Player topic: Sergio Aguero (2014/15)

[cleavers]

Re: Sergio Aguero

From the BBC gossip column, not seen this anywhere else.

Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero is expected to return to action a month ahead of schedule after suffering a knee injury earlier this month. The 26-year-old was expected to be out for two months, but could be back in early January. (Sun, subscription required)

It is from The Sun so take it with a pinch of salt.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Re: Sergio Aguero

oh yes he is.

As soon as Aguero got the ball against Everton a concerted number of Everton players descended upon him instantly and fouled him. If that is normal practice in a premier league football game I have never witnessed it before.

The paranoia on here is boundless. He was on the field for the grand total of a minute, touched the ball once and overstretched as the result of what was little more than a nudge. You make it sound like it was Nasri up at St James Park all over again!

 

[Ducado]

Re: Sergio Aguero

As soon as Aguero got the ball against Everton a concerted number of Everton players descended upon him instantly and fouled him. If that is normal practice in a premier league football game I have never witnessed it before.

The paranoia on here is boundless. He was on the field for the grand total of a minute, touched the ball once and overstretched as the result of what was little more than a nudge. You make it sound like it was Nasri up at St James Park all over again!

That's not quite how I remembered it and it was right in front of where I sit

 

[malg]

Re: Sergio Aguero

From the BBC gossip column, not seen this anywhere else.

Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero is expected to return to action a month ahead of schedule after suffering a knee injury earlier this month. The 26-year-old was expected to be out for two months, but could be back in early January. (Sun, subscription required)

It is from The Sun so take it with a pinch of salt.

The last thing I want to see is him returning too early. I hope we don't rush him back.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Re: Sergio Aguero

The paranoia on here is boundless. He was on the field for the grand total of a minute, touched the ball once and overstretched as the result of what was little more than a nudge. You make it sound like it was Nasri up at St James Park all over again!

That's not quite how I remembered it and it was right in front of where I sit

Given that it happened about 5 yards outside the penalty area virtually dead centre, I don't see how it can have been 'right in front of you' unless your seat had been repositioned to the penalty spot for the day. It happened in front of pretty much all of us. A foul for sure, but a relatively innocuous one in the grand scheme of things.
That notwithstanding, Kun got the ball, there were a couple of Everton players in close proximity and, unsurprisingly, they tried to tackle him, just as they would have done Nasri, Clichy, Ya Ya or any other player in a similarly dangerous position. There attempts at tackling were no more than clumsy and if they constitute a hack then heaven help the game. The hyperbolic vision of a 'concerted number of Everton players descending on him instantly', like it was a renactment of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, is risible IMO

 

[jimharri]

Re: Sergio Aguero

Recently Neymar made a comment regarding snubbing us was due to us failing to meet his demand to provide him with special boots to play in muddy pitch.

Muddy pitches? What muddy pitches? 99% of professional pitches are like bowling greens these days, even in the middle of our saturated winters. And the drainage underneath them, certainly in the PL, is fantastic. How many top flight games are called off due to waterlogged pitches in a season? I'd love to hear what he'd think if he saw footage of pitches in the seventies; the old Baseball Ground would be a real eye opener to him. Fucking wuss.

 

[Rolee]

Re: Sergio Aguero

The paranoia on here is boundless. He was on the field for the grand total of a minute, touched the ball once and overstretched as the result of what was little more than a nudge. You make it sound like it was Nasri up at St James Park all over again!

That's not quite how I remembered it and it was right in front of where I sit

Given that it happened about 5 yards outside the penalty area virtually dead centre, I don't see how it can have been 'right in front of you' unless your seat had been repositioned to the penalty spot for the day. It happened in front of pretty much all of us. A foul for sure, but a relatively innocuous one in the grand scheme of things.
That notwithstanding, Kun got the ball, there were a couple of Everton players in close proximity and, unsurprisingly, they tried to tackle him, just as they would have done Nasri, Clichy, Ya Ya or any other player in a similarly dangerous position. There attempts at tackling were no more than clumsy and if they constitute a hack then heaven help the game. The hyperbolic vision of a 'concerted number of Everton players descending on him instantly', like it was a renactment of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, is risible IMO

The ball was three yards away, Besic planted his foot across Aguero as he got back to his feet, it wasn't an attempt to tackle him as he didn't have possesion ( Jagielka did ). Open your eyes people.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Re: Sergio Aguero

That's not quite how I remembered it and it was right in front of where I sit

Given that it happened about 5 yards outside the penalty area virtually dead centre, I don't see how it can have been 'right in front of you' unless your seat had been repositioned to the penalty spot for the day. It happened in front of pretty much all of us. A foul for sure, but a relatively innocuous one in the grand scheme of things.
That notwithstanding, Kun got the ball, there were a couple of Everton players in close proximity and, unsurprisingly, they tried to tackle him, just as they would have done Nasri, Clichy, Ya Ya or any other player in a similarly dangerous position. There attempts at tackling were no more than clumsy and if they constitute a hack then heaven help the game. The hyperbolic vision of a 'concerted number of Everton players descending on him instantly', like it was a renactment of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, is risible IMO

The ball was three yards away, Besic planted his foot across Aguero as he got back to his feet, it wasn't an attempt to tackle him as he didn't have possesion ( Jagielka did ). Open your eyes people.

So at worst what we've got then is a trip, and even then more thigh to thigh to knock Sergio off balance than anything that could possibly be described as a 'hack' or a deliberate attempt to injure/maim. And my eyes are wide open mate. They just don't have sky blue glasses on. What Mbwotsisname did to Nasri falls into the hack category. This does not

 

[Rolee]

Re: Sergio Aguero

There you go Exeter Blue.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Re: Sergio Aguero

There you go Exeter Blue.

I don't dispute it was a foul, and never have. What I said was that it was a fairly innocous one in the grand scheme of things, and hardly falls into the murderous assault category that some are making out. Nothing in that picture (and a still is never the most reliable medium - Joe Hart looked like he was headbutting Michael Oliver from a still) dissuades me from that assessment. No studs up, no two feet off the ground, no wildly swinging boot, no ankle hacking, just a bloke in an Everton shirt attempting to obstruct/block Sergio's path to the ball. Standard defensive fare that you'll see 20 or 30 times in most games