Brentford (H) | Post-Match Thread

[BlueRhubarb]

I’m out in Australia atm for a mates wedding and found myself watching this in an Adelaide casino at midnight. Beglin on coms, surrounded by morons, some bloke screaming a tuneless version of ‘It’s coming home’ at me every time a City player misplaced a pass. Simply Tragic! Oh and now it’s started to piss it down and the cricket World Cup final looks like it will be washed out. CTID.

 

[Withnail]

Cultism. He’s human and fallible.
We’ve been just about scrambling through games and edging results for weeks now
Our worst performances and worst spells almost always involve shoving Bernie out to the right wing to shoehorn everyone else in
This lunacy was quite rightly binned off two or three years ago. Quite why it had suddenly returned with a vengeance is baffling
It makes Bernie worse and the whole team worse

Agreed, we need Bernardo's energy in midfield, KDB, Rodri and Gundogan together are far too slow and immobile.

 

[bluegaz13]

A midfield of De Bruyne, Rodri and Gündoğan very rarely works….don’t understand why Pep has this obsession to shoehorn them into the starting line up and sacrifice the energy of Bernardo.

Also very frustrating that he will not trust one of the young full backs to give us a better balance.

Hope Pep signs for another couple of years….however he can be very frustrating.

 

[Mariosfireworks]

I have heard several excuses as to why we lost today, the cold truth is we were not.good enough, people slagfing Brentford off is pathetic,.are.we.that stupid as a.fan base that we think teams should play to our strengths and roll over? We had a number done on us

 

[dickie davies]

what did the ref do wrong exactly?

Let's start with allowing the time wasting
What is the point of waving your arm at the keeper and turning your back?
At another point he threw his head to one side in a "come on" type motion

Foden fouled, allows play to continue as it looks like an advantage, its broken up by Brentford, play on

Brentford player fouled, allows play to continue as it looks like an advantage, it's broken up by City, whistle blown foul awarded

Fouling when City were taking a corner. Play stopped and a retake, when a pen should be awarded

Haaland booked for turning his man who was totally committed

Added time
Laporte down for 7 and a half minutes
Play stopped for the linesman's equipment failure which was another minute and a half
Four subs (I think)
All the time wasting as above and more
Ten minutes time added

Brentford celebration was two minutes, he added a further 57 seconds

It was a pathetically weak refereeing performance

 

[Mariosfireworks]

Let's start with allowing the time wasting
What is the point of waving your arm at the keeper and turning your back?
At another point he threw his head to one side in a "come on" type motion

Foden fouled, allows play to continue as it looks like an advantage, its broken up by Brentford, play on

Brentford player fouled, allows play to continue as it looks like an advantage, it's broken up by City, whistle blown foul awarded

Fouling when City were taking a corner. Play stopped and a retake, when a pen should be awarded

Haaland booked for turning his man who was totally committed

Added time
Laporte down for 7 and a half minutes
Play stopped for the linesman's equipment failure which was another minute and a half
Four subs (I think)
All the time wasting as above and more
Ten minutes time added

Brentford celebration was two minutes, he added a further 57 seconds

It was a pathetically weak refereeing performance

Yep rhe ref was to blame lol, not the fact we were pretty shit, no its all the refs fault

 

[dickie davies]

Yep rhe ref was to blame lol, not the fact we were pretty shit, no its all the refs fault

Read my original post

 

[uwerosler28]

I have heard several excuses as to why we lost today, the cold truth is we were not.good enough, people slagfing Brentford off is pathetic,.are.we.that stupid as a.fan base that we think teams should play to our strengths and roll over? We had a number done on us

I think the point is we are 100% good enough to be beating Brentford, however something stopped that happening either player commitment or managers tactics both of which is our own doing. To say we are not good enough to win today is ludicrous

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

Cultism. He’s human and fallible.
We’ve been just about scrambling through games and edging results for weeks now
Our worst performances and worst spells almost always involve shoving Bernie out to the right wing to shoehorn everyone else in
This lunacy was quite rightly binned off two or three years ago. Quite why it had suddenly returned with a vengeance is baffling
It makes Bernie worse and the whole team worse

Since we rocketed the rags we've been shit. And that's all on Pep's mix-and-match football philosophy. He should trust the players more and put the over-thinking games aside more often.

 

[Bluekiwi]

I couldn't believe that Jack was on the bench after his performance against Chelsea. I also don't understand why changes weren't made at half time. Pep had seen the struggle so surely, he should have introduced need blood and formation. But then I'm only an armchair fan 25,000kms away.