Swansea (QF) Post Match thread

[Don Karleone]

Ha. Honestly, I was never worried.

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

I’ve not seen their manager’s comments, what did he say?

He was interviewed pitch side and he shut down the 3 lads, saying yes ours was a penalty, City battered them and even though the 3rd goal was coming we were going to do them. He said he was just proud of how Swansea played. Utter class from him.

 

[OntarioBlue]

That was a huge, huge result for this team and some of the players in it.

Some of our fans are so, so simple minded though.

Slating Sane's performance is just madness. He literally had Delph planted 10 yards behind him stationary, which allowed Swansea to park two players in front of him.Laporte also looked a mess until he left the field...no coincidence there. It was a shocking, shocking showing from Delph and Zinchenko literally put him to shame and did to him tonight what Kelechi did to Bony. We won't see Delph again this season methinks.

I thought Gundogan did his usual Samir Nasri impression of doing the bare minimum until the game turned, he really is a player who looks good when we're playing good and invisible otherwise.

What a performance from Bernardo and the subs, fantastic.

Fair play to Bersant Celina. I felt he was offloaded too soon and unfairly at the time and his comments and attitude we great. He said he wanted to show us what we missed out on and fair play to him for getting such a good finish. He's going to be some player.

Their manager is also an absolute class act, those comments after the game were great and he stopped BT from saying it wasn't a penalty.

I’m afraid you’re right about Delph. You could see how frustrated Laporte was getting in the first half. Delph leaves so much space that his fellow defenders have to constantly cover for him. He also doesn’t seem to have an6 kind of rapport with Sane. Zinchenko and Sane have an almost telepathic understanding.

I like Delph, he’s an honest, hard working pro who can be brilliant. Unfortunately he does seem have more than his fare share of f..k ups in him.

We need to get Mendy back to rotate with Zinny.

 

[homerdog]

Fucking love it!

 

[LucahArchie10]

Best thing we did tonight was getting Delph off the pitch, Zinchenko gave us pace & accuracy.
Sane definately struggles when he plays alongside Gabby & Mahrez who was wank.
No suprise when we brought Sterling on then Aguero & fucked Mahrez off Walker uped his game funny in it.

Zinchenko looks the part & fair play I gave him some stick last year but with game time he has grown into a good young footballer.

So we got some look today but how did we not finish half of those chances today.

Good draw now Millwall or Brighton.

 

[NorCalBlue]

That's the deceptive thing about Delph, he's actually rather two-footed. The problem is, so too are his challenges. :-(

In all seriousness, I think the last gasp slide tackle is a Delph trademark that he used to good effect last season. Unfortunately, if he's a tiny bit off the pace through injury or lack of match fitness, it makes him just that split second slower, and great tackles become late tackles and a decent player becomes a liability.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

I’ve not seen their manager’s comments, what did he say?

He was very gracious and didnt moan about any decisions despite Hartson goading him to say something controversial , Potter is a top man and got the best out of his team , hope the Swansea owners give him the time he needs to get Swansea back in the Premier league , his team were a credit to him today

 

[razman]

Few concerns will be there for Pep which he and the support staff will no don't work over during the international break

But the way we won in the end , will keep the players buzzing

 

[BlueAnorak]

FA Cup winners always have to have a lucky game. Hopefully that was the only one we need.

 

[Len Rum]

Decisions even themselves out over a season, so I'm told when one goes against us.

The perfect riposte. Impossible to argue with that. He's clever

Class act.