Match Thread | Man City vs. Arsenal (31/03/24)

[wattle]

All those criticising city for that half of football can fuck right off. Arsenals tactics are a disgrace. Going for a scabby 0-0 and giving Liverpool the initiative. Cowards

 

[Legal Alien]

Lego Pep saying they would go for it, yet they've parked the bus and are hitting us on the break, like every other team who comes to us.

I'd put Doku on to stretch their defence

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

Not one mention of tactical fouling on my stream, weird that, but it isn't Neville doing the co-coms

 

[SouthernPlastic]

Been really impressed with Gvardiol, both on and off the ball. Great at getting himself out of a tight space.

 

[yankblue]

We'll win this. Bit muted so far but that's down to Arsenal fouling to disrupt the build up and overall play and Taylor being too scared/incompetent/corrupt to pull out early yellows. Think we take over in the 2nd half

 

[leo_city]

What a garbage 1st half .
Taylor been the star of the show, showing his true colours .

Beyond belief how Rice wasn’t booked for the tackle on Haaland, 10/10 times that’s a clear yellow. What a **** Taylor is

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

What a shit game this is.

We have been too narrow, too slow and the big players have been shut out. This game is going exactly how Arsenal will have wanted it.

Pep needs to tweak something as this isn’t working.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

After the Liverpool draw, I had this down as a must win.

Hopefully we will step things up in the second half.

 

[Keeper!]

Got a feeling gooners will come out all guns blazing in the second half. I've noticed other teams doing this against us lately

It would nice for us to do the same, give it to them, far too comfortable so far

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

A lot of refs are scared to give early yellows, then in the last 5 mins they give them out like confetti.

Stat padding so it looks fair.

Punters will see x number of cards per side in the post-match stats, but it never tells the full story when one side gets an early booking for a nothing-challenge and the other side get to foul with impunity for 80 minutes and then pick up a couple of late cards when the tie is essentially over.

 

[journolud]

Thought title chasing Arsenal might have come to give us a game.

 

[Alexia_Ko]

Gvardiol has been brilliant. Foden, KDB and Haaland non-existent. They need to assert themselves into the game.

 

[Bluemoon115]

More chance of winning the match, a draw's no fucking good, we may as well go for it. No decent effort on goal for all that territorial dominance.

We win games through control.

Take away that midfield control, you take away our biggest way to win the match.

And a draw is absolutely fine.

 

[thegundogang]

Taylor allowing them to waste as much time as possible. How they’ve not accumulated any cards is absolutely ludicrous.

 

[deano ou812]

Arsenal defending deep 2 banks of four and then hoping to get a break,we just need to move it a bit quicker in the final third,might actually be a game were if it’s still 0-0 with 20-25 to go,to get Bobb on ..

 

[bert38]

The Ake calf injury felt inevitable-we have been truly fucked over by these ‘international’ managers-complete disregard for our player welfare.

 

[Brewster's millions]

Kovacic and Bernado and the only two to offer anything from an attacking perspective.

Foden, De Bruyne and Haaland need to get into the game - been completely anonymous so far.

If we can keep our concentration and not offer them anything silly on the counter then we should be winning this.

 

[Keeper!]

Absolute passengers aren't they

Shocking, at least Bernardo is busting his guts trying to make it happen

 

[Blue Mist]

I've said many times that Sky run the Sunday games. They do not want 11 v 10 so no one gets booked in the first half.

 

[MellowJoe]

45 mins of madness coming