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Dream on sunshine ,Were not 4-5 years behind city. Were 4-5 quality players in starting 11 away and a manager who can get us playing with an identity.
More attacking substitution for sure or better choice.Morning after thoughts
Thought we looked organised and best I've seen toby/dier for a long time. Man city are an exceptionally coached outfit. No shame in losing. Thought around 75 min mark we were going to nick it. We got into some great positions 3-4 ,times. Final ball. Subs werent great. City's press had gone and there were gaps so would kept moura at 10 and brought Ndombele on. Were not 4-5 years behind city. Were 4-5 quality players in starting 11 away and a manager who can get us playing with an identity.
No, no it's the ref's fault.The worst thing about yesterday is that it would have been a surprise if we won.
That at no point at all did I think if we have a top day we will outplay them.
We can't dominate anyone and it really felt like David and Goliath.
The sheer inevitability of the outcome and that it would follow another poor decision from our players is nearly as painful to how far we have fallen.
Leeds would have given City an infinitely harder game.
Have you watched us recently? Read the news coming out of the training ground?they played like a Jose team,
If Jose had still been here this would be in melt down
but its only Ryan's 2nd game, he is only young, he is only in charge till the end of season
why then sack jose last week it could have been done today ?
why didn't we have an experianced man ready to jump in to hot sit till end of season ?
Levy's fingers on it again
Levy only sacked Jose on Monday to distract folks from the Super League farce that the only reason, he could have sacked Jose today or 2 weeks ago,Have you watched us recently? Read the news coming out of the training ground?
We were totally outplayed by them only 2 months ago 3-0.
I don't agree with Levy's decision to hire the dinosaur. He fucked up by not firing him at the beginning of lockdown 1 last season. He's fucked up again for not firing him sooner than last week (we've probably lost out on Nagglesmann as a direct result).
But he got it spot on pulling the trigger before the Final, he did nothing to deserve this honour of leading out Spurs at Wembley, he did nothing to deserve this. Jose's taken this club backwards, aided and abetted by Levy.
Like I said he should never have been appointed, then sacked during 1st lockdown last season.Levy only sacked Jose on Monday to distract folks from the Super League farce that the only reason, he could have sacked Jose today or 2 weeks ago,
but to sack him with no idea of who would come in till the end of the season is a joke
like the joke of a Super League, how did these owners think yes we can play in our countries league then on wednesdays night play in our own private league, surely any inteligent man would ask "why will your country allow you to play in their league"
Agree with most of that but no way Bale should have started. It was obvious we wouldn't see much of the ball for long spells and without the ball, Bale is a lamppost, completely ineffectual, in fact, he detracts from the team. He's also not a counter-attack player anymore, so IMO utterly pointless playing him. Flip the coin for the opposite reflection and just look at what Lucas did, no way Bale would have produced that.I still think - even with this team - we can do better and a properly coached and motivated team could have won that yesterday, heck, we only lost by just one goal.
Sonny was hopeless and lost, whenever he got the ball he couldn’t figure out where to run, was slow in making decisions and missed his pass.
Kane would pick the ball up in midfield, pass it across to Sonny and then stop running and hang back .. no Harry, we need you in the penalty box, that’s your hunting ground. Get running up there.
Hojberg ran all over the place, didn’t seem to know where he should place himself but that may be him trying to do them job of others.
Bale should have been on from the start, he had the big match winning experience, we needed him on that pitch for the full game.
On the good side, Hugo and Toby were massive!
It can't be an old designer suit that's proven to look good for all occasions, it has to be a young one that needs a lot of adjustment to look good for 1 in 5 occasions and have resale value.Yeah bit questionable attire, is he wearing a suit with a sports sweater and tennis shoes?
Just get Daniel to buy you a nice second hand suit Ryan
Can't be picking Winks over TND. We had no link between defence and attack the whole game.I can see a problem in team selection when you are coaching your pals.
I'm not writing of Mason yet. Just hope he learns how to handle team selection better than against City.
This guy gets it. Yes dumping Winks Sanchez Sissoko helps. But you need a coach who works on progressive football every day on the training pitch.To hang on for 82 minutes in possibly the most one-sided professional football match in history, I think it's clear the players gave everything they got. Hugo, Toby, Dier were downright heroic.
Football isn't just about being brave and aggressive and all that. Players need to be coached properly. There is a reason Pep is the best manager in the World.