Topic: Re: Manchester City 1 vs Liverpool 1 - (Milner (p) 50'; Aguero 69')

[Chris~]

That could have been anything if  not for some really bad finishing from both sides.

Win 6 of the last 9 and I think that's enough for top 4 given Arsenal and United's fixtures.

[JackWard33]

That our attack isn't outstanding and it's stupid to cling to such flimsy stats.

Christ. What on earth do you want?
It's not just goals its echoed by our ExPG

Our problems are defensive and squad depth

[TepidT2O]

Fair result in the end, Can was a monster out there.  Origi has fallen off a cliff.

Can was immense.  Such a funny player... if he was like this all the time.. well!

Gini also excellent..

Two huge misses in the game though...

[rafathegaffa83]

They only have 1 game per week since Feb

You can't play the way we do with pretty much the same staring eleven all the time and for not to have an effect. We started showing signs of being leggy around November/December. It's catching up.

[deFacto please, you bastards]

how this game finished 1-1 I will never know. Both sides should have scored and had 2 penalties each. Having said that, Adam with the worst miss I have seen since Joe Allen at Goodison, miss of the season.

Can and Gini were fantastic, Can in particular with his best performance this year. I think everyone in the back except Ragnar who was very iffy looked solid,.Matip played well as did Clyne and Milner.

Firmino imo should have scored, Coutinho was disappoi ting and Mane so and so.

Ill take the point.

[Paul1611]

Magnificent match, could have gone either way. Tremendous effort to be unbeaten against our top 6 rivals this season

[gerrardisgod]

One of Mane's worst performances for us, poor decision making and overly greedy at times. Not sure how he got MOTM.

Then again, one of the reasons given was his winning of the pen 

[the_red_pill]

Mhhh... think it's a fair result. Can't be too greedy- I mean they are the in-form team in the league and we've been wretched. I would've taken that before the game.

[jillcwhomever]

I suppose so, but then again that's all our difficult games out of the way now. Which on paper should be to our benefit, but usually isn't.

The game we won against Burnley will hopefully turn the tide on winning those other games now. We just have to win as many as we can. The other teams will drop points too.

[tubby]

hes just turned 22, lots of bumps in the road

But he's getting worse.  He's really indecisive on the ball, doesn't use his pace and power and he's not exactly clinical in front of goal.  Think he needs a season on loan where he'll get to play 90 minutes most weeks because it's just not clicking for him at the moment.

[jooneyisdagod]

Criminal miss from Lallana. I love the guy but that was the easiest chance of the game. Nevertheless, we were pretty fucking good. Origi again seems to have lost a lot of speed for some reason. Looked slow and cumbersome when he came on. Coutinho was routinely creating chances or at least sliding a forward player behind the City line. That completely disappeared when Origi came on. I really liked the guy but he seems to be going backward at the moment. Brilliant from Can in the middle. Brilliant from Bobby up front. Mane was great as well. Overall, can't feel too down about a draw at the Etihad of all places.

[Caligula?]

Why did Origi go on the right where his horrible lack of pace restricted him from doing anything of note while Mane looked like our centre forward? 

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

What a miss from Lallana. That separates the good/very good from the very good/great players.

Strange thing to say. I'm shit and could have scored that.

[kennedy81]

Also, Milner is absolutely boss at pens. Took a lot of bottle to stick that away the way he did.

[Upinsmoke]

Echo the can MOTM shouts, was superb. Brilliant athletics and making a good argument to play at the Base

[thekitkatshuffler]

Adam Lallana’s inherent Englishness costs us.  An utterly ridiculous miss.

Big Divvy gave us exactly nothing after coming on.

Emre had a good game, other than leaving Silva completely free 12 yards out, due to him being a bit of a dope.

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Surprised Origi couldn't beat a 29 year old :/

[rafathegaffa83]

Our problems are defensive and squad depth

This. Which is why those should be the areas being prioritized in the summer.

[lgvkarlos]

Thought we played well today.
Lallana's miss,  and Origi being outpaced by otamendi after only being on the field 15 minutes keeps replaying  in my mind.

[peachybum]

That our attack isn't outstanding and it's stupid to cling to such flimsy stats.

Surely that amount of goals we score makes it more than just average or even good. How could we score so many if not?

That being said, our attackers are not in great form. They whole group of them are either picking up knocks, out injured or really low on confidence.

[theMilkman]

Sigh. Lallana, bro. buddy. Mate. Wtf was that?

