Agreed. Tyler sounded like someone had just shit on his sandwiches when Sane scored. I got to the car on Sunday, and was quite surprised at how the likes of Ian Wright kept going on about how poor we were in the first half. If they had said good approach play but not enough chances, then I guess I could agree to that.
Then on MNF, they repeat the same mantra with bells on it.
Opening gambit from Carragher "City won't win the league, not with that defence" he whined. He schreeched several times how Arsenal should have and any decent team would have, destroyed us in the second half because of all the space behind the defence!
Then Neville spends the next five or so minutes psycho-analysing why Arsenal were 'tired' including the bizarre concept that it was because they travelled back to London, near Outer Mongolia, and they were fatigued. He came up with even more reasons including saying they were lazy. Not once did he mention the possibility that City might have ran the legs off them in the first half, and the second was a possible consequence of that!!!
Weird? Yes. Biased? Without a doubt.
In fairness to Neville he did highlight just how little possession they had and how the running they were doing wasn't what they'd normally expect. Highlighted how many sprints they'd been forced into by our ball movement.
He did seem to understand how and why they were out on their feet and attributed it to our pressing and ball movement.
I agree though, even heard that we couldn't string two passes together in the first half from Durham on talkshite, whilst we completed way over 200 passes.
Our first half was our equivelent of keeping it quiet. We dominated possession and conceded just one chance. We should have gone in at least level. The second half we completely suffocated them. That's why they were out on their feet, they simply couldn't get any time or space,
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