Man City Carabao Cup Build Up Thread

[Kenny]

On the ref....thought he was brilliant last night. Pretty consistent in his decisions, especially shoulder to shoulder stuff and a great spot on Toure diving. After the crap I have seen at Molineux it was a refreshing change.

 

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[Kenny]

That touch that hits his shin ruined that chance, takes too close to Bravo.

 

[slink]

Not sure why Enobakahare is beating himself up - there enough "fans" who will do that for him. What I saw was two good examples of goalkeeping, Costa's was the easiest chance of the three.

Yeah i agree with this. I will keep banging the drum that the lad has got something because he quite clearly could be class. I hate to think how much some of our fans would criticise Aguero who had 2 chances on par with Bright last night for me and put one 6 yards wide and failed to take the other round the keeper, surely he has to be finishing those.

No way should the lad think he has to apologise for anything, no one else bar maybe Jota would have got in to those positions. As good as Leo is Sterling and De Bruyne definitely catch him for the last chance and he doesn't rob Mangala either.

 

[slink]

What did everyone make of Punjabi Wolves and their Dohl in the away end last night?

I enjoyed it, thought it added to the atmosphere. I was right up the back though, not sure how happy id have been if I was right next to it.

I've always hated drums in stadiums but with the noise the fans were making and how sparingly he used it to just a few chants it actually was pretty good. Like you though i wouldn't want to be right next to it.

 

[pr0sl0]

Did anyone see the off-the-ball incident between Bennett and one of theirs (Gundogan?) on the edge of the box in the first half? There was no TV close-up, but it was replayed a couple of times and the City fans seemed a bit miffed. The commentary I was listening to was in Polish, so I couldn't get much sense of what had occurred, but it looked as though it might have been a bit Cardiff-esque. I do hope not, since we didn't need to do anything like that to keep them out.

Not sure it was the same moment, but City should almost definitely have had a penalty about three minutes into the game when Bennett straight-up pushed one of their players by the face down to the ground in our box.

 

[Peter_Knowles_Ghost]

Not sure it was the same moment, but City should almost definitely have had a penalty about three minutes into the game when Bennett straight-up pushed one of their players by the face down to the ground in our box.

Yeah, that looked like a pen to me ...

 

[Peter_Knowles_Ghost]

That touch that hits his shin ruined that chance, takes too close to Bravo.

Yeah, it should have been one touch to control it, then bang ...

 

[Parkins left foot]

Not sure it was the same moment, but City should almost definitely have had a penalty about three minutes into the game when Bennett straight-up pushed one of their players by the face down to the ground in our box.

Batth also appeared to pull someone down by the shirt as a cross/corner? was coming in - could easily be given though would have been as hard to take as going out on penalty shootout

Note that Nuno didn't use the extra sub allowed in ET - not a lot of choice left on the bench, but a number of them seemed to be running on empty

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Batth also appeared to pull someone down by the shirt as a cross/corner? was coming in - could easily be given though would have been as hard to take as going out on penalty shootout

Note that Nuno didn't use the extra sub allowed in ET - not a lot of choice left on the bench, but a number of them seemed to be running on empty

He wanted to bring Rodders on right at the end, ball didn't go out though. Probably should have brought him on for Bennett 10 minutes earlier as he was gone (and it nearly cost us when he produced his one Stearmanism of the match)

 

[Parkins left foot]

He wanted to bring Rodders on right at the end, ball didn't go out though. Probably should have brought him on for Bennett 10 minutes earlier as he was gone (and it nearly cost us when he produced his one Stearmanism of the match)

If that was at the end of ET then agree too late - Bennett sounded as if he couldn't move by then (not entirely surprising as he has had little actual football this season & even though Hause has even less suspect the CB has a bit less running to do than a wingback even if Bennett was playing as a very withdrawn one)

 

[Parkins left foot]

Nuno speaks

 

[Lord Knows]

Nuno speaks

Very professional and grounded, has already moved on to the QPR challenge.

 

[darlowolf64]

Did anyone see the off-the-ball incident between Bennett and one of theirs (Gundogan?) on the edge of the box in the first half? There was no TV close-up, but it was replayed a couple of times and the City fans seemed a bit miffed. The commentary I was listening to was in Polish, so I couldn't get much sense of what had occurred, but it looked as though it might have been a bit Cardiff-esque. I do hope not, since we didn't need to do anything like that to keep them out.

There is a good 5 yards between Bennett and Jesus... Jesus passes the ball inside and then just runs at speed into Bennett. Bennett didn't move (to cover the move or block him off), he was stationary and Jesus didn't make any attempt to go around him. Typical attempt to buy a cheap free kick instead of leaving a statue for dead. Got nothing off the ref, deserved nothing

 

[Walnut]

That's the type of referee I like to see. Tried to keep the game flowing. He did take a good look at the Jesus and Bennett incident, and he indicated that Jesus just ran into Bennett. Well done Kevin Friend.

 

[AndyWolves]

That's the type of referee I like to see. Tried to keep the game flowing. He did take a good look at the Jesus and Bennett incident, and he indicated that Jesus just ran into Bennett. Well done Kevin Friend.

I thought the ref was good but it was a fairly clean game. Our boys made a couple of professional fouls but nothing dirty or malicious from either side

 

[Lupo]

Re the ball: Adrian Durham agrees with him as Pep is such a genius of football we should listen and learn from him. His players have a special relationship with the ball so know it better than anyone.

Goughie says its a load of bollocks. Should we give in to Pep whenever things don't go his way? Highly paid professionals should be able to adapt. Ask those sides who scored a few last night like Brizzle, they managed.

I'm with Goughie 100%

 

[Parkins left foot]

Re the ball: Adrian Durham agrees with him as Pep is such a genius of football we should listen and learn from him. His players have a special relationship with the ball so know it better than anyone.

Goughie says its a load of bollocks. Should we give in to Pep whenever things don't go his way? Highly paid professionals should be able to adapt. Ask those sides who scored a few last night like Brizzle, they managed.

I'm with Goughie 100%

Ah, but Brizzle play with it every week in the Championship so clearly have an unfair advantage

 

[Kenny]

Did he complain about it in the previous round?

 

[Walnut]

They don't turn up with the ball on the night, teams have the ball a few days before the actual game so Pep, as much as I like the guy, is talking bollocks.