Manchester City v Tottenham - Sunday 3 Dec 16:30

[Bill Madrid]

Only done one of these, it ended up draw as I remember it, which wouldn't be a bad result against the petro-doped Gulf-pumped serial cheats.

So I'm two for two on the draw front, still unbeaten.

I see myself as something of a Pierre-Emile Højbjerg - yes there are more creative match thread starters, I'm more than happy for them to take the plaudits, but I'm there on the bench, ready to come on when a difficult result needs to be ground out.

Like PEH, I won't let you down, I'll give it my all.

 

[Mick Cooper]

For City's 2nd, we had enough players back defending (9) and it should have been easy to deal with.

Lo Celso was tracking Alvarez. However, for some reason he left him and chose to run towards Doku - an area where we already had 4 of ours vs 2 of them. Bissouma was ball watching and completely unaware that Alvarez had slipped in behind.

- Why didn't Davies give Bissouma the shout to cover the run?
- Why on earth did Lo Celso leave his man and run to a space where we already had 4 players?
- Why was Bissouma ball watching? Royal actually had to run past him to try and block the move.

Probably because they are the best footballing team in the world.

 

[Billy Bob mate]

It’s City. Their movement and constant pressure creates havoc and mental fatigue

Don’t over analyse it, they are capable of pulling Madrid and the Goons all over the place and beating them up

Did you really just equate Woolwich to Madrid?!

Bit weird.

 

[Ionman34]

That's not what I said, it was a long ball forward from (Kulusevski?)

He was about midway in our half, with Son starting his run about 5 yards inside our half as well. The ball's first bounce is maybe 5 yards into their half.

By your metric, KDB is the biggest long ball hoof merchant in the game.

 

[manmountainbutters]

The first goal game from Bryan being brave on the edge of our box and twisting away from pressure rather than just hoofing the ball away which is what most players would do in that situation.

Was great play by Bryan

So pleased to see some non first 11 players stepping up. We can get back on track soon I feel.

 

[manmountainbutters]

It’s diversion away from them failing to score enough goals and win the game. Standard nonsense and only worth ignoring.

I thought some of the City players should have been carded for surrounding the ref. No idea why the rules weren't applied in that regard.

 

[Wellsey]

One of these days everything is going to go right and we will win a few games 6 nil.

Thursday would be nice.

 

[Mick Cooper]

He was about midway in our half, with Son starting his run about 5 yards inside our half as well. The ball's first bounce is maybe 5 yards into their half.

By your metric, KDB is the biggest long ball hoof merchant in the game.

I tell you what, why don't you just ignore what I said, interpret in in any way you like, and then criticise me for your version

 

[Mick Cooper]

I thought some of the City players should have been carded for surrounding the ref. No idea why the rules weren't applied in that regard.

So did Pep

 

[Shadydan]

I thought some of the City players should have been carded for surrounding the ref. No idea why the rules weren't applied in that regard.

I guess the context is that the ref knew he fucked up, would have been harsh booking players after his error.

 

[Bazali]

She did it !!

(Apparently…)

Couldn’t find it

 

[cretinousgoat]

Couldn’t find it

Can DM you

 

[Hampshire Spur]

Haaland broke another premier league record yesterday. Having his mouth open the widest to a ref was a record.

 

[El Noel]

Haaland broke another premier league record yesterday. Having his mouth open the widest to a ref was a record.

Widest in general still held by this cunt:

 

[Richard Arlison]

It’s diversion away from them failing to score enough goals and win the game. Standard nonsense and only worth ignoring.

Agree on diversion but more from their defending than attackers.

Their fans are starting to get jittery about Gvardiol. They call him Josko Barbiedoll.

But we caused all of their defenders issues. If Gil was sharper and played Son in with a very simple pass, we would have had 2 very high-quality chances in the first half and we got in down their left several times in the first half even when they were dominant.

 

[Richard Arlison]

View: https://x.com/eurofootcom/status/1731579119828361415?s=20

Does this mean they actually have to follow through on Arteta as well?

 

[Airfixx]

we could have won it... playing tiki tikki from the back killed us.
we conceded 2 goals from playing-around in our own box.
they say ange is a gambler -BUT.......

"But" nothing... This is the way we play.

 

[Airfixx]

View: https://twitter.com/N17_SAUL/status/1731428020404036027?t=FS1gH0J0sqRMmqqdtZyuNw&s=19

This narrative

Hard to be mad at him when big chunks of our fanbase don't know any better either.


That said.... TWAT.

 

[Richard Arlison]

we could have won it... playing tiki tikki from the back killed us.
we conceded 2 goals from playing-around in our own box.
they say ange is a gambler -BUT what do you gain from playing like this in your own box?
we could have been down 3-1 by half time if not for good luck

You gain a massive numbers advantage every time you pass the ball through an opponent's press.

it's basically creating a counter-attack situation every time you can do it. Counter-attacks are the highest percentage scoring chances, especially when you play with Pace like Son and Johnson up front.

Plus we get the benefit of building a belief that we can play our way and dominate the ball against anyone.

 

[Airfixx]

She did it !!

(Apparently…)

Bet she's rough as fuck.... I'd just as rather see yours.........


















.....Almost, but not quite.