Match Thread | Man City vs. Brentford (20/02/24)

[heslops barnet]

This referee is in the fucking way all the time, surprise, surprise.

Got to blame somebody…..

 

[madloaf]

Dippers 15 shots against Brentford at the weekend, 4 goals.
City 17, in one half, ZERO.

They get behind then defence. We see it as a challenge to get all ten men behind the ball then try and score.

 

[Bluemoonadam]

Liverpool will maul us at anfield sadly.

 

[phargrave]

We're going to win this.

That’s the spirit!

 

[TinFoilHat]

Better go down early then. Down 1-0 is the safest lead in football, you know? Much better than up 2-0. SO dangerous, that.

Ben Mee OG 94th minute.

:)

 

[oldius]

Sadly we have declined hugely this season and its a mix of poor transfer activity and baffling team selections by Pep.
Our defence changes per game and shits itself anytime someone runs at them and we are way to easy to counter due to only having 1 proper midfielder in Rodri, who isnt the quickest and attacking we have no pace, are far to slow and when we even create chances this is the worst season ive seen us in taking them.
We dont have that fear factor anymore and Alverez anywhere but up front isn’t working, and going forward Kyle has regressed hugely.
We just have a lack of pace in the team and are so slow teams find it easy to defend

It's exactly because we DO have the fear factor that we face massed defences every week.

 

[Woody2792]

Liverpool blew these lot away why can't we?

 

[pudge]

Too much dicking about around the box for Haaland to score

True...

 

[BlueMonkey79]

Doesn't help when these teams sit back, 11 men behind the ball, looking for a counter. Anti-football. Suppose that's the price of being good but they don't do it just through fear, they get a buzz from not being beaten by us so they give a lot of effort - effort they wouldn't give even if it meant taking points in a part of the table ot actually mattered to them.

How do you combat that?

Liverpool and Arsenal seem to cope.

 

[Roachy]

I am at the game and I have not witnessed as bad a half all season. Mainly down to Brentfords anti-football tactics but also our inability to break them down.

Lost some zip this team.