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Juventus (A) | CL | Post Match Thread
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The City YouTubers are a laughingstock of the club, Only Big Steve can hold his own, the rest are after-hits and in it for themselves, It is dangerous if City fans are hanging on to every word they speak
You support your football club in good or bad, WHY, It is because that is football, Once you are at the top everybody is chasing you, so to keep winning the title and 4 in a row takes a special team and club, But you have to fail at some point and fall from grace,
Why laugh at a crisis, Well is it a crisis if you don't win
Sadly, the standards we set over the years may never be reached again by anybody else.
ayrshire_blue
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What games weren't we competitive in other than Liverpool?
Even in our drubbings to Sporting and Spurs, we were competitive. Sporting we pretty much dominated the first half and should have been out of sight before they scored. Spurs we had 23 shots and an xG not much down from theirs. Yes we defended horrendously but to say we weren't competitive would be misleading to say the least.
Brighton we were winning the game with 20 minutes or so left and again should have had more, Bournemouth again just wrong to say we weren't competitive.
Genuinely can't think of a game (Liverpool aside) where we haven't been competitive, whether that means we played well for a full 90 minutes throughout the team is a different matter.
This "we can't beat ANYONE" is needless hyperbole.
It's a rough patch, it happens. It'd be great if it didn't but they're inevitable.
supercity88
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No one does at the moment. We're panicking. Our defensive shape without the ball is horrific. Players are pressing and leaving easy passes available and plenty of space. Or they're dropping far too deep. Here are some images of our defensive shape from last night, and I've compared it to Juventus.
City in attack - Juve have their defenders in the box and are all on the front foot looking to close the ball as soon as it's played. You can see Gundo and De Bruyne have some space.
But instantly the Juve players have sprinted out to close that down and prevent the ball coming into the box.
Meanwhile this is us... Doku and Rico had doubled up on Conceicao. Gundo is...well I'm not sure what he's up to with a man behind him. Despite how many players in defensive positions we have, there's an easy pass back and it's 3 v 3 in the box for any cross - which is what happens.
And here's another example. Look how many players are back, but how much space there is outside the box. No one has got tight to a player to prevent an easy pass or to win the ball back. We've just got back into the defensive third and are all stood around watching the ball, which gets crossed in and ends up leading to the goal. You can pick out nearly every player in a City shirt and see something wrong. Haaland should have prevented the cross. Dias has two players he's defending because Gvardiol's positioning is wrong. Gundo and Bernardo don't need to be where they are and should either be tracking a man or on the edge of the box to close one of those players off. Walker's got the man behind him as well as one in front which he's too far off to mark.
Ederson then spills the ball, it's not cleared properly...Walker doesn't get tight to stop the cross and despite three defenders being in the box Vlahovic wins the header, Ederson spills again and it's 1-0.
It's a car crash at the moment. It's like watching kids. Run straight back to your goal as soon as you lose it seems to be the strategy. But don't worry about any shape or defensive structure.
heslops barnet
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Get yourself down to the Etihad and get in Peps ear……pretty basic tactics needed
mcfcbill91
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Yes - I do feel it's a lack of cohesion which isn't helped with changes & injuries etc. Although some of the defending can't be excused at all regardless of personnel!
the blue panther
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Losing 2-0 at Juventus is no disgrace. We made 3/4 good chances - less than we used to do - and if we'd defended well, we should have taken at least a point. Shit happens when you're collectively off form, and out of luck.
The sideways and backwards passing by Lewis was very noticeable last night, as was his failure to pass so that his teammate could move forward onto the ball - there were many occasions when the player receiving the pass had to stop or move backwards, and that didn't used to be a feature of our game.
Lewis has come in handy at filling-in in a good team in the last 2 seasons, but, he's one of several liabilities at the moment - by no means the worst of those available but the lad is suffering as much as anyone else in the present squad. Others are flattering to deceive, and some have lost confidence and look like they're wearing lead boots.
Let's hope the messiah - Pep - can work us some magic on Sunday.......we'll need it!
The sideways and backwards passing by Lewis was very noticeable last night, as was his failure to pass so that his teammate could move forward onto the ball - there were many occasions when the player receiving the pass had to stop or move backwards, and that didn't used to be a feature of our game.
Lewis has come in handy at filling-in in a good team in the last 2 seasons, but, he's one of several liabilities at the moment - by no means the worst of those available but the lad is suffering as much as anyone else in the present squad. Others are flattering to deceive, and some have lost confidence and look like they're wearing lead boots.
Let's hope the messiah - Pep - can work us some magic on Sunday.......we'll need it!
Next 3 games will be shite might get a bit better from then. The opposition only have to mark Haaland out of the game at the moment, our players can’t find him and offer no threat themselves. The rags,PSG and Villa will pick us off.
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