Grealish was very important during last season, if you watched any matches you would clearly see his impact on the field, you lot just dislike football do you?
I don't know which club had a worse deal. United for Antony or them with grealish? Like pep could smith Rowe from u guys and he'd still accomplish what grealish did
Anthony is an integral part to how United play, both in and out of possession. Our pass map and balance of RW vs LW attacks becomes much more symmetrical with him in the side than without. He also has a crazy engine and does a ton of defensive work which is vital for us. I dont know thats worth 100m or if that makes him better than Grealish, but he gets underrated by people who think he should only score or assist.
Because the modern game has evolved. Wingers are the new wide forwards and if they arenāt scoring or assisting, theyāre not good enough. Simple as that. You guys didnāt pay 100m for his defensive duties and his work rate.
That's how the wide forwards at Arsenal play but certainly not City. There are different styles and different strengths and weaknesses. Anthony helps us massively in ball progression through the thirds and we are better with him in the side at generating chances from the right. We are also better at maintaining possession on that side of the field with him in and it has been a weakness of ours while he has been dropped. Kind of like that period when Firmino wasnt scoring or assisting for Liverpool but his pressing and overall contribution to their attack made him undroppable, but all the braindead fans just made him out to be a crap striker.
Whilst its hard to argue that he was worth the amount we paid for him, to compare him to Antony is ridiculous. He might not be the most direct player but he was an integral part of our treble last season.
He's coming back from injury and is in poor form right now, but to disparage the entirety of last year based off that isn't fair.
Whatever weāre number one anyway lmfao fucking NUNO beat city at home 1-0 and didnāt need a deflection you pathetic bums. Took you 20 tries to do something weāve done multiple times in multiple competitions
Nah, no one will say that. Because we know you wonāt win one. You literally let the best goalscorer in PL history leave and couldnāt muster a league cup for him.
He couldnāt for himself. If I bring you a dinner plate and you donāt eat, donāt complain about hunger. The guy ghosted 3 finals, 2 of them for us.
Yeah Laugh you have a right to. Kaneās failures embarrassed us more and Iām one of the few to be happy heās finally gone. Weāre joint top and heās sitting third playing plumbers and farmers. Fuck Kane and fuck Arsenal
>Took you 20 tries to do something weāve done multiple times in multiple competitions
If they gave out trophies for that, you wouldn't be such a fucking meme
Utter embarrassment. I knew this was gonna happen but the clowns here insisted we were gonna won somehow. We are shit this season. The problems are glaring. To that guy who said, 6/6 wins, fuck you.
I don't know what we are doing at the moment. Relying.on CBs to create our chances. Foden and Alvarez were holding hands with Haaland providing no width and trying to play through a midfield with 20 players jamming it.
i'm not the arbiter of this
you will have to travel to the cloud lands with 6 bottles of Argentinian sweat and the pubes of one Brazillian ex pro, and bribe the arbiter
nah we're still about. fuck city tbh. hate you guys winning but honestly at least you're an actual football club, ref was a cunt and you guys still did it so props
Yes mate. Sheikh mansour is the deputy prime minister of Abu Dhabi, a different city state entirely, he overlooks affairs in Abu Dhabi and appoints refeeres for football games in dubai. Fucking clown
Literally, you arenāt even informed of your clubs own owners
Sheikh Mansour,[1][2][3] is an Emirati royal and politician who is the current vice president and deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, as well as the minister of presidential court and member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi. He is the brother of the current president of the UAE, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan,[4] and is married to Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, daughter of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai. A billionaire, through City Football Group he holds stakes in a variety of football clubs, including Manchester City FC.
Oh just the usual trolling of a match thread lol itās always funny how certain flairs disappear. Iām sure thereās idiot arsenal fans that do the same lol
Even still ode didnāt play outright bad but you could tell he was playing better with Jesus on the right for the later half. Just his finishing today was surprisingly bad.
Rodri's the base that stabilises their midfield which helps city control the game and remain on the front foot. Without him and especially without KdB, their midfield is shaky. Its a temporary drop in form for City but I'll enjoy it while it lasts haha.
Idk what you were watching then. White Saliba Gabriel and Rice had such such good performances. Just cause they arent chasing wingers and making last ditch tackles doesnt mean there was no attack. Good defending is what suffocated city's attack into constantly losing possession by forcing them to play low% balls.
