City v Spurs post match

[Lancet Fluke]

Very good performance in so many respects but I find it difficult to be particularly upbeat. Matches where you genuinely play teams off the park but still don't win should be once a season situations but for us it is a regular occurrence. I know the missed chances are a huge issue but it's still how easy we are to score against that is the main thing pep needs to fix imo. Our defence cannot resist even the slightest pressure. I don't see it changing for the remainder of this season unless kompany can play his part, then for me everything could change and we could go on a long winning run. If not then we have to hope the forwards can take enough of their chances to scrape top 4 because this defence are keeping virtually nothing out.

 

[kevodevo]

We need new full backs, everyone knows that.

Pep wants the whole side defending and the system relies on everyone doing their bit and busting a bollock to press and get the ball back as soon as possible and when we do that as a team, we dominate so much that the back 3 or 4 barely have anything to do.

Some of our football yesterday is on an absolutely different level to anything else in this league and we have barely started. We made a fantastic Spurs side look ordinary.

We have to stick with our principles and plan and we have to back this manager to the hilt because his way of playing the game is the right way and we will be one hell of a watch and we will win so much.

this all day- we are on a different planet with displays like that and actually it is a privilege to watch it - I almost think they believe they are going to make so many chances one will go in eventually and my goodness they make so many every game - just put a few more away and make all those idiotic journos swallow their words

 

[Neville Kneville]

We need new full backs, everyone knows that.

Pep wants the whole side defending and the system relies on everyone doing their bit and busting a bollock to press and get the ball back as soon as possible and when we do that as a team, we dominate so much that the back 3 or 4 barely have anything to do.

Some of our football yesterday is on an absolutely different level to anything else in this league and we have barely started. We made a fantastic Spurs side look ordinary.

We have to stick with our principles and plan and we have to back this manager to the hilt because his way of playing the game is the right way and we will be one hell of a watch and we will win so much.

I think we need to find two central defenders as well (assuming VK breaks down again).

Stones is a work in progress & Otamendi is a nut job. Demichelis got stick (deservedly) but he was actually a level above both in his first season once he settled imo. Otamendi still looks like Demi did when we first signed him, rushing into challenges & missing them, not picking people up etc. Not sure he has the brains to play in this team.

Thought Silva as a gritty, ball winning centre mid, was better than anything Spurs had yesterday. Can't imagine anyone but Pep, putting that side out, with him KDB & Yaya vs the new 'BEST MIDFIELD IN THE LEAGUE' of Spurs. Totally outclased & often outfought by our ageing 'flair' players & ginger maestro.

If we can get some centre backs who can spot danger & deal with it, calmly, the rest will fall into place naturally imo. Pep will find the other positions easier to fill with a bit of trial & error.

But where we find those players for cb, I have no idea.

 

[Gingers Dad]

My only concern is where we find a back 4.

I think we can still dominate with an average one (Pep has at Barca & Bayern imo, they are not that good) but if we could find some real quality to stand up & lead the team from the back, then we really would be in business.

Think you underestimate the back four. They'll be a much better unit even with the same personnel when Pep abandons the False No.1 project. Must be really difficult to play in a defence when you know there is no goalkeeper.

 

[avoidconfusion]

I really, REALLY hope that we go into siege mentality mode now. This match was the epitome of referee bias to me, yet no one is allowed to talk about it (apart from the MUEN who for once have a decent article on how we were robbed)... because it might bring the game into disrepute... I am sorry but referees like Mariner bring the game into disrepute... actually scratch that, I am not sorry at all. There should be actions against referees who perform so poorly. The fact that there isn't is an indication for me that the FA likes it this way.

As for Walker, I hope gets fined but we all know he won't be charged with anything.

 

[No1maters]

Look at the difference in body shape here. Im no goal keeping coach or expert but surely he has to fully extend his body. He always seems to dive like this, almost as if he's pulling out

 

[mikemcfcwilde]

I think we need to find two central defenders as well (assuming VK breaks down again).

Stones is a work in progress & Otamendi is a nut job. Demichelis got stick (deservedly) but he was actually a level above both in his first season once he settled imo. Otamendi still looks like Demi did when we first signed him, rushing into challenges & missing them, not picking people up etc. Not sure he has the brains to play in this team.

Thought Silva as a gritty, ball winning centre mid, was better than anything Spurs had yesterday. Can't imagine anyone but Pep, putting that side out, with him KDB & Yaya vs the new 'BEST MIDFIELD IN THE LEAGUE' of Spurs. Totally outclased & often outfought by our ageing 'flair' players & ginger maestro.

If we can get some centre backs who can spot danger & deal with it, calmly, the rest will fall into place naturally imo. Pep will find the other positions easier to fill with a bit of trial & error.

But where we find those players for cb, I have no idea.

Don't know but we should be trying to get in Danny Rose ear about coming here as our LB.

 

[Burtonblue]

fuck was that? being born in the 90s that's the closest I'll get to Ricky fucking Villa.

Fucking robbing bastards.

How many times do my own fucking team have to kick me in the fucking balls before they a) score their 45 million fucking chances and b) don't let in their 2 only fucking shots on goal?

the fuck was Pep playing at a) not playing Fernando and b) not fucking bringing him on when it's 2-1 and everyone in the fucking stadium realised we needed a fucking midfielder who could fucking tackle on the fucking pitch?

yes, I've had a fucking few.

and yes, funny how Gabriel Jesus was fucking offside yet if it was Ibra or Mata we'd have won 3 fucking 2. One rule for ****s in life and one for decent, hard-working people who spend all week in a fucking office trying to scrape by only to watch people paid 6 figure fucking salaries be fucking bell-ends when it comes to sticking the ball in a fucking net. Only humanity, eh?

how are we fucking 5th when we are so much fucking better than that "yid army" chanting know nothing self-referential bellends? They were absolute crap and Zin I'm absolutely fucking right about them, you fucking learned that today.

I know I'll get an overnight ban for saying fucking so many times and being tipsy but fucking hell, why are our players such fucking nobs they couldn't fucking win that? I mean it was actually embarrassing how bad we had to be in front of goal after being brilliant elsewhere to keep them in the game. Socceraid isn't even as blatant.

You should be fucking worried Spurs because you handed your arses on a plate to be rimmed today, and you're meant to be the 2nd best team in this country?

Bloody hell you'll be ashamed by the time Pep gets this right, and he got it so bleeding wrong today.

You breathe today, but savour it, because when we make the right tweaks, you'll be silenced well and truly.

well done on the most undeserved point the premier league has ever seen. robbing cheating bastards.

When you wake up today you'll realise this should have been posted on a Spurs forum mate.
Hope your head not too sore!

 

[Neville Kneville]

Think you underestimate the back four. They'll be a much better unit even with the same personnel when Pep abandons the False No.1 project. Must be really difficult to play in a defence when you know there is no goalkeeper.

I saw Otamendi charge out of postion to hand Spurs the winner last season.

Imo he is riddled with misjudgement of just about everything. When he gets it right, it's brilliant, but he's playing the cb position, with a centre forward's mentality, gambling on where the ball will be & charging at it.

Stones is Everton's 3rd choice cb. He might become a top defender but right now, he isn't one & we are arguably a better side without him.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Look at the difference in body shape here. Im no goal keeping coach or expert but surely he has to fully extend his body. He always seems to dive like this, almost as if he's pulling out

partly true, but Lloris had a lot more time to get to that shot that bobbled by Silva from further out.