City v Chelsea (fa cup. 5 th round ) post match thread

Blue2112 said:
Well we overcome Chelsea's 12 men today with the awful Phil Dowd doing his utmost to get them through. Right from the off he wanted to card Yaya and it's all because of the hype surrounding last week's refusal to ban him. Couldn't believe it when Navas - all of ten stone soaking wet - was penalised for shoulder charging his opponent off the ball late in the second half. Pulling Kompany over to have a word early in the game and was it four yellows to their two in a game where there really wasn't a bad challenge aside from the dive by Jovetic. Not often I agree with the GPC but Dowd looked far too overweight and was often well behind the play. Hang up your whistle you fraud.
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Yes 4-2 in terms of yellows. I still can't believe Mikel escaped a booking.
 
Blue2112 said:
Well we overcome Chelsea's 12 men today with the awful Phil Dowd doing his utmost to get them through. Right from the off he wanted to card Yaya and it's all because of the hype surrounding last week's refusal to ban him. Couldn't believe it when Navas - all of ten stone soaking wet - was penalised for shoulder charging his opponent off the ball late in the second half. Pulling Kompany over to have a word early in the game and was it four yellows to their two in a game where there really wasn't a bad challenge aside from the dive by Jovetic. Not often I agree with the GPC but Dowd looked far too overweight and was often well behind the play. Hang up your whistle you fraud.
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You're right, Dowd is a fucking clown. The linesman down the North Stand end was fucking hopeless as well - he's the one that gave the free kick against Navas.
 
DruryBlue said:
Overall our work rate was excellent today, but I thought that Milner and Kompany were superb. I think we learned from the last game against Chelsea that if you stand off them, they are good enough to play through you and\or have the individual skills to beat their man. This time we were all over them the minute they touched the ball or even showed an intent to touch the ball.

Previous poster mentioned Clichy not getting forwards enough - I thought it was a deliberate ploy by City to nullify Ivanovic breaking as he tends to play more like a wing back than a full back, with their left back tucking in to make it a back three. The other factor that nullified their threat down the wings was the work rate of Silva and Milner (who I've already lauded).

Barca will be an immense challenge but I hope that the players have proved to themselves how effective they can be when they combine an enormous work rate with their undoubted talent.

Final point - well done the Manager. Don't get involved with Maureen and instead spend the time developing our game plan to address the issues identified by the previous defeat against Chelsea.



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This guy may well turn out to be the best manager in our history! Quietly efficient....
 
Rammy Blue said:
Blue2112 said:
Well we overcome Chelsea's 12 men today with the awful Phil Dowd doing his utmost to get them through. Right from the off he wanted to card Yaya and it's all because of the hype surrounding last week's refusal to ban him. Couldn't believe it when Navas - all of ten stone soaking wet - was penalised for shoulder charging his opponent off the ball late in the second half. Pulling Kompany over to have a word early in the game and was it four yellows to their two in a game where there really wasn't a bad challenge aside from the dive by Jovetic. Not often I agree with the GPC but Dowd looked far too overweight and was often well behind the play. Hang up your whistle you fraud.
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You're right, Dowd is a fucking clown. The linesman down the North Stand end was fucking hopeless as well - he's the one that gave the free kick against Navas.
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Yeah right in front of me that was and the one where the ball went out of play but they carried on and in the first half where we should have had a corner and Dowd looked at his linesman who looked back and then Dowd give them a goal kick and the linesman then put his flag up to concur. I fucking give up with officials like these. The games worth billions and we still have inept overweight unfit biased bastards like these making decisions that are clearly wrong and I'll even go so far as saying its fucking corrupt, maybe not financially but more in line with who the referees are in favour with.
 
I think it was Garcia best game for City so far.


Him and Milner kept Hazard quiet tonight, and I think we need both of them to play the same role against Messi.
 
Excellent display today by the whole team , we where on a different level to Chelsea throughout the game , add Aguero and Fernandhino to the mix and we should fear no one , if we can get past Barcalona in the champions league , i hope and believe this season could become legendary
 
Not seen it mentioned, and haven't seen replays as yet, but what about the disallowed goal in the second half from the corner - was it offside?
 
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