Leeds (H) | Post Match Thread

[domalino]

Then when we are losing and them samecplayers come on ,they can get injured. Shit happens at any time. We haven't won jack shit yet and 3 points today and it's another premier league game nearer to rest players for other games. We may play our top team on Wednesday and still loose. Same on Saturday. We may only be 8 points clear and then we loose to Tottenham.

This makes absolutely no sense. You cant go off on one about how we have won nothing yet and simultaneously complain about a team selection that is very clearly aimed at maximising our chances of winning everything.

Dortmund

Leeds

Dortmund

Chelsea FA Cup

Villa

Champions League Semi Final

EFL Cup final

Champions League final.

Which of those games can we afford to lose? Which ones can we rest players in - players coming off 3 match international breaks as well.

Clearly, we have a better chance of winning the Knockout games if we can rest key players going into them.

 

[Legal Alien]

2 shots, 2 goals, YCMIU!
One of those days and some players not peforming to their standards (Sterling, all season) and Bernardo.
We need to through on Wednesday to justify that team selection

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

At least Prince Philip was spared that pile of shite.

 

[SWPISHOME]

simple change would have been to put Torres up front for a bit more presence and let Raz run round the left back in the 2nd half instead of standing in the middle doing jack shit.

He only decided to do that in the 80th minute going up top with Jesus.
Wouldn't be surprised if he is after telling KDB to get ready to come on now.

 

[Nellies left peg]

If that useless twat Mendy ever starts for us again I fucking despair.

 

[deano ou812]

What the fuck has happened to sterling yes we know he sometimes misses chances or fucks up situations but he’s absolutely dropped off in terms of performance completely,as for the team it’s self it sort of looks like we are starting to stumble towards the finishing line hope we make it ..

 

[1961_vintage]

History tells us that an 8 point lead with 6 games to go can go horribly wrong.

I thought it worked-out pretty well for us in the end.

 

[stan bowles]

No 10 every game for me

Baffles me as to why the quickest, shiftiest, most dynamic attacking player we currently have is stuck wide waiting/hoping for a pass with nowhere to go with it.

 

[Cobwebcat]

29-2 shots and lose?

Haalannnnnnnnnddddddddd...........

 

[Phil1]

Rags win their two games in hand our bottle will go

Just because you’re a spineless soft arse doesn’t mean the players are as well.
Our bottle will go? Haha! Crank.

 

[mick10]

We must have the worst shot conversion ratio in the league and we must also have the worst shots faced to goals against as well.

I’d love to see the stats if they exist.

Got to be.

 

[Blue Theatre]

Our 4 losses in the league: (city stat first)

Leicester

Shots 16/7
On Target 5/7

Spurs

Shots 22/5
On Target 5/2

Scum

Shots 23/8
On Target 6/6


Leeds

Shots 29/2
On Target 7/2

Total shots 90/22
On Target 23/17
Goals. 3/11

Damning...1 goal every 30 shots in those 4 losses v 1 in 2 against!

Arguably, almost all of those 11 goals against came when we were caught on the break, and several were penalties.

But still incredible statistics !

 

[Franknorgrovesnephew]

Some so called city fans need to change there pads for fucksake, these games will happen every now and again when your fighting on so many front give it a rest

 

[Nellies left peg]

At this rate I’d be amazed if he actually signs in the right place

He'll drop the pen and fall over

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Stupid response. We have got ourselves into a position we haven't had before where we can concentrate on the cups whilst not worrying about the league. We have to use it and if that mean losing games like this then so be it

We were in a position last year to concentrate on an FA Cup semi-final and really focus on Champs League, against a mid-table French side.

Rested legs didn't afford us the results we had hoped for.

The league is never done until it's done.

City fans should know this better than anybody.

 

[bluemoon32]

At least Prince Philip was spared that pile of shite.

He should have played instead of Sterling

 

[oddfellows]

By that premise, we shouldn't care at all about winning any matches, why even bother to watch, in fact?

It's a results business, as City fans, we should always want to win and certainly care about losing, regardless of the competition.

I've got a bet on us to win one trophy this season, Cups can go in the blink of an eye and, as things stand, we still need to keep the other eye on finishing the job in the league.

As today has shown, nothing can be taken for granted.

Kevs reaction to Leeds winner says it all to me, he is a winner.

Once we got level the game was there to be won, we blew it.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

What the fuck you mean don't give me this shit, its a forum we are all entitled to our opinions.

It was the right team haha yeah thats why we just got beat off Leeds with 10 men.

Difficult to argue with stupid but I’ll try. You are aware we have played twice a week all season? I’m going to answer ‘yes’ for you. You are aware we have a CL Quarter Final on Wednesday and an FA Cup Semi Final at the weekend? Again, yes. We also have a large lead in the league and it does not matter whether we win the league by 18 points or by 8. With all that in mind it was 100% right to rest as many as we could today. No different to the several other times this season we’ve had that same approach. And in fact we normally make 5 or 6 changes anyway. Today was 7.

The only way to rest 3 of Foden, KDB, Gundogan and Bernardo was to play Zinchenko in midfield. That meant Mendy left back as one of Cancelo and Walker was always going to be rested. Dias rested was a no brainer, and Laporte is injured, so Ake and Stones the obvious picks. Fernandinho no brainer. Zinchenko as I’ve already said. Bernardo was the freshest of the main midfielders, so he played. Aguero injured so obviously Jesus started. Sterling and Torres were the two benched wingers v Dortmund so obviously they come in.

The team was bang on. The result doesn’t change that. Losses can happen in football. We deserved to win but Leeds were far more clinical on the day, 2 shots 2 goals, fair play to them. But Pep called the team perfectly considering what is coming up this week.

 

[HarrytheBlue]

Doesn’t matter what Team Pep picked - you can’t have Torres, Sterling, Cancelo, Mendy putting in 3/10 performances and expect to win against a well organised and committed side... Jesus was busy but hardly effective either

The Mendy that played against us a few years ago was dynamic, probably average in terms of pace from a standing start or on the turn with a decent variety of crosses. The injury has robbed him of whatever he had. We were all (or most of us) happy with what we saw pre-injury. Now, the opponent doesn't have to be quick to run past him.

 

[Damanino]

Yep will be interesting how we play against Dortmund away as our performance was not good enough imo on the rubbish grass at Etihad.
Also today there were bunch of player slipping, falling on their own.

Can we not move our home games to the youth stadium? Real did that.

I dont look forward playing a CL semis on this pitch later on if we have one more..