Match Thread | Man City vs Sevilla - Super Cup (16/08/23)

[christened at st marks]

Send balls through to Jack all day and it falls into their game plan

 

[stablemcfc]

The only criticism that can be levelled is that he hasn't touched the fuckin' ball yet so he hasn't buggered up anything!

Watching a different game to me - he’s had a few touches and buggered them all up.

A poor half from him.

 

[TinFoilHat]

He has taken on the ffs mantle clearly.

Until Phillips comes on...

 

[Gumzy97]

Is Foden nervous? That’s a big role he’s taking up if he is playing the Kev role, just feels like he doesn’t want to make a mistake, keep it simple etc

 

[BlueFurn]

City fans coming through loud and clear on Ziggo TV

 

[Vester]

Amazing to me that a lot here single out Palmer, when he has created our only chance this half. What about the rest that has done absolutely nothing?

Poor half from the whole team, especially Ake and Gvardiol that let Sevilla score on a chance that shouldn't even been a chance. 2v1 and did absolutely nothing to stop the only attacker in the box despite both standing right next to him. Unfortunately we got few attacking options on the bench too since we for some reason decided to wait until the season had already started before we started working on our transfer business.

On a positive note, it can only get better from here! Expect us to be much better in the second half :)
And yeah, I know we won a treble last season, that doesn't mean we are playing well so far today.

 

[bert38]

Weird to put akanji in the stones role, he's probably the least technical of all our centre backs, just odd, gvardiol would surely make more sense.

Kovacic really impressing me, actually looks to move or pass forward first, hope pep doesn't train it out of him.

Grealish needs to wake up, looked almost uninterested all pre-season, about time he steps up now. Did foden go off for a shit or something, forgot he was playing for about 20 minutes, need to get him involved if we are to get back into this.

Expect pep to use subs in the heat, Lewis to come on and do what akanji has been doing, alvarez to come on down the middle, foden out wide to attack that space they're affording us out wide with grealish coming off.

Guess if Lewis comes on it will be for Akanji or more likely Walker……

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

That was a really poor performance. Gvardiol and Kovacic probably the standard outs for us, which is promising and concerning in equal measure.

Phil has to take control of games like this.

 

[RayCTID]

Just a lack of familiarity for their goal between Ake and Gvardiol. We know the team is more than capable of stepping it up a couple of gears.

 

[cookster]

Sevilla are absolutely wank.

We’ve had no tempo and no authority, both of which are very unusual for us.

Need to step up 2 gears and stop lolloping about.

The league don't lie. Think they finished around 14th in La Liga last year.
As you said wank.