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been deleted so:

bit of an overreaction tbh

makes it sound like you’re having a go at Hall and Livramento for not being here when we were shit

It’s not really his game, is it. Easy to forget he was a forward for most of his career. I think normally in that scenario we’d have Botman following Foden into midfield like we have done previously with our CBs (and did against Villa), but we’d clearly put Botman on a man marking job for Haaland, which he did a phenomenal job of tbf. When Burn marked Foden it meant Walker was free as I don’t think Gordo was doing a particularly great job of tracking him. They just have too many dangerous players to deal with tbh

Joelinton seemed like he got told to mark Foden quite early on which meant we lost everything he brings to the game. He couldn’t press high and he couldn’t make those deep runs beyond Isak that we absolutely needed.

Bruno had his best ever game for us in terms of pass completion - 62/66 passes at 94%. His season average last year was 83% and the best he managed previously in a single game was 90.9% against Leicester. He was also dispossessed by a tackle 0 times. This went with the eye test for me too, because as I said at the time in his thread I thought he was much improved in the game against City.

I'm pretty encouraged by a lot of the performance in hindsight tbh. We never really gave ourselves a chance of winning the game, but if we defend like that in away games in European knockout fixtures it bodes extremely well and it gives us a chance of beating anybody at SJP. They are the best side in the world by a distance imo, but ultimately they never had a clear cut chance. Their goal was a very low percentage effort that might've been saved or off target on another day. Defend like that against any other European side and we likely get a clean sheet.

fuck off pal

weird thing is our passing accuracy was 86%. Way higher than our average last season (78%) and joint with our best game from last season vs Leicester.

been tragic since moving Bright up front tbh

There better be about 20 minutes added on here

He can play CM for us but it definitely has to be the most advanced role. I don’t think you want him picking it up in our own half because he’s a risk taker in possession. One thing I love, and I noticed it in pre-season too, is that he’s not afraid of shouting at the senior players and telling them when/where to press. He clearly understands that part of the game very well.

can we set a mission of not bumping his thread whenever we lose this season, do you reckon

could have, imo, played Almiron narrower (in the same kind of position Foden played) rather than as a conventional winger. Might have given Isak more of a link.

beat these cunts and their dickhead manager

I thought he was really poor last week but this week he picked the ball up and alongside Trippier and Tonali in parts was the only one to show some composure and quality tonight. Out of possession it was impossible to get near them. It didn’t help that Joelinton seemed off his game a bit.

he was much, much better tonight btw.

Pretty much a flawless performance imo.

if you are getting mad at individual players, especially the ones who run about giving everything, for us losing to Man City you’re off your fucking rocker.

would’ve liked us to have played with a bit more aggressively tbh, but no shame in losing to these.

Botman has been really good tonight imo

Anderson really has something.

Kovacic completely unplayable in a team like this. Can’t get the ball off him.

when he gets to play in this position, yeah. Him, Salah and Saka are the best outside of Man City now Kane’s gone.