roypaulknewmyfather
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I hope it's enough to keep him out of the Belgian team but not serious and he will be in the next City starting XI.
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Liverpool (H) - Post-Match Thread
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tolmie's hairdoo
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The problem with focusing on Liverpool as the barometer this season is that other teams could build up enough momentum and confidence to keep in the mix, certainly if they aren't playing as many games as us.
We really do need to win at Spurs away next to keep us within striking distance and stop thinking about the game in hand.
Very happy with Dias and Laporte.
Cancelo can stay left-back all season if he can continue playing like that.
We really do need to win at Spurs away next to keep us within striking distance and stop thinking about the game in hand.
Very happy with Dias and Laporte.
Cancelo can stay left-back all season if he can continue playing like that.
Give over. You can honestly say you'd be happy with 6th? I'd be disappointed with anything less than first and if that makes me spoilt in the eyes of some, I couldn't care less. This season is a great chance to take advantage of the likely lower points tally required to win the league and the fact we have the best squad. I'm not fussed about the champions league and since we're on 9 points already Kdb, Sterling etc. shouldn't play another minute until the knockouts.No team has shown any true consistency yet. Not one team will get anywhere near our 100pts total you can be sure of that. Personally I would settle for top 6 at this moment in time, not what the Club expect but these are strange times. I suspect the CL is the main target, which is not what I want but I am just a supporter.
Akpowell
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Yeah I think City should pull him out, he wasn't right after that tackle, he had a slight limp for the rest of the gameI hope it's enough to keep him out of the Belgian team but not serious and he will be in the next City starting XI.
Season has a long way to go yet. So many teams will drop points. Drawing with liverpool is a good result for both.
In previous seasons our results against each other decided titles and momentum. Not this year. Both dropped plenty of points already and that will only continue.
What truly matters is we’ve gotten through a period of 6 weeks with no striker and we’ve fixed our defence.
We are so well positioned, people need to be less short sighted.
In previous seasons our results against each other decided titles and momentum. Not this year. Both dropped plenty of points already and that will only continue.
What truly matters is we’ve gotten through a period of 6 weeks with no striker and we’ve fixed our defence.
We are so well positioned, people need to be less short sighted.
Bill Walker
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Yeah but sometimes I really don't understand Pep.I wouldn't say Mane was wank but I thought City defended superbly yesterday and, apart from the first 20 minutes, we snuffed them out. It's a pleasure to see us with such a solid back four. Pep has been more pragamtic this season. He is trying to manage his players carefully. I sure this will be the right long-term approach during this crazy period.
Liverpool in the second half were there for the taking, the conditions hard going and it was crying out for fresh lakes around the 65, 70 minutes Mark, bring on Foden and Bernado.
Agree with your post, Pep drives me a bit crazy with Raheem, he keeps playing him the full 90.See that's just recency bias. Sterling has been poor/inconsistent for a good few months and mahrez even longer. I'm personally of the opinion that sterling's both mentally and physically worn out from the intensity of the past 3 seasons being the most used player in the squad including internationals and needs a few games off. But this idea that he or the wide forwards isn't as good as theirs is just not true. I could've sworn it was sterling and bernardo who helped fire the team to the league and a domestic treble in a season where they were directly competing against this supposedly much better wide players or did that not happen. This was a season without de-bruyne for the most part so you can't even use the excuse they were carried by him like many of sterling's detractors tend to.
It's funny I watched a game where mane was constantly falling to the floor every chance he got and consistently made the wrong decision whenever he got to the final third just like sterling but because he works hard tracking back people seem to forget that. He's a top player but he's increasing becoming one of the most overrated players in the league that his poor performances always seem to get overlooked. Sterling is every bit as good as him and has shown so countless seasons. He outperforms him in almost every metric you can think of the past 3 seasons including goals, assist, chances created and him currently being out of sorts doesn't erase that fact.
After an hour or so it was crying out for Foden to replace him. Fresh legs etc, but no.
Why ?
Lovebitesandeveryfing
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I sometimes get the feeling that Pep is grinding Raz and KDB into the ground.
Thought we played well especially defensively, Kyle Walker being the exception. He knew what he was doing initiating the unnecessary "contact" giving Mane the opportunity to go down and the ref to make an easy decision. If it had been at the other end we'd be screaming for a spot kick even though that ref would have had other ideas. Raz didn't go down because he wasn't in the box otherwise I reckon he would be trying for the pen. Agree with everyone that Kev needs a rest and I hope his country will see that too. Without a creative partner in midfield and being skipper he puts more on himself and his frustration is there for us all to see. We miss Merlin but wasn't Foden supposed to be a direct replacement ? Why play 2 defensive midfielders when we used to have 1 in Fern ?
Agreed KDB needs rest. Personally after the anxiety and frustration and even anger at playing shit to great teams completely off the park for 80 mins only for them to score with their only attempt at leaving their own half doing us with a sucker punch I've craved this sort of team for a while now.
This is how we will win the CL come the second half the season when hopefully our players are fitter than the start of the season. We'll win it with this solid defence. We won't ever win it the way we've been going about it no matter how exciting and beautiful that was to watch.
We've been spolit. We have a new team. It's time to start being more solid and pragmatic.
This is how we will win the CL come the second half the season when hopefully our players are fitter than the start of the season. We'll win it with this solid defence. We won't ever win it the way we've been going about it no matter how exciting and beautiful that was to watch.
We've been spolit. We have a new team. It's time to start being more solid and pragmatic.
Well I know one thing. Almost exactly a year ago we lost at Anfield, and there was already the strong feeling that the dippers were building the ominous momentum that would turn them into the juggernaut that they became. There is no such feeling this time. Everybody's vulnerable. Leicester and Tottenham fans getting giddy? Let them. Fine by me. This is a very, very open title race, the first for years. And we're still very much in it.
I'd like agree with the sentiment but it's very easy to end up in the situation where we were in 15/16 where we kept telling ourselves we were in touching distance of the pack and just needed to go on a run to win the league. Kompany even came out with the cringeworthy "it's hunting season" comments and then we just lost the games, we never went on the run.
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