Man City vs Reading - Post Match Discussion

thedogsbollocks said:
i will take the win 3 points is 3 points.

Saying that though ,i am realistic.Playing the way we are,we are going to be lucky to finish second never mind win the League.No need to be hysterical about it,it is just a fact.We are nowhere near last seasons quality yet,and i am realistic enough to realize that unless there is a fundamental change in the way we play then our luck will run out a couple off times between now and next May.
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Some games the ball just won't go hit the net, not to mention they parked the bus which complicates a match for any team if you don't score an early goal. These guys matched our skill by running all day long and swarming players in advanced central areas. We still had a good amount of chances to win, so Barry's goal was more than deserved. Our strikers need to be more clinical or questions will be asked in the future if this keeps up.

We have been okay in the league this season and I still think we can win the league. I look at the team 6pts ahead of us and they haven't really been better than us. Draws have cost us in matches we controlled and should have won. 6pts is nothing, I'm not worried at all.
 
mscenterh750 said:
Thank you wolfy. I would hate think what the moaning would've been like, if the forum was up and running when we were wank !.
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We were really good at not giving a shit when we were wank and we just made the best of it.
 
Stoke are coming on New Year's Day, they have let in even fewer goals than us and are stubborn bastards this year with 10 draws in 18 games. Hope we raise our level as I doubt they will roll over like they did last year.
 
LoveCity said:
Stoke are coming on New Year's Day, they have let in even fewer goals than us and are stubborn bastards this year with 10 draws in 18 games. Hope we raise our level as I doubt they will roll over like they did last year.
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Trust me, they won't get away with their dirty tactics like they do at home. The crowd wouldn't let it happen.
 
mscenterh750 said:
Thank you wolfy. I would hate think what the moaning would've been like, if the forum was up and running when we were wank !.
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it was brilliant thankyou very much

a place where opinion was welcomed not like now where a negative comment is judged as you are not a city fan.
 
Lucky today in the end but it's 3 points so I'm happy. Some short memories on here regards time wasting, friggin ell we scored early against Chelsea and Arsenal(both penalties) years ago and shut up shop in the first half with some blatant time wasting. They get beat tomorrow it's back in our hands, wind the feckers up, Come on City !
 
LoveCity said:
Stoke are coming on New Year's Day, they have let in even fewer goals than us and are stubborn bastards this year with 10 draws in 18 games. Hope we raise our level as I doubt they will roll over like they did last year.
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Mancini has Stoke's number - wonder and basketball goals aside.
 
mscenterh750 said:
Believe me unlikely, I know all about how wank we were, think a few either need to go to ragcafe or give there heads a shake, as I'm so grateful for where we are and what we have now, that the negativity on here sometimes borders on ignorance.
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Posts like this are utter bollocks.

Watching Ged Brannan or Jeff Whitley having a shit game was fair enough as they were both shit. Watching Yaya ambling around doing fuck all is open to criticism as we all know what he is capable of.

Its not ignorance just raised expectations.
 
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.
 
Just back from the game, it was one of those days but the 3 points are 3 points.

Some were saying 5 or 6 before the game but knew it would be tough with them scrapping for their lives. We played well first half and we just needed that first goal to go in and I reckon we would have had a decent win. The longer the game went, the more frustrating it become. Reading clearly came with a gameplan and it nearly worked although their time wasting was really annoying.

Wish we would have a shot though instead of our tendancy to try and walk the ball in.

Not going to win every game comfortably but tonight I'm a happy blue as we should all be!!
 
Deepest Blue said:
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.
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A team that has picked up 2 points away from home all season is now a potential banana skin for us at home?
 
Paulmcfc2703 said:
Deepest Blue said:
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.
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A team that has picked up 2 points away from home all season is now a potential banana skin for us at home?
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It's a good job football is not played on paper
 
Just one of those games although forwards need to be a bit more ruthless couple of times sergio had ball with back to goal instead of talking a chance he'd lay it off and he isn't the only one guilty of it. Rekik played well I was worried at the start having 2 young ones on the left of defence. Saying that I told my mate after 20 minutes we should have took him off for a forward as he could have put up a deck chair and read a book the amount of times reading came past the half way line.
 
Berkovic_blue said:
de niro said:
Berkovic_blue said:
It really, really wasn't
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For claiming it wasn't awful?

Laughing out fucking loud at that!

There's no context anymore for some people. I know what an awful performance looks like, I've been watching City for over 20 years, that was not one.

Any game that you comprehensively dominate possession, produce 10 shots on target to their one and deservedly bag 3 points, cannot, by any logical mind be proclaimed to be an awful performance. Like I already said, hyperbole and exaggeration are off the charts again.

Now shove the specs up your arse (linked from the sun no less)
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we were dire, the team selection was dire. ok not helped by reading timewasting etc or in fact a barmy ref but we have world beaters in our team and we were as flat as fuck.

we need fucking pace, not just in a player but in our mindset.

very lucky today.
 
This was absolutely the game to go 3 at the back - if only Clichy / Maicon / Kolarov had been available . If you can't go through 'em - go round'em!
 
de niro said:
Berkovic_blue said:
de niro said:
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For claiming it wasn't awful?

Laughing out fucking loud at that!

There's no context anymore for some people. I know what an awful performance looks like, I've been watching City for over 20 years, that was not one.

Any game that you comprehensively dominate possession, produce 10 shots on target to their one and deservedly bag 3 points, cannot, by any logical mind be proclaimed to be an awful performance. Like I already said, hyperbole and exaggeration are off the charts again.

Now shove the specs up your arse (linked from the sun no less)
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we were dire, the team selection was dire. ok not helped by reading timewasting etc or in fact a barmy ref but we have world beaters in our team and we were as flat as fuck.

we need fucking pace, not just in a player but in our mindset.

very lucky today.
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Do you wear glasses
 
i refuse to believe, that anyone that was there today, thought we played well.

not dire, not great, but far below par.
 
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