Official City v Liverpool MatchDay Thread.

[Gelsons Dad]

for the first 40 minutes that was boys against men with the exception of lescott who didn't make a single good pass. Can't quite make out the formation though is it 4411 with yaya behind teves or is it 4231 with Nige and Gaz holding?

Whatever it is I like it. :-)

 

[lloydie]

Skrtel's challenge not to dissimilar to the one on jo, Yaya was lucky it didn't connect fully. Very professional performance so far though Dippers look poor, even Micah's got his mind on the game....unlike some on here.....



....preferred the bird sat with Kenny Dalglish myself :)

 

[Joycee Banercheck]

Didn't do much wrong in that half at all. Definitely need to put it to bed though. NDJ is quality and Yaya is immense. AJ scaring the shit out of them. Good half from Milner and Tevez has superglue on his boots.

Get another goal lads and keep knocking about.

 

[lee-mcfc]

seriously though we should be atleast 2-0 up

liverpool cant come out worse than that right?
going to be nerve racking

 

[philtenerife]

All I can say is Goughie from Talkshite....... what happened to your prediction... you say easy win for the Bindippers..... F**k off and go back to throwing little red balls around a field

 

[Blue Haze]

Barry and AJ bossing this.

Lescott doesn't look so great.

 

[PaleBlue]

Loving this, we look great. Thought team setup would be negative but Johnno and Milner getting really stuck in. Nice to see Barry back to the player he was, having a good game at both ends.

 

[citysky]

we played like barca ;)

thank you for proving me wrong mancini.
now just bring on silva for barry in 55th min and adebayor for johnson in 70th min

 

[the--dud]

Looking good, very good :)
Mancini shows again that we should leave the team selection and formation to our genius manager! What the hell to we know? Mancio is a our man.

Controlled the game really well, Liverpool hardly had a proper chance. Keeping possession and generally looking good.

I do fear Woy will give the bindippers a real talking to in the dressing room, they'll probably come at us more until the 60th minute or so. I'm sure Mancini knows this and will have prepared the players to just soak it up then take control again ASAP. Or we could just hold up the ball, you can't control the tempo without the ball!

We should be OK, I'd just love to get a 2nd goal... Feeling pure nervous, still not used to this!!

COME ON CITY, fscking smash them in the 2nd half! :D

 

[Mastes1]

Only needs one moment of brilliance from Torres or Gerrard and it'll be 1-1. Still nervous, can't rid myself of the old "Typical City" mentality yet. ;)

me neither...

Im not used to us controlling games against this kind of opposition... well at least the first 38 min... then Pool has hassled us a bit... we need a taller striker like ade along with tevez... but who would we want to change... all is having a good game... Milner has been a revelation... i know he is good but man he is just perfect for us...

Please don't think i'm trying to take away from your very good first half but this Liverpool are not the Liverpool under Benitez, the one thing they did have under Benitez was passion and workrate, they would chase teams down, double up on players and they did it so well that every so often they would destroy a good passing team like they did against Manu and Real Madrid, they were so good at not giving players space and time that opposing teams ended up being total demoralized (sp?) and then overrun. This Liverpool team are not doing that therefor they are looking very average because take away Liverpools passion, commitment and workrate and you're left with a very average team.
Again City have played well and i'm glad as i hate Liverpool but i always expected you to win if Liverpool didn't close City players down like they are not here.