Watford post match thread

Poor performance. Man of the match was the Sheiks check book. We bought that win with two pieces of individual brilliance.

Right now, that's just fine with me.

Would have been nice if Arsenal hadn't won but Leicester drew so I'd say it was a successful day.
 
Huge win in very difficult conditions. Two brilliant goals out of the blue, after squandering some much better chances. Defence looked ropey, but did enough to really stop them from having much in the way of genuine opportunities. Only really the Ighalo chance where he breezed past Otamendi in the first half, then the Capoue chance when we were chasing the game and he bundled through both Otamendi and Fernandinho. You can't really do much about your leftback inexplicably deciding to flick a corner into his own net.

The attack looked a bigger problem, with Sterling, Kolarov, Yaya and Aguero all having pretty shocking games until two of them decided to pull great goals out of the bag. Great to get an away win though and hopefully the manner of it as well will help build confidence so we can kick on.
 
ninjamonkey said:
I don't know how to respond to that. We somehow escaped with 3 points and i'm absolutely ecstatic but yet again individual moments of brilliance has saved us after an abysmal performance. We can't go all season relying on that. Why did we only start running in the last 10 minutes? We were fucking awful

Palace Arsenal United and Spurs have all beat Watford away. They've yet to beat a side above them, It's not a particularly difficult place to go to, they went into todays game 9th and we had just 1 player missing from our strongest team. There's really no excuses for a performance like that. We got away with it big time today, that's not going to happen every week but i fear with Pellegrini in charge it's our only hope.
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Two, Kompany and Nasri.... believe me, we're missing Samir really badly!
 
THAT was your money's worth, grapple fans. It's why I watch the damn game. F****** come on City!
 
Phew!

Watford practically matched us stride for stride. The days of teams parking the bus against us is over as most teams seem to be looking us square in the face and beckoning us on for a scrap. Pellegrini surprised me by taking off Mangala and bringing on Bony which gave us more attacking options and made us defensively less vulnerable. The future looks bleak for Mangala and he needs to sort his form out immediately.

I thought Manuel might have gone with 3 at the back, but his switch to get the goals and then to bring on MD to shore us up defensively showed that he can be tactically expansive, but this only seems to come about when his back is against the wall. Great to see Aguero on the score sheet and I thought Yaya did very well for the final 20 minutes.

A win is a win and its another 3 points in the bag, but it doesn't detract from the fact we looked less than ordinary and less than the sum of our parts for the vast majority of the game. Roll on Everton.
 
richards30 said:
Haha!! Not like you mate.... ;-)
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Twas fucking shite for 75 mins but i dont care right now.

That said, performances like that cant go unnoticed and some of the players and manager have to ask themselves some hard fucking questions they really do.

Tonight though i dont fucking care, 3 points and 7 from the last 9.
 
I think I chose the wrong team and month to go dry. Christ, that was hard work watching that!!!

Fantastic result, don't care about the performance after those 2 cracking goals.
 
Thought Mangala had a push which lead to the corner for their goal but we rarely seem to get those decisions.

Not a great performance but happy with the 3 points and an away win. I wish we'd go back to the team that started the season so well (excepting the injured Kompany) with Navas on the right and Sterling on the left. Trying to somehow shoehorn Aguero, Sterling, KDB and Silva into a formation isn't making us a better team.
 
Any one hear the sky commentator
Having a near orgasm when the Watford player went down in the box in tbe first half and got booked?
"HE WENT DOWN,HE WENT DOWN! (Screeched the commentator)
Ffs!!!
 
Let's hope we can get some confidence from that. We have the talent and willpower we just seem to need to up against it to do anything.
Superb goal from yaya
 
Fucking Atkin son of a bitch gave us nowt.

But Hart was wank in the corner (it wasn't even a corner), Yaya was wank the whole game, Mangala, Merlin, Kevin, Raheem, wank all of them.

Ain't gonna flap though. Come On City!
 
jollylescott said:
Lucks a fortune as they say. That was a minor miracle! Fernandinho you are a legend. You were covering for everyone!
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Him Sagna and Joe only ones to emerge with any credible credit for me. Rest range with the exception of the last ten munutes from the disinterested to downright wage thieving.
NOT.
GOOD.
ENOUGH.
 
I thought Mangala was pushed over when conceding for the corner, but wtf was Kolorov doing? I thought we had a clear pen when Dinho was wrestled to the floor, but we werent at our best until the last 10 mins, 2 moments of quality dug us out.

Dinho clear MOTM, wish we had more with his heart and determination.

Hopefully our troubles on the road are behind us, time to kick on now.
 
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