In all honesty, I think those days are gone, mate. Once we're up 4 or 5 nil we're going to wind down, conserve energy, and ensure no one gets injured.Outstanding performance.
Just wish we'd thrash someone 8 nil and not ease off. Sure that day is not too far round the corner.
Exactly this.Teams can no longer press us by keeping a high line because if they do the pace of Sane, Jesus and Sterling will rip them to shreds.
If they drop deeper then it leaves more space for Silva and De bruyne.
Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
It looks like the other team aren't trying when in reality they don't know whether to push or stay.
Tremendously exciting times.
That can be answered, in terms of Glen. He's a cnut.
I assume your referring to Jesus (didn't see what he was booked for) and once again it's another reinforced rule to make city 'different'.
We have one of the highest possession ratios in the league, yet one of the worst in disciplinary.
We're not exactly a dirty team, are we?
I have been watching football for a while now and I struggled to comprehend some of the shite decisions made tonight, the tackle on Sterling by Cresswell was dangerous at best.It annoys me when a team is winning well, they seem to get the letter of the law, yet the team getting stuffed get let off with blatant yellows
I think that causes more issues, as they know they can "leave another one", on an opposing player, and still won't be sent off
Poor use of the cards tonight ref
oops, didn't read thatPat Nevin was on 5 Live around 7pm, was listening to the usual sycophantic shite talked by most pundits about how the Rags are on a fantastic run and will easily make top four. Had to smile after our performance (and theirs) then I just read the following on the BBC website from Nevin.
" Analysis - 'City will be found out'
Former Chelsea and Everton winger Pat Nevin, BBC Radio 5 live
"I think if Manchester City play the team they did tonight away from home against other team (sic), they will be found out.
"They are far too open. Yaya Toure, as the holding midfielder, won't get around enough against decent teams.
"West Ham are the perfect team for Manchester City. They played 4-4-2 and were destroyed in midfield.
"Tactically it was a mess."
You could not make it up, fuck all about the Rags failing to win, unable to praise City at all even after that performance, prize cock!!
according to Pat Nevin on the bbc, if it had been any other team, City would have been caught out....what a deuche!
ha, no worries, mind you everyone else thinks I'm a tool, especially that **** DroneWhat a complete and utter tool. Nevin btw, not you mate!
It's one of those performances where you could literally wax lyrical about virtually everyone!!!
The front 3 will rightly get all the plaudits, it's frightening what they are capable of and it's so so so exciting for all of us!
Now we've seen a glimpse of that front 3 and not forgetting Aguero of coarse we've also seen silva Debruyne and Yaya now being deployed differently!
I've thought even with the signing of gundogen that we were perhaps still short in CM department. But yaya silva and Debruyne for me are mirroring the Yaya xavi and iniesta of the golden Barcelona midfield! Add Fernandinho and gundogen the midfield doesn't worry me at all anymore!
Silva Debruyne and Yaya almost seem like new signings to me what with there new deeper roles!
Not exactly. The combination of attributes is way different, that Barca midfield was more ballanced (even if you replace Yaya with Dinho or Gundogan). It was amazing to watch Kevin's and David's work-rate from day 1, their defensive effort (a clearly new element in their game, we hadn't experienced anything like that before, it only existed in Pep's mind).
Still, it's by far the most ambitious, the most daring concept in modern football, Guardiola himself never tried anything like that in Barcelona / Bayern. Yaya, Dinho, Gundogan, are not typical DMs, so basically you have a team architecture with 6, I repeat SIX, attacking minded players: 3 Fs, 2 AMs and 1 holding midfielder who could easily operate as an attacking midfielder himself (not the Busquets or Alonso type DM)! I said it in my first post here, personally I was shocked the moment I realised what the guy was after...
You'll have to go back, I mean back to football prehistory, with those ridiculous 1-2-7 attacking formations (lol) to witness anything ... close to that. And if you start thinking about the defensive prerequisites for this to work, well ... you should! Which is exactly what a guy being paid ridiculously high wages should have done in the summer. Had he done his job, we would be discussing objectives on a completely different basis tonight, trust me. Obviously, some serious decisions will be made in the following transfer window, just that people like David, Dinho and Yaya will be 1 year older. And I feel they deserve much much much more from this season...
Anyway, I still hope for what currently seems impossible. For there's no team in the league that can match the quality of our attacking game. City under Guardiola are an experience to watch. Not to mention, City under Guardiola will be mentioned in books discussing football tactics, football theory in general. They'll have a chapter of their own...
I think you are failing to see that the scum were valiantly thwarted by the footballing giants of, er, hullPat Nevin was on 5 Live around 7pm, was listening to the usual sycophantic shite talked by most pundits about how the Rags are on a fantastic run and will easily make top four. Had to smile after our performance (and theirs) then I just read the following on the BBC website from Nevin.
" Analysis - 'City will be found out'
Former Chelsea and Everton winger Pat Nevin, BBC Radio 5 live
"I think if Manchester City play the team they did tonight away from home against other team (sic), they will be found out.
"They are far too open. Yaya Toure, as the holding midfielder, won't get around enough against decent teams.
"West Ham are the perfect team for Manchester City. They played 4-4-2 and were destroyed in midfield.
"Tactically it was a mess."
You could not make it up, fuck all about the Rags failing to win, unable to praise City at all even after that performance, prize cock!!
Hordle went above and beyond tonight. You can just hear it in his voice.
It's completely unprofessional and even worse that BT stand for it.
They try to counter by using Dunne but it's not a clever smokescreen at all, Hoddle just has to much hatred to get around it.
If they had any respect they'd just fuck him off from our games