Swansea - Post match thread

[kaz7]

His record as a manager suggest the complete opposite, sorry karen.

It's not about his record,he makes the subs too late,he didn't see their goal coming in time,we had the lead and they were pressing hard,shore it up then,he didn't do it in time imo of course

 

[Ancient Citizen]

Good performance overall but we need to kill teams off.
Again the inevitable equaliser happened like it has done on a lot of games this season, hopefully we can get this right next season.
Wish also our corners would improve, they have been woeful for years, barely getting past the first post.

Yeah, corners are dire, I can't remember many we've scored from lately, or even over the past season.

 

[Peggy's a blue]

To be honest, I cannot understand anybody not being anything but happy with today's result. No team is brilliant every game, look at spuds how happy they were with a draw against us, yes we ground it out, after playing some great football first half. But we won, three points, how many times have we deserved but not got three points, so I do not understand the negative stuff :-)

 

[Vienna_70]

Good result in the end, but they made bloody hard work of it.

Full credit to Paul Clement for changing it at half-time, but we should have been out of sight by then, considering the dominance we had in the first 45.

I didn't think anyone stood out as MotM, though there were several good performances and I don't think you can argue with giving it to Gabriel, considering he scored both goals.

Very emotional at the start when Vinnie laid the wreath for Elliot and the win gave him a great send-off.

 

[Proy]

Was a good football match that. Enjoyed it.

I thought for as much as Swansea never laid a glove on us in the first half, we were absolutely excellent. Some great interplay, loads of pace, and every pass was forward.

2nd half I thought Swansea were very brave, certainly from a tactical point of view, against the pace we had they pressed us well and started winning the 2nd balls. Grew into the game and the equaliser was no surprise.

From our perspective Pep needs to react a shade quicker, especially when we are not putting these home games to bed. We are still developing under him, and think eventually we will play out of the press better than we do. Bayern were absolutely brilliant at that. We retreated and need some more confidence in how we play.

A deserved 3 points in the end, starting to see what the future holds after the last few games

 

[Ajm1985]

Bein sports advising us to not get carried away with Jesus. The last city player to get 3 goals in first 2 premier league starts?

Wanchope! And smeichel said martial made a similar start with rags but look what happened to him? Bollox!

Haha I love logic like that. Any excuse to downplay a talent

 

[Harvster]

Was delighted to see Fern at right back, then he had a stinker!

Fantastic first half display, Sane & Silva unplayable down our left

 

[GornikDaze]

Just home... thought we had blown it but a wins a win. Glad someone posted the Sterling video seemed a fair decision, although the booking was maybe a bit harsh.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I think that we, as a defence, are very reluctant to make a good old crunching tackle for fear that the Whistling Wanker will rip off his pocket and brandish, irony of ironies, a red card! Too often this season have there been instances where tackles of the Andy Morrison, GazBaz and Nige de J variety were called for but in a twinkle the player has a picture of Ferny flashing before his eyes and a red card flashing before Ferny's eyes - to whit, the joke yellow doled out to Sterling today is an example of where we pick up a card either for the most innocuous thing or for something that the officials have got completely wrong.

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Yeah, corners are dire, I can't remember many we've scored from lately, or even over the past season.

It's almost as if they don't practice them. The height in the team isn't great at the moment but that aside we get numerous corners in most games but it's a complete waste of time.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Pep does make subs to late,we all saw their goal coming i'm surprised pep didn't,his game management isn't great

I agree. The first sub was absolutely right as KDB was having no impact & Dinho was struggling playing in that role. But he should have done it around 65 minutes or even sooner.

The second sub was 5-10 minutes too late and the last one was, in my view, grossly irresponsible and unnecessary. There were seconds to go in a game we'd rescued but it allowed Dean to add more time on.

J remember Moyes doing that when Everton were 1-0 up and Micah scored in the added on time. Utterly stupid.

 

[quiet_riot]

Thanks for that, not seen it again, missed all the replays at the ground celebrating.

 

[bellsouth]

I know Vinnie is still getting up to full speed, but he needs to play every game for me. Whenever we're put under pressure we look all over the place still. Messing about changing the defence every week is making life harder than it should be.

 

[cucumberman]

Think he's worn this at least twice now. Quite a jacket. Thought at first it is from our sponsor DSquared2, but seems it's not.

 

[Burtonblue]

Their goal should not have stood.
Dyer was standing right in Willy's line of site and was offside which is why he saw it too late.
We are just not getting any of these decisions at the moment.

 

[Toney’s bookie]

Jesus has played 3 games and Kun's career at City is over. Come on, get a grip.

We've spent so long lamenting our lack of strikers and reliance on Kun since the club decided to sell Dzeko, Negredo, Jovetic, Tevez etc and claim to replace them with fecking Bony. Now, we finally have a striker to reduce that reliance and bolster our attack and suddenly some of our fans seem desperate for Aguero to go and put us back in that position. Honestly, I don't get some of our so-called supporters. Maybe it's just a case of the Sky Sports generation looking for drama and controversy at every corner.

 

[dreamlands]

hahaha to all the people that left before the end. how can any city fan leave in the most important part of the game.

Well done you number 1 city fan staying till the end.

 

[Greg.W2]

All credit to everyone who stayed till the end to cheer the boys over the line. Fuck off to the early leavers, I'm glad you missed the winner.

 

[SiMCFC]

Absolutely fantastic in the first half, majestic in fact. Sane and Jesus looked like they have played together for years, we should have gone into the break 3/4-0 up imo. Ferns passing was as bad as i've ever seen him. Second half Swansea tried to play and really put pressure on us. Echoing what others have said in that the subs were too late again, when you can see the game running away from you we have to make them, proactive not reactive. Aguero should have had 30 mins as Sterlings head had dropped after being fucked by the officials yet again. Good 3 points in the end, think we will drop more points at home than we will away for the rest of the season.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Pep does make subs to late,we all saw their goal coming i'm surprised pep didn't,his game management isn't great

It's not something for which he will have had a great deal of need in the past. His teams have invariably been well ahead by the time you begin to think of subbing players. But I don't doubt it will be something that will be added to the Guardiola repertoire before long.