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United (H) Post Match Thread
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Low? We're top if the fuckin league by 14 points if you include our shoddy +90 goals scored.
Lighten up for fucks sake.
This season we have just destroyed the league and CL for that matter playing football from a different planet, in fact for large point we have look like we have been playing a different sport. Unfortunately this week has not been kind as we have now created a mountain to climb in the CL and missed an opportunity to win the league against the rags in a week. Sorry for pointing out the obvious that given our form prior to that (as in obscenely good) that it may be slightly dissopoiting seeing as we have grown accustomed to.
Are you stupid?
This season we have just destroyed the league and CL for that matter playing football from a different planet, in fact for large point we have look like we have been playing a different sport. Unfortunately this week has not been kind as we have now created a mountain to climb in the CL and missed an opportunity to win the league against the rags in a week. Sorry for pointing out the obvious that given our form prior to that (as in obscenely good) that it may be slightly dissopoiting seeing as we have grown accustomed to.
Are you stupid?
I can’t post on the phone. It auto corrects everything
Think that's the biggest problem with referees in this country. They are not accountable for their actions.In the 80s I worked with a top level lino - pre-Prem. By day a junior civil servant, and paid expenses to run the line - unlike the salaried officials of today. We were always on at him about the 'Assessor in the stand'. He was adamant that officials used to get a truly hard time by the Assessors - taken to task via a video run-through of decisions they got wrong. These days assessments of officials aren't so immediate and are less harsh. The amateurs from the past delivered better performances than the current shower of you know what officials.
The FA give them far too much protection, managers can't even say they were shit without getting fined and warned.
It'd help if after the game they came out and said "yeah I got that wrong", won't happen though cos then we'd see how shit/currupt they are.
I like talking to proper city fans not pretend ones.
Well in that case probably wouldn’t tolerate you either.
You my friend are an absolute clown.
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The Preacher
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I’m still trying, in the early hours of Sunday morning, to make some sort of sense of that game. A cagey start, then a brilliant 30 minutes of City football which had them absolutely reeling, brought two goals but saw several great chances missed. Cue second half and a game turned on its head: a tactical change by Mourinho, pushing Lukaku (who hadn’t had a touch against Vinny in the first half) into a wider position on the right, giving Pogba (who’d been anonymous for 45 minutes) a more advanced central role with Lingard and Sanchez offering closer support, switches we simply did not counter; suddenly Lukaku, now marked (in the loosest of senses) by Otamendi, starts to win balls hit diagonally to him, laying them off for advancing team mates twice to play in Pogba who finds himself in acres of space while our defenders stay rooted to the spot or are slow to react; the third results from a free-kick (given away by a desperate Danilo trying to make up for a woeful lack of ball-control) swung in for another free header at the far post. But once their first goal went in, there was a certain inevitability (and an element of Liverpool deja vu) about what followed: loss of shape, poor decision making, a sudden nervousness at the back, no pressure on the ball or tackles put in and a patent lack of leadership on the field; we began to look tired and they began to make their greater physicality count and, in short, to bully us. And when, with the introduction of KDB, we did start to rally again (alas, too little too late), cue the obligatory wonder save from De Gea and some myopic refereeing. There are, of course, other contributary factors we can throw into the mix: Pep’s seeming priorities, team selection, unwillingness to make changes quickly when the rot set in, our having played an energy-sapping and morale-deflating game in midweek, Sterling’s wastefulness in front of goal, Sane’s second poor performance in a week, individual failings and errors, lack of ‘bottle’ in high- stakes games, questionable officiating and so on and so on. We’re all down but we move on.
On wider reflection, it has been a sensational season and one in which we’ve played breathtaking, inventive, relentlessly attacking football the like of which I’ve never before witnessed from a City team, even in the Merser/Allison era. We will, deservedly, be crowned Champions by the end of April and, I think, by at least 10 points. Performances like the one today and last Wednesday have been rare exceptions and for much of the season victories have been so ‘matter of course’ that we’ve almost forgotten what defeat tastes like. I am so proud of what this club has achieved over the season. But the defeats this week have hurt us: the first has, in all likelihood, put us out of Europe (it is not impossible for us to reverse Wednesday’s result but it will take an almost superhuman effort and such a wished-for outcome has, I suspect, been rendered less likely after today’s demoralising setback); the second has seen the team pass up, almost criminally, a ‘never to be repeated offer’ to win the title in the glossiest, sweetest and most satisfying of circumstances and all Blues fans denied the golden opportunity to ram a truly historical win down their miserable Rag throats for the rest of our - and their - collective lives. In short, a truly memorable season but no ‘crowning glory’!
