Marvin said:I watched the game and agree with you.Castiel said:I'm not. We played decently, cutting them open repeatedly in the first half and remained in control. Our finishing was just not there today, nothing was coming off. Then we conceded a really cheap goal at half time and dominated a team playing possession football at their own ground when we went all in. On another day we'd have won.davymcfc said:Wonder if all the Chelsea fans are moaning about mourinho.
But we didn't take our chances and Everton did, they also defended magnificently and deserve every point. It's just a shame that you and United got quite lucky today and nothing came off for us! Hopefully they'll take points off the rest of you later on.
But you have to be concerned with your finishing. Not a good game from Eto'o, or Torres. But Eto'o still looked quick. Perhaps not as quick as he was
I thought Gaz Baz was very lucky not to get booked. Repeated late fouls.
You can say City were lucky, but we had an entire first choice back 4 out, and Hart made those saves. It's not luck when a keeper makes a good save, its good goal-keeping
Eto'o hasn't played in almost a month and he was getting on the end of chance after chance and taking shots. He was clearly very rusty, but I was happy with his performance today even though he was off. Torres never gets on the end of those chances or even into good positions. If he consistently takes as many shots as he did today, he's going to score a lot of goals. I'm not saying we have a great strike force. It's still a problem for us, but I think Eto'o will be an acceptable patch for this season if he continues getting on the end of these chances. He'll shake the rust off.Marvin said:I wouldn't dismiss your striking issues
We all know Torres is not up to it. So is Eto'o going to be the answer?
City are playing as poorly as I can remember, but there are reasons for that and at least we are still in touch. We have to hope that we have had our bad patch. We've certainly had a difficult time with injuries with a lot of injuries being concentrated in one area which is very disruptive and would challenge any squad
adrianr said:Tell you what, they may have lost, but Chelsea played a lot better than we did today. Moved it forward with purpose, looked far more like winning than we did at any point against Stoke. We may all be on level points, but we look the furthest off the pace.
Got fooled by Johnson's dive too.mcfc_ms said:Surely Atkinson will never referee a game again after that?
Quite simply the worst refereeing decision I have seen
Never mind the disallowed goal. How did he come to the conclusion of just booking Sagna?
Citysmith said:Watching MOTD and can't believe that Sunderland had a goal disallowed & the Arsenal player stayed on the pitch, the Arsenal goal at the end looked offside to me but was 't discussed?
This, how can it not be a goal scoring opportunity if he scoresmcfc_ms said:Citysmith said:Watching MOTD and can't believe that Sunderland had a goal disallowed & the Arsenal player stayed on the pitch, the Arsenal goal at the end looked offside to me but was 't discussed?
For me Atkinson had two choices. Allow the goal or send off the player.
He really fucked it up