I was a bit concerned before the game, given our injuries in defence. West Ham away can be tricky these days, even with a full squad to choose from, certainly not a guaranteed 3 points. In the end, City were unlucky not to have won that and probably should have had another penalty too. I thought there were some vital contributions from Jesus and Grealish today, even Mahrez for the second goal needs to be acknowledged.
Also lets get it straight, people are using the term "bottling it" far too loosely these days(bollocks twitter narratives). People need to either stop reading what they are saying on RAWK(or Liverpool trolls on twitter) all the time and coming on here to regurgitate it. At least take everything they write with a pinch of salt and laugh at how desperate they are. Liverpool dropped points to Spurs, where was the "bottled it" talk there? Nowhere to be seen. Both teams are capable of dropping points and many expected both teams to do it, when looking at the last 7 games. Neither team will have bottled it really, not if it's gone all the way to the last day of the season. You don't do that without the necessary mental fortitude, coming back from 2-0 down in an important game, is just another example of it.
The Liverpool fans are getting desperate, trying to will a slip up into existence, by questioning our players mentality and some blues are helping them by absolutely shitting it and prophesying doom. I'm glad our players have far bigger bollocks than that or we probably would be in trouble.
If it goes to the final day(pretty sure it will, looking at Southampton's form), then so be it, lets rise to the challenge. The media will be happy that it does and nobody can claim City have made the league uncompetitive that way, not without looking like a clown.
On the plus side, at least City are at home and our crowd can play their part. The other plus, is that we have a full week to prepare. Hopefully we can get some defenders back for that game. Villa are a decent side, with some dangerous attackers and Gerrard will have them motivated to help his old club out. That's to be expected but if City show anything like the quality and resilience they have done in the biggest games this season(Chelsea, Liverpool etc), then City will have far too much for Villa to cope with.
C'mon City!
