| How good are Man City 19:21 - Jan 19 with 4832 views | _clive_baker_ |
Bloody hell. Absolutely frighteningly good at times, I really don’t think you appreciate it until you see them up close and personal like that. Literally unreal. Not a huge surprise of a club that’s won the last 4 premier leagues, 6 of the last 7 titles, literally assembled some of the best teams in the world over the past 10+ years and has £100m signings on the bench, but still. Not fun to watch your side schooled like that but you’ve got to recognise their talent and I sat there at times just in awe tbh, especially after sitting through Morecambe on a Tuesday night not long ago. They’re just so so good.
I know it’s been said a million times but the jump in quality to the premier league is absolutely ridiculous isn’t it? Even to a Brighton or Fulham, but up again significantly to a Man City, its unreal. I think that side we put out today wins the championship. Not that we would have all those players at that level, but it’s a squad that wins it IMO. I’m not sure what the answer is or if I'm even particularly enjoying this season as a supporter, it feels a pretty thankless ask on days like today.
No need to overreact to this evening. Keep the spirit up, keep the heads up, get through Liverpool and hopefully bounce back with a W against Southampton to kick start the run in into Spring. |  | | |  |
| How good are Man City on 19:24 - Jan 19 with 4033 views | reusersfreekicks |
Imo it's a balance between recognising the gap in quality etc but also acknowledging that we were poor |  | | |
| How good are Man City on 19:28 - Jan 19 with 3956 views | _clive_baker_ |
| How good are Man City on 19:24 - Jan 19 by reusersfreekicks |
Imo it's a balance between recognising the gap in quality etc but also acknowledging that we were poor |
We didn’t do ourselves justice, particularly in the 15 minutes either side of half time. I thought until they scored the opener we were OK though. First half an hour was decent, very quickly unraveled though and would agree we weren’t at our best. Not that I think our best would’ve offered much resistance to City tbh. That’s 2 games and a 10-1 aggregate score. I think we could play them another 10 times and wouldn’t win any of them tbh. Different class entirely. | | | |
| How good are Man City on 19:33 - Jan 19 with 3891 views | homer_123 |
We've not done ourselves any favours from 25 mins onwards.
That said....their movement is so good. Just watching their players who don't have the ball and just seeing the movements and positions they take up...is something else.
Something to aspire to. |  |
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| How good are Man City on 19:37 - Jan 19 with 3811 views | Chrisd |
City were purring like they did when they were full of confidence before the blip and what you come to expect from Champions. What impresses me most is how hard they work off the ball. When we did get the ball they are quick to close us down or they get back behind the ball fast to close the options down. They were just so superior in all aspects than us today.
I’ve come to the conclusion it’s how we get on against Southampton, Leicester, Wolves and Everton that will determine whether we remain in this division. I’m just thankful that Wolves look as toothless as us which keeps them firmly in the mix. |  |
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| How good are Man City on 19:38 - Jan 19 with 3809 views | bsw72 |
| How good are Man City on 19:24 - Jan 19 by reusersfreekicks |
Imo it's a balance between recognising the gap in quality etc but also acknowledging that we were poor |
We weren’t particularly poor, there were some individual and team errors but pretty much every mistake was punished. City were on it.
We were far worse against Brighton and Everton, we turned up today and tried to attack. Player for player we are years behind city, but for periods of the game we got at them and created chances.
Much more enjoyable than trying to hold out for a draw and losing 1-0 or 2-0. |  | | |
| How good are Man City on 19:38 - Jan 19 with 3808 views | Dubtractor |
The difference in technical ability between their players and ours was mad.
Almost every first touch was perfect, every pass perfectly weighted, defensive positioning, physical strength, all of it just on another planet.
That's why I said that today isn't worth getting worked up about. Of course it was horrible, and we made too many mistakes, but we can't really compete against a team like that. |  |
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| How good are Man City on 19:38 - Jan 19 with 3803 views | Ryorry |
| How good are Man City on 19:33 - Jan 19 by homer_123 |
We've not done ourselves any favours from 25 mins onwards.
That said....their movement is so good. Just watching their players who don't have the ball and just seeing the movements and positions they take up...is something else.
Something to aspire to. |
Think KM will sit our squad down & have them watch the full replay tomorrow or Tues, exactly to learn from all that. |  |
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| How good are Man City on 19:55 - Jan 19 with 3641 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Ha! I might be having doubts about Liverpool away with Junior now, the time, the expense....no on second thoughts I still can't wait. |  |
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| How good are Man City on 19:57 - Jan 19 with 3614 views | _clive_baker_ |
| How good are Man City on 19:38 - Jan 19 by Dubtractor |
The difference in technical ability between their players and ours was mad.
Almost every first touch was perfect, every pass perfectly weighted, defensive positioning, physical strength, all of it just on another planet.
