Stoke post match

I'm dead chuffed. Never easy at the bet365 stadium.
I missed the first half due to work but thought stones looked fantastic second half.
And our fans, what can u say...sounded great. Well done lads. Coz we've got Guardiola!

We leave with the points and that's all I care about. We can only get better and better.
 
The work rate of the city team is higher than the opposition in terms of distance covered. The players were able to cheat under pellers hence we were always out ran. Guardiola sorted it out straight away. Even silva, KDB and Aguero working hard off the ball. Long may it continue.
 
Oh Ive just worked it out.
A flattering 4-1 win is when you completely steamroll a team into submission, you have 65-80% possession they have hardly and chances on goal compared to your peppering of their goal constantly through both halves..

funny that eh??

Yet do the same to a team that doesn't lie down, does have their lions share of possession and has plenty of attempts on your goal..its called unflattering ! yet you do more to win in the unflattering game..

It don't add up, its a pathetic statement given by boring no mark pundits who were unhappy with the result.
 
One thing confusing me, we have lost once at Stoke in last six years, last years surrender, OK four draws, you would think we lost every game reading the posts, wish we had that record at the dippers!
 
Never really understood the vitriol against Quinn on hear until now. What an utter biased Sky Rag ****.
How did that result "flatter City".
We outplayed Stoke first half, and gradually wore down their comeback in the 2nd half and then were able to bring on two world class subs to score off the bench to utterly crush them as they capitulated in the last few minutes.
Fukkin furious about Quinns comments!
 
It was a pen, I'll leave it there.

Eyes on the player and he grabbed him, twice. As bad as obstruction, it wasn't solely for not looking at the ball.

Thankfully we won 4-1 so there's no need to bitch about the decision.
That's weird, I had a look on rag cafe and they ALL agree it wasn't a pen.
 
Not a very good performance (esp. in the 2nd half) in terms of attacking shape and play but we worked hard and defended well given the conditions and Stoke's lumpball.

4 goals, 2 good subs by the manager and no more Stoke away for at least a year. Can't complain
 
See the mail has the league table all wrong....didnt stick around to see the 4th goal.....their seething at our success....expect the disrupters out in full force this week....ramp up support for Joe Hart story.
 
Well that was a strange game but a brilliant result.
The wind must not have helped, but it just felt to me like I could have been watching a game from last year. Rarely noticed the inverted full-backs, fair enough might not do it all the time, from the stats we didn't make tons more passes than them. We did run more than them, at our best we could still play through them, just found it a bit more difficult to control and finish it off, which you would expect we are a work in progress.
First I've heard of these new penalty rules and I don't like it. Worked out as I felt we needed that goal, Sergio finishes back to normal. A perfect free kick from KDB and Agüero bags another header. Was so frustrated with their pen, Sterling touched him a fraction of the amount Otamendi was held, but if you don't look at the ball that equals penalty. If so there will be 5 pens a game which is artificial rubbish, hopefully there's a re-think.
Kelechi came on and did extremely well, he knew better than me when he squared to pass in the box; the slight dummy also very nice and Raheem unselfish to give Nolito two good goals.
When under pressure it can get a bit nervy, but John Stones barely put a foot wrong so motm for me. It was fantastic in the end, 4-1 winners and blasting out the new Guardiola chant, loved it.
 
never easy at stoke, pleased we kept at it trying to play the football, when we really click someone is going to get a right tonking

gonna be a lot of pens given this season if today is anything to go by
 

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