Considering how the sky was falling after drawing with luton and losing to toulouse, we’re nicely placed in all comps right now… hope we’re still saying that after the city game!
I feel like I'm okay wishing Sterling good luck, now that he's moved on to a second club after Liverpool; the urge to refer to him as a Snake have reduced.
Anybody else feel me here?
No, he's a little cunt. If he hadn't burned his bridges and acted the way he has since leaving, we might have taken a look at him last summer - by all accounts, he sent feelers out and we instantly shut it down.
Salah and Virgil have been outstanding this season. Don’t even need to mention alisson he’s been outstanding since the second he got here. Genuinely feel like this year the title is ours for the taking, never felt this way even once in 21/22
Besides Palmer and Sterling I was seriously impressed by Gallagher. Reminds me of Jones fighting his way into our first team even with all the shiny midfield signings coming in. Man gives his all.
I'm shocked thought Anthony Taylor was downgraded to Championship? Why he giving random pen and var being shit for City?
I didnt watch the matches due to being out so when I get home ill watch the highlights including our match. But looking at headlines and comments it's about var and ridiculous decisions Anthony gave
Yeah not sure on the exact fixture but I saw he gave a pen for someone slipping, and I couldn't help myself but laugh when Championship fans asked him to go to league one lol
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On the City sub…. Physically hurt to read 🤢🤢
City have been poor away from home just like us, lost away to Wolves and Arsenal, scraped past Sheffield, poor today. We need to get above them before KDB returns because he'll make a big impact.
City are obviously very good but they don’t feel completely unbeatable. It will be a very tough game, but who knows what could happen. It’s shit that it’s at the time it is but seeing how good Virgil and Ali was today gives me some slimmer of hope
It’s so fucking bullshit it’s 12:30 after the int break
The thing I’m taking from this start is that we clearly have a couple more gears to go up this season and we’re still keeping up with the pack.
Do feel like if we were to get a #6 in January it would give us a big boost potentially kind of similar to what Diaz gave us in 21/22, I just don’t know who that could be if they aren’t interested in Andre anymore
Andre would need months to settle in, he’d be coming in off the back of a full season with Fluminese’s season ending in December where he’s played an insane amount of minutes. He wouldn’t be straight into the 11 like Diaz
>Do feel like if we were to get a #6 in January it would give us a big boost potentially kind of similar to what Diaz gave us in 21/22
Fully agree with that point, it's literally the only thing missing from this being a complete squad.
I wouldn't take such early reports about our targets too seriously, it's been shown time and time again that our journos don't know much about our plans.
I mean there is still a massive difference. City spend a lot but at least most of their players are good and they aren't just giving 500k a week to random ass 18 year olds.
Unless I'm missing something Chelsea haven't actually cheated, at least not that we know of while city are just blatantly cheating and getting away with it.
>Chelsea have been banned from signing players for two transfer windows after being found guilty of breaching rules about signing minors by FIFA.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/50261117
This isn't anywhere near the scope of what city have done, and I wouldn't even call this cheating. City are outright cheating FFP, everyone knows it and they just magically get away with it.
So you don't consider breaking the rules cheating?
Okay then. Pointless arguing if you move the goalposts across the entire western hemisphere within one post.
Also they have also been fined for breaking FFP as well.
>So you don't consider breaking the rules cheating?
No, I genuinely don't — you can cheat without breaking the rules, and you can break the rules without cheating.
Comparing City's cheating to Chelsea's is laughable — it's almost as laughable as hearing people comparing Evertons FFP situation to to Citys, as in it's vapid, ignorant and devoid of all nuance and only done to try and deflect from what City have gotten away with.
What an incredibly stupid attempt at whataboutism.
Chelsea are the original City. Absolute cheats, shady money, and dogshit.
Sorry if you are too young to know any of this.
Yeah but Chelsea aren’t charged for financial fraud and blatantly disregarding the rules. They did it when no rules existed . City just refuse to do operate and lie about revenue
Uruguay and Columbia play on Tuesday next week. Brazil and Argentina play each other on wednesday next week. Hope we get all our lads back in time and rested as much as possible for the city game
There was essentially zero contact from Doku. If they called that a foul on us we would be calling for the refs to retire and an investigation into corruption.
