Match Thread | Man City vs. RB Leipzig (28/11/23)

[BLUEisville]

Absolutely insipid.

All on Pep to turn it around.

 

[Gabriel]

Fair play to them. They rode their luck at the back a couple of times but have exploited the space down our right and through the heart of our defence.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

fuck it 6-2

Not sure they'll get 6 mate.

 

[PeterBarnesShorts]

Woah,..that could be the worst half I’ve seen us produce since Pep arrived!!?Where has that come from?!..shocking.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

When you see us without Doku, you have to wonder if he’s somehow become first name on the team sheet. It’s lifeless. We are playing exactly how you expect a team that’s just won a treble to play - hungerless. Doku actually offers hunger, so he starts every game for the foreseeable.

 

[OrigamiNinja]

Abysmal.

Akanji is weak as piss. You could pick any dogshit CB from the past 100 years and they would be embarrassed with that “defending”. What CB worth his salt gets outmuscled like that?

Dias…brain-dead. Cancelo like defending.

Grealish is no good in games like this where it’s imperative that our wide men beat their full back. We don’t need him retaining possession here. We need creativity.

Rico is lost out there. Doing nothing defensively or offensively and you can’t get away with that in the middle of the park.

Rico, Grealish and Dias off. Bernie in the middle. Doku, Alvarez and Stones/Ake on.

 

[hertsblue]

Same story, can’t finish, can’t defend.
Them 2 shots on target from 3 and 2 goals
Us 2 on target from 8 and 3 sitters missed as usual

 

[OntarioBlue]

dont want to reactionary and not ruling out as getting something from this game, but question marks about defending and teams playing through our midfield throughout the season ongoing at the moment

It’s happening every game and our defenders keep diving in and missing the ball. Dias and Akanji both been guilty tonight

 

[spiny]

Strolling. Defence diving in. Phil missing. Midfield weak. No composure in front of goal.

 

[johnny crossan]

Well, this is novel.....
























stats say we should be winning tho'

 

[Blu1]

Defending has been an utter joke, we can’t defend this season and concede nearly every game and our finishing is getting worse by the week, shocking misses.
We make scoring against us look extremely easy and we make scoring goals look incredibly hard.
Could sub all 11 off, every single one no more than a 3/10 that half

No idea what’s up this season, everything has regressed badly from last season

Pep asking too much of our defenders. He wants them to be David silvas & all they are doing is slowing the game down. I can’t even tell you who are creative midfielder is anymore

 

[Dirty Harry]

Pretty shit, made worse by having to listen to Darke and Hoddle.

 

[Dax777]

Nor Rodri’s. Nor Akanji’s

They don't have a yellow though. He does.

 

[Blue Til Death]

Nice early goal second half and City will come good, it’s been a complete shit show so far though.. We need to top the group to get the best possible draw for the last 16..

Come on City, step it up ffs…!

 

[Postman Pep]

 

[chesterbells]

The key players don’t look arsed & look tired after a Liverpool game for me.

That’s true mate.

But I can still see his logic ahead of this game. We only needed a point at home then the next away game really is a dead rubber. We didn’t really wanna be getting a tough R16 game with second leg away in Feb/March.

 

[bellsouth]

Rodri is allowed a night off, hook him now. Akanji hasn’t been great for a while at CB, better when he plays full back.
Dias man what the hell.

 

[Kippax77]

Think the constant shit about the club from the media as actually drained the team tonight it looks.

Bauldy's hairdryer at half time wouldn't go amiss

 

[01cravend]

We've won here and there but is United the only good team that we've actually played well against this season?

 

[Chi-town blues]

Not sure they'll get 6 mate.

if there’s any team that can do 6 in 45 mins it’s man city ,, never say never