No worries. Long and rough night, the ups and downs take it out of you. At 80 mins i thought we were doing really well, to lead against a determined team with 10 men. A couple bad decisions later, the spirtit of the whole team and pep looked shot. I hope it is better away from the cameras, i really do. This bouncing from blow to reaponse and back will catch up with them.
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Wolves - post match
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No worries. Long and rough night, the ups and downs take it out of you. At 80 mins i thought we were doing really well, to lead against a determined team with 10 men. A couple bad decisions later, the spirtit of the whole team and pep looked shot. I hope it is better away from the cameras, i really do. This bouncing from blow to reaponse and back will catch up with them.
DavidWhitesUnderpants
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I still think man city will win the champions league. Laporte will be back.
Wish I had your optimism mate. At this rate I doubt we could win the Carabao Cup. We're so far off the mark compared to last season it just ain't funny.
GaudinoMotors
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Who for?Haha With over 20,000 loyalty points I doubt it
kaz7
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BERNARDO It's difficult to last 80 minutes with ten men here against one of the most difficult sides in the league. We did really well until a point where little mistakes cost us two goals. I think the effort from the team was really good.
If we’re going to persist with the people we have in player recruitment then we need to stop identifying “diamonds in the rough” that turn out to be shit. Our track record of recruiting defenders since the Hughes era is abysmal. Liverpool acknowledged that they didn’t know what they were doing in that regard and just signed the best centre-back and goal keeper they could find.
Right now we need a stopgap until some of the youngsters come through. Koulibaly or Skriniar will go a long way towards resolving our situation in central defence. And we absolutely need to act in the January window. Give them half a season to adapt to the league and then strengthen again in the summer. That’s the only way that we’re going to be able to mount a credible title challenge next season.
I’m not sure our recruitment is diamonds in the rough centred to be honest. Of buys since 2017 it’s probably only Rodri who was largely unknown.
The Black Shed
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When Garcia came on I thought lovely, Fernandinho back in the middle where he belongs, we'll shut up for 0-2. Imagine my shock at seeing a back 5, playing so deep it was uncomfortable to watch. And uncomfortable for the players too. Pep and his coaching staff need to work wonders now to get this lot up to retain the cups.
Benarbia’s Backheel
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I still think man city will win the champions league. Laporte will be back.
Sane will mean we won't have to play Mahrez
No other team in Europe has a midfield the quality of rodri, de Bruyne and Bernardo.
Freeing up Fernandinho to go in midfield will also be huge. He is so important to what we do. Everything went through him last season.
I'd like to see
Ederson
Walker stones Laporte zinchenko
Fernandinho
Rodri De Bruyne
Bernardo Aguero Sterling/Sane
That matches up with the best of them. Having Bernardo on the right mitigates how shit walker is because Bernie works his hole off.
Sane won’t be playing. Pep has said that Fern won’t be going back into midfield.
Plus, Laporte and Fern is by far our best current partnership at the back. Wouldn’t trust Stones or Ota against any of the big teams ( or little ones)
Rodri isn’t an 8.
Esteban de la Sexface
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Oh how we could do with Johnny fucking Evans now.
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I think there is a lot of whinging going on and overreactions.
We've had some shite results off the back of some bad luck, need I remind anyone the first loss came the very next game after Laporte was injured.
Can't believe what I'm reading from some blues "pep out", "pep hasn't made any good signings", "sell the whole team and buy a new squad".
Saying that though I think Stones needs to be sold in the summer after this season(obviously Ota too). I know he's had injuries but he's a player that cost us £50m, when it's not injuries, it's personal problems and bad form all getting in the way of him being the player we thought we'd be able to rely on to step up with an injury to someone as important as Kompany or Laporte. He's been nowhere to be seen when we needed him, I'm starting to see what people have said about him lacking the mental strength that we need.
We've had some shite results off the back of some bad luck, need I remind anyone the first loss came the very next game after Laporte was injured.
Can't believe what I'm reading from some blues "pep out", "pep hasn't made any good signings", "sell the whole team and buy a new squad".
Saying that though I think Stones needs to be sold in the summer after this season(obviously Ota too). I know he's had injuries but he's a player that cost us £50m, when it's not injuries, it's personal problems and bad form all getting in the way of him being the player we thought we'd be able to rely on to step up with an injury to someone as important as Kompany or Laporte. He's been nowhere to be seen when we needed him, I'm starting to see what people have said about him lacking the mental strength that we need.
I'm not listening but I did think it was a foul on Mendy. I don't know why he chose to try and defend like that though. Bad decision.Not a chance was it a foul on mendy. People trying to make excuses for terrible defending.
Kyle Walker man of the match for me.
But for 1 or 2 lengthy passages of play, the team couldn't put 3 or 4 passes together.
From the last 10 minutes of the first half it was just an onslaught of attack against defence and with 10 men, you ain't gonna withstand that pressure.
As a team we can't defend. I don't think City had the energy levels to play a possession game. We chose to defend the box. The guy who is getting away with all the criticism is Fernandinho. He is not challenging for anything.
This has turned into a re-run of our first season under Pep. Then we had an entire defence who couldn't defend. Now we have Otamendi and Fernandinho who can't defend.
The only thing is we have half a season left and Laporte will be back in around 4 weeks or so.
I feel certain City will buy a central defender in the Summer as Pep has Stones but doesn;t seem willing to play him.
As soon as the game kicked off Wolves targeted our central defence and it worked. Man Utd did the same. We can't do anything till we fix that.
Yeah, I was queuing at Maine Road at 6 in the morning to get one of the 800 tickets for Northampton away in Div 2 so no rag hereClap Clap Clap.