Bournemouth (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

Bellamy's Caddy said:
This defeat has really shown how entitled some of our fanbase has become. I know Twitter is a cesspit at the best of times, but some of the posts I've seen from people who really should no better was eye opening.

There's plenty of City fans who remember the days where us losing twice in a week was a regular occurance, not major news.

We've had horrendous luck with injuries and we're attempting to retain the title for an unprecedented 5th time, having already won a historic 4 premier league titles in a row. The run won't go on forever, and hopefully this season won't be the one where it ends, but sadly the entitlement we see from the Red Cartel fans is on full display from plenty of City fans tonight.
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It’s not a sense of entitlement it’s knowing that we are one of the biggest clubs in the world with the GoAT manager and a pot of money and we have rested on our laurels it’s 2024 not 2004
 
searsleftpeg said:
I know hindsight has 20/20 ,but just wondered ,even though Bournemouth are a decent team, they may have been a bit more cautious if we hadn't been quite so obvious about how knackered and playing though the pain barrier ect. many of the team are. This may have encouraged them to be more ambitious and not park the bus as most usually do,allowing us to play our "normal" game.
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They drew away to Villa last week and beat Arsenal at home in the game before that. We were in for a game no matter who played and were beaten fairly and squarely.
 
Bellamy's Caddy said:
This defeat has really shown how entitled some of our fanbase has become. I know Twitter is a cesspit at the best of times, but some of the posts I've seen from people who really should no better was eye opening.

There's plenty of City fans who remember the days where us losing twice in a week was a regular occurance, not major news.

We've had horrendous luck with injuries and we're attempting to retain the title for an unprecedented 5th time, having already won a historic 4 premier league titles in a row. The run won't go on forever, and hopefully this season won't be the one where it ends, but sadly the entitlement we see from the Red Cartel fans is on full display from plenty of City fans tonight.
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Gordyola said:
It’s not a sense of entitlement it’s knowing that we are one of the biggest clubs in the world with the GoAT manager and a pot of money and we have rested on our laurels it’s 2024 not 2004
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Both correct and sums up the situation.
 
David White said:
Poor from all involved barring Ederson today.

Thin squad is visible to a blind man but we still had 11 internationals out there today who had more in them than they showed. I’ll give a lot of credit to Bournemouth who went forward whenever they could and took their chances.

We’ve been nursing ourselves through games and have got through them thankfully, but playing that way and trying to just do enough is going to see us come unstuck.

What it’s massively getting on my tits is our reluctance to shoot. I know the stats show that we sometimes have 20/30 shots in a match but we seem to pass opportunities to put a foot through it in favour of slowing it down and passing it sideways to someone who is marked by 3 men. Yes, I know today was our first loss but it really has been noticeable to me.

McAtee shouldn’t be at the club if he can’t get on the pitch in a game like today. If we’re going to run with a small squad we need players he trusts.

Anyway, let’s see what this week brings. Tough one on Wednesday and if we play this way again next Saturday Brighton will twat us.
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Agree with much of that but he pointed out post match that
"The players have made an incredible effort because there are players that are not in the best way and they made an incredible effort to be here,
So Manu, Nathan were not in really good conditions. Until the last moment I didn’t know if Nathan could play and he said ‘I want to try, I want to try’.
That’s why after 2-0, we decide to pull him because we need him for next Tuesday in Lisbon. That’s why. It is what it is".
On Walker, he said: “Kyle, 18 or 19 days and only one training session with us and today he was there.
Sometimes there are seasons where this happens more than the other ones. We have to handle it, people come back and sooner or later the team will be back."

It's quite clear 3 of our backline were not 100 % fit in this game. Against a very good Premier league side no team, particularly if they are in our condition, would be able to fully handle the intensity of Bournemouth today. If you're not fully fit it will show.
We have to accept we are in an injury crisis and Pep will have to get us through the next 4- 6 weeks so that hopefully we will still be in top 2-3 position in the League and competing for CL qualifying. All this by mid December. Will he bring in a couple of Academy lads? He may have to.
 
Stoned Rose said:
Kevin and Rodders mate. Bridge too far for anyone that tbf.
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I’m sure you’d like to add Gundo next to Kev and Rodders if he is still in Barca. The team have been number one without both and I don’t remember city were unbeaten or ranked higher at this stage in the past. The fans crying for the the ones that are missing or fresh from bench against 80 minutes legs is embarrassing. It is this team that kept city at top, not the missing ones or McAtee. When I criticised some ridiculous posts they said they are 64 years old and would start personal attack.
 
Kippax Street 1880 said:
I can only put that down to a lot of players playing through injury out there today, otherwise we're in for a very difficult Christmas.

We've gone into this season too light on numbers and the injury gods have been very cruel to us.

No excuse for not playing McAtee at some stage today though and playing that embarrassment of a human being at right back.

Hopefully Savinho, Ruben and Johnny can be back for Wednesday. And can we have the Phil that turned up in injury time from the start please?
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We play Tuesday.
 
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