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Sat, 07 April 2018

The Brown Bull

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Great comeback! Great to spoil the bitter blue party .
Take a bow lads , that’s the reason I love football and have followed United for nearly 50 years.
Sanchez had his best game for us.
Another amazing save by DDG.
Keep it going now lads.
 

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Gotta say though, I know he assisted Pogba but the question still remains, what is Sanchez doing?
He made a massive difference today and scored a nice goal in the last game.

Since he came these are the only two times anyone else in the entire rest of the team has looked like they want to do anything too. In the other games Sanchez was chasing and trying to move forward while everyone else did nothing.
 

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The crying was because of the massive inferiority complex the fanbase have.

This is probably the best attended game in their whole history, their stadium was genuinely full rather than being 'officially' full while having empty seats everywhere.

All because they could win the league against United. A lot of hearts were broken tonight.
 

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It's a shame this little blip of City's didn't come a few months earlier. Would have been interesting to see how they coped with the pressure when there was 10 games to go.

Title may have been back on.
 

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Just hope Spurs can delay their celebrations for another week. Then the pressure might get to them.
 

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Just hope Spurs can delay their celebrations for another week. Then the pressure might get to them.
Hope, poch takes what we and Liverpool did great and stuffs it down city's throat.
 

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We aren't good enough to try be conservative
We might as well go with the approach we had in the second half

Play higher up the pitch, go for attack and make use of the options we have in attack rather than rely on a defence which probably needs 3 out of our back 5 replacing

We have been in losing positions against Chelsea, city, palace in recent times and kinda in a 'fck it lets go for it' position
That's where we have seen our best stuff

Plus we have ddg in goal, think we can just rely on him
 

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Incredible comeback. Was so good to see the players show some heart and then go on to show some fire later on too. Certainly looked like it was going to be embarrassing at one point.

The main thing coming out of this for me is that I feel like a lot of those players needed to know what that feels like and how much the fans appreciate it.
Great post, especially the second point.
 

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Today this team has shown character. Something you would very rarely see post Fergie.

Game of two halves - we were a bit off the pace in the first but turned it around in the second. Delighted with that and our form since New Year, bar of course some hiccups on the road is really consistent and good.

Of course the game itself didn't matter in terms of the title this year, but it was nice boost both for the fans and the dressing room.
 

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I was going to another town to celebrate a friend's birthday, but found myself a watering hole to watch the match in while my wife went ahead to the party. She joined me for the first half, and part of me was a wee bit tempted to say "feck it", and just nevermind the second half, but I really wanted to see how this game went, if nothing else to see whether we would lie down or if we were going to make City work for it.

Can't say I would have attributed more than 1% confidence to us beating them 3-2, but feck me if that wasn't what we did... I certainly felt vindicated for bothering to watch that second half :drool:
 

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It's a shame this little blip of City's didn't come a few months earlier. Would have been interesting to see how they coped with the pressure when there was 10 games to go.

Title may have been back on.
It would certainly have made for a more interesting end to the title race. All said and done, today was a special kind of victory for this team.

One, it's another of a few comebacks that show a team's growing fortitude. Mental strength has been a big issue for a while.

City getting so far ahead in the league has led to over the top gushing from the media. Then Pep's attempt at mind games And of course two goals up today and it was already insufferable. From the sporting side and beyond it felt so good to see all of them have to eat their own sh*t

:keano:
 

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It would certainly have made for a more interesting end to the title race. All said and done, today was a special kind of victory for this team.

One, it's another of a few comebacks that show a team's growing fortitude. Mental strength has been a big issue for a while.

City getting so far ahead in the league has led to over the top gushing from the media. Then Pep's attempt at mind games And of course two goals up today and it was already insufferable. From the sporting side and beyond it felt so good to see all of them have to eat their own sh*t

:keano:
Its been really hard to bear.

Pep inherited a very good squad and has spent of £400m to bring in about 15 players and everyone seems impressed that he is winning the league?:confused:
 

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Its been really hard to bear.

Pep inherited a very good squad and has spent of £400m to bring in about 15 players and everyone seems impressed that he is winning the league?:confused:
Yup. Just too much Mancini did a very respectable job with City. It was not pleasant seeing them win the title then, but I never felt the depths of annoyance I have now.

As for the bold, the sheiks started setting City up for pep a good season and a half before he arrived. Didn't Pellegrini come out and admit disappointment in the transition, how the club hierarchy knew Pep was inbound for a while?
 

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Once the first goal went in,I know we are not letting City win the tittle there,we need to attack more like we did in the second half.
We showed lot characters and this come back win should give lot of confidence to the lads for the upcoming season.
 

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During the broadcast, right after 2-0, there was a close up of SAF sitting in the box beside David Gill, with an easily predictable expression on his face. Was there any similar shot of him, or even better, some reaction or comment after we turned it around?
 
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I'm currently travelling, so I missed the game because of the time difference, but what a result to wake up to! I don't think I have ever watched the entire 90 minutes of a game I have missed, but I will probably do that for this one.

Besides spoiling the party for City, which is great in itself, I hope this result will serve as a real morale and confidence booster. Both for the remainder of this season, but more importantly going into the next one.

Let's secure 2nd and take home the FA Cup!
 

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Just as well Sterling was on the end of those chances in the first half, that boy couldn't finish his dinner! Great turn around, great win. They'll likely be out of CL and have Tottenham next in the league which could pile some pressure on the messiah that is Pep.
 

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Just imagine if Aguero also scored the winner. Tbh, had that thought when he was in.
Just thinking, they will now be worried that they won't have coverage of them clinching the title. They could win it against Spurs, but if not it could be Swansea I think. Who is showing those games? They will be sick if BT nab the winning party.
 

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Mourinho masterclass... Sort of. Hah.

I had this gut feeling he'd pull out a miracle, it just felt right that after all of the Guardiola ball sucking that has gone on this season that we'd be the ones to put a savoy through their doughnut. Enjoy that you blue shite.
 

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