Ake on Salah. Akanji on Diaz for me. Grealish can help to double-up on Salah.Lewis v Salah? No thanks
Always at ‘the scene of the crime’ just lately.Agreed...as I said elsewhere....but People seem nor to want to facectge fact that Lewis us also a big part of our problems
I think the bigger problem is for a long time now we are conceding goals far too easy, opposition need very few chances to score and this has been the case for sometime.I feel like some are getting very ahead of themselves from his tough run of results. We could have easily won 3-0 today. Instead ended up 3-3. I did see signs of the old City at times today though. We looked very controlled particularly in the first half.
I know the players are getting the bulk of the blame but some of it does lie with Pep. The amount of big chances we create, the vulnerability we have on the counter is down to his shape. Gvardiol and Lewis are often stranded up the and cannot make the ground up we need. I think we will see another tactical evolution soon.
This is still a world class squad. Yes aging in areas. Yes injury prone. Yes has holes within it. But our players have pulled the rabbit out the hat time and time again. Luck isn’t on our side right now. If Haaland nets the 2 at Spurs the game is different.
Credit to Ake aswell coming out in the presser and holding himself well in the media. I think we reinstate the defence of Ake - Dias - Stones - Akanji they are by far our best defenders.
I also think we have to continue to utilise Nunes , Savinho and Doku they give us another edge while players like Bernardo , Grealish etc are perhaps a bit stale on the ball and keep the ball well but don’t penetrate in the way the others do.
1 2 3 4 are all closely related - solved by bigger squad, less injuriesTruth is it's not just one thing, there a multiple causes....
1 Rodri, no explanation required
2 Conditioning, why our fitness levels are so bad is hard to fathom. We just do not seem to have a 90+ min performance in us. I can just about remember when the last 15 would be when we'd smash teams. Now we are totally fucked in most games after 60 mins.
3 Injuries, missing Stones, Ake, Kova, Dias, KDB, Doku as well as Rodri and Bobb has not helped.
4 Loss of Form, Gundo, Foden, Bernardo, Grealish, Gvardiol and Akanji all way way off top form, why so many at once? once again unfathomable
5 Finishing, the number of chances we fail to convert is off the scale, the loss of Alvarez's GAs is huge, without Erling we'd be totally screwed
6 Sounds wimpish, but convinced we have been as unlucky as I have ever seen. Tonight eg those deflections in the first all going out, with a bit of luck we could have gone in 4 up at HT.
7 Forced into playing younger, inexperienced players like JSP, OReilly and Wright in a shit storm is the worst possible scenario. They would have to be exceptionally good to deal with the challenge.
Which players embarrassed themselves?I thought certain players embarrassed themselves tonight during that capitulation.
The equaliser is definitely one of the most ridiculous goals I've seen any team concede that late in a big game that they were completely in charge of beforehand.
WTF are they doing trying to play offside virtually on the halfway line. Of course one stays with a runner playing them on and then the keeper does a superman impression 25 yards from goal, leaving a tap in, brainless defending.
The most worrying thing for me though was the lack of any footballing nous when it went 3-1. Nobody took the ball into the corner, taking quick free kicks, nobody going down to break play up, playing a suicidal high line instead of dropping off 10 yards.
Absolutely baffling the lack of any nous.
Both are fucking shiteWell to be honest. I’d say Dias being back could’ve solved many of those issues.
Difficult to work out who brings the more faults to the defence in Walker or Lewis.
Suffering a bit of stress?All those scratches, and he's been pulling his hair out.
The Pleasure Dome has taken a battering
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Most important thing for us to win is the 115 case!Imo
I don't can't see us winning anything this season
There is something very wrong be it the court case or other things around the club
Before any of you start sending me abuse or whatever
Have a think
I've seen City since 1970
All the way through to today, but I really feel there are problems that are now apparent
I see your point but come on, this is bad for a squad of the supposed calibre of this one.Why will it mean fuck all? So we go one year where things don't go well. So what? He's won 6 out of 7.
How quickly a lot of you turn against the team when we go through a bad patch.