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Manchester City v Liverpool Match Thread

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Fair to say the better team is winning.

We need to play better than this to stop these. They are a terrific team. Henderson has been so panicked and random with the ball, he just fucking hits it.....anywhere.....
Mane has been all over the shop, and Salah is being pretty well marshalled.


Salah has been very useful dropping deep, which encourages me.
 
We're only scoring through a fluky break through defense, but that's the only way we were scoring anyway...
 
This is the most dependant I've seen a team on their defensive midfield since Makalele at Chelsea, they are nothing at the back without him.
 
I dont think anyone has excelled for us really. Wijnaldum has been the best player first half but none of the front 3 are more than a 6 so far.

Plenty of time though.
 
We've been sloppy with our passing on the build up inside the first half of their half, if we start connecting with them, like we did for the Mane chance, we will get some joy.
 
We're only scoring through a fluky break through defense, but that's the only way we were scoring anyway...

We very nearly scored, and should have, with a lovely team goal, with zero fluke about it.

We've just not been able to have much possession, against the only team better than us at that, and they made it count.
 
We were a bit stretched in midfield. When Firm and Salah dropped a bit deeper we managed to get more play going. Sadly we didn't use the ball too well when we had chances of creating something.
They have done well, but with two yellows at the back, we should keep running at them.
 
Milner has had some good moments but by and large the midfield has let us down today.

Wijnaldum can't seem to hold the ball or make a pass and Henderson has reverted to headless chicken mode.

The faffing around at the back is killing me as well. The number of times TAA received the ball near the corner flag with man on... christ.
 
We need to take a risk and bring on someone with good control who can carry the ball. Shaq or Lallana on for Milner for me if still 1-0 at 60/65.
 
  • Mane scores that, we destroy them. 1 fucking cm, or whatever it was ... That is probably a sign that it's not going to be our game ... who knows.
  • Thought our defense played well overall, with Lovren being the weak link. He seems like a headless chicken at time.
  • Hendo has been a bit slow out there - I think not going with him AND Fabinho has been a mistake.
  • I don't get why Gini got carded - that's a yellow?
  • I lost a lot of respect for Kompany - hard foul on Salah, and not only does he bitch, but also calls him a pussy?
  • The Silva cunts are just that - cunts. Always bitching at the ref, always complaining, trying to get players sent off. Fuck them, I hope Milner teaches them what a proper tackle is.
  • 45 more minutes - worst case scenario, we're 4 points ahead of them
 
Ah well, 3 weeks ago I would've taken 4 points at the top.

Sadly, this inevitable defeat is going to knock the stuffing out of us and spur them on to another title win.
 
Milner has had some good moments but by and large the midfield has let us down today.

Wijnaldum can't seem to hold the ball or make a pass and Henderson has reverted to headless chicken mode.

The faffing around at the back is killing me as well. The number of times TAA received the ball near the corner flag with man on... christ.
I think Gini has been good, but there's little he can do when he has three players bearing down on him, which has often been the case.
 
We score next and their arses will go.

Hopefully we isolate Salah on Laporte/Kompany. They're both pretty rash.

Lovren very poor for the goal. Did he even try and block the shot? It's why we need Gomez back quickly.
 
The difference is the Silva boys creativity vs Milner and Henderson.

We havnt created much but those two look like making something every time they have it.
 
Milner has had some good moments but by and large the midfield has let us down today.

Wijnaldum can't seem to hold the ball or make a pass and Henderson has reverted to headless chicken mode.

The faffing around at the back is killing me as well. The number of times TAA received the ball near the corner flag with man on... christ.

That's because Lovren can't step out with ball. So he defaults to just passing it sideways to Trent.

Gomez, we've seen, can run with the ball. That would narrow off Sane, and thus create more room for Trent, when it does come out to him.
 
So far it's a tale of individuals: Fernandinho has been brilliant for City, stopping so many of our attacks in their tracks and also managing to turn defense into attack instantly – something that our back 8, apart from Trent, has been unable to do. Then Aguero vs Lovren – a clear advantage for City there, Dejan seems half-asleep and slow to react a lot of the time, but this is in part due to the quick thinking of the City forwards. Our front 3 didn't see enough of the ball to really test the City back 4, but when they did they caused panic. Not sure if Kompany tackle was a red, definitely seen them given.
 
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