Match Thread | Man City vs. Arsenal (22/09/24)

[johnny crossan]

Will Walker ever play for us again? Not if I had my way and it wouldn't be Lewis at RB either. Got to be Akanji and a decent replacement in January. Our captain has become a liability.

 

[tornandfrayed]

They do it all the time. It's a good tactic as they're scoring goals from those corners.

It will be interesting to see what happens if we try it 2nd half.

 

[Frank the Yank]

Hers a thought, let’s do the same thing to raya as matinelli did to Ederson…

 

[Kippaxpete]

Don't confuse crookedness with incompetence. Crookedness implies intent. Oliver is just fucking useless!

 

[Keepingthefaithsince1976]

Thought I'd pop in to see what the general consensus is. City were in control till Rodri injury. Var must be on the wacky baccy if they can't see Walker is called to the ref then while he is out of position the game restarts. Keep the faith blues. Foden or Grealish for Doku I think. Doku fast but no end product.

 

[ws01]

MCL is inside of leg; ACL is outside. Wasnt clear which part he was clutching

Roughly same recovery times so doesn't make much difference for us

 

[jimharri]

I'll be in the minority with this for my Trossard opinion.
Oliver has lost this game completely and has reffed it appallingly - sorry but sending Trossard off for that is ridiculous. If he's booking him for that then Doku should have gone in the book earlier.
Atrocious.
Arsenal first goal should never have stood for 2 reasons:
Walker not given time to get back in position (although he's been poor 1st half especially 2nd goal where he seems more intent on touching up Gabriel)
Taken from nowhere near the correct spot
Hey ho

 

[Chippy_boy]

Really? That's odd; no one's mentioned it.

Sorry if I don't hang on every word said in the thread. Must try harder.

 

[footballmanager]

They've found a way to get around not making it blatantly obvious blocking off keepers, I agree with what you're saying, Teams must find a way to deal with Arsenal's set pieces, My main concern was Walker just letting Gabriel go, It wasn't good enough.

nah, refs need to whistle the blocking fouls

 

[eastmanc]

The string section are bastards too, tbh.

Stupid predictive text.:-)