Shocking to see that Crystal Palace are much more attacking than us. Making City work while we invited them to completely dominate us at Old Trafford.
Premier League Gameweek 21 (30th - 31st December 2017)
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It's exactly what I thought we'd do in the derby.
It's a feature of Pep's teams because they develop a 'holier than thou' attitude - once you get under their skin, there is joy to be had.
Palace are doing alright, but I thought that it was actually City creating problems for themselves by being sloppy on the ball and inaccurate when passing. Only Sterling to bring on too. Let's see where this goes.
You conveniently missed the pressure that Palace put City under and the City players getting frustrated then.
City's rough patch of form was always going to happen IMO, maybe Palace the start of it. Can see in that half city players moaning and stropping because they aint being allowed to play how they want.
Ref will somehow get the blame if they lose though
Ref will somehow get the blame if they lose though
Roy Hodgson should take de bruyne to the side and give him angry tips...repaying pep training all the english wingers(was it redmond?) teehee
De Bruyne was actually the aggressor, Sané was just yapping back.
So we're all gonna ignore that Palace is doing what the big 5 failed to do..just imagine the storyline the team with the worst record beats the team with the best record.
@GhastlyHun is on of Pep's white knights. As soon as he hears a disturbance in the Peposhere he comes riding into town to defend the honour of his fair maiden.
I guess Palace wants to play football as opposed to Newcastle. 
As if City is not praised enough, every little thing he and his fellow cult members see as a critic of City and Pep they're right here to defend them.
Ref has called some stupid things however, allowing CP to take advantage. Still, I agree with the rest of your post. They definitely look frustrated if not altogether lacking sharpness - especially Sane & Fernandinho. Mangala is the weakest link in the City squad but Ederson should've probably done better on that error inside his box. They miss D. Silva in the middle of the pitch which is where a player like Alexis can help - it's really the biggest/only weakness for this City side.
Shame about Gabriel Jesus as it appeared to be his knee but believe the official word is that it is muscular - seems a bit quick to be so certain
Sterling on soon I imagine
Sterling will come on and spawn a winner.
Seems that way when he makes assumptions after watching 6 minutes of a half and says he seen nothing different.
Apparently from 6 minutes of viewing ‘Palace defended their half well enough and that’s it.’
Very impressed with Palace's positivity. Think City will nick this 1-0 with a deflected strike, as is customary when one is running away with the league. Palace will hit the bar as well.
I going for a 'in off the shin' winner.
I missed the Jesus injury. Did it look bad?
If he's out for an extended period then I think City will go for Sanchez now unfortunately.
If he's out for an extended period then I think City will go for Sanchez now unfortunately.
Looks like he'll be out for a considerable amount of time.
Back by Easter.
Clear push isn't a foul?
Walker very strong today.
30 minutes left, going to be interesting to see the difference between City and us when it really matters. They haven’t been great today, but they just have so many initiatives, clever passes and runs.
Benteke hasn't progressed at all since his Villa days.
Interesting duel between him and Zaha.
Fosu-Mensah in beast mode.
Fosu-Mensah future RB for Utd?
Should have punished City there, loose ball by Zaha
Fosu-Mensah
Why the feck are we stuck with a useless lump like Darmian when we have a perfectly good young player in Fosu-Mensah out on loan...
Can we get a gif of Sane and de Bruyne arguing?
TFM
CP have to do something up front, otherwise it'll be a long 30 minutes of sitting deep.
That has to be a booking.
Yep, that was the ref being an absolute coward.
If that’s a booking then Kante gets booked 7 times a game
There is no point in recalling TFM if he won't get a good run in the side.
What the feck does that have to do with anything?
Sane should be off.
I can't wait to see us play them again, this time with 11 men (I bloody hope). Hopefully VVD will be fit to start too. We may get shat on but I doubt it at Anfield and should be a great game whatever the final result. I'll go for a 3-2 win for us if we have a full strength team.
I think he's saying that would be an incredibly soft yellow. I agree.