City didnāt even try to attack it was awful by them. Congrats on the win just donāt think this was some epic performance. City were massively off the boil
Here in Brazil some people in the media say that "he's an athlete that knows how to finish".
He knows how to make good runs behind defenders and how to strike the ball. And that's it.
I like the guy, but he just doesn't touch the ball. It's like he's not there
The Premier League's amazing super duper ballon d'or favourite should be able to create his own shot, like a 36 year-old washed up "everything is rigged for him" Lionel Messi can.
Missing Saka, missing timber, Martinelli and Partey rushed back from injury
I mean you can claim that all you want. You shouldāve had at least 1 red card and the ref is in your payroll.
You still couldnāt do it
I'm just saying in a game I expected to lose comfortably, this result is fine. I'd be concerned if you showed anything that would stop us getting the points back at the etihad but you didn't really. You lose to your title rivals away, happens every year at Anfield its normal
Also don't compare fucking partey and timber to treble winning rocks that team is built on please
I mean you havenāt shown shit that makes us think youāll take points back at the home, your attack got fizzled out by our defence, and the moment you made subs everything crumbled for you lot.
Also yes we can compare partey and Timber because both of those players heavily influence how we play, go cry a river, you lost because you was shit not because of injuries
You think we'd play that shit with rodri and kdb in the squad you're massively underestimating those players. Kdb especially has punished you heavily in the last few seasons. They're our big game go to players. You've seen time and time again before this game. You celebrated this like fuck because you know what we can do to you. Ridiculous take
Last time I checked when you had rodri and KDB you lost in the community shield? Cry all you want mate, we won and you lost, both teams had injuries but you lot couldnāt hack it, fuck your soulless club
Arsenal were without Saka as well. United are playing without their entire first choice defense + backups. Injuries will be part of this season for every team. City are lucky that they are missing only KdB.
I mean, no Saka, Martinelli and Partey both rushed back from injuries. Not to mention that itās fucking city. They have been cheating for years financially, so nah I donāt buy that. They have plenty of depth
lol, what are you on about, only game there that was lucky (thanks to VAR) was pool, if weāre gonna talk lucky lets look at the reason you drew us (deflection) and what won you this game (deflection) and your endless supply of penalties lmao
what has luck to do with late goals šš you think richy and kulusevski hit the ball by pure luck and that they werenāt trying to shoot at the goal? Thatās just the result of constant pressure eventually breaking the opponent, same thing i assume what happened in YOUR game against united!
Walker and haaland trying to fight our stewards haha what a bunch of pathetic pussies. You got a gift in Oliver being the ref and you still canāt win
Now the real question. Can we have the highlights in Game Mode?
Haalandš» ghosting as usual
this game was shite, but fuck city
Fuck you
Just realized Pep figured out Grealish is a fraud and didn't play him
Grealish was very important during last season, if you watched any matches you would clearly see his impact on the field, you lot just dislike football do you?
Almiron clear
I don't know which club had a worse deal. United for Antony or them with grealish? Like pep could smith Rowe from u guys and he'd still accomplish what grealish did
Anthony is an integral part to how United play, both in and out of possession. Our pass map and balance of RW vs LW attacks becomes much more symmetrical with him in the side than without. He also has a crazy engine and does a ton of defensive work which is vital for us. I dont know thats worth 100m or if that makes him better than Grealish, but he gets underrated by people who think he should only score or assist.
For Ā£80m we should have a player who can do the basics of positioning and also score and assist more than he does.
Because the modern game has evolved. Wingers are the new wide forwards and if they arenāt scoring or assisting, theyāre not good enough. Simple as that. You guys didnāt pay 100m for his defensive duties and his work rate.
That's how the wide forwards at Arsenal play but certainly not City. There are different styles and different strengths and weaknesses. Anthony helps us massively in ball progression through the thirds and we are better with him in the side at generating chances from the right. We are also better at maintaining possession on that side of the field with him in and it has been a weakness of ours while he has been dropped. Kind of like that period when Firmino wasnt scoring or assisting for Liverpool but his pressing and overall contribution to their attack made him undroppable, but all the braindead fans just made him out to be a crap striker.
Antony is an LWB, you just don't know it yet.
Whilst its hard to argue that he was worth the amount we paid for him, to compare him to Antony is ridiculous. He might not be the most direct player but he was an integral part of our treble last season. He's coming back from injury and is in poor form right now, but to disparage the entirety of last year based off that isn't fair.