That's why I said that today isn't worth getting worked up about. Of course it was horrible, and we made too many mistakes, but we can't really compete against a team like that. |
Scary. Not to knock the bloke but Morsy takes about 4 touches every time he receives the ball. It’s like you can see the cogs in his head working out what to do with it. De Bruyne today in comparison, jeez. Talk about being a step ahead, he was about 10. Again, no surprise, it’s Kevin De Bruyne and Sam Morsy ffs, but it’s chalk and cheese at this level innit. Foden & Kovacic as well, ruddy hell. Foden’s movement and touch is disgusting. | | | |
| How good are Man City on 20:13 - Jan 19 with 3482 views | pointofblue |
| How good are Man City on 19:38 - Jan 19 by bsw72 |
We weren’t particularly poor, there were some individual and team errors but pretty much every mistake was punished. City were on it.
We were far worse against Brighton and Everton, we turned up today and tried to attack. Player for player we are years behind city, but for periods of the game we got at them and created chances.
Much more enjoyable than trying to hold out for a draw and losing 1-0 or 2-0. |
We were better today between 0-30 than against Brighton. From 30-60 we were much better against Brighton. | |
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| How good are Man City on 20:37 - Jan 19 with 3330 views | swede |
| How good are Man City on 19:55 - Jan 19 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Ha! I might be having doubts about Liverpool away with Junior now, the time, the expense....no on second thoughts I still can't wait. |
Likewise. The score may be worse but I'm still going!
Follow the Town....up or down.. | | | |
| How good are Man City on 21:32 - Jan 19 with 3093 views | portmanking |
| How good are Man City on 19:57 - Jan 19 by _clive_baker_ |
Scary. Not to knock the bloke but Morsy takes about 4 touches every time he receives the ball. It’s like you can see the cogs in his head working out what to do with it. De Bruyne today in comparison, jeez. Talk about being a step ahead, he was about 10. Again, no surprise, it’s Kevin De Bruyne and Sam Morsy ffs, but it’s chalk and cheese at this level innit. Foden & Kovacic as well, ruddy hell. Foden’s movement and touch is disgusting. |
Kovacic *really* surprised me. He's an absolute dynamo in there. He does heaps of unseen work that you never quite realise when catching City on TV. | | | |
| How good are Man City on 21:39 - Jan 19 with 3032 views | itfcjoe |
I've seen players who seem to have the ball on a piece of string, but never seen a team who seem to have it on one when playing out from the back - it was like a computer game just how perfect their passing was in final third, how each pass seemed to be a foot away from where we needed it to be to intercept it.
We witnessed greatness, and were in the game for the first 25 minutes but it is so so tough |  |
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| How good are Man City on 21:46 - Jan 19 with 2980 views | BloomBlue |
They are also a reasonably settled team who have played together for a few years. De Bruyne played one ball over the top to Foden and he wasn't even looking towards Foden, he just knew Foden would make that run into space.
But a clap for Burgess as I think he beat Haaland in the air every time. |  | | |
| How good are Man City on 23:07 - Jan 19 with 2796 views | davblue |
| How good are Man City on 21:32 - Jan 19 by portmanking |
Kovacic *really* surprised me. He's an absolute dynamo in there. He does heaps of unseen work that you never quite realise when catching City on TV. |
Felt like we gave him the opportunity to play well as we got nowhere near him. |  | | |
| How good are Man City on 23:31 - Jan 19 with 2715 views | Bigalhunter |
Have we just played them at the wrong time, or was this always going to happen?
Two months ago they were getting stuffed 4 nil at home by Spurs and had a shocking time subsequently, struggling to get a draw at home to Everton, shipping goals against make-weights in the European games and looking utterly bereft in losing to Man Utd and Bournemouth and scraping a draw with Palace.
Leicester recently outplayed them for large parts of their game against them and even the other night, they capitulated alarmingly against Brentford.
Suddenly, they’re world beaters again today.
I just don’t get it. We weren’t awful today, but they probably would have got at least 8 if they didn’t have one eye on PSG next week.
If they now go on a 10 game winning run, it might start to make some sense I guess..
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| How good are Man City on 23:46 - Jan 19 with 2666 views | ArnieM |
| How good are Man City on 19:38 - Jan 19 by Ryorry |
Think KM will sit our squad down & have them watch the full replay tomorrow or Tues, exactly to learn from all that. |
But whilst I agree it's good to reflect and
" learn".... what is there in our squad that can change when the comparing the gulf in technical ability is there for all to see. How can our players actually be expected to go up 100 notches in technical ability, which simply do not have in their locker? |  |
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| How good are Man City on 00:03 - Jan 20 with 2621 views | _clive_baker_ |
| How good are Man City on 23:31 - Jan 19 by Bigalhunter |
Have we just played them at the wrong time, or was this always going to happen?
Two months ago they were getting stuffed 4 nil at home by Spurs and had a shocking time subsequently, struggling to get a draw at home to Everton, shipping goals against make-weights in the European games and looking utterly bereft in losing to Man Utd and Bournemouth and scraping a draw with Palace.
Leicester recently outplayed them for large parts of their game against them and even the other night, they capitulated alarmingly against Brentford.
Suddenly, they’re world beaters again today.
I just don’t get it. We weren’t awful today, but they probably would have got at least 8 if they didn’t have one eye on PSG next week.
