - Stones will be fine.