Wolves (A) Post-Match Thread

[David Silva]

He was good apart from the time he had to defend? He got away with one or two things too. He ws still better than Mendy though.

I don't to come across as negative as I thought, on the whole, we were good. Very good when you consider the context (players missing, first game of the season etc..). It was a tough game. I thought Wolves defended very well and their level of fitness was very high. That will be one of our toughest games of the season. To come through it with three points is a big thing for us. We are already three points up on last season.

Our entire team looked ropey while Wolves were pouring down our left flank and putting in cross after cross unchallenged. Not really sure how you can expect any defender to look comfortable in that scenario. Haven't seen anybody slating KDB on here seeing it was him that got mugged off in the run up to the cross for their goal.

I’ve been vocal in criticising Stones in last year but slagging him off after that performance is just daft.

 

[Prater70]

Steve Daley

 

[damrider]

You need to watch that game again, because he nullified Traore for huge spells.

I'll rewatch it, but I thought any danger that wolves had came down his side and he's made quite a lot of errors.

 

[paulchapo]

Great first half. Poor second.
Liked the Square defensive formation.
But some problems remained.
- Mendy. Useless. Always on the wrong side of his opponent
- Wingers and KDB need to track back and get to the edge of the penalty are when an opposition wide player gets to the byline and pick up players arriving in the penalty area.
- if you play a more defensive formation, then we need to knock the ball down the channels more and NOT always pass it out to the flanks.

Asside from the penalty that a blind man could have given Marriner gave us nothing. Jesus and Foden got a right battering over 90 mins.

Marriner is always guilty of letting us get kicked to fuck, them books our players the minute they react. We really do have some corrupt awful officials in this country.

 

[cleavers]

Nice to know we have a new PL record already, meaningless as it is, but the first team to win 10 opening matches on the trot in the Premier League.

 

[west didsblue]

Nobody is good enough to replace Aguero but Jesus did so much tonight he would be hard to replace too. Got his goal. What more do you want

I don’t want him to waste so many chances and make the wrong decisions regularly.
Don’t get me wrong. He’s a good player. I see him as a £40m player who would walk into most teams but he’s not good enough to be our main man. Hoping he’ll prove me wrong this season.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I've never knocked his work rate, he puts a good shift in just dont see him as a natural goal scorer a player we need to reach 18-20 goals without Aguero its tough

Good job our midfield cash in all im saying otherwise we miss to many opertunities in ftont of goal

Gabby needs 4 shots to bag 1 somthing has to change especially if he wants to be No 1

He’s currently on for scoring about 60 this season, extrapolating the data from this match you are criticising him for.

 

[Rebelblue]

I love Gabby for what it's worth

Gets kicked to feck and bounces back time and time again and get his goals. Hes different to Kun, so are many. He is off to a flyer and hopefully we see a whole lot more of this.

Text book hold up play to allow the other 3 do their thing. Sterling was off it for me in comparison.

 

[NickGw2]

Not bad, considering we were only founded in 2008.

On the American stream when they were talking about that, Tyler mentioned that’s about the same time we got our money. I’m not a fan of the media bias threads but I do knowledge he’s a prick

 

[eyalluvitt]

During the game, the commentator was desperate for Wolves to get a late win.

Yes the uber bitter & not very professional Tyler, as always desperate for FFP cheats Wolves to beat totally exonerated City, mentioned 27 million when Torres came on several times but not 36.5 million for 13yr old Fabio Silva. Said Walker could be off for violent conduct you know for diddley squat and KDB was play-acting to run the clock down. When Jesus scored at the end his pause was of a man at the vets being told his dog has to be put down.

 

[geoff hammond]

Great first half. Poor second.
Liked the Square defensive formation.
But some problems remained.
- Mendy. Useless. Always on the wrong side of his opponent
- Wingers and KDB need to track back and get to the edge of the penalty are when an opposition wide player gets to the byline and pick up players arriving in the penalty area.
- if you play a more defensive formation, then we need to knock the ball down the channels more and NOT always pass it out to the flanks.

Asside from the penalty that a blind man could have given Marriner gave us nothing. Jesus and Foden got a right battering over 90 mins.

Not sure I agree with your “wingers and KDB” criticism. Does any team work harder than ours when not in possession.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Steve Daley

Are you playing the “name a former player” game?

I’ll go for Peter N’dlovu.

 

[cleavers]

Yes the uber bitter & not very professional Tyler

If watching sky it wasn't tyler it was rob hawthorne, but he's no less negative

 

[Gingers Dad]

Marriner is always guilty of letting us get kicked to fuck, them books our players the minute they react. We really do have some corrupt awful officials in this country.

Mariner let Jesus and Sterling get kicked around for fun tonight and we still got 3 bookings to their none. The one Mendy got was a piss take. But I'd stop short at corrupt. Probably go with incompetent

 

[paulchapo]

Mariner let Jesus and Sterling get kicked around for fun tonight and we still got 3 bookings to their none. The one Mendy got was a piss take. But I'd stop short at corrupt. Probably go with incompetent

It's a way of hindering us without being obvious. They let other teams spoil our game, wind up our players when we know if they clamped down on it then they'd stop. It reduces our effectiveness, levels up the field. Exasperated the ref isn't doing anything we bite back and get booked. Their main threat was Traore and with Mendy on a yellow he had a field day the second half. It's subtle but it has happened to us so often we know it's deliberate.

 

[ws01]

Imagine having our best central midfielder back in midfield, where he belongs, to help Rodri and not only make the team function better, but to help us win a game we would've lost last season?

Honestly, who would've thought hey?

 

[Marvin]

I wonder how many goals Foden is going to score this season? Double figures?

 

[Drewmanc]

Wasn't looking forward to this game one bit after the 2 last season and Wolves having a played a couple of games more than us and looked to have strengthened further. I thought we played excellently, particular mentions for Walker who was outstanding again, Stones who didn't look out of place, Ake played like he's been with us for years and Jesus who put himself about and made a nuisance of himself and a goal to boot. I can see why Mendy is getting a pasting but there was very little threat from Traore till Mendy got a yellow and Wolves targeted that side. Rodri/Fern and Sterling did little to assist him till rodri and fern switched sides for a little while and it stemmed the tide of attacks down the left. Great result, good performance. 1 down 37 more to go.

 

[mccity]

I wonder how many goals Foden is going to score this season? Double figures?

If he plays enough and we continue to score at the rate we have done these past 3 seasons then I think his goals and assists numbers will probably match Sané's outputs. So 10-15 in both categories in the league. Although I think he'll score more than he'll assist.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Not sure I agree with your “wingers and KDB” criticism. Does any team work harder than ours when not in possession.

Well there was a total lack of City players on the edge of our own penalty area when the ball was pulled back that they had two glorious chances to score from.