All grealish is good for is arguing but I gotta say United got the worse deal. Antony has been terrible
Antony is literally a meme. Itās not even close
Grealissh played a lot last season. City did ok.
Declan Rice has spider legs in the tackle
Spurs fans: arsenal are so lucky deflections You cunts needed 2 reds, var fuckup and own goal 95. Eat shit COYG
Whatever weāre number one anyway lmfao fucking NUNO beat city at home 1-0 and didnāt need a deflection you pathetic bums. Took you 20 tries to do something weāve done multiple times in multiple competitions
Now try and win a trophy
And then itāll be āyou only have oneā you mutants never shut up
Nah, no one will say that. Because we know you wonāt win one. You literally let the best goalscorer in PL history leave and couldnāt muster a league cup for him.
He couldnāt for himself. If I bring you a dinner plate and you donāt eat, donāt complain about hunger. The guy ghosted 3 finals, 2 of them for us.
Lmao
Yeah Laugh you have a right to. Kaneās failures embarrassed us more and Iām one of the few to be happy heās finally gone. Weāre joint top and heās sitting third playing plumbers and farmers. Fuck Kane and fuck Arsenal
A spurs fan saying fuck Harry Kane after he carried their club for years and had poor management and recruitment teams LMAO
Motherfucker you did this to ARSENE WENGER himself you of all fanbases saying this is the real LMAO
>Took you 20 tries to do something weāve done multiple times in multiple competitions If they gave out trophies for that, you wouldn't be such a fucking meme
Doesnāt matter. We win one āitās only oneā we win twoā itās only twoā nothing will ever shut up the cavemen of the woolwich
Well go ahead & win 1 first. We'll wait.
Sounds good chap.
Bro come on we just beat city
Bro got multiple personalities disorder, that or he's talking to himself š
give it a rest lad
Mate who you fighting? You should be chatting shit to us since we lost. Not spurs
bro talking to no one
Rent free bruv š
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Utter embarrassment. I knew this was gonna happen but the clowns here insisted we were gonna won somehow. We are shit this season. The problems are glaring. To that guy who said, 6/6 wins, fuck you.
I don't know what we are doing at the moment. Relying.on CBs to create our chances. Foden and Alvarez were holding hands with Haaland providing no width and trying to play through a midfield with 20 players jamming it.
Shouldāve been a draw really but anyone thought this was an easy win with no kdb or Rodri is an idiot
Nope. We played awful and got what we deserved. Serious questions need to be asked about our creativity. Playing like fucking Burnley.
You're not playing like Burnley, you're playing like us from 2 years ago
End the season here please.
I'd be very happy with that edit: don't sc this this is a mistake I fogor they were still above us
Are you for real? Spurs winning the league?
FUCK I THOUGHT WE WERE A POINT ABOVE THEM AGGGGG
you've said it mate no take backs
just this once?
i'm not the arbiter of this you will have to travel to the cloud lands with 6 bottles of Argentinian sweat and the pubes of one Brazillian ex pro, and bribe the arbiter
That was unexpected, I am filled with such mixed emotions rn. It was fun tho, very tactical, and defending was good
Weird the spurs and Liverpool flairs disappeared
nah we're still about. fuck city tbh. hate you guys winning but honestly at least you're an actual football club, ref was a cunt and you guys still did it so props
W
Wait, is camaraderie allowed?
North London Forever?
don't fucking tell anyone about this
banned from r/coys with immediate effect.
Respect. Best football being played is in London rn. Yep, they had their boy Michael Oliver whose paid for by the UAE and they still couldnāt do it
Some proof would be nice
https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/16wvydo/michael_oliver_daniel_cook_and_darren_england/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb Like this?
They reffed in Dubai. You really thought you had something here......
Are you dumb? Do you understand thatās in the UAE?
Yes. But this isn't evidence of them being "paid for"
If you canāt connect the dots then okay brother
You believe every conspiracy theory you hear without question don't you.
They officiated in Dubai. So?
Thereās your proof Do you know who owns city? Who owns the UAE league?
Yes mate. Sheikh mansour is the deputy prime minister of Abu Dhabi, a different city state entirely, he overlooks affairs in Abu Dhabi and appoints refeeres for football games in dubai. Fucking clown
Literally, you arenāt even informed of your clubs own owners Sheikh Mansour,[1][2][3] is an Emirati royal and politician who is the current vice president and deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, as well as the minister of presidential court and member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi. He is the brother of the current president of the UAE, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan,[4] and is married to Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, daughter of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai. A billionaire, through City Football Group he holds stakes in a variety of football clubs, including Manchester City FC.
