City v Liverpool - Post Match Thread

[Bluescholar]

Dont be so fuckin soft,they hate us and we hate them. The End. Boycott the Sun? For the right reasons maybe,but find your own. And yes ,the song is sung absolutely because of their attitude. Best fans in the world by the way. . . Liverpool away 70s or 80s anybody? They are twats. 5 fuckin 0 . That is all.

 

[JWBlueman]

A contender for the best post I've ever read on BM.

Absolutely seconded.

 

[Gingers Dad]

Great performance from us today especially as I was fearing the worse after otamendi took a yellow. Not sure how he's meant to defend against a player like Salah. He's so rapid and the balls were just being launched into that corner - Nico can't compete with that pace. If he gets too tight to Salah then he just burns past him so I think it is almost the right approach to retreat back towards the box and close the space Salah is attacking rather than get left for dead in the corner. It looks like bad defending because it's passive but perhaps it's him knowing his own limits. The worst part of Nico's game today was how he put himself under pressure when pressed and his passing fell apart half way through the first half.

Stones had a really good game and I'd have given him man of the match. Danilo just seems like a real solid player. Mendy and Walker make such a difference. Fernandinho had his best game in ages and KDB is just something else.

If Ederson hadn't been taken out by Mane he'd have had a quietly excellent game. You realise how much of a difference he makes when you don't brick it every time a ball goes into our box. His kicking out of his hands is unreal.

While it was 11v11 Stones shit the life out of me every time he touched the ball

 

[mardon85]

Dont be so fuckin soft,they hate us and we hate them. The End. Boycott the Sun? For the right reasons maybe,but find your own. And yes ,the song is sung absolutely because of their attitude. Best fans in the world by the way. . . Liverpool away 70s or 80s anybody? They are twats. 5 fuckin 0 . That is all.

How is me wanting us to not use a Shit united songs soft?

Liverpools double standards fuck me right off and obviously other teams fans who sing it. I'm just stating it's origins.

The Sun is a hate fueled bile spewing rag. That's all the reason I need. Their comments after the Manchester bomb only compounded it.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

I feel like the sending off was harsh. If it happened to us there would be a lot of people on here complaining. Mane was definitely trying to make a play on the ball. Great display all round from us though.

Ever actually played football?

Red card....all day, every day, no matter who you play for or what team you support. I've seen so many ridiculous red cards recently and that was absolutely not one of them.

From Laws of the Game 2017-18

Sending-off offences

A player, substitute or substituted player who commits any of the following offences is sent off:

•  denying the opposing team a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by deliberately handling the ball (except a goalkeeper within their penalty area)
• denying a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity to an opponent whose overall movement is towards the offender’s goal by an offence punishable by a free kick (unless as outlined below)
•  serious foul play*
•  spitting at an opponent or any other person
•  violent conduct
•  using offensive, insulting or abusive language and/or gestures
•  receiving a second caution in the same match.


Serious foul play

A tackle or challenge that endangers the safety of an opponent or uses excessive force or brutality must be sanctioned as serious foul play. Any player who lunges at an opponent in challenging for the ball from the front, from the side or from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force or endangers the safety of an opponent is guilty of serious foul play.



Red card. QED.

 

[Fat Chance]

All this he couldn't see Ederson or didn't know he was there is complete bollocks

If it was true, why was he trying to bring the ball down from 6 foot in the air

nail it +1

 

[Wolfkin]

I thought Fernandinho was immense after he had been carded in the first 15.

 

[Neville Kneville]

While it was 11v11 Stones shit the life out of me every time he touched the ball

Bit harsh. Shat himself & skied one early doors but settled down well imo.

And imo the fault of Stones being off the pace is him being dropped by Pep, followed by South**** (which is fair enough, because Phil Jones is England's best defender).

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

got to say after all the analysis.. Ederson was bloody brave, he saved us with that challenge. Maybe even won us the game

 

[Phil1]

Ok, the first 20 minutes weren't great. Liverpool found acres down the flanks time and time again. We were struggling to pick out passes and the press was non existent... but,we scored first which has been our problem recently and regardless of the extra man I wondered if we would of taken the three points. Truth be told I think we'd have struggled 11 v 11.

But, we beat Liverpool 5-0 and as I have a rolling bet every game At £10 for 5-0 the 80/1 I got for today means I'm not arsed about incidentals.