Man City vs Reading - Post Match Discussion

[Brendan110_0]

Thought we played well but DIDN'T SHOOT ON SIGHT - this was glaringly obvious in our CL campaign compared to RM/Dortmund/Ajax. How often does a shot deflect into the path of strikers? Bloody lots!

 

[Tbilisi]

Bollocks it may be but that's my opinion, as I really am grateful for what we have today and what we have won over the last 3 seasons. An ambling Yaya, is better than watching Brannan, Whitley, Wiekens, Cooke et al struggle their bollocks off at Macc. I wish I had my season ticket still rather than the 15 years of dross I had it for. Don't doubt me as a fan because I've only 60 posts, I started going in 82, season ticket holder for 15 years until 7 years ago and my godfather is Glyn Pardoe.

Thats the best fuck off tablet I have seen for a while,nice one!

 

[uwe28]

Very poor performance. Try for 90 min to work the ball through the center and nothing happening. Finally score off the head of a DM player from a wide cross... Why not try something other than dancing around the middle looking for a perfect pass when that is obviously not working?

MMmmmm!!! Are you Phil Jones????

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

City, ruining Christmas since today !

'It's an absolute cert foul, it cannot be anything else.

He later added: 'But just to let you know, that has just ruined my Christmas.'

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2252216/Brian-McDemott-claims-Christmas-ruined.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... uined.html</a>

Bah humbug

 

[rastus]

Considering we were without

Richards
Maicon
Clichy
Kolarov
Nasri
Rodwell
Balotelli
Guidetti

And

Kompany
Milner
Garcia
And arguably Silva, Yaya and Aguero are carrying knocks, the Reading siege mentality and tricky pitch all made for a potential banana skin that we just just avoided.
We will have to expect these tactics until such a time as we punish the teams that try them.

A team that has picked up 2 points away from home all season is now a potential banana skin for us at home?

It's a good job football is not played on paper

So true and how boring it would be if it was.

 

[rastus]

Re: City, ruining Christmas since today !

Funny as firk

 

[Tbilisi]

Very poor performance. Try for 90 min to work the ball through the center and nothing happening. Finally score off the head of a DM player from a wide cross... Why not try something other than dancing around the middle looking for a perfect pass when that is obviously not working?

MMmmmm!!! Are you Phil Jones????

Thanks,just spilt my pint!

 

[laserblue]

Re: City, ruining Christmas since today !

McDermott had better think up another excuse for a ruined Christmas. None of the radio stations I listened to after the match thought it was a foul. Shorey was stood still so Barry had every right to go for the ball as Shorey was impeding him. If Shorey had jumped with him it might have been a different story.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

Re: City, ruining Christmas since today !

Manchester City midfielder Gareth Barry has admitted that he was a little bit fortunate to have his winning goal against Reading allowed by referee Mike Dean.

Barry headed home from eight yards in stoppage time at the Etihad Stadium, but the Royals players complained that Nicky Shorey had been fouled in the build-up to the goal.

"I haven't seen it again," Barry told BBC Sport. "Shorey was just standing there and I got over the top of him.

"The lads in the dressing room were saying it was possibly a foul, but I'm delighted the referee did not see it as a foul. I will have to see it again to make my own mind up."

Prior to today, Barry's last senior goal came in August 2011.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/reading/news/barry-unsure-whether-goal-shouldve-stood_60669.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/re ... 60669.html</a>

 

[ManCityFC]

This season, the tempo just isn't there. I'm sick of this tippy tappy pass, touch, look up, find man, touch again then pass shit. There's no movement, there's no one-touch stuff, it's slow and they're trying to walk the ball into the net all the time.

In the first half today, I saw about 5 attempts on goal. Aguero, Tevez, Kolo, Zabba and Barry I think. What's going on - the defenders and DMs seem to get frustrated and have a pop themselves because the forwards aren't? Yaya is playing too deep, we miss De Jong, and Silva is going left to right, right to left all the time. The game was crying out for a tall striker after 10 minutes, but Mancini doesn't change it until exactly 60 minutes...as usual. There is no plan B, the tactics are predictable and our strikers and AMs look terrified of having a shot. We desperately needed an Adam Johnson to run at them today, but he was sold and a worthy (or at least better) replacement wasn't bought. That game reminded me of Blackburn last year. They came to park the bus, but weren't great at implementing that tactic, and there were holes all over the pitch to exploit, unfortunately our lack of tempo and movement meant we couldn't capitalise, unlike Blackburn last year where we got the early goal, unsettled them, then went on to demolish them.

We just don't look the same team and my vocal chords can't take much more of this - this season.

Rakik looked good though, which is nice.