City v Arsenal - Live Thread

[blueboy]

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Massive game today.....we need to be at it from the first minute.

[Topdawg]

It's all Yaya's fault

[Topdawg]

Sorry, you'll remind me when he does something good then...

[Topdawg]

But, for the first 30 minutes, you've had fuck all chance

[Topdawg]

I don't think we're playing rubbish, except when we lose the ball. The defence is a car crash

[Topdawg]

defence all over the place again

[Topdawg]

no-one covered for kolorov there

[Topdawg]

excellent from sanchez. good tackle from yaya. makes a change

[Topdawg]

Pep looks bemused

[Topdawg]

Sane doesn't want to run at the defenders. Decent pass though

[Topdawg]

too easy for ozil. Le Saux having a pop at Sane

[Topdawg]

good chance for arsenal

[Topdawg]

Silva had to take the yellow there. Guess who gave the ball away with an absolute shit pass?

[Topdawg]

lucky to get away with that.

[Topdawg]

no cover for clichy. we don't play as a team.

[Topdawg]

Kev's been a bit quiet lately

[Topdawg]

excellent from Sane. But shows what he can do. Should do it far more often.

[Topdawg]

silky stuff from spanish dave

[Topdawg]

come on now!

[Topdawg]

someone needs to clatter into sanchez

[Topdawg]

shite defending again. far too easy

[Topdawg]

no bite. get some tackles in

[Topdawg]

zabba looks knackered already.

[Topdawg]

at least the header was on target for a change

[Topdawg]

Up front, could do better, but we created a few chances. At the back, well, we all know the score there

[blueboy]

I mentioned 3 players...keep up.  

[blueboy]

excellent from Sane. But shows what he can do. Should do it far more often.

Same as Sterling though. Problem is, there's no-one in the box to pass it to, so they may as well keep possession.

That's the issue....5/6 times Sane and Sterling have had the ball 30 yards from goal.....and there's 1 player in the box surrounded by 5 defenders......why run and beat a FB, to then cross it to no-one? You'd only give them shit for it.

[Topdawg]

It's all Tanya's fault

[blueboy]

I actually watched the 2013/14 Golden Years on SS1 yesterday....and the amount of goals Dzeko scored because of his movement, heading ability and physical presence surprised me.

I for one, gave him loads of shit in his last season, but god, what I'd give for him now.

[Topdawg]

Hasn't Dzeko scored something like 17 in 22 for Roma?

[blueboy]

Stones must look at the two clowns at CB and think "what the fuck have I done?"

He makes a bad back-pass and get's dropped. These two cock-wombles are to blame for 50-60% of goals we concede because they are positionally retarded, yet keep getting picked.

I'd bring on the Spanish Robbie Savage and A. Garcia for Zaba and TLMLF.

[blueboy]

Hasn't Dzeko scored something like 17 in 22 for Roma?

He's doing well....not sure how many he's scored, but he'd be perfect right now....as we have the midget-brigade up front, so what's the point of playing with wingers? Barcelona didn't play wide men to cross balls into the box?

[Topdawg]

Sane had a one on one with his defender after 2-3 minutes.hed have been in the box or at least pushed the defender into the box, but chose to do nothing. Ge can beat his man, he's shown us that. But once in 45 minutes isn't enough. Can wait for Jesus. He'll run at his man for sure

[Topdawg]

We can still win this. we've just got to get that goal our play has probably deserved.

[Topdawg]

We haven't got the players to play tippy tappy stuff around the box. Nasri would have been huge for us. Just not against Arsenal though!

[Topdawg]

Get in. What did  I tell ya

[blueboy]

Shit goal from Sane.....

[Topdawg]

offside, but it's in

[Nijinsky]

Always said Sane was the man

[Topdawg]

You can roll your eyes as much as you want, but he never went down the middle in the first half and never ran past the defenders to get the ball

[titbumwilly]

Young Master Titbumwilly text me midway through the first half and said 'how much do I miss Eden?"
Seems he's not the only one. If the forwards did what they're paid to do there wouldn't be such a scrutiny on the defence.
Support the fucking manager and have faith

[Topdawg]

He's only doing what he should be doing. I've been asking for him to do stuff all season.

[Topdawg]

I support the manager. But I don't have blind faith

[skyblueoz]

sane crosses for Jesus to score

[Topdawg]

We've only probably played two shit games all season. Spurs and Leicester.

[Topdawg]

I'm only critical of what he's done and doing to our defence.

[titbumwilly]

It's not about blind faith, it's about supporting the manager we all wanted, less than half a season through his first campaign

[Topdawg]

Was that Yaya chasing down Cech??

[Topdawg]

I support the manager. But I'm not so deluded as to say nowt against him.

[Topdawg]

Many said they didn't like what he did to Joe, but we'd support what he did. But he had to get that massive call right and he hasn't.

[Topdawg]

much better tempo from us. poor ball from yaya

[Topdawg]

great ball from kev, but no-one took the chance.

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