AyeDubbleYoo Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 4 minutes ago, joeyt said: Pep's lot are little slugs with no personality Don't you start. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRaspberryJam Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 Just now, AyeDubbleYoo said: Don't you start. Its not just Joey that does it. There's a whole cult of us. Come join us. Theres me, Joey, McCormick, Andy84, Jaquen, Pilko, toon25, Optimistic Nut. But be warned, once you start its hard to stop. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 Just now, MrRaspberryJam said: Its not just Joey that does it. There's a whole cult of us. Come join us. Theres me, Joey, McCormick, Andy84, Jaquen, Pilko, toon25, Optimistic Nut. But be warned, once you start its hard to stop. I noticed that, don't worry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 2 minutes ago, MrRaspberryJam said: Its not just Joey that does it. There's a whole cult of us. Come join us. Theres me, Joey, McCormick, Andy84, Jaquen, Pilko, toon25, Optimistic Nut. But be warned, once you start its hard to stop. We're like Vic and Bob and a few extra ones. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingArthur Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 2 hours ago, Smal said: 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. I think we played well occasionally. But when we had a chance to sustain pressure and pin them back, a poor pass cost too much. They played so easily through our press and started keeping possession and forced us back. Very frustrating, but tbh they are the best in Europe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRaspberryJam Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 1 minute ago, Optimistic Nut said: We're like Vic and Bob and a few extra ones. To be honest I think you're bleeding mad to let us on N-O. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingArthur Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Maineblue said: I really hope you guys thrash the bin dippers this Sunday, however the denial in some posters on here, City had Stones, Dias, B Silva, KDB all out, we also played in sweltering Greece in a midweek cup final and we still controlled this game and you didn’t lay a glove on us. Can I say you’re game this Sunday is a big game for Eddie Howe without people getting on my back, for me he can’t afford another defeat against Liverpool like last season, when they schooled you at SJP. I seem to remember Dias was in the starting XI for City. edit. And Ake was on the bench We played well against Liverpool at SJP, but maybe couple of horrendous mistakes. Edited August 21, 2023 by KingArthur Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 4 minutes ago, MrRaspberryJam said: To be honest I think you're bleeding mad to let us on N-O. Actually you are lucky I'm not an admin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smal Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 1 minute ago, KingArthur said: I think we played well occasionally. But when we had a chance to sustain pressure and pin them back, a poor pass cost too much. They played so easily through our press and started keeping possession and forced us back. Very frustrating, but tbh they are the best in Europe. 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 9 minutes ago, Maineblue said: Been a City fan since 1984. Bristol ? Lincoln ? Bradford ? Leicester ? Manchester ? Hull ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee_Johnny Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 1 hour ago, Maineblue said: I really hope you guys thrash the bin dippers this Sunday, however the denial in some posters on here, City had Stones, Dias, B Silva, KDB all out, we also played in sweltering Greece in a midweek cup final and we still controlled this game and you didn’t lay a glove on us. Can I say you’re game this Sunday is a big game for Eddie Howe without people getting on my back, for me he can’t afford another defeat against Liverpool like last season, when they schooled you at SJP. You deservedly won. No argument there. Looked a class above (as you probably are). However, you can’t complain about missing a few players, given the depth of squad. And KDB would be delighted to have the level of influence on a game that Foden had. Wish you’d play him in that position more (though not against us!). Re the whole ‘schooling us’ and Eddie under pressure narrative. We lost a man after twenty minutes and still played well up here. We were very unfortunate at Anfield (in terms of disallowed wonder goal and shitloads of added time). I do think that both their goals at SJP came from tactical preparation, and fair play to Klopp for working out how to get through our relentless press. Let’s see if his team can execute such a plan this time, 11 v 11. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexf Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 (edited) 59 minutes ago, Froggy said: I never am to be fair, I just bite back and get accused of it. It's funny seeing another fan get torn apart for sharing what is probably a genuine opinion though. That's usually me. But he stated three things. He said Dias wasn't available. He was. He said Liverpool "schooled us" last season. Which is just needlessly antagonistic. Also in my opinion wrong if you actually watched the game. He also says Howe is under pressure if he loses the game. Which if you honestly believe that then you rightfully should get torn apart for having such a poorly researched opinion. If you don't believe it, then you're just attempting to irritate a fan base on their own message board which is very sad. Edited August 21, 2023 by alexf Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack j Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 1 hour ago, Maineblue said: Fair enough I forgot you were down to 10 men so me saying schooled is abit harsh, but for me the pressure is on Howe to get a big result in this fixture. No pressure on Eddie at all Hes took us from bottom of the league to champions league in 18 months Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 No more pressure than he puts on himself to win any game. Other fans really have no clue about what's going on here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEFAFWISP Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 3 hours ago, Smal said: 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. Hard for most layman viewers to see past the errors, 2 or more and it's a certified bad game for a player, poor and one note analysis and it's why Bruno is and will continue to get grief as he makes at least one "visible" mistake per game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smal Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 1 minute ago, GEFAFWISP said: Hard for most layman viewers to see past the errors, 2 or more and it's a certified bad game for a player, poor and one note analysis and it's why Bruno is and will continue to get grief as he makes at least one "visible" mistake per game. 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 Did not know that, wow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingArthur Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 23 minutes ago, Smal said: 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 think Bruno played well. Wanted the ball and he can draw those tactical fouls like Grealish, Kane etc can. Got us out of the pressure at least once just for being clever. I am only disappointed about the final passes, which were rushed or missed. Bruno's shooting technique is weird, but I think Barnes could have done better with his chance. Only one I think was missing a bit was Joelinton. He is good at pressing and in duels, but looses his man time to time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 1 hour ago, Maineblue said: It’s water off a ducks back mate. I think you'll find it's a duck's arse around these parts, pal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smal Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallowgate Toon Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 3 minutes ago, Smal said: 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. Didn't do a very good job of tracking Foden either. It was a very lacklustre showing from him but City popped it around him so well and he was just chasing shadows. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smal Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Gallowgate Toon said: Didn't do a very good job of tracking Foden either. It was a very lacklustre showing from him but City popped it around him so well and he was just chasing shadows. 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 Edited August 21, 2023 by Smal Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stottie Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 I thought it before Saturday's game, but isn't Alvarez a step up on Gabriel Jesus? Jesus doesn't score from there. Arsenal have better wide forwards than Man City, but there is no contest down the middle. Liverpool's classic front three was goals out wide and a linking false nine in the middle, but I'm not sure that wins you the league any more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee_Johnny Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 Just now, Stottie said: I thought it before Saturday's game, but isn't Alvarez a step up on Gabriel Jesus? Jesus doesn't score from there. Arsenal have better wide forwards than Man City, but there is no contest down the middle. Liverpool's classic front three was goals out wide and a linking false nine in the middle, but I'm not sure that wins you the league any more. Well, guess it will if you do it well enough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 2 hours ago, Maineblue said: So defensive, all because I have the gall to say there is pressure on Howe in his next game. We have discussed City to death on here, we just have to wait until the outcome now. Pressure What do you suggest should be the narrative if we lose to Liverpool? That Howe's job is in danger? That it proves he isn't good enough? Don't be vague. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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