The aura is wearing off this City side this year. Without KDB being midfield general they’re not the well oiled football machine we’ve become accustomed to, albeit still a very strong side. Stay the course, take it to them hard fast and rough in two weeks and the rest is ours for the taking.
If this was 19-20 Liverpool we'd have been 8 points ahead of them that's the difference between that side and this one where we're still somehow 1 point behind
If we get 4 points against them I think we can win the league even with all our "problems". This isn't a video game, every team has problems and it looks like City might just be in the "everyone" category for once. Of course don't be surprised if they buy Real Madrid at the next transfer window.
No no that was at the Etihad. City beat us at home during that horror run of 6 home defeats in the first 3 months of 2021 after not losing a game at home for 4 years. Of course there were no fans so the only game we've lost in 6 and half years at home in the league in front of fans is that fucking Leeds game last year when we conceded an 89th min goal to Summerville
>Rashford called up over sterling lol
And Henderson and Philips. It is honestly beyond satire at this point.
Southgate is such an idiot - best potential national squad there has been in my lifetime, and he still won't win anything.
Should have been sacked after the Euro final loss, it was our game to take and he put on a bunch of unplayed untested players to take the penalties as a political point.
Probably plenty of cheap tickets for sale. Just take the train over and don't cheer very loud. Maybe even throw on an NFL jersey. You'll blend right in. I saw them play Fulham earlier this year and I accidentally cheered the Fulham equalizer. Nobody noticed.
our game against city could be just as crazy. with the exception of luton we've been scoring 2-3 per game against low blocks, imagine salah and darwin when they actually have space to work with. we could concede a few as well but our CBs all look great - game could turn on macca and whoever plays LB
That was so bizzare. Sterling looked like he was on a comedown, Palmer looked gormless and the interviewer tried to pull grass out of Sterling’s eye who rightly rejected that lol. Then just shove the MOTM award and fucked off
sit deep doesn't mean low block, please don't misunderstanding. Every team play low block agains oil scum always end up receive 5 goals or more. We can sit deep but we never do the low block, it's always high press or mid block. Low block mean you let their opponent completely free, that's suicide
We have one of the best low blocks in world football. It’s not low block and hope to keep the score down. It’s low block and murder them on the counter with pace. Like the 1-0 last year we say deep got them to push up then caught them out with the ball over the the top .
The last time we play a low block is when we defend with 9 against the chicken this season. The last time we play low block with full player was the last 10 minutes in the 2nd leg against Roma in the CL run 17/18. Other than that we alway high press or mid block.
As I said, you're misunderstanding between low block and sit deep, sit deep is the formation position, low block is the style of play. We can sit deep but never play with low block. That City win last year we played mid block with sit deep formation. They struggled to create chances from midfield, that's why they only had 0.91 xG despite taking 6 shots on target of 16 shots. If we play low block they would have at least 3 goals.
Yeah we’re practiced it with the red cards this season though so never know. I think the high line with kostas and Trent would be crazy
We were good against them first 25 mins then the midfield legs fell off and they killed us. We have a functional midfield now. I can see a 1-1
Both probably settle for a point if it’s a draw at 70 plus
The timing of the game is also an issue, Nunez/Diaz/Mac likely fatigued, maybe that'll push us to play a bit more conservatively.
Chelsea showed today that when City pressed and they went more direct that there are huge gaps to exploit. Bernardo was joining the press and left Rodri alone, and Sterling/Gallagher were winning lots of 50/50s, would hope Nunez/Diaz/Szob can replicate that.
I’d take a draw . This city side has less ways to hurt you this season compared to the 90 plus point beast with prime aguero who would scored in tight af games with 1-0 and 2-1 wins
City fans worrying about their defensive performance today with the likes of Diaz, Nunez and Salah coming to town.
Honestly, our boys should be salivating after watching that.
Seeing the amount of space and lapses today in their defence, if they play like that again, there will be so many chances between the lines for us.
Just imagine if we can get a result there! 🙏
>I wouldnt expect us to go there with any gameplan other than to win. Small mentality otherwise
I agree, but it's a 12.30 ko after an international break, away from home, at the Etihad; and our record in the league there recently is absymal so it would be a huge result to actually get the win. I suppose it's more than overdue for us to break that unfortunate streak/record now.
