Ground it out, Fernandinho needs to give his head a wobble though. Thought Dias had an uncharacteristic panic in the first half after giving the ball away, but I credit Ake a lot with being exceptionally aware in our back line. Covered left back and centre back well and for over the halfway look one, something he's been hesitant to do previously for us.
Hope we don't have too many bruises today, a lot of ankle tapping going on last night.
Very odd comment on the BBC though, not sure if it was in jest?:
Have a look at City's bench. How on earth can anyone compete with such riches? CH, Warwick
Yeah, that would be the 2 goalkeepers, one free and one about £5m, the two youth players, zinchenko at under £2m, alongside Sterling, Mahrez and Gundogan. I love it when we just have to name our line up and we're automatically awarded the 3 points...FFS
The fact that others see us as oil financed cheaters with a bigger squad than everyone else may rile us for being ignorantly inaccurate and not giving any credit to the way we play, what we've won and the money we've actually earned through success and sales, but it's also a great weapon in our title challenge...
No point in trying to compete with city because they will just buy another superstar, when we probably won't and if we do the effort in integrating them is huge and potentially destabilising, but if translates to them giving up, not questioning when they don't splash their own cash, and they're not pushing for that 95th min winner.
So, we get the winners prize money, buy a new player, and their prophecy is self fulfilled :)
It's just not fair I say! City keep buying players well within their budget, working harder than anyone else and playing better than anyone else, how on earth is anyone supposed to compete with that?
Well how about less moaning and more effort? You can only beat what is in front of you, is the famous phrase. Well we're in front, right at the top, rise to the challenge or don't, but don't moan about how big the mountain is if you actually have any ambition of climbing it.