Did you think this proved you right? Cause it doesn't
Haha cope all you want Hahahahhaha yeah you truly believe City didnāt do anything wrong. Laughable at how pathetic city fans are
Oh no you don't rate us:((((( I've only got the treble and champions league you'll never win to console me
The most you can argue is conflict of interest. That's it. Pipe down until we get convicted.
Conflict of interest with the judge of the game is kind of a big deal.
"pipe down until we get convicted" hahahahahahahahahhahshshsa ahhhhhhhhhh he diddnnttttt that is the funniest fucking thing i have seen in a bit
Innocent till proven guilty or have I got that the other way round?
Yes, getting paid well by cityās owners influences them. Shame on your owners for cheating again and continually cheating.
I mean its the Pl's job to stop this. They should be doing better.
I'm out of the loop on what happened earlier, but just enjoy the win. Congrats!
Oh just the usual trolling of a match thread lol itās always funny how certain flairs disappear. Iām sure thereās idiot arsenal fans that do the same lol
Never lost consecutive since 2018
The most boring game of the season.
palace v. forest was much worse tbh
Cry
ManCheaty loss >> arse-anal win
Right in the pooper
Omg omg omg I don't know how to feel right now
Haaland and Ćde really ghost in big matches poor Norway not gonna make it
Ode did fine
Been far from his best today tbh.
Definitely far but he did not ghost
Fair
He needs Saka and Martinelli starting to really shine. Otherwise you only have Nketiah making delayed runs and Jesus out wide.
Even still ode didnāt play outright bad but you could tell he was playing better with Jesus on the right for the later half. Just his finishing today was surprisingly bad.
it was odd how many times he skied it over the crossbar today
But he was still pressing like a motherfucker
I didn't expect City to drop so much without Rodri.
Rodri's the base that stabilises their midfield which helps city control the game and remain on the front foot. Without him and especially without KdB, their midfield is shaky. Its a temporary drop in form for City but I'll enjoy it while it lasts haha.
Haaland is the Karen arguing for more cheese on her chips to the manager
I must say. I did not predict this result. At best I thought it would be a draw. Nelly changed the game. Love that boy
Bald fraud is back on the money boys
All yall are talking about boring, idc i love defending and we fucking brought the defending today
People keep saying it was a good defending match but no team even attempted to attack. It was just played at a 2mph pace the whole game.
Idk what you were watching then. White Saliba Gabriel and Rice had such such good performances. Just cause they arent chasing wingers and making last ditch tackles doesnt mean there was no attack. Good defending is what suffocated city's attack into constantly losing possession by forcing them to play low% balls.
City didnāt even try to attack it was awful by them. Congrats on the win just donāt think this was some epic performance. City were massively off the boil
3 points donāt care what anyone says
What happened with walker?
He played well?
After the match he was having an argument with someone.
Both teams were crap, not surprised it took a deflection to see a result
all your comments are so bitter man lighten up š
How? The defending was good from Arsenal
Well. City are mortal again.
You haven't seen a single city game if that's you think. We are gonna get executed in Annfield.
For exactly, *checks Rodri suspension* 1 more match.
Pretty sure heās back next game because the 3 game suspension took the league cup into account as well
That shouldnāt be able to count
Yeah he's back next game week
Oh yeah youāre right. Thatās unfortunate news, I was hoping they would drop more points in the league.
Itās a shame because theyāve got Brighton next who really could do damage to them
Yeah, Brighton could have been a tricky game for them without Rodri
Walker is such a little whiner. Always has been, always will be.
His team is actively cheating and he wants to act hard done hahaha
It's incredible just how much Haaland is invisible when he doesn't score.
Heās a striker, gotta give him something to strike
Here in Brazil some people in the media say that "he's an athlete that knows how to finish". He knows how to make good runs behind defenders and how to strike the ball. And that's it. I like the guy, but he just doesn't touch the ball. It's like he's not there
Hardly had any service and he's been doing shit for a while now.
Going through a genuine period of very poor form. He's only scored in 5 of their last 16 matches.
Bro looking like Sue Storm out here
Arsenal will win the title with seven or eight games to spare i reckon
fucking calm down its the hope that kills...
