Smalling is an idiot and it continue to amaze me how we give ball away without pressure. 4 times in the first 11minutes.
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Manchester City 1:0 Manchester United
Etihad Stadium
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Absolute brainless tosh from smalling. Totally swung a match that was still in the balance. Chances of us escaping with a draw seem pretty slim right now.Absolute awful stuff from us. We are lucky not to have conceded a pen. Shaw looks clueless going forward. Val looks clueless whatever he does at right back, Rojo looks shaky and Smalling is an idiot of the highest order. Don't think we will survive the second half without conceding.
We give the ball away without pressure. Basically we are a bunch of pussies shitting their pants.never a penalty.
if Oliver had given those two yellows to the blue shite early on...things would have been more even. Smalling still has been bloody stupid.Clear penalty.Lucky not to be 1-0 down and have 9 men on the pitch at the end.
I just cannot see us holding onto this, get your bets on City win now to make some quick bucks if you can.
Moyes didn't play like this at allClear penalty. Are all our defenders are stupid?Was Smallings first booking not harsh? Or am I not aware of there being a rule that you cant block the Keeper from releasing the ball?
Just hoping we can hold on for the 0-0 draw now or possibly nick a goal on the counter.Smalling let everyone down with the bit of stupidity. Maybe over the top, but he was on thin ice before whether he'd stay or go long term. Wouldn't be surprised to see him sold as part of our centre back reshuffle.
Will be a very hard second half now, hopefully we hang on.Frustrating that we're playing a CM at CB, a RW at RB and a Striker at CM. The team would be a lot better if we just signed a player for those 3 positions in summer, any player.
And Rafael has to go this summer, we need a first choice right back that plays more than 1/2 the games. Just needs to be replaced as this is the millionth time this issue has put us in hot water.Poor so far. Passing not good enough up top and that right side is a mess.
all player became disappointing, no pace. playing in own field. What a philosophy, huh
Game plan for the second half
We are just not good at that.
Technically, eh!!! How about using some common sense judgement? The ref saw the impediment long before Hart even kicked his ball before the situation was createdCan't imagine how many times they're going to get in behind Valencia - Carrick on that right hand side.
We're going downMarcos Rojo is never a centre back.
We were doing okay until Chris Smalling being an absolute tool. It's going to be a long second half.
Also this referee is utter shite, no consistency in his bookings and has also missed 1 possibly 2 City penalties.
Only one outcome I'm afraid now.Joe Hart butted the ref!? Surely someone else saw that?Smalling to be sold to QPR for £1.5mDe Gea's gonna have to be a hero today.I'm not looking forward to the second half tbh :l
Would you take the red card or the two penaltiesThis is fast becoming a joke. Unbelievable how naïve we have been in this match. Playing the high line just looked suicidal and if not for De Gea we should have been a few goals down.
Then of course there is Smalling. After all the buildup regarding emotion and not getting sent off...what does he do? Absolutely silly and unprofessional. Beginning to lose hope in him really. Just some shocking defending and mental errors.
I'd be shocked if we got a point out of this. We've had a few calls go our way and namely the two penalty shouts were quite legit. Sticking Adnan on the right wing as our primary outlet for attack just is not working. He is hardly comfortable on that right wing and clearly clichy knows all he needs to do is turn him towards the byline and stick close.Ref could award us four penalties and 2 reds for the city in the second half and there will still be people here who would say he's helped city
First yellow is a yellow every day. Usually you see players doing it late on, pure stupidity to do it so early.
Sorry, probably both.It wasn't a penalty you muppets.
Rubbish.We should have conceded two penalties and had two players sent off.
I thought Oliver was a homer, but it turns out he's just a shit referee. Still not as stupid as Smalling, though.
Bit harsh. I actually rate smalling, the second yellow he received was a stupid decision to dive in though.
If that's a penalty holly feck! I can understand the ref falling for it on first take but Neville gets a replay. Calls it first time then tries to back it up with complete shite instead of saying Augero went to ground easily trying to buy a penalty!Anyone see joe hart square up to the ref, what the feck?!?! yellow card at least surely, he was head to head with refcan still salvage a pointfeck their penalties, they should be happy with a red card already.Any positives from the half besides the fact that United aren't losing?City could easily be 3 up at ht and United down to nine men. We're playing awfully as well. Can't keep the ball at all.They're going to win, just a matter of when sadly. It was already tough enough without that brainfart from Smallingvan Persie and di Maria anonymous.
Rooney not great.
Smalling has f*cked us, the moron.All of you rating Oliver pre match, you've only gone and jinxed it. He's been an utter homer coward.- Status
Man of the Match
Runners-up
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27%
Luke Shaw
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13%
Marouane Fellaini
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9%
Wayne Rooney
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4%
Daley Blind
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3%
Chris Smalling
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1%
Michael Carrick
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1%
Angel Di Maria
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1%
Antonio Valencia
Player Ratings
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Compiled from 477 ratings.
Score Predictions
437,254,173
- Man Utd win
- Man City win
- Draw
Detailed Results
- 24% Man City 1:2 Man Utd
- 11% Man City 2:2 Man Utd
- 8% Man City 3:1 Man Utd
- 8% Man City 2:1 Man Utd
- 7% Man City 2:3 Man Utd
- 6% Man City 1:3 Man Utd
- 5% Man City 1:1 Man Utd
- 4% Man City 0:2 Man Utd
- 3% Man City 2:0 Man Utd
- 3% Man City 0:1 Man Utd
- 3% Man City 0:5 Man Utd
- 2% Man City 0:0 Man Utd
- 2% Man City 3:2 Man Utd
- 2% Man City 3:0 Man Utd
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- 1% Man City 5:0 Man Utd
- 1% Man City 1:0 Man Utd
- 1% Man City 2:4 Man Utd
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- 1% Man City 1:5 Man Utd
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- 0% Man City 3:4 Man Utd
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- 0% Man City 5:2 Man Utd
- 0% Man City 5:3 Man Utd
Match Stats
- Man City
- Man Utd
- Possession
- 52% 48%
- Shots
- 17 9
- Shots on Target
- 6 2
- Corners
- 7 4
- Fouls
- 15 9
Referee
Michael Oliver
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