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West Ham United (A) - Sat 16th Sept, 15:00 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

Ederson Walker-Dias,Stones-Gvardiol Foden, Nunes,Rodri,Bernardo Haaland, Alvarez I think this is our best 11, With stones moving into midfield and foden and Bernardo into attack in possession to form the 3-2-5 in attack Nunes not even played for us yet but he’s better than Grealish...

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As I said in my mini analysis , they've just concede enormous amount of shoots on goal.
They've been luckly with Areola , he is like first or second on the table of GK list with the most saves. Its a miracle how they didnt concede more goals ,as they facing 20.02 shoots per game ( Only Sheffield Utd is worse 22.08)

And I doubt he can keep to those levels for a whole season

 

[Mr Blue Moon]

I’ve played on that pitch in Macc , it was Friesian cold as well

Why didn’t you wear a Jersey?

 

[levets]

Was that the 2-2 draw with Mahrez missing a penalty towards the end?

Yes, season before last

 

[levets]

it was the start of last season, do you mean the league cup game when we lost

No, I said we did drop points last year 2-2 in May (week before Villa), but not last season as we won 2-0 in August. We don’t drop points in the cup ;-)

 

[Bluearmy]

Where would we fit him once De Bruyne is back?

KDB is getting older and picking up injuries. He’ll be 33 by the time next season arrives. Presume thats the earliest he would come with the ongoing investigation. Were going to need to look to the future even if thats difficult to contemplate!!

 

[Vic]

Why didn’t you wear a Jersey?

Didn't want to look a proper charolais.
Was Red Poll the ref?
Were you playing Chillingham?

Enough?

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

Actually played a Sunday league team called Macclesfield Young Farmers. The away game pitch was covered in cow pats. Just a useless piece of info for you.

Years ago, I played village cricket in cattle field. Batting, I hit the ball towards the boundary and it came to rest in a cow poo. The fielder at deep square leg fielder wouldn't touch it, by the time somebody went to pick it up we'd run 7.

 

[JewelZee]

Some food for thought,,,City have gone THIRTYEIGHT consecutive competitive matches allowing either 1 or no goals...that is mindbogglingly good.
Also, no one scored more than a goal in all 13 UCL matches including 8 clean sheets.
1 goal TOTAL on a gift pen over the entire 6 FA Cup ties...
Its time people recognize how dominant defensively this squad have become...we need another song to add to the Istanbul tribute to the backlne from last season...

 

[OB1]

On the plus side all our new players seem to be settling in Gvardiol carries and passes the ball really well and pushes up into the opponents defensive 1/3

Kovacic is a great ball carrier and dribbler of the ball.

Doku great addition to our attack dribbling and as I learnt yesterday, looks like a goal scorer.

Nunez only on the pitch briefly but look like he fit in really well.

8-)

Txiki and Co don't make many mistakes and Pep and his coaches are masterful at improving players.

Pep talking about Nunes in his pre-match presser was interesting because he picked out things Nunes needs to improve and he won't have just discovered those in training. City bought most of those players knowing what they would have to work on; probably not much in Kova's case but they believe that can improve players into their 30'sand I'm certainly looking for Kova to score more goals at City than he is known for.

Doku will have much to improve on, especially defensively but Pep views that as the easy bit. Doku has talents you can't teach, as I think does Nunes.

 

[Chi-town blues]

lets be honest we didnt play well yesterday and if haaland had his shooting boots on still should have won by 5 or 6 to 1, thats not being arrogant thats just watching the game, that must make the opposition nervous and thats without four of our supposedly better players.

wtf “didn’t play well” mean ? scoring 5 -6 goals = played well ? What if you park bus for 90 mins and score 5 pks ? is that classified as” played well?

 

[OB1]

Some food for thought,,,City have gone THIRTYEIGHT consecutive competitive matches allowing either 1 or no goals...that is mindbogglingly good.
Also, no one scored more than a goal in all 13 UCL matches including 8 clean sheets.
1 goal TOTAL on a gift pen over the entire 6 FA Cup ties...
Its time people recognize how dominant defensively this squad have become...we need another song to add to the Istanbul tribute to the backlne from last season...

Do we need another song? The Istanbul one is rather good.

We've started this season conceding fewer shots than any team with the next best team (Arsenal) conceding half as many again as we are, which is a big gap relatively speaking.

I think that under Pep we have been scoring record breaking numbers of goals for an English team? This season we will hopefully score plenty enough but it could be one where our defence wins the title(s).

 

[Bluearmy]

On the plus side all our new players seem to be settling in Gvardiol carries and passes the ball really well and pushes up into the opponents defensive 1/3

Kovacic is a great ball carrier and dribbler of the ball.

Doku great addition to our attack dribbling and as I learnt yesterday, looks like a goal scorer.

Nunez only on the pitch briefly but look like he fit in really well.

8-)

All the players weve signed are great carriers of the ball it seems. Shift of tactics for sure!! While everyone else is still scrambling around trying to push a defender into midfield, weve moved on

 

[bennyboy]

I'm surprised at the we did not play well posts.
I thought both teams played well but our second half performance was great.
Not that the first half was poor.
Both keepers were great in an entertaining game.

 

[Bluearmy]

lets be honest we didnt play well yesterday and if haaland had his shooting boots on still should have won by 5 or 6 to 1, thats not being arrogant thats just watching the game, that must make the opposition nervous and thats without four of our supposedly better players.

Each to their own. Though we were magnificent from start to finish (barring our finishing). Away from home against a strong team, should really have been 5 or 6 imo

 

[lasereyes]

No doubt Doku is in for a bollocking from pep. But he's going to tear fullbacks a new arsehole this season. We dropped points away at West ham last season so a difficult game,
Alveraz,walker,Eddie,Silva,Doku,Rodri and Akanji all had very good game.
Is it to early to think about maybe scoring away from home at Spuds this season?

We actually won there last season (Haaland's debut) but no doubt a tough game and an excellent win that keeps us ahead of the scousers who were praying we dropped points.

 

[kaz7]

Doku was like Jack but faster and more direct. Walker playing deeper made all the difference. Turned out nice again.

Nothing like jack then

 

[gray740]

Spoil your enjoyment as well?

A facking cockney wankah…he was single-handedly trying to resurrect the ‘tactical foul’ nonsense.

Somehow he managed to miss the rugby tackle by Coufal on Doku. Madley conveniently ‘forgot’ about a retrospective booking for that one, I was shocked…

Never heard a more one sided bit of commentating in at least two weeks.

 

[Protein Junkie]

Our very best is now a high benchmark indeed.Some so called fans on the Match thread simply cannot see that we do not need to be at 100% to win games.
The same applies to our Viking. He will miss chances or not convert opportunities but to call him out like yesterday is either done by Rags or piss flappers.

 

[Phil1]

Nothing like jack then

You’re a fucking joke. Absolute twattish comment once again.

 

[mancboy]

wtf “didn’t play well” mean ? scoring 5 -6 goals = played well ? What if you park bus for 90 mins and score 5 pks ? is that classified as” played well?

I was just being a spoilt blue, my apologies