Rhodri and the guy that got injured at the end, both had 90 mins, we only had Ndombele play the whole game, Lo Celso had what 10 mins?
We knew Son was out so had three months to scheme for that, Fyoth and Davies didn’t finish last season as first choice, Verts is being left out by choice. It’s only really Alli who we have no control over, Sane is a fair balance to that.
The difference in performance against City compared to a couple of seasons ago isn’t relative to the difference in strength between the two squads in the same time period imo.
Also, even with VAR correctly handling the late goal, we still cracked, we shagged the assignment and had Skipp against Laporte for an injury time corner, that should never happen.
That was weird, why the fudge did we put skipp on?
Just watched that goal again...
If that ball hadn’t hit his arm it was going to NDombele to clear
Yeah, you can tell there's potential, and I thought he did fine all things considered tonight. Plenty to improve, but against the lottery winners away, and with on fire Sterling to mark, that wasn't shabby.
Excellent performance in their back yard. Whingers should be fudging ashamed.
Excellent performance in their back yard. Whingers should be fudging ashamed.
Or he could have made good contact and stuck it in the corner, the point is a bad decision was made in the marking assignments, that’s something we can control.
Where was the luck?
Hugo saved what he could
They hit the bar so that could be argued ... but rose was on the line so “may” have cleared it
The penalty call in the first half was deemed to not be a clear and obvious error
And VAR did it’s job with the new rule on handball
Or he could have made good contact and stuck it in the corner, the point is a bad decision was made in the marking assignments, that’s something we can control.
They were all over us. We came away with a point from a game we were throughly outplayedin. We deserve credit for hanging in there. And catching them on the break, but we were fortunate to come away with a point.
There is so much to take from the game (beyong the point). Things that worked. Things that didn't. Things that city do better than us, that we should learn from. It should spur us on, and to get point was a bonus.
All that said I thought they were there for the taking in the last 10 if we'd been more brave, and hooked it up. An interesting game, as the shoe is normally on the other foot. I think we can play that defensive game and break to good effect, but we'll need to tighten up on a few things. Tracking runners, cutting out crosses, playing out the back with better coordination and belief.
Throughly enjoyed the game. Bring on the geordie and goons.
Moan, moan, moan.