Manchester City 3 - 1 Newcastle United - 19/11/11 - post-match reaction from p41

[Shayno]

Player ratings

 

Krul 6.5 Poor kicking first half. Not at fault for the goals. One or two decent saves.

 

Simpson 6.5 Not at fault, got forward abit.

Colo 7.5 Held a good line all day, Balotelli was well contained and midfielders rarely got behind the defence.

Saylor 7.5 I thought we were ok at the back tbh Can't let one man's failings put the entire defense to shame. Some great blocks, fought hard all day.

Raylor 2.5 Woeful, cost us the game really.

 

Sammy 6 What a game to make your debut in. Had one or two decent runs. Hasn't got the passing game to start in the Premier League yet.

Guthrie 5.5 Just gets too easily overrun at times. Pretty non-existent today and was totally shagged after 75 minutes.

Cabaye 6.5 One or two good defensive interventions and rarely lost the ball

Jonas 4.5 Nothing went right for Jonas today. No time on the ball

 

HBA 6 Some good passes and touches here and there. Not on the same wavelength as alot of players yet. Horrible challenge for the third penalty

Ba 6 No service at all, should have done better with the headed chance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Stottie]

Two less than Spuds and three less than ManUre. And they don't have a Wigan reject right back at left back.

 

Pity we couldn't have taken one of the chances. Had we got them back to 2-1 they would have wobbled like they did against Wolves.

 

Shame its ManUre next, especially with their wide players.

[Turnbull2000]

Could have been worse I guess.

 

But Man City are a disgusting club.

[Yorkie]

Inevitable but we paid them far too much respect in the first half IMO. Would prefer it if we didn't give up after 3-0 n all. Not fair on the lads and lasses who've travelled down to watch us.

 

Agree. Should have tried to give them a game from the first minute. Like we played towards the end of the first half - before conceding - and at the start of the 2nd half.

 

You mean like after twenty seconds when we robbed Clichy of the ball and whipped it into the box?

[Ketsbaia]

Really happy with the performance, 3-0 would've been very harsh on us. Its a shame to finally lose, but when its to a team like that there really can't be any complaints. Onwards and upwards

[TRon]

It's a shame because we conceded just when we'd started getting a bit of a foothold in the game. Fuck it, we'll get dumped on in the press but there's not much we can do about that. Onwards to Man U and Chelsea.

[Joe_F]

Think there's plenty of positives to take from this.

 

Sammy looked very very good away at the best team in the league.  Growing by leaps and bounds every match.

 

Did OK without Tiote again.  Guthrie's gotten much better.

 

Created several clear cut chances against a mean defence.

 

Ben Arfa played 75 minutes, looked to be much closer to full fitness, created several good opportunities.

 

Colo/Saylor did very well. 

 

Hopefully opens the door for Santon.

 

Not the worst result, all in all, knowing we're going to lose going in.

 

Aye, best thing to come out of the match for me. He's gonna be a player alright.

[Alberto2005]

Man U and Chelsea won't play as well as that.

[thomas]

Good showing against one of the best teams in the world.  3-1 to them a little flattering because we by and large shot ourselves in the foot but there's no question they were going to dominate and in all likelihood win this game.

[rocksammy]

Think we did pretty well all over the park except for our fullbacks, which showed a giant gap between the teams. Sure raylor had a shocker but hes won us 6 points he can lose us a hopeful 1 . That said danny and raylor both ran their bollocks off and tried their hardest, they just couldn't help being inferior =/. Wish we had more possession from the start to keep our wingers entertained  with some attacking duties, whenever they managed to get the ball they were cold.

[Disco]

Must say, that was a proper professional win at minimum effort, title winning style performance from City like.

[Hanshithispantz]

Bit annoying that all 3 goals were easily avoided like.

[Cronky]

Man City are so strong. It'd be no surprise if they went through the season unbeaten.

 

Ben Arfa seemed to grow in confidence during the game and his was a promising performance.

[Optimistic Nut]

Krul - 6

Simpson - 6

R.Taylor - 4

Coloccini - 7

S.Taylor - 7

Sammy Ameobi - 7

Jonas - 6

Cabaye - 6

Guthrie - 5

Ben Arfa - 7

Ba - 5

[Numbers]

Must say, that was a proper professional win at minimum effort, title winning style performance from City like.