If they now go on a 10 game winning run, it might start to make some sense I guess..
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That Spurs game was a while ago and a couple of months is a long time in football, they were definitely in a rocky patch then. I would say its a combination of factors, recent results have probably helped get them back on track a bit and that's 10 points now from their last 12 in the league, a thumping 8-0 win over Salford in the FA Cup would've been a nice boost too. Guardiola's also signed a new deal and put that uncertainty behind him, Haaland just signed a new 10 year deal himself, and they've got a couple of key players back fit and firing, not least De Bruyne. I also think its fair to say we're not as strong opposition as a Brentford or Villa.
They look to be getting back a bit to me, they certainly did today. To your point the next few weeks will be interesting though, as its PSG in the Champions League next and I think their next few PL games are tough ones, they've definitely got Arsenal and Liverpool quite soon. | | | |
| How good are Man City on 00:28 - Jan 20 with 2562 views | Ryorry |
| How good are Man City on 23:46 - Jan 19 by ArnieM |
But whilst I agree it's good to reflect and
" learn".... what is there in our squad that can change when the comparing the gulf in technical ability is there for all to see. How can our players actually be expected to go up 100 notches in technical ability, which simply do not have in their locker? |
For starters, close em down properly!
The acres of space that they sometimes had, esp down their left, frequently had me wincing with my hands over my eyes. That wasn’t just their skill, it was the absence of our bodies positioning themselves in a sensible manner.
Sorry if I’m out of order here as I didn’t see every minute, but it just seems so basic. Do we have a vocal defensive organiser a la Mogga? Thought I saw Godfrey doing so once early on. | |
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| How good are Man City on 06:25 - Jan 20 with 2373 views | ITFCSG |
Watching both the FA Cup game v Bristol Rovers and City yesterday I’d say that the gap between us and City is way wider than that between us and the Gas two divisions below. Even v an opposition mired at the bottom of League One we failed to do to them what City did to us i.e. utter domination and “1 shot 1 goal” finishing | | | |
| How good are Man City on 07:13 - Jan 20 with 2221 views | Vaughan8 |
I think it was more about how poor we were today.
I saw the secknd half of the Brentford v City game only the other day and Brentford should have scored a few times before Man City got 2 goals, and then actually came back.
The difference between us and Brentford is big so us to City on a bit of a roll, then we get turned over.
We just have to hope we learn from these results. | | | |
| How good are Man City on 07:46 - Jan 20 with 2107 views | MVBlue |
| How good are Man City on 23:31 - Jan 19 by Bigalhunter |
Have we just played them at the wrong time, or was this always going to happen?
Two months ago they were getting stuffed 4 nil at home by Spurs and had a shocking time subsequently, struggling to get a draw at home to Everton, shipping goals against make-weights in the European games and looking utterly bereft in losing to Man Utd and Bournemouth and scraping a draw with Palace.
Leicester recently outplayed them for large parts of their game against them and even the other night, they capitulated alarmingly against Brentford.
Suddenly, they’re world beaters again today.
I just don’t get it. We weren’t awful today, but they probably would have got at least 8 if they didn’t have one eye on PSG next week.
If they now go on a 10 game winning run, it might start to make some sense I guess..
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Well they all clicked didn't they? Kevin De Bryne found his form.
I think they were well up for it, plus Pep had them told, you better go out there and push them hard the full 90 we don't want another Brentford and also made it known they needed over 5 to beat Newcastles goal difference to both players and their fans.
I think our players should have been told that, they think they're coming here and scoring loads of goals, you better be 110%. But Citeh were on it the full 90. |  |
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| How good are Man City on 08:11 - Jan 20 with 2038 views | thorpedo |
Downvoted by mistake. Their movement was insane. A joy to watch,with my objective hat on. |  |
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| How good are Man City on 08:27 - Jan 20 with 1987 views | BloomBlue |
| How good are Man City on 07:46 - Jan 20 by MVBlue |
Well they all clicked didn't they? Kevin De Bryne found his form.
I think they were well up for it, plus Pep had them told, you better go out there and push them hard the full 90 we don't want another Brentford and also made it known they needed over 5 to beat Newcastles goal difference to both players and their fans.
I think our players should have been told that, they think they're coming here and scoring loads of goals, you better be 110%. But Citeh were on it the full 90. |
I genuinely didn't think City were full on for 90 mins, Pep basically took off most of his best players at 0-5. The game was over by HT, they were treating it as a training exercise, especially once the 4th went in.
I wouldn't use the word embarrassed as I've never been that, but on 39 mins Man City had a corner. We've all seen corners this season, players wrestling each other, I've seen City do that a lot this season especially Haaland. But on 39 mins City players just stood there waiting for the corner to be taken, they didn't need to battle for the ball, they knew the game was already won on 39mins and risk an injury/booking - not embarrassing but near. | | | |
| How good are Man City on 10:20 - Jan 20 with 1862 views | billlm |
Their to good for us,
GD will hurt but could have been worse,
Spurs were useless that hurt to,
One in three to survive that going to be tough now, |  | | |
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