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Leicester (A) Post Match Thread
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StillBluessinceHydeRoad
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I'm not going to play the favourite game which appears to be running down our achievements by saying how poor the opposition are. Leicester are, in my opinion, a very good side, with some excellent players and a very good manager. They are a counter attacking team and at the Etihad last September their game plan worked to perfection. This was, I think, because City were not match fit for a variety of reasons, one pass took Leicester straight through our midfield and our back four were bloody awful that day. Leicester deserved their win.
Yesterday was entirely different. Leicester found it hard to escape the suffocating control City established and we smothered counter attacks at birth. Leicester were nor more defensive than at any other time by design but City simply did not allow them to attack. For my money this was one of our best all round team performances of the season and it is not hard to identify some really excellent individual performances, but as such it seems only worth 42 pages of comment. Still at least the club didn't fall for the "Guardiola has had his day" comments after the Leicester match last September.
Yesterday was entirely different. Leicester found it hard to escape the suffocating control City established and we smothered counter attacks at birth. Leicester were nor more defensive than at any other time by design but City simply did not allow them to attack. For my money this was one of our best all round team performances of the season and it is not hard to identify some really excellent individual performances, but as such it seems only worth 42 pages of comment. Still at least the club didn't fall for the "Guardiola has had his day" comments after the Leicester match last September.
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I remember one time the opposition goalkeeper wasting time. The referee walked up to the goalkeeper and rather than giving a yellow card, had a word, helping to waste more time.Yep, and you think of all those teams that have come to the Etihad and time wasted from the first minute without so much of a hurry up from the ref.
BluechesterCity
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Think the ref booted him as well. :)Its was funny how he seem to be getting kicked by every City player !
Time wasting shouldn’t be an offence. If they waste 20 seconds, add 30. Problem solved.I remember one time the opposition goalkeeper wasting time. The referee walked up to the goalkeeper and rather than giving a yellow card, had a word, helping to waste more time.
stonerblue
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Bang on.I'm not going to play the favourite game which appears to be running down our achievements by saying how poor the opposition are. Leicester are, in my opinion, a very good side, with some excellent players and a very good manager. They are a counter attacking team and at the Etihad last September their game plan worked to perfection. This was, I think, because City were not match fit for a variety of reasons, one pass took Leicester straight through our midfield and our back four were bloody awful that day. Leicester deserved their win.
Yesterday was entirely different. Leicester found it hard to escape the suffocating control City established and we smothered counter attacks at birth. Leicester were nor more defensive than at any other time by design but City simply did not allow them to attack. For my money this was one of our best all round team performances of the season and it is not hard to identify some really excellent individual performances, but as such it seems only worth 42 pages of comment. Still at least the club didn't fall for the "Guardiola has had his day" comments after the Leicester match last September.
crazyg
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Depends on your personal preference.Do you swallow it or rub it in
You can't be prosecuted for it - it won't stand up in court.
GOULDYBOBS
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The agony of ecstasyGood colomn on Guardian website starts thus:
The agony of choice. Manchester City started this game with a frontline of Riyadh Mahrez, Sergio Agüero and Gabriel Jesus: a move from zero No 9s to two of them, although Jesus moves in more mysterious ways than the average centre-forward.
Midway though the second half this had switched to a fluid front four of – oh, let’s see – Jesus, Kevin De Bruyne, Raheem Sterling and Ferran Torres. By the end Phil Foden was hurtling though the centre forward position, legs whirring, the world’s most prodigiously gifted attacking afterthought.
The agony of choice describes an overload of options, a numbing saturation of possibilities. Although, nobody seems to have told Pep Guardiola any of this. In the course of a 2-0 defeat of Leicester at the King Power Stadium Guardiola rotated his attacking formations like a man chomping his way through a voraciously more-ish 90-minute taster menu, a diner for whom there is always room for another wafer‑thin inside-forward.
Won't stand up anywhereYou can't be prosecuted for it - it won't stand up in court
OB1
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I'm not going to play the favourite game which appears to be running down our achievements by saying how poor the opposition are. Leicester are, in my opinion, a very good side, with some excellent players and a very good manager. They are a counter attacking team and at the Etihad last September their game plan worked to perfection. This was, I think, because City were not match fit for a variety of reasons, one pass took Leicester straight through our midfield and our back four were bloody awful that day. Leicester deserved their win.
Yesterday was entirely different. Leicester found it hard to escape the suffocating control City established and we smothered counter attacks at birth. Leicester were nor more defensive than at any other time by design but City simply did not allow them to attack. For my money this was one of our best all round team performances of the season and it is not hard to identify some really excellent individual performances, but as such it seems only worth 42 pages of comment. Still at least the club didn't fall for the "Guardiola has had his day" comments after the Leicester match last September.
That's another of those things that drives me mad: people not giving us enough credit because the opposition were apparently poor when, in fact, we are in a league where easy games are few and far between. City make opponents look worse than they are are. What City need to do to get full credit (or something approaching it) is continue to do that in the absolute slew of crucial games that are going to be faced in what remains of the season. We have so much to win or lose in the next few weeks; whatever happens we should not lose sight of the incredible job Pep and the players have done to put themselves in such an enviable position.
Leicester are one of the best teams in our division and have a very good manager, who I still think could be the guy that gets to takeover from Pep, but we made them look ordinary despite a team selection that owed a lot to rotation.