Brentford (H) | Post-Match Thread

Alan Harper's Tash said:
None of Akanji, Laporte nor Rodri could stop Toney either flicking the ball on or holding the ball up, it’s how they got up the pitch so regularly.

Had Stones not played Toney onside, the goal doesn’t stand even if Akanji misses his header.

I doubt Akanji has ever played many teams that do that in his career.

Brentford used throwback physical tactics as the ref had decided on a high bar for fouls.
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Ya, pissed off with this match ref (and the Liverpool one) where these refs decide on their own, instead of having a uniform refereeing standard.
 
Got to be the worse performance I’ve seen from a City team for 3 years when we we struggling at the back with Garcia and Dinho at CH. We just got away with it last week. Something seriously not right and too much reliance on KDB and Haaland. The full back situation is a joke. Surely got to find a proper full back in the WC and get him signed in Jan to end years on neglect in the full back position
 
Legal Alien said:
That was disappointing to say the least, we weren’t at it from the beginning and we just looked flat throughout.

I thought it was a mistake to play Gundogan again, he has looked slow this season especially defensively, the opposition just seem to leave him for dead when they attack, and because it sticks Bernardo out on the wing, where he’s wasted. After Gundo missed that sitter in the 2nd half he should’ve been subbed.

Defensively we looked shaky all game and I know Akanji has done really well, but he’s not better than Dias and I was surprised he didn’t start.

We also need a left back, desperately, to get some balance back in the side.

The last few seasons we’ve always had these results at home - Wolves, Leeds, Palace at least twice and now Brentford, so I’m not too worried, just pissed off that we didn’t finish this part of the season with a positive result.
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adr2.8i said:
Did anyone notice how many city players haaland flew past to get back in defence for their 2nd goal?? Laporte and rodri jogged back but erling bust a gut too get back..
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Unfortunately it led to haaland playing their player onside
 
kippaxchris said:
We did but he's the source of the problem at the moment, he's not the player he was. He's too slow, can't shoot, can't tackle & hides from the ball. He spent the 90 stood next to Haaland.
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You found the source of the problem. Wow.
 
24 games left. We will see a marked improvement after the World Cup. Arsenal to play twice. Haaland not going. Not worried.
 
Well fucking hell that was a shit way to sign off for six weeks.
let’s face it, everyone including the fans thought it was turn up and win, I guess that goes with territory of being perennial winners. Some of the players look fucked and a rest won’t do Haaland any harm as he still seems to be carrying an injury. My only gripe was the lack of substitutions , La Porte must have been concussed and should have been taken off, we needed some width so would have brought on Grealish or even FFS, Alvarez looked sharp straight away and should have been brought on earlier, in my opinion.
anyway it’s done. Can’t wait for it to all start again !
 
So much to work on for this team, we're not as good as the media always portray us to be. We need to find a way to start creating clear cut chances again as they've totally dried up, we need a central attacking midfielder as well as full backs, another Merlin who can unlock defences, who is out there heaven only knows.
This squad is still not complete
 
wolviedinho said:
Sometimes we stumble on the correct personal and pep will revert back to the main goal which is to keep possession. I hope the break will give him time to look at the approach and modify were needed. This obsession with trying to pass into a packed pen box is madness without a Dave silva on the pitch. Our quality of passing in the opposition box is crap and has been now for a while. Possession madness with no end result.
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Yes I am hoping he does this over the break too. A little holiday and a reassessment of our approach.
 
Probably asking a bit much, but there's no need for an overreaction.

We were poor but it wasn't a disgrace, or a disaster. Just a bad game, and we haven't had a year yet in our history without a bad game.

Been a great start to the season, and we're in a great position to make a challenge for the title.
 
Eccles Blue said:
The Boys in Blue didn’t give in. They fought to the end. Thank you lads, thank you City, thank you fans. It wasn’t to be today. I take full responsibility I shouldn’t have gone as I obviously brought them bad luck!! :-(
Wholehearted apologies. Sorry. :-(






Just arrived back at my car sitting in the car park ready to turn on the engine so I’ve not seen any remarks yet. I’ll read later!!
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I take responsibility too - last 3 games 1 goal , 2 draws and 1 loss
A dear do as well...
Think I'll stay home till May.. and I've been offered a free for Wolves
Sorry to jinx it...
 
moomba said:
Probably asking a bit much, but there's no need for an overreaction.

We were poor but it wasn't a disgrace, or a disaster. Just a bad game, and we haven't had a year yet in our history without a bad game.

Been a great start to the season, and we're in a great position to make a challenge for the title.
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This is no time for stoicism or being reasonable.
 
Rammy Blue said:
Sure everything that could be said will have already been said about that shit show, but the one overriding issue that drives me and my lad to distraction is the lack of pace in our side, it’s quite shocking how slow so many of our players are.

That said, in a world cup year where so many players are preoccupied, then 32 points from first 14 games is just about acceptable.

Pep needs to give his head a wobble about making subs, no excuse again for that today.
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The lack of pace has been an issue for sometime, we are very predictable, we used to be devastating on the counter attack, so much so that most teams were feared to attack us in numbers.

Pep is almost untouchable for criticism but the lack of subs today was plain weird and also I don't understand his man management of Grealish, every time he produces he is dropped for the following game, not good for his confidence in my humble.
 
Brewster's millions said:
The performance today was so poor that the lack of subs can’t realistically be attributed to poor judgement on Guardiola’s behalf, as a fucking blind man could see that so many players were miles off it.

Can only assume he was making a point about something, as if ever there was a case for making all five subs, today was the day.

We’ve been poor for weeks now and Guardiola isn’t getting the best out of the team. Personally I think that we’ve gone backwards this season which is quite a feat after adding Haaland to the team. Lillo leaving could be a bigger loss than was appreciated at the time - defensively we’ve looked miles worse since his departure - and we may need a stronger assistant manager to curb Guardiola’s stubbornness.
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I think this is ‘living in the moment’ commentary more than anything else. This is actually our best start to a season since 2018.

You say we’ve gone backwards but we started the last two seasons before this one with worse performances and worse results. It was only around Christmas that we began to find our feet, go top, and start to build a gap.
 
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