Match Thread | Man City vs Leicester (27/09/20)

[Newman Noggs]

So sky saying Leicester have been great ? But if I was a neutral I would be asleep by now not a good advert for football, boring as f**k

Except that the majority of non-City fans are getting what they want as Neville alluded to. They'll be loving this.

 

[pudge]

They’ve both been showing, playing one twos, and making inside forward runs to put crosses in. You carry on though Jon Snow.

Cheers, Mr. Wonder, I will do.

 

[@BluePhil8]

Is Stones injured?

 

[cjn]

Where is Jonny Stones? "Injured" again?

Garcia going is a big loss

“Not fully fit.” Again. Somehow.

 

[kaz7]

Match day threads can often be farcical. There is an argument for getting rid of them altogether. But this place would implode if that happened. US, Ric wouldn't go with that anyway, so the issue is irrelevant.

just take it for what it is , people watching a game and venting , a lot of fuss over nothing imo

 

[domalino]

Walker brainfart, because Fern had no legs and was taken out of the game with a body swerve

Walker brain fart just because thats what he does.

Garcia and Ake were both in decent positions to challenge Vardy before the shot or block any cross/far post shot respectively.

Walker didn't need to do anything.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Cancelo, Laporte, stones, gundagon, Jesus, Sergio, Bernardo all out and twats on here crying like little babies because we’re not 3 or 4 nil up.

Exactly, we've fuck all options to change things. Delap could come on, but to expect a 17 yo to change things is ridiculous. We need a striker on loan if there are any decent ones out there

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

apart from KDB there is zero creativity , Foden cant find room , he needs to go wide or drop deeper to get involved standing on the toes of their centre halves isnt working, Sterling isnt a central striker , he needs space in front of him
Pep needs a plan B , becasue this isnt working and Leicester will score another , Delap is our only central option , so bring him on and sacrifice either Rodri or Dinho , we dont need two holding midfield players when the opposition are happy to put ten behind the ball , sort it out Pep.

 

[Dax777]

I was trying to explain last week that it was the press (specifically from Gabby and Phil) protecting our defense and not the pair of DMs.

It's quite obvious today. Less intense press equals weaker defensive cover.

 

[ninjamonkey]

The double pivot isn’t protecting us because they’re not playing through us they’re playing over us, the double pivot should allow us to drop 10 yards and still provide the pressure we desire from playing such a high line but we’re not doing that so we’ve got 4 players in a small square and the ball is being played over them. I don’t believe Pep has chosen to play this way today he simply doesn’t have any other options with our injury crisis.