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Mabspurs said:
Then we must have been watching a different game - because when he hoofs it, there isn't a City player anywhere near him....

The lad is nowhere even close to being good enough - for all the BS of his agent - and it showed from his first Europa League game and sending off!!! The only reason he is not in Italy is our injury situation.....
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I am regularly amazed by poor passing, woeful shooting, poor positioning from the best of the best, international or not. It isn't just Udogie, it isn't just Spurs. Appreciate the pace of the game is something else but given the quality of pitches, the training, the equipment, so many seem to lack full on tactical awareness about when not to make a pass, when or where to 'hoof' it.

The blind eye that pundits take to basic poor stuff is annoying, the unwillingness to call out fellow professionals.

Udogie is good enough but as with all players he makes mistakes. Defenders and goalkeepers get called out on their mistakes far more than midfielders and strikers.
 
Fine margins and all that, us needing a bit of that going our way. West Ham giving away a two goal lead to lose against Chelsea, us coming back from being two goals down to secure a point.

The difference looking at the table with 5 points or 9 points to the drop...
 
DeanoAustin said:
The last few months have shown me how poisonous and delusional social media makes people. I’ve seen echo chambers online of people saying we only look good when “the players go rogue” and abandon Frank’s instructions.

Like, how the fudge would any fan know that’s happened unless they have inside information? It’s just confirmation bias and then you get a few more fudgewits online saying the same thing and, hey presto, it must be a fact.

I’m not a Frank fan by any means but he deserves credit for today and for Europe.
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I had a look at the CFT group last night (I was bored clearly) the main mouth of the group was moaning no one walked out last night

He admitted he doesn't even go to games

So he's expecting people to walk out after paying a small fortune to watch the team, whilst he's at home behind a keyboard.
 
paxtonwolf said:
He has spent 45 minutes slagging off the team and the crowd, then Redkn@b jumps on the bandwagon.

Deserved or not, I dont know any other team that gets this much sh#t off the commentators and pundits
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They had to do a quick about-face within the space of a few minutes. It was rather pleasant to witness, even if Redknapp especially didn't like doing it - some snide comment about how he couldn't say this'll be a turning point or anything special so Spurs fans should just enjoy that game...
 
Rodri moaning and whining about the first goal is pathetic. Professionalism at it's worst. It would have been a travesty if the goal was chalked off for that. Is there a tiny tiny technical infringement? Maybe but it's irrelevant when a striker does so well to ward off two defenders. The spirit of the game says that it is a superb goal.
 
Legohamster said:
I had a look at the CFT group last night (I was bored clearly) the main mouth of the group was moaning no one walked out last night

He admitted he doesn't even go to games

So he's expecting people to walk out after paying a small fortune to watch the team, whilst he's at home behind a keyboard.
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The least surprising thing I’ll read today.
 
lurker of old said:
Rodri moaning and whining about the first goal is pathetic. Professionalism at it's worst. It would have been a travesty if the goal was chalked off for that. Is there a tiny tiny technical infringement? Maybe but it's irrelevant when a striker does so well to ward off two defenders. The spirit of the game says that it is a superb goal.
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I was surprised seeing his comments post game because, honestly, I don’t think it’s a foul. Now, maybe I’m wrong as I’m biased and I struggle to get my head around a lot of what qualifies as a foul today.

What I will say is that it isn’t stonewall. Rodri and his team mates need a look in the mirror though because they were cruising against a team with little confidence and a stadium that had lost hope and they allowed the momentum to swing back in our direction. If the officials made an error, it was much less of an error than how City approached the second half.
 
Robspur12 said:
Dragusin didn’t need to play the pass straight down the middle, he wasn’t under pressure. Unfortunately it was a combination of him being rusty and his lack of ability with the ball at his feet.
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Playing at LCB was forced to use his weaker left foot. Would have been better wellying it into Row Z.

Kind if similar to when Vicario conceded playing silly buggers as sweeper keeper in the 1-2 reverse v Fulham a few weeks back:

 
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Surfless said:
Watched it about 20 times, and Rodri has it wrong. Solanke has his foot around the foot of Gueyi. He doesn't kick him, he kicks round him. The injury is the clash of legs that then follows.

Articulate guy though and he is right about the inconsistency of referees.
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As people know, I'm always happy when football stakeholders of all types speak out about the incredibly poor standard of refereeing in Howard Webb's team. It was nice to hear a senior player stepping up, even though ironically he should have had multiple yellows if the ref was following the laws of the game.

This nonsense needs to stop soon with PGMOL. You could almost forgive that subjective decision if the rest of the refereeing all season was great. It's not. That's the problem
 
I think I'd rather take the positives out of that performance to be fair.

I thought Udogie, Palhinha, Gallagher, Xavi, Dom etc were outstanding. Completely vindicated those fans (e.g. @Robspur12 ) who has talked a lot about the impact of missing players like Solanke all season. It also vindicates those who have been talking about the importance of having balance with left footers in the side. We are a different team with Udogie in there.

You head in to the weekend with an injury crisis and fearing the worst. You're thinking Frank may be gone this month. You get a draw from 2-0 down. You can tease out the negatives, but what's the point. There were way more positives and we'd have had been even more comfortable if Rodri gets that early shower he deserves.

Green shoots !!!
 
DeanoAustin said:
I was surprised seeing his comments post game because, honestly, I don’t think it’s a foul. Now, maybe I’m wrong as I’m biased and I struggle to get my head around a lot of what qualifies as a foul today.

What I will say is that it isn’t stonewall. Rodri and his team mates need a look in the mirror though because they were cruising against a team with little confidence and a stadium that had lost hope and they allowed the momentum to swing back in our direction. If the officials made an error, it was much less of an error than how City approached the second half.
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Was it how city approached the second half or how we did?

I have only seen highlights but listening and reading it was more about us changing the game than them dropping their guard. They couldn't handle us it seems.
 
Kandi1977 said:
That assist from Xavi is pure filth! Football pornography!
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It's the kind of goal that we've conceded quite a few times. Give a creative player time and space to look for and execute a good pass in behind.

It's the kind of situation we really want Xavi to find himself in. Pockets of space, movement around and ahead of him. Keep giving him those conditions to work in and he'll do well.
 
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