Batmangala
Premier League Gameweek 20 (26th - 28th December 2017) - Boxing Day
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How easily City just destroyed Newcastle‘s pressing was quite funny to watch.
People must be looking to Newcastle to give them the Christmas they never had.
Also, KdB plays a big part in City dominating possession. If you put Cleverley there they won't have 70+% every game for sure...
How the feck is Sterling so good defensively?! That fertile bastard is everywhere.
Don't get me wrong its not like I don't rate him; I do. Its just I don't believe he's the best player in the league like a lot of people do.
Yedlin is a brainless twonk, but felt he was marginally onside there.
Doping
Over their purple patch it seems.
Pep's got them working like mad men. Against Spurs I saw Sane tracking back all the time.
It's incredible how quickly they push out from defence even this late in a game. Newcastle's CBs had 3 players on them as soon as they got the ball
It's amazing how hard this City team works. Sterling has been up and down the pitch all game, I've watched him stop 3 or more Newcastle attacks now.
Our wingers don't even track back most of the time.
Our wingers don't even track back most of the time.
Common Newcastle you twats.
It seems that if someone still scores in this match, it will be Newcastle.
Do you think he's the best player in the league then? Fair enough; although I don't think he's even the best player in his own team.
Merino looks a decent player. No idea why he chose to move to fecking Newcastle.
If Pep keeps him playing like this he will be too tired for that hanky panky stuff.
Mangala seems like a mistake just waiting to happen
Wasn't playing for Dortmund. Only other club he was linked to was Athletic Club and they didn't stump up the cash.
I thought asking our wingers to track back takes out most of their offensive potential?
Gündogan fails to replace Silva, so far.
Aye I knew he wasn't getting game time at Dortmund but he looks a far better standard of player than a Newcastle player. I think he would be a good squad option for a much better team.
What?
This is where we would be defending for our lives with 10 men in our box against these sort of teams
City are doing that too, only in their half.
Ours do track back. Main difference is when attacking City's players are a lot further up the pitch and have better movement so even if they are marked, they have an outlet to pass to (especially with the quality of their FBs). We lack in that regard so our players end up going against 3-4 players with nobody in a decent position to pass to.
Gets rarely the ball and if, he makes some (for him unusual) selfish decisions.
It's a little funny how Newcastle are play8ng much better football while chasing this then we do when chasing late deficits. We just good it and look clueless for the most part.
Funny but sad
Funny but sad
There was lot of moaning here about Jose wanting our wingers to track back.
Are we watching the same game? City are still playing their game and pressing still. Newcastle ofcourse are chasing the game as you would expect, this is completely different to how we are just look at the Leicester game against 10 men!
Oh come on now.....
Kudos to Rafa and his team for giving this a go
It's incredible how some football players lack any sort of footballing brain. How is Shelvey going to score from there?!
City win Sunday at Palace and they'll have reached 60 points before the new year. Pls don't let that happen Palace.
That's what I meant
It's their system of defending, strangling the opponent in their own half.Football is barely worth watching these days when anytime a player goes over it’s a freekick. Just ridiculous it’s barely a contact sport anymore.
Would have assumed it's just a part of their game. I think with City the difference is their far superior movement. Often when our wingers win it back they are offered feck all outlets.
Newcastle have been decent. Teams can have success if they have a go at City, I don’t think they have great defenders.
Sterling is very good at protecting the ball, really difficult to dispose him without resorting to all sorts of fouling.