The Derby Post Match Thread

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

We were good up to a point. I'm sure Pellegrini would have been a bit critical of our ball retention on the break. We had a lot of opportunities to break on them but in the 2nd half in particular the ball just kept coming back.

Our pass completion was low I think today. Bbc said 72%

 

[Deleted member 13905]

they were at home,
they had a chance to go top,
we had no silva and no aguero.

i totally agree with everyone who says united are piss poor,
the most expensive team ever, or whatever the stat is, it doesn't matter,
they decided to kill the game from the off,
not one shot on target at home in the first half.

there's only one reason why this was the worst derby ever and that's their "philosophy"...
bore the oppostion to death and try to nick one while we are asleep.

fuck 'em!

 

[AkanjisAfro]

Not as a forward he isn't be there again that isn't his position anyway. It was his absence from deep midfield that stopped us keeping the ball and getting going forward.

True. His ball playing is amazing. But I just don't trust him anymore. Players just walk off him. He always has had that burst in his game yet I haven't seen it this season. I love yaya and he has been amazing over the years, just think it's 1 season too many.

 

[bondsman]

Explain?

City without yaya is still unthinkable. No one else in our squad can do what he does. He was our biggest threat today again

 

[gkmcfc]

I was pleased with our first half performance, but second half we lost our composure and gave the ball away too much which allowed them to "try" to attack us. Overall it's a good point for us though.

 

[wattle]

One word...

NEGATIVE.

One more word.... TOP

 

[adaminho]

Must say was terribly dissapointed by sterling today as I have been all season. He is a typically English player.no first touch. I'm hoping for pellegrini to drop him in favour of kele chi just so he knows he's not irreplaceable. Can't see that happening though.

Also bony looks like a panic buy that I think we all knew he was. He's always on his heels doesn't seem to have a striker instinct.

On the plus side though otamendi looked like a boss today .. and vinni as usual, his usual commanding self . Went all suarez on rooneys head which I liked .

 

[Wanchope n me Dickov]

We bore when we want, we bore when we want.....

We're man city, were top of the League..

 

[BringBackSwales]

The day that we approach a home Derby the negative way that they did would be a very sad day. Decent point for us all the same

 

[cleavers]

I don`t normally get this would up about the Rags,but today I witnessed something my Rag friends have been saying for a while about their team.

I wouldn't trust any rag opinion personally, they want all out attack like we play, but they know they can't do it, and they don't like to be dull and safe, but vg has them doing better result wise than their team probably merits. They'll be happy tonight though, because they know we've had to be more pragmatic due to missing Silva and Aguero, and still they couldn't get a win. We lost 4-2 there last year by being too open, better to be pragmatic, that's 2 points they can't get.

All this "happy clapper" stuff you keeping quoting is more than a bit unfair imho, lots of people were crying out for more pragmatic, and credit vg, he found a way to stop de Bruyne today, and we didn't have many options on the bench for a game of that magnitude.