Bournemouth (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
Especially when he plays at full back. It’s unfathomable how both him and Nunes can continue to make the same mistake, over and over again.
It’s especially galling with Nunes as I thought he’d done ok since his shocker against the rags but seemingly not.
You also know they’d have both played those passes at 0-0 as well…
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Nunes has a habit of switching off and losing concentration but he is quick. He was using his pace to good effect in this game. I think there might be more to come from Nunes as he grows in confidence.
 
Asa's left peg said:
Taking the emotion out of the game, there were a lot of players who are done for the season. As PB said, inexplicable attempted passes poorly executed. Josko shouldn't be dicked around between fullback and centre half, Manu still looks rusty (Nunes bailed him out a couple of times), Erling was ... not Erling and even Marmoush desperately needs to be taught how to hold up the ball and strength in possession.

It was an end of season performance, but sadly it's not the end of the season by a long way.
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You forget that we are in transition and Pep is trying different formations hence players like Gvardiol are moved around. If Pep had left the City 0-4 Spurs team alone, we'd be in the bottom half by now.
 
tonea2003 said:
we won the hardest of the last 3 games

go figure that
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End of season games might look hard when you look at them mid-season but at the end of the season teams are focused on Cup Finals or they are thinking about their holidays. Bournemouth's squad might be thinking about transfers, or they might have realised that Europe was unrealistic. On the occasion that they won possession from us they invariably gave it straight back again. They were poor.
 
argyle said:
Top win. Genuinely sad to see KDB go in his last home game.

Where are all the posters that were in the last post-match thread?
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You don't need to even know the result of a game, you could just come on here and see how many pages are on the post match thread.

If its only about 30 or 40 pages, the day after, we won. Once it gets higher, we didn't win.
 
Marvin. said:
Nunes has a habit of switching off and losing concentration but he is quick. He was using his pace to good effect in this game. I think there might be more to come from Nunes as he grows in confidence.
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You might be right and I think he certainly has potential and I was disappointed that he didn’t play in the cup final, BUT, giving that back pass again, after the terrible pass from Gvardiol earlier in the game, is somewhat worrying.
We conceded one chance against a very good Bournemouth side which could have all been undone by two ridiculous passes from the fullbacks.
 
Marvin. said:
End of season games might look hard when you look at them mid-season but at the end of the season teams are focused on Cup Finals or they are thinking about their holidays. Bournemouth's squad might be thinking about transfers, or they might have realised that Europe was unrealistic. On the occasion that they won possession from us they invariably gave it straight back again. They were poor.
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disagree mate they were easily the better of the 3 teams played hence their elevated league position
they had every reason to put a shift in as they had a realistic chance of 8th at start of play.
they pressed really well to begin with, my point being we played really well despite that press, kova was excellent throughout until his red
my other point as well...typical city
 
Just watched the game for the first time, now post-match - Micah Richards is such a major Dickhead, with zero sense of occasion. You're talking about 10 years of brilliance - a genuine end-of-era moment - and he brings up Kev's missed chance.

Wish he'd just f*ck off back to his embarrassing WBAC adverts.
 
Josko's suicide pass led to Kovacic's sending of.
He's a fantastic player is Josko but he makes a lot of mistakes and needs to stop making the number he does.
 
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noseve said:
Just watched the game for the first time, now post-match - Micah Richards is such a major Dickhead, with zero sense of occasion. You're talking about 10 years of brilliance - a genuine end-of-era moment - and he brings up Kev's missed chance.

Wish he'd just f*ck off back to his embarrassing WBAC adverts.
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It was an incredible miss to be fair and is a genuine talking point.
 
Gray said:
Yes when we got our red. And people on here are touting Gvardiol as player of the season, he is a disaster waiting to happen every game.
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Not sure what he was thinking?
Himself and Nunes do one every match when they are at Left and right back. Gvardiol is so much better as a CB.
Where I was sitting, you could see those back passes well before they actually happened.
 
dennishasdoneit said:
Penultimate game of the season...
2 nil up ....half time ..at home to Bournemouth ..in a crucial match..

What could go wrong ?

Did anybody else share my flashback to Mel Machins Maine Road Madness in May 1989?

I was petrified at the thought of the ghosts of Luther Blisset and Ian Bishop returning to wreck the last home game of the season....any Blue who was there that day will understand. 3nil up we were that day!

I was on the Kippax..Eddie Large was on the bench, City probably on drugs in that 2nd half
Never seen a party go flat so quickly 3-3 full time, promotion hung in the balance..,on a knife edge

Put it this way.,..no one took a beach ball to bradford away the week after,.;)
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I was at that game with my brother but we could only get tickets for the away end. In the TV coverage you can see us sat halfway up the stand looking forlorn while the Bournemuff fans are packed at the bottom going mental over Blisset's penalty equaliser. A similar game was the Notts County away match a few seasons earlier when we lost 3-2 I think, before we battered Charlton at MR to go up. Typical City especially virulent in those days.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
There was a point in the first half where we had the ball on our left just outside the Bournemouth area. It was screaming for Haaland to make a run from where he was beyond the far post, in front of the defender marking him, so the ball could be played into him in front of goal, where there was plenty of space. Yet he didn't move, and that happened a few times. We all commented on this, but we assumed he's being told not to do this.

However Pep has said he leaves the decisions in the final third to the players. So maybe it's Haaland's choice. If so, it's a piss poor, brainless choice.
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It's been beaten out of him after making a hundred similar runs and not being found. Omar has already shown frustration at being ignored this way.

The situation you highlight needs both passer and receiver on the same wavelength, with the pass and the move being made at the same time.

Watch some videos of pre-World Cup in Erl's first season - you'll see Kev playing it into dangerous areas and Erling, knowing that it was coming, committing to the run. It was just becoming second nature - Erling scoring at will - then the WC appeared and we've never gone back to it.
 
The thing that was surprising/disappointing last night was how Bournemouth came and sat with 11 players behind the ball again.

All season they’ve been a really front-foot side and played with attacking football and aggression but last night just turned up and did what 99% of teams do at our place - dippers aside.

We have been poor and slow in our play for the majority of the season but it doesn’t help when teams just come and sit back for 90 minutes.

The sooner that style of play fucks off, the better.

And you get rag twats saying we’re boring because we play side to side without taking a step back and realising it’s impossible to play any other way against that set up.
 
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