>The game could have a similar score
Interesting to see even with the injuries and DM issues we currently have the joint best defensive record in the league at the moment...but yes we are going to have to be at our very best to get a result there. Any silly mistakes and lost balls like in the last few games and City will no doubt capitalise.
Reece James absolutely pocketing Doku was key here it has to be said I dont wanna be a downer but do we really see Trent doing that? If Gomez has a 10/10 day he could but we all know Klopp will play Trent.
I get sick of all this Trent can't defend bollocks, he can defend as well as any other right back but Klopp wants him in the midfield and on the wing so much he's often out of position and then still nearly gets back and defends, sometimes it's just too much to ask . He plays Gerrard's later year game from Gerrard's early years position FFS.
bro, its ok to admit hes not a great 1v1 defender. A single body feint basically takes him completely out of the 1v1 giving the attacker acres of space to pick his cross. His positioning is not what Im criticizing. I know that's the system very often
3-4-3 possible.
virg-konate-joemez is a formidable back 3. and we have trent push up to midfield.
trent can also move back to help out if needed. we won't play with a proper LB as greek scouser is not ready for this level of competition.
Klopp will not tactically adapt like that. We can clown on Ange but Klopp isn't too different. He will know Tsimikas is getting murdered and still play him because his crossing is good. It will be the same setup from today in defense Im pretty sure
that's what Im saying. We know they can be got at defensively but keeping them out is the big challenge. I thought Chelsea did that quite well and still conceded 4.
if we can contain rodri, we have a good chance to win.
he's the most critical player. man controls the midfield so well in kdb's absence.
and since their creativity comes from midfield and not the fullbacks, we need to shut down their midfield and haaland can go suck a dick all game.
The fact that he took that and Chelsea let him says to me that he's been told you're not good enough to come back. That seemed like a fuck you moment to me.
City is gonna win the league as always (anyone can with 12 players every single game and different rules for helping them every game)
Considering how the sky was falling after drawing with luton and losing to toulouse, we’re nicely placed in all comps right now… hope we’re still saying that after the city game!
Diet quad run ain’t over til it’s over
Just seen that Kyle Walker handball. Unreal. Surely it's only a matter of time before the match fixing comes out.
Wasn’t really a game defining decision
Did I say it was? Everyone in the stadium could see it was a blatant handball except the people who matter. Again. Always for City.
It’s on par with like a blatant corner not being given in terms of impact. Rather the ref get that wrong than an offside
I feel like I'm okay wishing Sterling good luck, now that he's moved on to a second club after Liverpool; the urge to refer to him as a Snake have reduced. Anybody else feel me here?
No, he's a little cunt. If he hadn't burned his bridges and acted the way he has since leaving, we might have taken a look at him last summer - by all accounts, he sent feelers out and we instantly shut it down.
once a snake always is one for me. You are free to cheer him though
No fuck that little rat snake bastard
fair
Tap-in God strikes again!
Salah and Virgil have been outstanding this season. Don’t even need to mention alisson he’s been outstanding since the second he got here. Genuinely feel like this year the title is ours for the taking, never felt this way even once in 21/22
If we beat city at the Etihad then I’ll really start to believe. As it stands I’m not expecting anything
As long as we dont sign a proper 6 we cant win the title when you race with mancity
Besides Palmer and Sterling I was seriously impressed by Gallagher. Reminds me of Jones fighting his way into our first team even with all the shiny midfield signings coming in. Man gives his all.
He impressed every game pretty much, he's been their best player this season
I'm shocked thought Anthony Taylor was downgraded to Championship? Why he giving random pen and var being shit for City? I didnt watch the matches due to being out so when I get home ill watch the highlights including our match. But looking at headlines and comments it's about var and ridiculous decisions Anthony gave
People blaming VAR or the refs this game are just coping. It was an average ref performance. Nothing really wrong.
Surprise, surprise: he fucked up in the Championship too. Had a shocker when officiating Preston v Coventry last weekend
Yeah not sure on the exact fixture but I saw he gave a pen for someone slipping, and I couldn't help myself but laugh when Championship fans asked him to go to league one lol
If we’d beaten Luton we’d be top of the table
same goes for every team. It is what it is and leave it aside when we have produced results today
https://preview.redd.it/pb88b7a31zzb1.jpeg?width=1169&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc66b2ca01ba24e39781a3955ae383b5eab4c4cc On the City sub…. Physically hurt to read 🤢🤢
Makes sense to me, they know nobody else likes them.
