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This has been on the cards for a while this season with the way the team has been asked to play by pg & his coaching staff with highline defending .
Teams are cutting through us far to easily on the break.
We just need to play with commonsense defending has a team.
No excuses with the injuries, just get on with it & bounce back.
 
I think we've been playing on high revs for the last 4 years or more. It's not possible to maintain that level with the same group of players. We've not had a crazy amount of injuries until this season. The law of averages has kicked in.

Pep and his team will know whether the players are at 90% right now. We've been on an incredible run.

If we can get to the international break with no more defeats and then stop specific players being released for pointless international games, we can then come back refreshed and ready to push on.

I remember when Kevin Keegan was in charge in the PL we could never win 2 games in a row. During our darker days we could not even win a game. So, we need perspective, we are 2nd in the PL, we are a well run club and I am sure we'll be back to winning ways very soon.

Remember, Real Madrid got pumped recently. That sort of thing has not happened to City in recent times.

Come on City.
 
I agree with most of the comments made so far. We have had it good for so long now that when we get days like today it leaves you feeling frustrated. I too think the team looks disjointed at times. We dont seem to link up with Haaland and utilise hus strengths and at times he looks disinterested. Gundo also looks a shadow of his former self and Walker looks like his time is coming to an abrupt end. However, one thing I have learnt with Pep, is to never underestimate him....remember our treble year? Many fans, including myself were frustrated by how we wre playing and it wasnt really until February that we started turning things around. That season turned out alright! This team and manager will come to its end in the near future and then we will need to embrace a new team and style. Until then, Im happy to cheer on 'the boys in blue' and hopefully Pep can work his magic one more time!
 
SWPISHOME said:
I'm not being a "happy camper" I'm being a realist...

We've had it good for the last 13 years or so, Especially the last 4 years have been beyond what we ever imagined. The last four years of fighting until the very last day of the league along with numerous cup finals and champions league finals look to have taken it's toll on us this season.

That result today has been coming since the start of the season, We've always dug in and got the wins or draws out of games and it could have been the case today even though we wouldn't have deserved it but we could and should have got a point.

We all know the Matchday Thread (Well most of us do) is like, Embarrassing...Along with numerous posts on this thread. I've absolutely hated the Rags since day one because of what they stand for "Entitled Cunts". Unfortunately we've numerous Blues going the same way, Abusing players along with "we shouldn't be getting beaten by Bournemouth" bullshit.

We lost a game of football, Get it over and catch a fucking grip. Part of me wishes we were down in Division Two again just to avoid listening to this bollocks.
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I agree with a lot of that. It always hurts to lose a game.

The team needs to evolve again because that’s football. Stand still get left behind.

I find it hard to criticise the club but over the last 13 seasons standards have been put in place that have seen us reach the pinnacle of world football.

We ain’t little city anymore so when people complain it’s not so much as entitled but a realisation that we ain’t as good this season for a whole ton of reasons.

The best thing we can all do is revise expectations. Trust the club to make the right decisions and enable us to stay in our lofty position as the dominant force in England. That’s not entitled nor ungrateful but a result of 13 years hard work.

We all need to go again. Football dosent stop and dosent care what we did last season nor the one before.

We need to find away to win games again. Start with not conceding early. Stop playing Gundo and kova together.
 
CC1 said:
The problem for many fans is we’re not used to losing. We’re used to winning multiple titles.
We’ve just lost ONE league game mainly because of injuries.

Let’s chill
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Losing isn’t the problem, it’s the lack of effort from players who are being paid thousands. It’s the obvious weaknesses that haven’t been close to addressed for 2 years. It’s the putting KDB on bench and not using him whilst paying 400k a week. It’s the lack of using youth even when we obviously look slow and tired in the midfield from minute 1.
 
