Being reduced to 10 men is no death sentence. Week in week out teams havery to endure this experience and find out ways to cope. The way they capitulated after the sending off was amusing like they lost their collective brain. I expected them to keep things tight and patiently make attempts to stealing a point using their firepower upfront but they seemed not to know what they were doing. Check opposition forums and you'll see that most agree that Mane's challenge was red-worthy. Yes it made it a lot easier for us but they were always bound to come to us after conceding. Didn't mean they were the better side. I'd say it was 50/50. I think people like @BlueHammer85 are pained that we dicked victimpool and that makes it the more sweeter.
Cheers to all!
Couldn't disagree more.After the nerves settled in the first 15 mins it was a brilliant professional performance by city. It looked fairly even for most of that first half but city made the better runs and chances and were going momentum going into half time. Something that surprised me today was our grit and determination not to get bullied off the ball....at one point in the first half there were loads of Liverpool elbows going in and we just took it and gave it back....I thought the Liverpool players seemed a bit surprised at this.
I have a slightly different perspective on the red card; earlier in the game Ederson came out of his area and headed away a through ball...I believe Mane was closing at speed and had every intention of taking the player if he missed the ball...because I think he wanted to make a point, perhaps stop Ederson from going for these type of balls again...the other thing was that Mane was properly wound up...you could see it in his refusal to go off...that suggests to me that he was upset/annoyed when he went in for the challenge.
The Liverpool fans booing Ederson was a disgrace; but I don't believe the city fans singing 'it's never your fault' was about the football tradgedies they have suffered. It was more a general fact about how it's literally never their fault (imo). But of course the victimpool mentality will prevail and they will get to interpret it in the worst possible light...my 2p
We cruised the second half in second gear....the battling Liverpool were nowhere to be seen and we gave them a proper thrashing. Of corse they will claim the red was decisive but I don't buy it, they totally folded under city pressure....and we had even taken our foot off the gas by this point!!
I was pleased for Jesus; he got fouled to fuck so it was great that he scored a brace. Fuck me though, what a talent Sane is...two absolute beauties.
Another highlight was Mendy...the lad can deliver a beautiful ball into the box and he's only going to get better...
Onwards and upwards blues
It's absolute bullshit from Neville and Tyler... we get one good decision for once on a big call and they make out it's the biggest injustice all season(as a warning to the few refs who aren't bent perhaps?). It winds me up, the ref got it right but they are slaughtering him for it: "Did you not get the memo? Wtf is this making big calls correctly in a City match?".
Biggest win against Liverpool since 1937 !!!
I'm not one that believes for an instant that the refs have some sort of campaign against us - we get good or bad decisions as a matter of chance - in the long run they even out.It's absolute bullshit from Neville and Tyler... we get one good decision for once on a big call and they make out it's the biggest injustice all season(as a warning to the few refs who aren't bent perhaps?). It winds me up, the ref got it right but they are slaughtering him for it: "Did you not get the memo? Wtf is this making big calls correctly in a City match?".
Where as refs making massive errors against us get off lightly and they quickly move on, saying: "it's hard for referees today you can't blame him it's just unfortunate".
What I think Neville wanted to happen was for our balls of steel keeper to notice the reckless way Mané went in to challenge for a ball Ederson was clearly favourite for(he won the ball this can't be disputed so it's not even 50/50) and pull out of it.
Never? Do you watch a lot of football? Players on stretchers get boo'd quite regularly. Nature of the fan mentality. We've done it in the past.
Never? Do you watch a lot of football? Players on stretchers get boo'd quite regularly. Nature of the fan mentality. We've done it in the past.
Week in and week out ex players talk about dangerous leg breaking challenges, wreckless challenges and yet justify this as ok? I find it bizarre.Even on the Rugby field a swinging arm at head height is a sending off offence.But some people think a kick in the face,studs first is just "iffy" or maybe a yellow..And for people going on about the amount of time the game was stopped,neck problem,skull damage ,jaw broken,I remember years back the Gary Mabbutt fractured eye socket incident.The days of a guy with his trousers stuffed inside of his socks with a sponge and a bucket of cold water are long gone.The water treatment certainly cured Bert in the "56"final kept him out of the game for a year.The medics doing the wrong treatment get fired (PEG at Chelsea sacked the club medic)When players cost the earth you have to be right,or there goes £50 M career.