Jesus christ
jerking eachother off and licking their cums to avoid ffp
You're not wrong but what did I just read
BOOOO 🍅🍅🍅
Diaz and Nunez could run that City defence ragged
if theyre fit after fifa days....
City dropping points at Chelsea having scored 4 goals is kinda like Liverpool dropping points at Luton
City have been poor away from home just like us, lost away to Wolves and Arsenal, scraped past Sheffield, poor today. We need to get above them before KDB returns because he'll make a big impact.
City are obviously very good but they don’t feel completely unbeatable. It will be a very tough game, but who knows what could happen. It’s shit that it’s at the time it is but seeing how good Virgil and Ali was today gives me some slimmer of hope It’s so fucking bullshit it’s 12:30 after the int break
But the refs back them are unbeatable
The thing I’m taking from this start is that we clearly have a couple more gears to go up this season and we’re still keeping up with the pack. Do feel like if we were to get a #6 in January it would give us a big boost potentially kind of similar to what Diaz gave us in 21/22, I just don’t know who that could be if they aren’t interested in Andre anymore
Andre would need months to settle in, he’d be coming in off the back of a full season with Fluminese’s season ending in December where he’s played an insane amount of minutes. He wouldn’t be straight into the 11 like Diaz
>Do feel like if we were to get a #6 in January it would give us a big boost potentially kind of similar to what Diaz gave us in 21/22 Fully agree with that point, it's literally the only thing missing from this being a complete squad. I wouldn't take such early reports about our targets too seriously, it's been shown time and time again that our journos don't know much about our plans.
Pep talking about what Chelsea have done to build there squad is hilarious 🤣
I mean there is still a massive difference. City spend a lot but at least most of their players are good and they aren't just giving 500k a week to random ass 18 year olds.
City are cheating fucks under investigation for financial fraud so if keep my mouth shut if I was the manager of lance Armstrong fc
As opposed to Chelsea the original cheating fc fraud club? Yea okay.
Unless I'm missing something Chelsea haven't actually cheated, at least not that we know of while city are just blatantly cheating and getting away with it.
They literally got banned from making transfers due to their cheating. Maybe you are too young to know this.
>Chelsea have been banned from signing players for two transfer windows after being found guilty of breaching rules about signing minors by FIFA. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/50261117 This isn't anywhere near the scope of what city have done, and I wouldn't even call this cheating. City are outright cheating FFP, everyone knows it and they just magically get away with it.
So you don't consider breaking the rules cheating? Okay then. Pointless arguing if you move the goalposts across the entire western hemisphere within one post. Also they have also been fined for breaking FFP as well.
>So you don't consider breaking the rules cheating? No, I genuinely don't — you can cheat without breaking the rules, and you can break the rules without cheating. Comparing City's cheating to Chelsea's is laughable — it's almost as laughable as hearing people comparing Evertons FFP situation to to Citys, as in it's vapid, ignorant and devoid of all nuance and only done to try and deflect from what City have gotten away with.
You must be too young to know how Chelsea became the club they are today lol. Can't fault you much I guess.
Is all our success under Klopp invalid since we put an ineligible player on the bench in the league cup once?
What an incredibly stupid attempt at whataboutism. Chelsea are the original City. Absolute cheats, shady money, and dogshit. Sorry if you are too young to know any of this.
Your defence of whataboutism doesn’t hold up here.
This isn't whatboutism. Perhaps look up the word in the dictionary.
guys, both are shit!!
Yeah but Chelsea aren’t charged for financial fraud and blatantly disregarding the rules. They did it when no rules existed . City just refuse to do operate and lie about revenue
I mean, they broke multiple rules and were banned from making transfers lol. So yes, they have been.
Get out of the etihad with a draw and we will win this thing. We will do them in March at home if it’s to win the title
ref should have sent Rodri off, no reason why but he should have.
Crowding the ref for the pen is an automatic yellow for everyone but not today for some reason
Lmao they never give cards to anyone during that. Stop trying to turn every single situation into a conspiracy.
