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Stoned Rose said:
He’s shit mate.

We shouldn’t be coming out with all these “if” posts every time he plays.
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Nunez was targeted by Spurs in the second half when he was run ragged. He can’t defend. He is better going forward but his final ball is terrible. He did work hard though but he is just not elite level.
 
Very good win that. Spurs have been ok the last few games and we’ve come off the back of two chastening defeats that has taken it out of us.

Of course we looked a bit jaded towards the end but factor in that haaland and Dias are just back from injury.
The three new lads are all getting used to the pace of the league and I think it’s it’s a really really good win.

May be against the grain here but I like nunes. Would love to see him in a more central role but I think there’s a decent player in there if given a fair crack of the whip.

All in all impressive last night and few more players in the summer and we will be right as rain.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Nunez was targeted by Spurs in the second half when he was run ragged. He can’t defend. He is better going forward but his final ball is terrible. He did work hard though but he is just not elite level.
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He was left exposed by savinho not covering his full back. If we are going to try and contain teams we need to ring on people who will work backwards and take off the wingers, not keep a front 4.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Nunez was targeted by Spurs in the second half when he was run ragged. He can’t defend. He is better going forward but his final ball is terrible. He did work hard though but he is just not elite level.
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....and we paid £53M for him; that's elite level money. But, if it's going to be a choice between him and Lewis at right back, he gets the job on physicality.

Spurs had won their previous 3 games so I didn't expect a win there, given our record. Great result considering the 2nd half pressure from them. We actually managed to keep a clean sheet, somehow! The last 20 minutes alone seemed like an hour.
 
Sheik Battle and Goal said:
Don’t get me started on VAR.
it works properly in every other sport because it’s not run by fucking idiots.
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Nail on the head. If they do have equalised at the end, I'd have exploded.

Spurs really are a dirty whiny bunch, Doku very good, Khusanov brilliant, Savinho good in parts, Nunes good, Eddie very good. First half very entertaining but so profligate!!!! Not sure Erl had his best, but that fk up at the end, what are they actually looking at??

Very poor ref, nice didgeriddo tribute before KO by spuds, cockney wankers.
 
Gingers Dad said:
How did the VAR miss both defenders handling it?
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They didn't, the reality is they will just have said defenders can 'accidentally' handball in the box nowadays but Strikers can't if it leads to a goal.

Absolutely stinking decision from the referee who has no clue what has gone on because he is so far behind play looking at the backs of the players, he either blew because Spurs players claimed or just guessed, he did blow his whistle because I heard it as Haaland ran off.

As for VAR what was the point of looking at it for 3-4 minutes if they were never going to prove the ref wrong, this new business of saying not enough proof to over turn an onfield decision is just another way to shoe horn their cheating into the game.

Now, VAR in essence is a great thing, it is the people who control it that are making it look shite or and the people who control them are the ones ultimately corrupt as fuck.
 
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great result. The 1st half was really decent, bar the finishing, i think we could/should have been out of sight. Doku was tremendous that half. 2nd we saw the re-emergence of the lacklustre sloppy City, the one we fear, and i think the pattern is set; we need to be getting our goals and then digging in. Spurs really should have put away one of their chances, they had some very strong ones. Khusanov continues to impress.

on the disallowed goal; the thing that winds me up most is the ref making a decision so long after. If doesn't decide there and then - the very premise refs work on for every second of every game - then he is not sure and has decided to let the game carry on.

The ref blew 7 seconds after the incident, you can hear a whistle as the players run off to celebrate. Also you can see he slips over while watching the 'incident' and i wonder if he's bottled it and sent it upstairs due to that.
 
makinghistory said:
I know we got the 3 points and thats all that matters but the truth is we were shocking against the worst Spurs side Ive seen in years. Match should have been over at half time. The half hearted efforts to win the loose balls, the loose passes, the wrong decision making. Absolutely suicidal at times. We only won that because Spurs were more shit than us. Our levels have dropped so much. Just hope Pep can work his magic again.
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Lol
 
Newman Noggs said:
We know with absolute certainty that the referee did not see a handball because there wasn't one.

So either he made it up or imagined it. My point is, this wasn't an in-play decision, the goal had been scored and the ball was out of play when he made his "on-field" decision.

The correct approach even if he thought he saw a handball, was to give the goal and then review it as they do in virtually every game. It can then be overturned if there is a clear handball. By doing what he did, when there was absolutely no need to, tells me that he wanted it disallowed.
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Not just the goal either, the Doku offside was ridiculous.
 
Chippy_boy said:
What is obvious when you think about it - I hadn't - is that it was either a goal, or a penalty. If VAR managed to analyse it to death to find a handball by Haaland, they MUST also see the same or worse from the defenders. To give neither a goal nor a pen, just shows it was bent.
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It will be like the explanation for the Young non-penalty we saw at the weekend. VAR could only look at the decision made by the referee which was a penalty against Maguire for holding and overturn it. They couldn't give a penalty for the shirt pulling by de Ligt because he wasn't penalised by the referee but they could show the incident and let the referee make his own mind up. I don't know how long that has been a rule, but it's a coincidence it was applied favourably to United. I don't know how often a pitch side review leads to a referee maintaining his original decision, but it's also a coincidence that it favoured United this time.

Last night, they will say they couldn't look at the defensive handballs because that wasn't the decision given by the referee. It will be interesting to see if the referee checked for defensive handballs in his pitch side review, but it's a coincidence all this penalised City.

Is it any wonder people are falling out of love with the game when such convoluted, dogmatic rules are spoiling perfectly good goals? What a mess.

It's a simple game but ridiculous rules are draining it of its enjoyment.
 
Chippy_boy said:
What is obvious when you think about it - I hadn't - is that it was either a goal, or a penalty. If VAR managed to analyse it to death to find a handball by Haaland, they MUST also see the same or worse from the defenders. To give neither a goal nor a pen, just shows it was bent.
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That's incorrect. A defender can accidentally handle the ball without it being an offence, but an attacker can't if it directly leads to a goal.- Stupid interpretation, but that's the current situation.
 
balotellishaircut said:
What has happened to our fitness levels.
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Three new players are getting used to the demands of the domestic game, but the others are also having to make a transition in the way we play. We've had season after season of high press and containing the opponent in their half, which meant much less running. Now, however, we're having to shuttle up and down the park on an almost continuous basis, and the players' bodies are just not used to it. Could be that we have to do a lot more stamina work in pre-season now and that is the same for the academy teams, too.
 
Should have been out of sight first half as our City was back! 3-4 world young class players in the summer window and we will smash the premier league next season!
 
Excellent result. It was always going to be tougher once Kulusevski and Son came on and Khusanov was a beast dealing with their threat on the counter.

Game management from Pep was a little poor, we were under pressure for a long time and needed to make changes sooner but saw our the game pretty well, passing and moving and winning free kicks. Second goal should never have been disallowed, real shame as it was a beautiful goal.

Savinho is always a threat but he needs to mix his game up, he can't keep cutting in and shooting. Doku worked on his final ball and got an assist we need Savinho to be more effective in finding a pass or cut back or Haaland's going to give him a beating.
 
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