Match Thread | Stoke City vs Manchester City (20/08/16)

[capiloton]

playing poorly in this 2nd half.
pep should take bruyne out.

 

[pikku]

Just hold on to the lead..

 

[BerkshireBlue]

People moaning about Navas but De Bruyne's been fucking awful.

De Bruyne is well behind on match fitness due to coming back late. He needs a couple more weeks to get up to speed

 

[Yates]

I'm still baffled as to why Willy is rated by Pep. He categorically does not have better distribution than Hart. He just doesn't.

Hart would bottle it after one mistake and wouldn't try it again. Both are poor pretty much.

 

[MeatHunterrr]

It will work with elite players, maybe next year.

thats the key

 

[SiMCFC]

Kev is completely bollocksed but he did struggle towards the end of matches last season and in the Euros, stamina will hopefully get better. Still a good 3 points if we manage to hang on here

 

[unlikelyfan19]

Man Stoke is getting all the deflections. Never in my life have I seen so many ricochets that should give us a corner but bounce back off one of us to give them a goal kick.

 

[BlueMojito]

Passing gone off the boil. Be interesting to see how Pep analyses this performance.

 

[BoundedCascade]

Also Sterling was great first half but has been diabolical in the second.

I think that penalty ruined his confidence. Pep will talk to him at the end and he will look better next game.

 

[capiloton]

hold the ball fuckers