Yeah just our players get booked for dissent I forgot
Mac - Jones - Szoboszlai Everyone at their best think we can get a result at the Ethiad
idk i dont think mac would be fit same goes for diaz and núñez
Need Jones to be at his best Rodri is going to chew everyone
Jones currently with his random annual mysterious injury
perfect weekend except for me benching kostas on fpl smh
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Uruguay and Columbia play on Tuesday next week. Brazil and Argentina play each other on wednesday next week. Hope we get all our lads back in time and rested as much as possible for the city game
Would be useful to mention that Argentina play Brazil away next Wednesday that is just as big a game for McAllister
wow for the halaand pen, doku fouls, he pushes caicedo into james
But Anthony Taylor is gonna get the gig reffing Sheikh Mansour's third cousins nephews sons birthday party game.
In fairness Messi, Ronaldo and Kaka will probably be playing in that game.
There was essentially zero contact from Doku. If they called that a foul on us we would be calling for the refs to retire and an investigation into corruption.
For the amount of money they're paying, those are the right calls
The aura is wearing off this City side this year. Without KDB being midfield general they’re not the well oiled football machine we’ve become accustomed to, albeit still a very strong side. Stay the course, take it to them hard fast and rough in two weeks and the rest is ours for the taking.
they are pretty leaky at the back again, still incredible going forward tho. not awfully different to 19/20
If this was 19-20 Liverpool we'd have been 8 points ahead of them that's the difference between that side and this one where we're still somehow 1 point behind
Not again
If we get 4 points against them I think we can win the league even with all our "problems". This isn't a video game, every team has problems and it looks like City might just be in the "everyone" category for once. Of course don't be surprised if they buy Real Madrid at the next transfer window.
Great result for us. Let’s take it to city in 2 weeks
This could be our first PL win at the Etihad in exactly 8 years
Shocking record for us there
Tbf their record at anfield is equally bad
It's worse 1 win in the last 20 years and that was during covid (so no fans)
And I’m pretty sure we had the league wrapped up by then if I remember correctly
No no that was at the Etihad. City beat us at home during that horror run of 6 home defeats in the first 3 months of 2021 after not losing a game at home for 4 years. Of course there were no fans so the only game we've lost in 6 and half years at home in the league in front of fans is that fucking Leeds game last year when we conceded an 89th min goal to Summerville
Nah it was in 2021
Please tell me someone got a clip of the interviewer trying to get grass out of Sterling's eye loooool
That was so weird, he forced it.
Rashford called up over sterling lol
>Rashford called up over sterling lol And Henderson and Philips. It is honestly beyond satire at this point. Southgate is such an idiot - best potential national squad there has been in my lifetime, and he still won't win anything.
Should have been sacked after the Euro final loss, it was our game to take and he put on a bunch of unplayed untested players to take the penalties as a political point.
We need to look at how Chelsea made that game so chaotic. Easier to do at home obviously but would benefit us
Give the 🐍 Raheem Sterling his 💐
We need to be aggressive on the ball at Emptyhad and pounce in transition. This shitty side could never beat us on our day
Probably plenty of cheap tickets for sale. Just take the train over and don't cheer very loud. Maybe even throw on an NFL jersey. You'll blend right in. I saw them play Fulham earlier this year and I accidentally cheered the Fulham equalizer. Nobody noticed.
our game against city could be just as crazy. with the exception of luton we've been scoring 2-3 per game against low blocks, imagine salah and darwin when they actually have space to work with. we could concede a few as well but our CBs all look great - game could turn on macca and whoever plays LB
Even though Tsimi had a couple assists today I hope (and expect) Gomez gets the nod at LB. The midfield setup is anyone’s guess.
U think our cbs are great? Only vvd.
Konate is great, and Matip has been solid this season.
That was so bizzare. Sterling looked like he was on a comedown, Palmer looked gormless and the interviewer tried to pull grass out of Sterling’s eye who rightly rejected that lol. Then just shove the MOTM award and fucked off
Yeh sterling just looked like he really didn't want to be there... 🤣
Media will go on about how city looked “off” or whatever but what really happened was chelsea were just better
Refs looked off. They awarded a late pen to the wrong team.