 

Didn't need to put in much effort tbf, we gifted them 3 goals.

[Skirge]

Well am devastated we lost but we did not disgrace ourselves, two pens and a stupid mistake from Raylor.. We never gave up right to the death, and nicked one back but not taking our  at times very good chances is what cost us. There won't be many teams that will play Man City and have so little possession but only concede three goals, lets not start over analysing this one.

[Nordstrom]

It was fairly obvious that morale didn't drop after conceding those goals as there was still a lot of fight in the players despite all the energy they used in the first half chasing City's players around the pitch. I'm sure that the confidence we've have throughout the season so far won't waver because of this loss. This puts us in good stead for our next match against Manure.

[PENKAAA]

Agree with most of the thoughts. City are an outstanding team and it wasn't a case of us playing badly. If Raylor hadn't handled and Ben Arfa didn't foul Richards, who knows what could've happened. Good performance from the lads but sad to see the unbeaten run end. Hopefully we can get something from the next two games.

 

And Sammy had a terrific game imo, well done to him.

[Beren]

The gulf in class at full-back position, man.

 

Bitter pill to swallow this defeat lark, innit. Interesting to see how/if Santon is phased in ahead of Raylor. It'd seem rather flippant of Pardew to bring him immediately, and would destroy Raylor's very fragile confidence - think we might have to wait until Raylor picks up a knock before Santon gets a chance to establish himself in the side.

[Alberto2005]

Still baffled to why Santon didn't get at least 20 minutes with the game gone.

[Jayson]

Bit annoying that all 3 goals were easily avoided like.

 

Its annoying but i suppose you could say thats the difference between the sides.

As well as our players have been playing, some are still liable to make mistakes & we will lose like today because of it. Just the difference in standard, couldve been very different though.

[stozo]

Quite impressed with the performance. We played much better second half and had we been a bit more clinical we probably could have made a game of it.

 

It was encouraging to see Ben Arfa get some game time. The tackle for the penalty was awful but going forward he looked really bright at times.

 

Day to forget for Ryan Taylor. At fault for both of the first two goals and got caught out a number of other times. I think it might be worth looking at Santon in the next game.

[Yorkie]

Krul - 6. Could do nowt with the goals and made a couple of decent saves. But his ball retention is fucking rubbish - really needs to improve in that area.

 

Simpson - 7. Good game. Tried to keep the ball when he could and put in some meaty, fair challenges. Held the line well too.

S Taylor - 8. Great game, pretty colossal at the back.

Coloccini - 7. Caught out positionally more times than usual today, but generally played well. Handled Toure in-particular very well.

R Taylor - 3. Pretty damn poor, really. Shame for him cos he's done incredibly well this season. Well and truly caught out today.

 

Sammy - 6. Full of pace, running and not a great deal else. A decent outlet for us though.

Cabaye - 5. Seriously, seriously quiet.

Guthrie - 6. Quiet, but less so than Cabaye. Grew into the game in the second half, which is the opposite of what he usually does.

Jonas - 6. Thought he was alright but frequently in the wrong position defensively, particularly in the first half.

 

Ben Arfa - 7. Probably his best game this season. Some nice touches, nice bit of pace and flair, and so close to having the cutting edge. Pretty hopeless tackle for the second pen but we'll forgive him that.

 

Ba - 6. Held it up okay but a bit wasteful. Hope his knee's alright.

[Dave]

Man U and Chelsea won't play as well as that.

 

Hope so, because I didn't think City got into their stride at all.

[Wullie]

Good showing against one of the best teams in the world.  3-1 to them a little flattering because we by and large shot ourselves in the foot but there's no question they were going to dominate and in all likelihood win this game.

 

Aye, I think even without the two penalties, you still bet on them to win, they can just step up through the gears any time they want to, their bench is frightening. Pathetic pointless way to compete if you ask me but there you go.

 

The title's theirs, just have the ceremony now, give everyone else zero points for the games with them and cut out the pointless 90 minutes of playing them.