Aye, Newcastle parked the bus and played counter. The only way to overcome that to get and take chances is to move the ball quickly and to be accurate, we didn't do that. Maybe Utd of all people will be the difference if they do us a favour against Liverpool but even then I can't see us finishing the season without losing again and at this stage we just can't lose any games if we want to win the league.
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Aye, Newcastle parked the bus and played counter. The only way to overcome that to get and take chances is to move the ball quickly and to be accurate, we didn't do that. Maybe Utd of all people will be the difference if they do us a favour against Liverpool but even then I can't see us finishing the season without losing again and at this stage we just can't lose any games if we want to win the league.
dannyboy29
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Don't forget about defending and game management, you can win games 1-0 u know.
You cant win 1-0 if the other team takes their chances. They took theirs, we didn't.
I think we might have felt we needed him if Sterling or Sané had gotten injured.You are absolutely right, two of our best midfielders (Dinho & Silva) are 30+. We needed a DM and a LB and IMO a striker too in the summer and instead we got Mahrez. Don't get me wrong Mahrez is a good player (although I think Pep is playing him out of position) but we didn't need him. I hadn't thought of the transfer side of things but you are dead right we win the league then we don't strengthen but everyone around us does.
OB1
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Still don't understand the substitutions last night. Bringing Sane off was a bad call, bringing Gundogan on to change the game an even worse one.
Don't agree that Gundogan was a bad call: his passing is more varied than Mahrez and his set piece delivery is usually excellent. Taking Sane off was the wrong move in my opinion but, frankly, I'm not sure it would have mattered what he did as no one seemed to be able to perform sufficiently well.
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I'm talking about when we are leading a game mate, we have conceded 3 against Palace, 2 against Leicester now 2 against Newcastle, something is not right whether it's tiredness confidence whatever, but digging in and grinding out results is better than saving face.We do put ten players behind the ball and defend if we are forced to and we are excellent at counter attacking, that's how we scored last night, but we are not going to go out and sit back and let teams come at us. It would be interesting to see if we deliberately sat deep and invited teams forward whether they would come out to play. However that woudl mean surrendering possession and that is not what we do.
Don't forget about defending and game management, you can win games 1-0 u know.
Not to mention giving the youngsters more of a run out, pasting Rotherham and Burton and yet there were still a lot of first team players playing 90 minutes. The second leg against Burton should have been a team of academy players with a bench of first team players just in case.
aguerooooo
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Instead of spending £60 million on solving a problem. we have created another one. Because the money has been spunked on a player who is not trusted to do anything but keep Foden happy on the bench Every time we have won the title we have not spent wisely in the following summer Vinny said when he came back from the summer he saw the hunger to retain the title in the players eyes Excuse the pun but we aint a patch on last season
Sadly it’s just too many games for the players and mental fatigue comes into play. Can’t believe we have played 4 times since Liverpool last played a game. That’s a pretty mad stat
It's a pretty mad start yes but in reality the games we've played, the squad we've got it should make no difference Players need games to stay match sharp. We could use the games excuse if we came up short in the 3rd or 4th in this spell of league games but not the first of a huge 4 game spell in the title race. We've barely had to break sweat in recent games and barely did last night. Shocking from everyone last night Pep included.
HelloCity
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I think this might be the worse take from last night.
Well that was shit wan't it. Said a few weeks back we'd, along with the scousers, drop points. Sometimes it's in the games you least expect, although I thought last night we'd win. So dissecting last night, after a dream start we looked average and they were even worse. A couple of good chances spurned but not enough created. There really is zero wriggle room now and we're still reliant on favours from here on in. I've read a few posts saying the lack of transfer activity is a factor. Complete rubbish, that team plays to it's potential and we cruise past the geordies, and CP and Leicester as well. Downright poor performances is the cause.