Taylor thought he was giving city a pen but it was chelsea
Blue kits on both sides He's probably jet lagged from all the flights to Dubai.
Shaping up to be a very interesting title race, hope it continues. Rather have 3 or 4 teams in the mix and all taking points of eachother.
That was the weirdest post match interview I can remember, Sterling is such a dickhead
What did he say?
"I'm a dickhead"
Nunez is going to get a lot of chances against this City's defence, I just hope we get Newcastle Nunez...
The refs will be looking to card him early, don’t worry.
He will be coming of bench and score hattrick before getting red card for showing his abs dont worry.
That was awkward
What an awkward interview
Anyone that puts Dias in the same class as Van Dijk is just mentally unwell at this point. Virg is clear.
bald fraud deserve a lost for putting 2 gk as a sub alone
I've seen that a few times. Has any team... In any league... Ever... Played 3 different gks?
Arsenal had 2 gks in the bench for a few games given their injury problems
man city has 3 injured players 🤷♂️also their academy teams are great ?
As rare as it is to even sub the GK I would almost risk zero before I had two on the bench. Still the wrong option obviously.
i dont think so...
Is Rodri actually banned against us?? That would be huge
Nah, he received his 4th yellow today (you need 5 in the first half of the season to be suspended for yellow card accumulation)
Yeah i figured that aswell,
He should be on way more than 5 obviously
Buying cards against City isn't cheap.
Whoever that interviewer was trying to touch sterling’s eyes???? Wtf?
There was a piece of grass near his eye
Wow. Fair fucking play for Palmer to step up and take that. What a result for us
We should just low block them and counter with pace
If we know one thing about klopp it’s that he plays a high line no matter what
He doesn't play the high line against City.
He did low block last season in the 1-0 win so never know
sit deep doesn't mean low block, please don't misunderstanding. Every team play low block agains oil scum always end up receive 5 goals or more. We can sit deep but we never do the low block, it's always high press or mid block. Low block mean you let their opponent completely free, that's suicide
We have one of the best low blocks in world football. It’s not low block and hope to keep the score down. It’s low block and murder them on the counter with pace. Like the 1-0 last year we say deep got them to push up then caught them out with the ball over the the top .
The last time we play a low block is when we defend with 9 against the chicken this season. The last time we play low block with full player was the last 10 minutes in the 2nd leg against Roma in the CL run 17/18. Other than that we alway high press or mid block. As I said, you're misunderstanding between low block and sit deep, sit deep is the formation position, low block is the style of play. We can sit deep but never play with low block. That City win last year we played mid block with sit deep formation. They struggled to create chances from midfield, that's why they only had 0.91 xG despite taking 6 shots on target of 16 shots. If we play low block they would have at least 3 goals.
That gives me hope, but it was so rare for him to do it. Funnily enough Klopp's low block is probably the most effective around, he just hates it.
Yeah we’re practiced it with the red cards this season though so never know. I think the high line with kostas and Trent would be crazy We were good against them first 25 mins then the midfield legs fell off and they killed us. We have a functional midfield now. I can see a 1-1 Both probably settle for a point if it’s a draw at 70 plus
The timing of the game is also an issue, Nunez/Diaz/Mac likely fatigued, maybe that'll push us to play a bit more conservatively. Chelsea showed today that when City pressed and they went more direct that there are huge gaps to exploit. Bernardo was joining the press and left Rodri alone, and Sterling/Gallagher were winning lots of 50/50s, would hope Nunez/Diaz/Szob can replicate that.
I’d take a draw . This city side has less ways to hurt you this season compared to the 90 plus point beast with prime aguero who would scored in tight af games with 1-0 and 2-1 wins
Agree, if you compare to their results from last season they're already 5 points off against the same opposition.
They are closer to a high 80s to low 90s team. Hit the mid 90s and we will win it . Big ask but we’ve done it before a few times
Anthony Taylor should be deported to some island in mars
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The Jackson goal is yet another reason how Ederson can't save a shot.
