City v Swansea Live Thread

[blueboy]

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So....I think the big questions are: will Sergio and Bravo start?

For me, I'd stick with the same forward line and save Sergio for the 2nd half and Monaco. Give him 45 mins. It'll be hard to drop the 3 kids up front, especially after their performances lately, but I'd definitely give Sergio 45 mins.

However, we know what Pep's like...he likes to rotate and give everyone a chance, so the team for me will be:

Willy
Zaba, Vinny, Otamendi, Clichy
Fernandinho, Silva
KDB
Sterling, Gabriel, Sane

[blueboy]

Never seen such a one-sided game, against a resurgent team.

[Guest]

Swansea getting very lucky with blocks in all truthfulness, cant keep it up with this level of attack

[Topdawg]

let's have some yellow cards ref

[Topdawg]

fernandinho's had some pretty poor touches today

[Nijinsky]

Ferdi doesn't look as if he's at home playing by on the right hand side

[blueboy]

WTF is Mike Dean on about?????????????????????????

Never a dive FFS!!!

[Topdawg]

rubbish yellow on raheem

[Guest]

Fucking shit ref, he never even looked for the pen

[Nijinsky]

Should have been a penalty and red card

[Topdawg]

excellent first half. loads of pace, control and chances. good pressing. unlucky for it to be only 1-0.

[Topdawg]

mike dean is a cock. but we all knew that already

[Topdawg]

what was sterling supposed to do? leave his leg dangling there whilst the goalie s coming flying out with a leg breaker?

[blueboy]

Should be 2/3-0.....brilliant football, but we need to take more chances. Can see Sergio coming on for Raheem and Sane coming out on the right hand side, Gabriel on the left.

Mike Dean is a fucking disgrace.

[Strange Blue]

Mike Dean !!!!! Bollocks !!! Ruining what is a brillant game

[Nijinsky]

Why is every ref we get a complete twat

[ManCityMan]

Books KDB for a foul whereas he let several worse fouls go unpunished then books Raheem for diving, what a total prick Mike Dean is.
Fernandinho has mad wayward passes and ran a good pass out of play he does not seem to be in the game. Really good presing game from us but we need to make it count second half.

[Topdawg]

I think we'll see Aguero, but maybe just for 15 minutes

[Topdawg]

dean should apologise for the yellow on raheem. but he won't

[Topdawg]

Trev Sinclair says what he feels...

Pathetic, I've got to say. Raheem Sterling is one of the fastest on the pitch, he got to the ball first, the game goes on and then he gets a yellow.
It was unfair. I think it's poor from Mike Dean.

[Topdawg]

74% possession. 10 shots.

[blueboy]

This game will be decided by 'chances taken'.....

[blueboy]

What a save! Thank god Willy's in net!

[ManCityMan]

Ferdy's fault again

[Nijinsky]

Great save by Willy

[blueboy]

They're getting a little belief....what we need to do is be very quick on the break. Get that ball quickly to the front 3.....and we'll score.

[blueboy]

Jesus!!!! That was nearly a goal!

[Topdawg]

we've not been in this 2nd half

[Guest]

Need to put this away now, sort it out lads

[blueboy]

Yeah, we've allowed them possession....but, is it a tactic? Draw them out and hit them quickly??

The pressing in MF seems to have slowed.

[blueboy]

Fernandinho! he could have pulled that back into the box for Sterling who was free.

[Topdawg]

Fernandinho has been poor. 1st game back

[Nijinsky]

Get Ferdy back in the middle

[Guest]

Never seen a team so lucky with blocks

[Topdawg]

can't believe we've even had 50% possession this half

[blueboy]

Great defending by Clichy....but our pressing has slowed.

[blueboy]

What sort of header was that by Kolorov???

[Topdawg]

we've got to keep the ball longer

[Topdawg]

poor from kev when we are under pressure

[blueboy]

Too many touches....KDB, give the quick pass ffs!

[Topdawg]

lots of our tricks and flicks aren't coming off

[blueboy]

Come on Pep, sort this out. We've gone flat.

We suddenly look like we've run out of gas.....Clement's a good tactician, but we're not doing the basics right.

[Guest]

Fuck me they are going to score soon,  put ut to bed lads

[blueboy]

Sterling off, Aguero on.

[blueboy]

Too many touches....

[Topdawg]

very flat

[Topdawg]

that's better

[Topdawg]

decent corner for a change

[blueboy]

This is one extreme to another. Brilliant to Garbage!

[Topdawg]

you could take a few off. kev, sane or even sterling for aguero

[Topdawg]

too many fucking touches silva

[TMG]

Story of our season - Missed chances

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