[clinical]

Origi was quality this time last year. What has happened to him?

[MrRaptorTurtle]

Both teams missed some absolute sitters there, decent and fair result though!

[Red Raw]

Shit.

Should be happy with the point all things considered, but we need to be more clinical with our counters if we are gonna continue with the chaos at the back.

Can was great today.

[proudred]

Lallana should refund his weeks wages, what a miss.Mane was infuriating ,annoying etc instead of passing he holds the ball , instead of dribbling he passes he was poor today.klopp was going beserk at him. For me Milner,Emre can,Matip,Clyne were great today.

[RedForeverTT]

Apart from the finishing, I thought Lallana did very well today. Very impressed with his overall contribution.

Firmino, what the hell has happened to him?

To state the obvious, our bench was so awful there was hardly any options to change the game or inspire confidence. The likes of Lucas, Moreno, TAA, Woodburn, Lovren, Origi is not going to win you games. At the very best it is just fresh legs but at a much lower standard than our first 11.

[Tobelius]

Well earned point for us,could have gone either way. The second half was like watching a Rocky movie,just trading punches with no defending whatsoever from either team,mental.

[jooneyisdagod]

One of Mane's worst performances for us, poor decision making and overly greedy at times. Not sure how he got MOTM.

Then again, one of the reasons given was his winning of the pen 

Neville mixed him up with Firmino I think. Said he gave it for winning the penalty, which was actually Bobby. Don't think Mane was bad btw. His pace constantly caused trouble. What I would do for another player with similar speed.

[sms1986]

Strange thing to say. I'm shit and could have scored that.

In the middle of a Premier League game in front of tens of thousands of people? Probably not.

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

What a great game. That's what it's all about. Two teams going at it hammer and tongs,  both have their flaws but great to watch. No nonsense or handbags. Guardiola gets stick from some but he's a pretty classy bloke.  Refreshing to not have a big game ruined by negativity and histrionics.

Could have won if we'd taken those chances but City can probably say the same. It's a decent result and caps off our brilliant record against the top 6 nicely.

A nice and fair summary that.

Both sides will rue their missed chances. I'm happy we made a point on Arsenal this weekend anyway, from a harder fixture - hopefully we have enough to stay above United, could quite easily make top four from here if we don't balls it up.

[kezzy]

Solid performance, I'd have took a point beforehand but lallana's miss, Jesus wept.  Thought Can, Wijnaldum and Matip where excellent.

[Elzar]

Mane looked absolutely knackered with 15 to go

[MakeUsDream2005]

Also, Can and Wijnaldum were fantastic today.

[Father Ted]

Also, Milner is absolutely boss at pens. Took a lot of bottle to stick that away the way he did.

Weird that he got booed too, he was a solid performer for City and didn't exactly fuck them over when he left. He'd have only been sat on the bench there anyway.

[Funky_Gibbons]

Christ. What on earth do you want?
It's not just goals its echoed by our ExPG

Our problems are defensive and squad depth

Because we're too attacking!! We have three forwards, two attacking midfielders and two full backs as wingers, no other team plays as attacking as us, we should be leading scorers and then some. The fact is out goal difference is the issue.

[xbugawugax]

4th is really out of our hands now.

Not impressed really. When we go 1 up and city looks on the rocks we could have extended our lead. But instead we went back to our shell.

Man u by winning both games in hand going to climb above us now. Arsenal could equal us on points by doing the same.

We all laugh at how shit Man u is but they might be having the last laugh at the end of the season. And that by playing games in Europa as well.

I honestly think we blew our CL chances today.

[Buenasnoches]

I would have took a point before kick off but disappointed now that we didn't win. We're just not clinical enough at times, thought City were there for the taking especially on the breakaway. Thought Can had his best game of the season today and Wijnaldum looked absolutely world class at times.

That bit where Can gave Toure, like, a 10 yard head start and still went past him. That was funny.

[sms1986]

Weird that he got booed too, he was a solid performer for City and didn't exactly fuck them over when he left. He'd have only been sat on the bench there anyway.

He said something about them in an interview last week that they didn't like.

[Wool]

A fair result.

No idea what the fuck Mane was doing for around 15 minutes in the 2nd half, though. Each time he got the ball he just slowed it down for no reason whatsoever and kept breaking up our attacks which helped put City on the front foot. Origi was also pretty bad in his cameo, he seems to have gotten slower.

[stockdam]

What a miss from Lallana. That separates the good/very good from the very good/great players.

Every good player (or great) misses chances.