Manchester City (H) 20/10: Build-Up & Match Thread

[Tony Towner]

He'll give a red soon enough

 

[Carrotdude]

Two fairly blatant yellows tbf

 

[Squeak]

Aaaa unlucky. If only the ball was more in front of him!

Yes, he did well to collect it originally but never really seemed in control after that. But it seems Semedo has license to get forward and fuck the consequences of leaving space behind him.. I don't like it.

 

[Tony Towner]

Two fairly blatant yellows tbf

Toti's was a dive after his initial fuck up

 

[Jinky]

We need to make sure this doesn’t turn in to attack v defence, though.

Yes - we’re 1-0 up, yes the points would be vital - but we still need to carry a threat going the other way.

 

[YoungWolf]

We’ve played some nice stuff through them on the counter. It’s amazing how easily they get into our area though

 

[jd1981]

We’re doing alright and look a threat on the break but there’s a sense of inevitability about how this ends up.

 

[Squeak]

Silva is so clever...always looking for that ball inside our defence.... and we don't seem to notice him doing so.

 

[Wolftone]

Doku doing whatever he likes

 

[Jinky]

Lemina has been absolutely shite again, so far.

We won’t keep a clean sheet so need to do more when we have the ball.

Semedo is having a tough time up against Doku & now has the yellow too.

 

[jd1981]

Eventually one of those balls across the face of the goal is going to be scored needs stopping at source

 

[big mean bunny]

Yeah I get the quality of them but this is too deep and panic stations for how early it still is.

 

[Squeak]

Wake up Wolves... every time Doku has that pass inside...

 

[Alan]

We’ve played some nice stuff through them on the counter. It’s amazing how easily they get into our area though

Big problem with a system change in a match like this; extremely hard to gauge how well it’s actually been executed (I mean if we hold on then fair dos to all). Such are matches against City…

 

[Squeak]

Snide little cunt Silva. Should be a yellow for that stamp on Sa's foot.

 

[The Bear]

Gvardiol with a long ranger even though we're playing three narrow DMs. Too deep for our own good.

 

[Squeak]

Sure, let's fucking stand off them.... bollocks defending.

 

[Del Woppio]

That's some fucking hit. A lot of time to line it up though and he's an established threat

 

[Jinky]

Teams just love scoring screamers against us.

But yeah - we’ve had about 6% possession in their final 3rd over the last 15 minutes. We can’t just sit back and defend the edge of the area against a team who are this good.

 

[jd1981]

Free shot on goal 20 yards out nice stuff