On wider reflection, it has been a sensational season and one in which we’ve played breathtaking, inventive, relentlessly attacking football the like of which I’ve never before witnessed from a City team, even in the Merser/Allison era. We will, deservedly, be crowned Champions by the end of April and, I think, by at least 10 points. Performances like the one today and last Wednesday have been rare exceptions and for much of the season victories have been so ‘matter of course’ that we’ve almost forgotten what defeat tastes like. I am so proud of what this club has achieved over the season. But the defeats this week have hurt us: the first has, in all likelihood, put us out of Europe (it is not impossible for us to reverse Wednesday’s result but it will take an almost superhuman effort and such a wished-for outcome has, I suspect, been rendered less likely after today’s demoralising setback); the second has seen the team pass up, almost criminally, a ‘never to be repeated offer’ to win the title in the glossiest, sweetest and most satisfying of circumstances and all Blues fans denied the golden opportunity to ram a truly historical win down their miserable Rag throats for the rest of our - and their - collective lives. In short, a truly memorable season but no ‘crowning glory’!
I’m still trying, in the early hours of Sunday morning, to make some sort of sense of that game. A cagey start, then a brilliant 30 minutes of City football which had them absolutely reeling, brought two goals but saw several great chances missed. Cue second half and a game turned on its head: a tactical change by Mourinho, pushing Lukaku (who hadn’t had a touch against Vinny in the first half) into a wider position on the right, giving Pogba (who’d been anonymous for 45 minutes) a more advanced central role with Lingard and Sanchez offering closer support, switches we simply did not counter; suddenly Lukaku, now marked (in the loosest of senses) by Otamendi, starts to win balls hit diagonally to him, laying them off for advancing team mates twice to play in Pogba who finds himself in acres of space while our defenders stay rooted to the spot or are slow to react; the third results from a free-kick (given away by a desperate Danilo trying to make up for a woeful lack of ball-control) swung in for another free header at the far post. But once their first goal went in, there was a certain inevitability (and an element of Liverpool deja vu) about what followed: loss of shape, poor decision making, a sudden nervousness at the back, no pressure on the ball or tackles put in and a patent lack of leadership on the field; we began to look tired and they began to make their greater physicality count and, in short, to bully us. And when, with the introduction of KDB, we did start to rally again (alas, too little too late), cue the obligatory wonder save from De Gea and some myopic refereeing. There are, of course, other contributary factors we can throw into the mix: Pep’s seeming priorities, team selection, unwillingness to make changes quickly when the rot set in, our having played an energy-sapping and morale-deflating game in midweek, Sterling’s wastefulness in front of goal, Sane’s second poor performance in a week, individual failings and errors, lack of ‘bottle’ in high- stakes games, questionable officiating and so on and so on. We’re all down but we move on.
On wider reflection, it has been a sensational season and one in which we’ve played breathtaking, inventive, relentlessly attacking football the like of which I’ve never before witnessed from a City team, even in the Merser/Allison era. We will, deservedly, be crowned Champions by the end of April and, I think, by at least 10 points. Performances like the one today and last Wednesday have been rare exceptions and for much of the season victories have been so ‘matter of course’ that we’ve almost forgotten what defeat tastes like. I am so proud of what this club has achieved over the season. But the defeats this week have hurt us: the first has, in all likelihood, put us out of Europe (it is not impossible for us to reverse Wednesday’s result but it will take an almost superhuman effort and such a wished-for outcome has, I suspect, been rendered less likely after today’s demoralising setback); the second has seen the team pass up, almost criminally, a ‘never to be repeated offer’ to win the title in the glossiest, sweetest and most satisfying of circumstances and all Blues fans denied the golden opportunity to ram a truly historical win down their miserable Rag throats for the rest of our - and their - collective lives. In short, a truly memorable season but no ‘crowning glory’!
Don’t try and make sense of it. We were home and hosed at half time then they scored and it was only going one way and I could taste sick in my mouth.
Still cross that we missed this opportunity.
Don’t care what anyone says unless we beat Liverpool and progress in cl the last two games have ruined the season. We are just another team that won the prem. not record breakers not the team that dicked their hated neighbours for the title at home. No we are a team who were 2 up at half time and lost 3-2 at home to shite on the back of getting bullied by shite at Anfield. Last two performances were spineless.
sergiosboot
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Yep, that about sums it upDon’t care what anyone says unless we beat Liverpool and progress in cl the last two games have ruined the season. We are just another team that won the prem. not record breakers not the team that dicked their hated neighbours for the title at home. No we are a team who were 2 up at half time and lost 3-2 at home to shite on the back of getting bullied by shite at Anfield. Last two performances were spineless.
Absolutely gutted. Worst thing I’ve seen for a long time. Fuck Liverpool today was the main one that we all wanted and today was the one we didn’t get. Thought after Tuesday the players would be up for it as they were in the first half but second half was truly heartbreaking. I was in tears and couldn’t watch, I’m not sure who’s fault it is but peps lineup is easy to blame but seriously 2-0 up in the first half when it should of been 6, more of a mindset thing if you ask me, having a young squad is good but shows that they have a tendency to bottle it when it matters. This season has been great of course, the team have been outstanding but we will always be reminded of this.