United (A) Post Match Thread

[simon23]

But was it called in to examine that?
My initial concern was that St Marcus so loved by some is just a common or garden rag cheat with his scream and rolling on the ground.

It could have killed him as another rag cheat once said

I think it was called to examine the offside...

Said in a never post it was a soft penalty but thats modern football for you as well.....they are all at it....

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Would it have mattered? Playing the ball short on most occasions. I don't get it, We have a big side, Stones, Dias, Laporte, Rodri and still go short.

Or fail to get it past the defender on the near post.

 

[Phil1]

Very disappointing overall. How can a derby be a boring game? The good news is that our defence looked totally solid but on the other hand we didn’t create any chances. How can you not play Foden in a derby????

We created two very good chances that we should have buried.

 

[Mancity1980]

What would Aguero have done tonight ? We created virtually nothing.

We chose (rightly or wrongly) to play a safe cautious game, if we had a fit Aguero upfront we would have the confidence to risk more attacks because the risk reward ratio would have been more in our favour, ie. we would have more likely scored.

 

[franksinatra]

Theres the line in the all or nothing of Pep telling the players to play with courage.
Today went against that message whether the end result was good or not.
Either he’s lost it or the players have.

That is my main concern with how the team played. It goes completely against Peps philosophy of imposing your style and being courageous on the ball. To me it suggests Pep does not have confidence in the personnel to play how he would actually want them to play, so he plays a more conservative style, but not by choice.

 

[chaddblue]

Don't take this the wrong way, mate, but I cannot conceive of the idea that any club - even Real Madrid - would part with that sort of money for Sterling.

If they did, he'd be utterly ruined after 4 months. Their fans are awful and would despair of the poor control, erratic finishing, and falling down when a defender enters his personal space.

His stock and reputation is far higher with those who don’t have to watch his poor technique, his poor decision making and his poor mental strength week in week out

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

90% is way too much but there does seem to be a lack of unity and we’re missing a leader. I think having Sergio, Laporte and Phil playing regularly will help bring the team together. Personally I think we haven’t looked the same since Merlin left. I also think getting Vinny back in some kind’ve coaching role might be a big help in building a winning mentality again.

Do you see the chance of Phil playing regularly if he couldn't get on the pitch today instead of Sterling ?

 

[Leeky]

years ago I would of prayed for a point at the swamp but tonight feels like a defeat, they were there for the taking but gave them too much respect. I’m loving our defensive side but going forward is terrible.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

His stock and reputation is far higher with those who don’t have to watch his poor technique, his poor decision making and his poor mental strength week in week out

Not sure why that should be. We can see week and week out that he is fucking poor in so many areas .

And we never get to see if playing on the right might actually help .

 

[chaddblue]

We chose (rightly or wrongly) to play a safe cautious game, if we had a fit Aguero upfront we would have the confidence to risk more attacks because the risk reward ratio would have been more in our favour, ie. we would have more likely scored.

A couple of times we broke on the right or left and nobody was in the middle.. Jesus was pissing about 20 yards further back, so we had to go back and the chance was gone

Sergio would have been where Jesus should have been

 

[eversince 76]

Trying to think of any positives. Couldn’t for hours. Than suddenly one entered my head. We are practising to win the CL the way Chelsea did ,,, nah.

Back to wondering what happened to the sharks. Outscoring opponents. The courage to go and get past your opponent. The creativity. Even players seems to play without a smile on their face.Our play is as boring as the empty stadiums too often with passes back and sideways.

 

[cleavers]

People are definitely overreacting but you cannot keep acting like we would suddenly win like 10 games in a row and get back into the title race. We have to get realistic and not act like we are on the right path.

The "realistic" view would be that if we had scored a couple of relatively easy chances, we would have won, hardly unusual for City, whether we play good or bad.

I posted earlier that they only had 9 touches in our box, and 4 of those were off target headers from corners.

 

[chaddblue]

Not sure why that should be. We can see week and week out that he is fucking poor in so many areas .

And we never get to see if playing on the right might actually help .

I don’t know either, but we’re constantly told by pundits that he’s world class. Sometimes I wonder if they’re talking about the same player

 

[Paul1970]

People are definitely overreacting but you cannot keep acting like we would suddenly win like 10 games in a row and get back into the title race. We have to get realistic and not act like we are on the right path.

True mate . Our big picture is that we will finish top 4 and get into the champs league so we can at least bring our transfer targets in but I just hope to god we don’t try and bargain basement centre forwards in to replace kun because of hat will set us back years . As for pep I just don’t know what’s gonna happen because that today was not good enough and our recruitment hasn’t been good enough now for 3 seasons apart from maybe Dias and Torres the rest are average players not too tier champs league winners which we are looking for . Do we honestly think signing 34 year old messi is gonna suddenly gets us back to we need to be I don’t think so . Pep has probably got the most important transfer window of his career coming up in the summer .

 

[sheikmedick]

Apple pie with no custard

 

[wattle]

Win our game in hand and we're level with Chelsea. Long game

 

[bluwes]

feeble pep.....

Here we go, here's another one

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

We won't win big games creating nothing we will draw or lose meaning we won't win the prem.sort it pep !

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

His stock and reputation is far higher with those who don’t have to watch his poor technique, his poor decision making and his poor mental strength week in week out

Poor mental strength?

He was racially abused and attacked the morning of a game for us once and scored a brace. That's just one example.

Call him out for his performances, whatever. But questioning the lads mental strength is just fucking daft.

 

[cleavers]

Do you see the chance of Phil playing regularly if he couldn't get on the pitch today instead of Sterling ?

He is "playing regularly" he's played once a week now for 3 months, he'll play midweek, as he keeps doing.