Lewis was a waste of space. Gundo I thought did ok till the last 15 and he would never have caught baleba in his prime.Lewis and Gundogan playing 90 minutes is all you need to know. Nowhere near the level City need.
They need to play on their natural sides.We’ve got two of the most dangerous looking wingers in the world but neither can cross or shoot. Make it make sense
This is the crux of our problems - shocking that they play the whole match - just don’t see it with Lewis at all and Gundogan is not the player he was. Strange decisions from Pep this season re selections and substitutions.Lewis and Gundogan playing 90 minutes is all you need to know. Nowhere near the level City need.
I didn’t mind their goalie wasting time today ;)Yep. And it doesn’t solve the problem. The keeper knows he’s never going to be sent off for wasting time twice in stoppage time so they don’t speed up anyway
At least if they’re booked early doors the keepers know if they give away a foul they’re off. So early
Bookings for time wasting might work. Late ones don’t
Well yes, should have wrote score & assist!! Please come back Mahrez, all is forgiven!!I would settle for wingers who can actually cross to start with.
Bloody hell if we lose to Leicester I might top myself.I'm willing to take bets we don't win another game!
and LewisIf we end up in some Mickey Mouse European competition, freezing our balls off in Kazakhstan or Finland, I hope Doku and Savinho will be starting in all those games.
Nico O’Reilly is better than him. Is he even a Spanish international.Yeh there was a lot of talk about him staying until the group stages of Europa were over for Porto. He was very much a buy where we needed somebody or anybody to fill the role if we wanted CL football next season. He is the complete opposite of what we needed.
Reminds me of Pelegrín’s last season. Hope we finish same position.This team reminds me of City in the early 80's at the mo.
Guardiol just keeps getting sucked into the middle and the ball out wide is always on. Every time our wingers got it they had double coverage. This season it always looks like we are playing with nine men.could easily of lost and probably should have
there is a real lack of quality in midfield
Khusonov was good but thought Dias was poor.
Gvardiol - why does he give the winger so much time to run into the area?
rico - fought but got bullied at times....defensively poor and when in midfield he can get into space but he hasnt got the quality to do anything with it.
Nico - ok but again needs to add real quality to his play - too rash at times
Doku - easily man of the match -
Marmoush - got a very good goal, won the penalty but does disappear in games for long periods of time and in his position he needs to not do that...
Savihno - very poor- if he cant learn to finish he aint going to make it with us...just not good enough in his final product at all
Haaland- starved of anything to feed off but needs to be better in his build up play....
Gundo - pointless him being on the pitch - adds nothing
Ortega - he might be a better shot stopped than Ederson (and I think he got away with one in the first half....didnt look much wrong with the mitoma goal) but he clearly makes the defenders more nervous with the ball at his feet
Overall its the same problem as ever...we dont have the midfielders to control possession - too many like Sav, Marmoush giving the ball away all the time ...no creative product from out wide and defensively in transition we are the worst team in the premiership....
We are lucky to be as high up the league as we are...I predicted back in November we would be lucky to get top 5.....it aint looking likely at present and we dont deserve it....that will set us back a few years in the rebuild