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[Tolmie scores]

On chances alone we should have won, but equally my heart sinks every time we lose the ball cheaply, as virtually every team (including the rags next week) are far quicker on the counter attack, and it's just too easy to get behind us.

As a recently sacked Manager once asserted, all eras come to an end. However, aside from the bad luck with injuries, it's been utterly ridiculous the way we've allowed this team to drift, particularly in the Full Back areas.

A bit of this 'drift' i think has been Guardiola's position - I could have seen him making this his last - so was not in 're build' mentality - deciding to stay 'may' change that IF he is genuinely committed (i have a feeling it protects a huge severance pay if politely asked to reconsider his position at the end of the season. He is undoubtedly the best manager the league has had since change to prem from football league. BUT it takes a lot of commitment mentally to keep fighting and building and striving for better. Without that desire its probably best to step away..IF he still has the desire to do the above - give him the keys to the Etihad, let him control the rebuild, give him everything he wants as he is the best we've ever had in reality.

 

[CC1]

We’re “shit” ; finished; aging players; Pep having a breakdown; poor Board members……
But hey- we’re only 2 points behind super f*****g Arsenal.

 

[Tolmie scores]

We’re “shit” ; finished; aging players; Pep having a breakdown; poor Board members……
But hey- we’re only 2 points behind super f*****g Arsenal.

Just been watching Arsenal with Chris Sutton commentating! He thinks they are like Brazil FFS

 

[M23 Citizen]

Er, we were good against Forest with some very good individual performances. Far from it yesterday with probably only Dias who you could say was good.

We were much better yesterday than within that run of five defeats in a row.

Anyway, only one defeat in four now, our form is turning around!

 

[CC1]

Just been watching Arsenal with Chris Sutton commentating! He thinks they are like Brazil FFS

Yep. That’s the media for you & - of course - they DO have a COUPLE of injuries poor things - not like us eh

 

[simon23]

Amazing how many people on here are experts at picking the team after the games have finished .........

Amazing how many people on here are so quick to try and act the clever sod and really make themselves look a fool as if they had read the replies they would realise we were talking about the rags game next week and Juventus game mid week.

Oh dear!

 

[Craig]

We were much better yesterday than within that run of five defeats in a row.

Anyway, only one defeat in four now, our form is turning around!

Yeah agree we were better than some previous games but against Forest we played some great stuff

 

[Really_here]

Amazing how many people on here are so quick to try and act the clever sod and really make themselves look a fool as if they had read the replies they would realise we were talking about the rags game next week and Juventus game mid week.

Oh dear!

That's a large slice for me in this instance then.

 

[simon23]

That's a large slice for me in this instance then.
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fair play

 

[bluegaz13]

We always seem to struggle against Palace, so getting a result against them is always good.

We are making basic mistakes lately though and it's costing us.
Their first goal is one example, we give the ball away and suddenly we're under pressure, Walker plays them onside, Rico is no where near his man and a simple through ball costs us a goal.

The number one thing for a defender is do your job, you have to know where your man is at all time and when they attack, mark him.How hard is that, I was taught that in the infants!

We can thank Ruben for keeping it 1-0, as he was putting his body on the line as they were cutting through us at will.

Erling was unlucky when put through by Kev, the commentators saying it was a great save, fuck off, it hit him in the head, he got so lucky.

We then scored a simple but good goal, a great cross and a nice header from Erling.

I thought we were controlling the play after that but then they score a simple goal too. No-one marking their CH and he has a free header. How the fuck does that happen?!

I have a big problem with our marking at corners.
Not just yesterday but in every game.
When the opposition have a corner, i always thought the CH marks their CF and our CF marks their CH. Then again, we always used to put men on the posts too!

But anyway, yesterday their CH scores and last week VVD has a couple of free headers. On both occasions they were supposed to be marked by Walker and Erling doesn't even seem to be in the mix. I don't get that.

Why isn't Erling marking the CH? For his size Erling really needs to be more of a factor in both boxes at corners.

Anyway, we scored a nice equaliser, good finish by Rico and we hung on for a point.

We are still playing decent football in possession, but we're flogging Gundo, Bernie and Rico and as none of them are a defensive midfielders, i see the upcoming games playing out in the same way as this recent run until we get Kovacic and hopefully a new DM in January.

We have a big week coming up and i hope we can get the two wins we badly need.

COME ON CITY!!!!

Agree with most of this….however we cannot expect Rico to anticipate a bad/sloppy pass which places him out of position and leaves us outnumbered on the counter attack.

As the inverted full back he is expected to make up the numbers when we have the ball and are attacking….its the system that’s at fault and maybe we should be reverting to a flat back four until we have the right players available.

The inverted system can work but not when we are constantly giving up possession so easily.