Spurs (H) - Sat 23rd Nov, 17:30 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[Jonas.shaffer]

“That Chicago guy” is telling you it means nothing because it is a meaningless graph that ignores what football is…risk balanced by skill.

Everyone and their brother knows:

City dominate possession in most games
City’ most defensive outfield player is often on the opposition 25 yard line, maybe 30
City usually dominate “touches in the box” while not often converting those touches into actual goals
City risk the counter often by only using the two CBs to stop them

AND, everybody knows this generally works for this squad because:

City have won the League for the last 4 seasons playing EXACTLY that way, and haven’t finished out of the Top 2 since Pep’s second season.

However, your “graph” seems to indicate that City are somehow “worse” than that.

Now, sling your Anti-City hook somewhere else or would you like some REAL STATISTICS about how much better City have been better than ANY other club in British history over the last decade or so, breaking record after record after record along the way?

I get what you're saying, but between 19/20-22/23, we were almost always one of the top defensive teams and attacking. We fell off a bit in that regard last year, but A LOT through this season thus far, albeit it's a small sample size. I think to say it means "nothing" is incredibly disingenuous.

Pep is signed up. We've got most of our players back from injury. Let's play it out and see how it goes.

Big oppurtunity on Saturday versus Spurs.

 

[willipp]

Roll on Saturday. Gonna be fucking superb now.

 

[BongoBlue]

Well after the Pep news, it's a win from me.

(Well OK, I was going to do it anyway...;) )

 

[TinFoilHat]

I can here Peps team talk now he's confirmed as staying.

Our boys will be fired up.

 

[citeh94]

Spurs should be fcking trembling, Pep’s staying, our lads will be fired up. Big win.

 

[johnny crossan]

Storm Bert could do us a favour if it hangs around long enough to get our game called off

 

[lasereyes]

Storm Bert could do us a favour if it hangs around long enough to get our game called off
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Absolutely no. No way we want to go to Anfield on back of 4 defeats

 

[youngbob]

Storm Bert could do us a favour if it hangs around long enough to get our game called off
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Will have mostly passed by the time of the game, hopefully. Will probably still be raining but the winds should have died down.

 

[mancity111]

“That Chicago guy” is telling you it means nothing because it is a meaningless graph that ignores what football is…risk balanced by skill.

Everyone and their brother knows:

City dominate possession in most games
City’ most defensive outfield player is often on the opposition 25 yard line, maybe 30
City usually dominate “touches in the box” while not often converting those touches into actual goals
City risk the counter often by only using the two CBs to stop them

AND, everybody knows this generally works for this squad because:

City have won the League for the last 4 seasons playing EXACTLY that way, and haven’t finished out of the Top 2 since Pep’s second season.

However, your “graph” seems to indicate that City are somehow “worse” than that.

Now, sling your Anti-City hook somewhere else or would you like some REAL STATISTICS about how much better City have been better than ANY other club in British history over the last decade or so, breaking record after record after record along the way?

Exquisite CB and accurate to boot.

You would never make for a long standing politician.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Exquisite CB and accurate to boot.

You would never make for a long standing politician.

I’ll take that as a feather in my cap!