City v Bournemouth post match

[Gabriel]

A sort of Gundogan type player?

Perhaps. Will be fascinating to see which Guardiola favours when they're all available. Bournemouth were surprisingly physical today, so Fernandinho was probably the right call today.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Thought he was very easily the worst City payer by a long way off ... but he got us out of a hole.

I didn't think so. De Bruyne did not play well today. Got caught in possession, got in the way of others and missed a few passes too.

 

[bazbarrybazzer]

Not the best performance but nothing better than 3 lovely points to make my weekend.

Mike Dean you dicklick.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

International break coming at the right time. Start our season properly when we get back. Won't win fuck all playing like we did today. Thankfully we got the late winner or we would be in deep shit already.

Even if we didn't win today, we would have only been a maximum of 4 points behind other teams. It's to early in the season to be saying we won't win the league. We normally start the season brilliant, everyone claims we will piss it when we do. Let's see how we're performing around the end of September through to Christmas before making any sort of assumptions. This squad is near enough perfect, with one or two signings to be made. We will see what we're made of in the next few months.

 

[TFC]

If rather start slowly and grow into the season than come flying out of the blocks like we did last year and crumble.

We will see the timewasting, defensive tacs all season long, sometimes we'll break teams down, sometimes not.

3 points, job done, lovely.

 

[SWP's back]

What the fuck are you on about? Granted we won today and I am extremely glad for that but we were nowhere near good enough. And Chelsea were not worse than us last year. They just knew what to do once Conte figured out his team. They were extremely efficient. Give credit where it's due and take of your blue tinted specs for once.

Maybe once you learn comprehension then you'll understand my post. Until then, you'll look silly.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

You sound a broken man already.

I was broken the minute Taylor didn't send off Luiz, everything that has happened since has just reinforced my view that they'll do everything in their power to stop us winning it. Just look at their nonsense already this season, Chelsea home last season broke us last season, this season there'll be a game where we blow up (because we're human) unless something changes on their side, and that will have to be forced.

 

[robbieh]

Agreed.

Yaya would have got us the control of midfield we needed at times today and those 3 today is a complete luxury.

You pick one Silva and that is it imo.

Of the three the two Silvas are the most similar so yes. KdB further forward and one of them.

 

[vmsuhail]

How fast do you think a team can play against 10 men inside 20 yards in two banks of five? Honestly.

Move the ball forward faster before the 10 players are inside their own half. It's also a consequence of our possession game. So, probably need to ditch a part of the possession for more direct play.

 

[bennyboy]

Great win.Good first half,not so second.
Good to see time wasting getting punished.