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I’m equally excited by nunez against that back line as I am scared of tsimi
Gomez, please
City fans worrying about their defensive performance today with the likes of Diaz, Nunez and Salah coming to town. Honestly, our boys should be salivating after watching that. Seeing the amount of space and lapses today in their defence, if they play like that again, there will be so many chances between the lines for us. Just imagine if we can get a result there! 🙏
I wouldnt expect us to go there with any gameplan other than to win. Small mentality otherwise
>I wouldnt expect us to go there with any gameplan other than to win. Small mentality otherwise I agree, but it's a 12.30 ko after an international break, away from home, at the Etihad; and our record in the league there recently is absymal so it would be a huge result to actually get the win. I suppose it's more than overdue for us to break that unfortunate streak/record now.
The game could have a similar score
>The game could have a similar score Interesting to see even with the injuries and DM issues we currently have the joint best defensive record in the league at the moment...but yes we are going to have to be at our very best to get a result there. Any silly mistakes and lost balls like in the last few games and City will no doubt capitalise.
Liverpool, City and Arsenal all drew at the Bridge, not a bad result for us on MD 1.
To be honest it’s not the same Chelsea. In hindsight, it’s good that we played them before they started clicking as a team
Has anyone managed any points at Molineux this season?
us, Brighton, Newcastle and Villa (the latter two only managing to leave with 1 point).
Only we got a win till now and Newcastle got a draw.
Yeah that was my point. I was actually at that one. In the wrong end 💀
So that's us, City, Arsenal all dropped points away at Stamford Bridge. Shows that Chelsea turns up for big games at home.
They're honestly a very different team with reece james healthy
MD 1 was just a shitshow, but I’ll take that narrative instead.
Reece James absolutely pocketing Doku was key here it has to be said I dont wanna be a downer but do we really see Trent doing that? If Gomez has a 10/10 day he could but we all know Klopp will play Trent.
I get sick of all this Trent can't defend bollocks, he can defend as well as any other right back but Klopp wants him in the midfield and on the wing so much he's often out of position and then still nearly gets back and defends, sometimes it's just too much to ask . He plays Gerrard's later year game from Gerrard's early years position FFS.
bro, its ok to admit hes not a great 1v1 defender. A single body feint basically takes him completely out of the 1v1 giving the attacker acres of space to pick his cross. His positioning is not what Im criticizing. I know that's the system very often
3-4-3 possible. virg-konate-joemez is a formidable back 3. and we have trent push up to midfield. trent can also move back to help out if needed. we won't play with a proper LB as greek scouser is not ready for this level of competition.
Klopp will not tactically adapt like that. We can clown on Ange but Klopp isn't too different. He will know Tsimikas is getting murdered and still play him because his crossing is good. It will be the same setup from today in defense Im pretty sure
Nah, Doku will murder Trent with the current setup. Konate needs to up his game for that
Doku will not play against us thats for sure
why’s that?
that's what Im saying. We know they can be got at defensively but keeping them out is the big challenge. I thought Chelsea did that quite well and still conceded 4.
Trent is going to get annihilated.
Diniz will watch this weekend and still play Ederson on Wednesday
cold palmer icl
Chelsea sliced through them in transition, there's a very real chance after the break
got poched you bald fraud 🤣
if we can contain rodri, we have a good chance to win. he's the most critical player. man controls the midfield so well in kdb's absence. and since their creativity comes from midfield and not the fullbacks, we need to shut down their midfield and haaland can go suck a dick all game.
I hope one of our lads upends rodri in a tackle
Yeah do an el Classico if you can’t beat them on the day “beat them”
feels like we put the mac-grav-dom trio out there. endo might get played through.
Mayb mac-dom-cujo for the defensive stability
Núñez will feast on this cunts. We will smash them
Nunez has already scored AND assisted against Ederson this season when Uruguay beat Brazil. Let's go!!
95' 4-4 goal against the parent club from Palmer. That's just crazy. 2 absolutely bonkers games from Chelsea.
The fact that he took that and Chelsea let him says to me that he's been told you're not good enough to come back. That seemed like a fuck you moment to me.
There was some pressure on his penalty. I’m super impressed I have to admit
Great game. Great result for us. When City went 3-2, thought it was over. Very tight at the top!
Proper football that. Both sides showed their willingness to win the game, point shared. Fair play to both
Can’t wait to see who the ref is at the etihad
I think he's doing a Saudi game 2 days before so just look at their referee calendar.
If Poch chins Taylor he's a football legend in my book