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jimmygrimblesboots said:
I do like Zinchenko , but someone needs to teach him to put the ball out of play , safety first , three occasions today he should have headed the ball for a corner or a throw in and instead he tried to keep the ball alive. Apart from this he is a very good full back , but still has to learn some defensive basics.
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Lol you sound like my neighbour at the Etihad. He still can't stop worrying about passing out from the back.

Sure Zinchenko can improve. He's still very young and is relatively new to the left back role. Compare how he is to how he was on his debut there against Wolves in the league cup and he's improved so much already.

Believe in him. He's far more intelligent as a player than Mendy. Mendy is an average defender, with average positional play, but has an exceptional first time cross on him. In all other areas, Zinchenko matches him or betters him.
 
karen7 said:
Mark Clattenburg: "The reaction of the City manager was not acceptable... Four yellow cards for a manager will lead to a one-match touchline ban this season. Luckily for the City boss, the Community Shield is not considered a 'competitive fixture'." [via @MailSport]

Fuck off you bent git
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Tbf Pep made a **** of himself there and deserved the booking.

Whether it’ll apply when Teeth or The Wheel do similar remains to be seen.
 
Always nice to beat them, but not sure it was particularly deserved (although in some ways that makes it sweeter). We were by far the better team in the first half, but thought we were poor in the second half and they looked much more threatening. Suggests it will be a very close title race again. Looking forward to it.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Any news on when Mendy is back? I agree it’s risky if we go into the season with zinchenko and Angelino
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The latest I heard is that he will start training with the team again during the next week...let's hope so. If we get this Cancelo guy who is a right back...whether he can play left back I don't know.
 
Ric said:
Always nice to beat them, but not sure it was particularly deserved (although in some ways that makes it sweeter). We were by far the better team in the first half, but thought we were poor in the second half and they looked much more threatening. Suggests it will be a very close title race again. Looking forward to it.
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Yes we could easily have lost that, the amount of tines Salah got free was worrying and we already miss Vinny's organisation and leadership at the back. Early days though and we have players to come back and we dug in and won. Denied the scousers another trophy so happy days.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Lol you sound like my neighbour at the Etihad. He still can't stop worrying about passing out from the back.

Sure Zinchenko can improve. He's still very young and is relatively new to the left back role. Compare how he is to how he was on his debut there against Wolves in the league cup and he's improved so much already.

Believe in him. He's far more intelligent as a player than Mendy. Mendy is an average defender, with average positional play, but has an exceptional first time cross on him. In all other areas, Zinchenko matches him or betters him.
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Not worried at all about passing out from the back , he needs to learn how to defend and put the ball in row Z when he has to.
 
Ric said:
Always nice to beat them, but not sure it was particularly deserved (although in some ways that makes it sweeter). We were by far the better team in the first half, but thought we were poor in the second half and they looked much more threatening. Suggests it will be a very close title race again. Looking forward to it.
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I don't know.

They played their best team, bought on fresh legs en masse, and we played them without Sergio, and Sane - and we should have, by rights, won 3:0 or 3:1 if Sterling had managed to finish the two shots on goal...

Salah was allowed too much space too many times - and he is always a danger, he should have been marked better and shut down more, but, as it was, his lines into the penalty area were closed down and he was forced into awkward angles.

They outplayed us for much of the second half, the breaks we had were good, but miss-timed and we gave the ball away too many times. But we still pushed harder than they did and were unlucky with the breaks we had.

Is that five pre-season games they've lost now?

As i said, i think they put their best team out and City played at 80-90% (for whatever reason) with Sterling looking a tad rusty and Rodri looking lost from time to time. But also, in the back of everyone's mind would be keeping injuries down. i think we saw liverpool firing on all cylinders while City didn't capitalize on the chances they had.

i doubt we can use it as a yardstick for the new season - either in how City or LFC played, tbf.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
He's trained with the first team for 3 days this week. If all goes well, he'll be back for the Spurs game, before ending his season against Norwich in mid September.

Don't worry about Zinchenko. He won every premier league game he's played in. He was rusty today against the hardest opponent he will come up against this season. He'll come good.
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He made at least three crucial interceptions; the usually dipper cvnts loving argies from EspnLa were praising him, Zinchenko.
 
lfc humble guy said:
city looked vunerable and liverpool looked classy all second half , you can be excited as much as you like about winning a penalty shoot out but you didnt win the match
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Er..... Yes, we did.

That's why City were awarded winners medals and LFC were given runers' up medals.

And the lack of LFC supporters, who all left without applauding their team (so much for their YNWA anthem) tells you exactly who won the match.
 
lfc humble guy said:
city looked vunerable and liverpool looked classy all second half , you can be excited as much as you like about winning a penalty shoot out but you didnt win the match
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Neither did you so what's your point?

You looked just vulnerable in the first half with your full backs getting exposed by the ball over the top in the first half. If Sane didn't go down you were in all sorts.

You can paint the picture anyway you like, if De Bruyne is at his peak you are 2/3 down before the second half, if Aguero plays he nails the chances Sterling missed so there's that to.
 
We looked like we'd caught a virus at halftime, slow and a lack of concentration. On the other hand they looked like they'd had spice mixed with whizz.
 
Ric said:
Always nice to beat them, but not sure it was particularly deserved (although in some ways that makes it sweeter). We were by far the better team in the first half, but thought we were poor in the second half and they looked much more threatening. Suggests it will be a very close title race again. Looking forward to it.
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I haven't seen much of it, but I got the impression following it, that it was quite even until 60 minutes, and that we missed a number of good chances at 1-0, the Sterling run where he just gave it to the keeper should be a goal, and that would have changed things. Some heroics at the end, but as others have said their goal came from a free kick that wasn't, and some quite rusty defending, I'm not worried that we tried, but we held on, and 5 near perfect penalties, it's hard not to be pleased to beat them :-)
 
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