Official City v Sunderland thread

black mamba said:
Brucie Bonus said:
Sigh of relief after playing a BAD 10-man team - suffering with a ton of yellows as well - at COMS?

Good result. Some good performances, but some really, really, really shit finishing and selfish play.
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It really should have been a nine man team ...... Bardsley will never know how he escaped gettin' a second yellow there!
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Well we ended up with 9 men anyway, so it would have been even.
 
decent performance, i agree robinho is getting desperate and affecting his play. do you think elano would have let anyone else take that pen!
international break now so a bit of time for the injuries to heal.
 
Project said:
moomba said:
Would like to see us be a bit smarter trying to beat 10 men though, it's not rocket science.
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Disagree with this - I think we played the 10 men perfectly. Passed it, made the pitch as large as possible and bided our time. It was working as we created lots of chances which is more than we could say about the Stoke game. Not taking those chances had nothing to do with how we went about our business against 10 men but more about our lack of conviction at times. And with it still at just 1-0 there was obviously going to be edgy moments in the final 10 minutes as Sunderland pushed everybody forward. For the large part though against the 10 men we were comfortable, created space, opportunities and ultimately the goal we needed.
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Unbelieveable comment.

We retained possession brilliantly, constantly moving the ball from side to side until an opportunity arose. If there was a fault it was in the final ball, or shot, not the general play
 
What the jesus was Robinho doing? It was a truly shocking penalty. Didn't look confident tbh.

Good result. Would've liked a couple more though.
 
Marvin said:
Unbelieveable comment.

We retained possession brilliantly, constantly moving the ball from side to side until an opportunity arose. If there was a fault it was in the final ball, or shot, not the general play
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Unbelievable? Talk about prone to the amateur dramatics.

I thought for a period of about 5 minutes after our goal we moved the ball around the way we should of against 10 men. The rest of the game, we didn't do it nearly enough IMO.
 
moomba said:
Marvin said:
Unbelieveable comment.

We retained possession brilliantly, constantly moving the ball from side to side until an opportunity arose. If there was a fault it was in the final ball, or shot, not the general play
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Unbelievable? Talk about prone to the amateur dramatics.

I thought for a period of about 5 minutes after our goal we moved the ball around the way we should of against 10 men. The rest of the game, we didn't do it nearly enough IMO.
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Yeah I agree, it looked like we had the 10 men for a lot of the match.
 
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Bert Trauttman today at CoMS



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Thanks mate
 
I'm concerned that we're letting half-fit players loose with their countries over the next 2 weeks now. Talk of Bojinov playing for his country after we've spent 6 months trying to get him fit!
 
Over all..

Robinho had a poor day. (A very rare one so get off his back)
Richards is getting back to the form that got him in the England team.
Bojinov had a cracking game. (did anyone see the pout he made when he argued the penalty was a red card?) quality lol
De Jong excelled with Kompany in the middle.

The whole team excelled as one, We could of got a few more goals. A good day at the office.

Istanbul, Istanbul.. ;)

Take care mates.. night.
 
Wow Boijnov has some speed, dribbling skills, and some clever passing. I cannot wait to see him play more! I'm glad Bellamy is getting over his injury and coming back into the line-up. Robinho did well not his best and I really think that penalty was his chance to get back his confidence! However it shows alot of his stuggle in that moment I think! We should have had a few more goals but the game was good and some nice defending. Elano did superbly and should have had a goal to his name but a bit of bad luck went his way! Unfortanetly I've still not taken a liking to Gelson Fernandes mostly because I haven't seen much out of him. Everyone did really well for the most of the game.
 
MOTD highlights seemed to miss a lot of our attacks - even some one on ones, and emphasised Sunderland's late pressure

Didn't think it reflected an extremely dominat City display.

You could argue that we should be beating teams like Sunderland after they've been reduced to 10 men, but how many times have we seen City teams struggle to do that

In spite of a few injuries, missing players, and fatigue, we overcame the blow of missing the penalty and passed the ball really well (with exception of a few wayward passes from De Jong). What was noticeable about our game was our confidence and patience on the ball, and the way we maintained control of the game despite the narrow scoreline.

In earlier games Hughes talked about seeing games out through possession football, and that was what we did today.

Perhaps I'm being over-optimistic, but I was very pleased with our performance today, because I thought it was a poetntial banana skin. The weekend's games saw soe very intense games from teams under threat of relegation, and I thought Sunderland would push a tired City tem very hard
 
Robinho has had far worse games than he had today IMO (penalty aside), including last week against Chelsea. Today was against a poor 10-man team mind, but he had 3 or 4 legitimate chances. I've got the feeling once he gets back on track (which they tried to do today in the first place letting him take the pen) goals will start pouring in. There'd be no better way (ok, maybe the Rags!) to quiet the plaudits than a big performance next game at the Emirates
 
Arthur Lager said:
I'm concerned that we're letting half-fit players loose with their countries over the next 2 weeks now. Talk of Bojinov playing for his country after we've spent 6 months trying to get him fit!
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I agree Arthur. Welcome.
 
blue 1992 said:
A bit of a dissapointing performance but all that matters now is the 3 points. You done us proud Micah keep it up. But can someone explan why Robby took the penalty even tho Elano takes the pennies?
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My guess is because he is the official pen taker when in the side, as Elano is not a certain pick by any means.
 
Don't be so miserable.Team has the 3 points and looks forward the next match.I want for now only the three points,from the next season i will demand good performances.
 
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