Not sure what Pep was thinking today. Pitch looked very heavy and Walker, Akanji, Foden all didn’t look anywhere near 100%. Thought McAtee and/or Wright could have been given a start. Tactics should have been to slow game down and keep it tight and then bring on fresh legs second half. Got to give Bournemouth a lot of credit back to back wins against top 2 from last season shows they are a well organized team. They don’t concede many and we were lucky not to concede a lot more today. Doku looked good and pity he didn’t grt 10 more minutes. Assume he was being saved for midweek along with Stones.
 
cupsforcockups said:
Total lack of pace and results in the passive way we are playing, no Rodri with no proper replacement.We must keep faith with the youngsters and bin off Walker and nunes(played ok today but a million miles off the quality we require) but keep the faith.In pep we trust
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Hilarious! Been our best player for the past month! On performances by $$$ players, we’d be binning off Foden before Nunes this season!
 
franksinatra said:
We’ve lost matches before but it does feel different this season.

From 2017 - 2023 we lost matches but, bar one or two, we were far and away the better side, but slices of bad luck, poor finishing, mistakes cost us the match.

This season we’ve probably deserved to lose more matches than just the one we lost today. We’re no longer dominating games in the same manner, teams are finding ways to expose our weaknesses and our play has become often ponderous and predictable with little goal threat bar Haaland.
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Sadly your analysis is probably correct. Anyway it was a great six years if it is all over.
 
As a team we are just terrible in defense and clueless in attack and have been most of the season. A result like this was coming, and probably already could/should have come on several occasions already this season if it wasn't for last minute miracles. Instead of waking up its unfortunately looking like we are getting worse with every game.
Very disappointed that Txiki (who has done a brilliant job over the years) doesnt look like leaving on a high, instead it seems like he is handing over a squad in a mess. Smallest number of senior players in the league. Several old past it players who struggle to play even once a week. Wingers who possess very little goal threat. "Attacking" mids that have no keys to unlock the oppositions bus. A defense that cant defend counters and seems unable to learn from their mistakes since we concede the same goal every game. We used to have a squad were we could rotate 4 or 5 players each game and more or less expect the same high quality performance. These days the quality drop is significant as soon as a few players is missing.

Pep will figure it out, he always does. And luckily both Arsenal and Liverpool are far from their best as well and we are still in a good position to win it. But we need to start playing better, asap. Our main attacking strategy currently seems to be having our worst attacking players (our CBs) on the ball in front of the oppositions bus both taking shots and making final plays. I'm just a stupid fan and am certainly not claiming to even being in the same universe as Pep football knowledge wise (or in most other ways) but right now I struggle to see what our actual plan is to handle opposition threats and parked buses. There seems to be no plan at all.
 
blue by birth said:
Yeah he's got to rectify them fucking injuries eh..
FFS we have players who you can see aren't anything like fully fit..Pep even said earlier that players are playing through the pain barrier.
Once we get players back we will be fine..just got to keep hanging in there until then.
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Well said,

Wolves away was never anything but an away win.

Today a tired performance against a team on it.
 
I had a feeling about this one. Still, we were due a loss and with those two sets of shit drawing last week it's not a bad time to do it. 2 losses in a week is not business as usual for pep or city so I'm confident we've had our 'blip'.
 
A bad day for a team that looked ponderous compared to a foe etched with vitality. Right across the pitch, we were slower than the opposition, slow to react, slow to get back, and slow with the ball. Ake looked poor for such a top player, and Akanji has (for several weeks) avoided anything other than absolute conservatism with his passing, which means that attacks begin when the opposition is already set (because the ball is passed across the back line before slowly making its way to the deep midfielders). I can only put it down to a lack of fitness, and therefore find it harder to grasp Pep's lack of proactivity. We can only hope that players return soon because there will be more days like this if they do not. Well done to Gvardiol, Rico, Nunes, and Doku.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Agreed. We resorted to lumping it long at the end...and it almost paid off. Some of those players looked burned out to be honest, especially Gundo and Walker. Pep is going to have weave some magic. Florian Wirtz or Musiala in January would help. We also need some striking support (cover) for Haaland.
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Exactly right. Need at least one attacker in January to reinvigorate the team and give Haaland a break sometimes or help him out up front.
 
citytill1die84 said:
It's been coming.

Gundogan needs to be dropped, still absolutely pissed off we brought him back.
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This is where I take you off ignore. Although he got an assist Gundogan is miles off it. McAtee needs to ask out. If he can't get on ahead of this Gundo what's the point?
 
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