Brentford (H) | Post-Match Thread

[nickwychen]

My pre match attempt at a joke backfired (they always do) as I spotted Toney and the referee pushing wheel barrows full of cash to their vehicles after the match!
Toney arranged / predicted a 1 - 2 with NO penalty to City, they cleaned up!

WTF was that today.

Laporte and Akanji, never again as a centre back partnership please.

Laporte only started to play well when he had the bandage on.

Gundogan, terrible game should've been crooked for JG

Foden, tried but wrong decisions all the time. The first one where Haaland gambled and launched himself! Just play it in Phil and let Erling decide how he finishes it!

Cancelo wtf, cost us the game. Couldn't be arsed tackling then gives away a needless foul in our half which is what they wanted, ball into the box and 0 - 1, he was fucking terrible!

Bernardo, wasted until moved inside but too late.

Alzarez, absolutely shit the bed with that chance! Broke his run far too early to shape up to pass instead of being direct, Haaland would've buried that opportunity.

Very disappointed with the game management, no attempt to change a fucking shit performance.
Wasn't only the Players who had knocked off early for the WC, looks like Pep was serving Club shop Klopps touchline ban today!

A cracking day ruined by a fucking shit match!

The officials though were fucking unbelievably bad. 10 minutes added, 10 minutes played despite half of that time being taken up with bullshit.

it was a great match.. the Toney second goal was without incident and you can't be blaming any cash/bribe nonsense for that. Wissa left de Bruyne for dust..

 

[nickwychen]

He is so annoying. What the hell was that dive! Pathetic

a hilarious yellow for sure, from a Ref loads of people here moaned about. funny

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Agreed Tolms.

Having one myself. Brentford had only won 3 all season.

Incredible isn’t it. They had 8 attempts on target out of 10. That just sums up how shit we were defensively today. No bodies on the line or blocks, wimping out of tackles and headers. Terrible. The pathetic defending for both goals just summed it up.

 

[Damanino]

i think this was coming, even some of the games we ended up winning was like going through the motion, ha having 30-45 even 60 minutes periods during games where we were dog shit compared to our best/potential.

maybe WC took our player's mind off of the fight somewhat, and also we have 2x more players going for the WC than Liverpool

season is still long, but if we cannot finish above Arsenal end of season not even with Haaland, Alvarez being brought on, that would be a huge WTF.

they need to go through some shit patch hopefully after WC, but they look very formidable all of a sudden and grinding out results when its needed. when we lost to Pool I was sure we win the next 4 PL games and Arsenal will certainly drop enough for us to overtake them as they had Chelsea away, Wolves away but they got 6 points from those.
also they can throw the EL if they want and they already cleared their calendar on the Carabao schedule. Arteta will do throw the Fa cup same way imo, to have a real go at the title.

January will be moment of truth for us, Chelsea away, United away, Arsenal away, Spurs way in like within 2.5-3 weeks... we need 7-8 points maybe from these at least will be fucking hard...
these points lost vs Brentfrd needs to be earned back in those 6 pointer games away from home.

 

[City Raider]

And breath

 

[eyalluvitt]

I see some complaining about pushing for the win while drawing.

We did that against Fulham and turned 1 point into 3.
Today, we did it against their local neighbors and lost 1 point.

I’ll do the math for you…we ended up 1 point ahead of where we would have been by ”settling” for 2 draws!

If THIS TEAM isn’t pushing for a win, at home, against Brentford, then what’s it all mean?

They did us on the break…again! It’s what teams do to us. HOWEVER, that is a function of being the most attacking, high goals scoring, most successful team in the Premier League for the last decade!

What troubles me is the individual performances of some players, because Pep’s system relies on a cohesive unit, where one passenger can bring the whole thing crashing down, and Pep’s seeming reluctance to change what is clearly not working!

He left it waaay too late to bring Bernardo in off the wing! Who wastes one of the best midfielders IN THE WORLD as a touchline hugger, when he’s got Grealish and Mahrez on the bench?

Who chooses to push Gundogan forward when he brings Bernardo into midfield alongside Rodri, when you’ve got fresher legs on the bench?

Their game was ALL about long high balls for knock ons, and punts down the line for one of the rabbits to chase, which ANYONE should have known, yet of our THREE most aggressive Centre Backs ZERO were played at Centre Back!

indeed, their first goal was a result of first Akanji being beaten to a header by Mee, then Laporte being beaten to a header by Toney….and them all being played onside by Stones playing Right Back…while Ederson neither came nor stayed and got “lobbed” by the header!

It was a shitshow all around!!!

And, by the time they did actually score, if it hadn’t been for Ederson, it’d have ALREADY been 2-0 and that would have been 3-0 down INSIDE 16 MINS!!!

Is there ANY chance we can get a player who can play RIGHT WING AND COME INSIDE IF PLAYED ON THE LEFT WING??? ANYONE??

When Bernardo is your Right Winger and Stones is your supporting Right Back, crosses are not really on the agenda, are they?

It’s no wonder Haaland prowled around all day with a face like a slapped arse! Best forward in the world and you can’t even get him the ball???

Oh well, enough of that shit! I knew it was in the cards after about 5 minutes, when they were plastering us, and the Commentator said

- they haven’t won away from home all season,
- they hadn’t beaten us since 1935,
- A City win would break a century’s old record
- A goal for Haaland would have been his 200th goal for club and country in his 200th appearance

Same old story of Typical City rearing its ugly head at the wrong moment!

Your right, that first goal was a defensive disasterclass, it needed 4 players to not do the basics and boy did we not

 

[radcliffe1309]

A wake up call that's all .....we will be better for it

 

[eyalluvitt]

Frustrating game today. Kevs radar was a bit wide of the mark and with that goes a lot of the creativity. To many hopeful crosses, ridiculous shots including defenders shooting with their wrong foot from 25 yards.

For me the worst part was a few players were not necessarily out of form but were attempting half hearted challenges, tracking back, pressing. Regardless of the World Cup that is not acceptable.

The defence is poor, when dominating possession, suffocating the opposition the clean sheets only mask the failings of the back five. Once we reach the latter stages of the Champs lge it will be the usual 3 goals conceded each match and left with a mountain to climb.

When teams come to the Etihad and don’t go past the halfway line our defense looks great

 

[eyalluvitt]

Pisses me off that.

We missed players who gave a shit today.

They cared only about their place in the world cup and not about the club that pays their wages nor the fans who paid a lot to be there.

The irony is if Toney was picked we probably win the game

 

[uwerosler28]

And breath

If a football result impacts your interaction with your children, you need to re prioritise