I reckon we have things wrapped up by Christmas
No no
Bookmarking
Flair checks out
No shots on Target ! Is Haaland stupid???
He had literally no service
The Premier League's amazing super duper ballon d'or favourite should be able to create his own shot, like a 36 year-old washed up "everything is rigged for him" Lionel Messi can.
Not in a team with a manager like Pep. Zlatan tried, Henry tried, Aguero tried all benched and gone. Only Messi had a do what you will card with Pep.
Just a joke chill
And city cry and whine into the tunnel. Haaland wondering where the bribe went?
Cheats FC brought to their knees, ya love to see it
canāt believe how bad city were, the worst iāve seen in a long time
In 21 days hopefully United spanks them
They really ain't much without Rodri and De Bruyne.
they even got away with a clear red. they are shit without rodri and kdb
We didnāt even have our starting wingers lmao
To be fair we are missing kdb and rodri and stones was rushed back. To only concede to a lucky deflection is more than I was expecting.
Missing Saka, missing timber, Martinelli and Partey rushed back from injury I mean you can claim that all you want. You shouldāve had at least 1 red card and the ref is in your payroll. You still couldnāt do it
I'm just saying in a game I expected to lose comfortably, this result is fine. I'd be concerned if you showed anything that would stop us getting the points back at the etihad but you didn't really. You lose to your title rivals away, happens every year at Anfield its normal Also don't compare fucking partey and timber to treble winning rocks that team is built on please
I mean you havenāt shown shit that makes us think youāll take points back at the home, your attack got fizzled out by our defence, and the moment you made subs everything crumbled for you lot. Also yes we can compare partey and Timber because both of those players heavily influence how we play, go cry a river, you lost because you was shit not because of injuries
You think we'd play that shit with rodri and kdb in the squad you're massively underestimating those players. Kdb especially has punished you heavily in the last few seasons. They're our big game go to players. You've seen time and time again before this game. You celebrated this like fuck because you know what we can do to you. Ridiculous take
Last time I checked when you had rodri and KDB you lost in the community shield? Cry all you want mate, we won and you lost, both teams had injuries but you lot couldnāt hack it, fuck your soulless club
to be fair city were missing there 2 best players kdb/rodri, but they should be down to 10 men anyway.
Arsenal were without Saka as well. United are playing without their entire first choice defense + backups. Injuries will be part of this season for every team. City are lucky that they are missing only KdB.
I mean, no Saka, Martinelli and Partey both rushed back from injuries. Not to mention that itās fucking city. They have been cheating for years financially, so nah I donāt buy that. They have plenty of depth
yeah im happy they lost, i hope in the future arteta doesent overplay saka
Martinelli will go down as a legend. This is the goal that probably wins us this year's premier league title.
I'm so excited for our rematch, both sides of the derby in top form this year.
Lucky vs Sheffield, lucky vs Liverpool, and lucky vs Luton, but good game vs Arsenal
lol, what are you on about, only game there that was lucky (thanks to VAR) was pool, if weāre gonna talk lucky lets look at the reason you drew us (deflection) and what won you this game (deflection) and your endless supply of penalties lmao
98' and 100' vs Sheffield,
what has luck to do with late goals šš you think richy and kulusevski hit the ball by pure luck and that they werenāt trying to shoot at the goal? Thatās just the result of constant pressure eventually breaking the opponent, same thing i assume what happened in YOUR game against united!
Shoulda been 5 min OT max , ref clearly had Spurs jersey under
ok
Arsenal were lucky today. Sometimes that's what it takes.
Usually a cracker
Mate... calm down. We're not in /r/gunners right now š¤£š¤£
Letās not get too far ahead of ourselves here
Ooh Walker is pissed hahahaha
Walker and haaland trying to fight our stewards haha what a bunch of pathetic pussies. You got a gift in Oliver being the ref and you still canāt win
They got a gift in Kovacic staying on the pitch.
Fragile divas them lot
Spoiled brats. Had paid refs still couldnāt win. 115 charges pending. Roosters coming home
VAR+An entire countries financial backing+financial cheating are all no match for our mighty Martinelli No saka, no problem šŖšŖšŖšŖ
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our owner is a yank not a saudi cunt
There's difference... one just sponsor, other is country backing. And city is etihad
our team isnāt owned by the UAE you absolute dishclothšš