How were City today? 1-0 at home to Brighton doesn't look very impressive?
Title race : January fixtures (from GK 17 to GW21)
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Listen to the latest United Hour Podcast episode here. In it, Ashwin and Nik discuss a league topping win over a typically battling Burnley. In the match analysis we review our wealth of midfield options, Pogba's regeneration, how Harry was robbed by VAR, that the ref is not a Friend and Bailly's rebirth.
They also discuss how Liverpool heroically vanquished the Villa under 8's team and in a preview of the 'Bout to knock the other team out', what midfield to play at Anfield. There is also much praise for Ole's management and tactics.
Thought the two were Villa at home and Everton away
Very poor. Brighton played really good progressive football and probably deserved a point.
Brighton was their gamweek one game just like our match against Burnley.
They're playing Villa normally throughout the next 6 games fixtures.
Brighton have been playing well against pretty much all top sides this season and they still lost against all of them.
Well were better team across the game but sounds like Brighton had a right go in the second half, shame that Sterling penalty miss wasn't punished but still a spirited showing
Pretty certain their first week one was Villa at home but sure someone else can put me right if not
Yeah I'd rather support them than shit like Burnley though thats for sure.Brighton have been playing well against pretty much all top sides this season and they still lost against all of them.
I'm sorry, seems you're right :
https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...tball-news/aston-villa-man-city-news-19545285
Pretty weird, I always thought it was Brighton.
I don't how Burnley fans even enjoy football to be honest. Watching their team must be a torture.
Agree they are better than those teams, but they are being made out to be brilliant again when they arent they limped through tonight.
I don't really think there has been a team this season I can see "brilliant". It's a matter of grinding as many wins as possible.
I'm fancying 8 points from our next 4 games and I'm also thinking the same for Liverpool. City will win all theirs and be on top just.
But I think they will stutter plenty more times this season. So I’m while they might come close I’ll be disappointed if we don’t push them.
They weren’t great.
I wonder if any team are actually playing great football at the minute? I didn't see the United game yesterday but we've been good/efficient in the past month or so with some very nervy finishes. This season will be a marathon I think.
True
But I refer everyone to City's run-in in the 2018-19 season where they rattled off a string of 14 boring yet solid wins enroute to winning the title ahead of the European champions. My main worry is that their defense holds constant throughout the season to enable this kind of run, despite their relatively anemic offense.
Given the circumstances of the game (opportunity to go top, added motivation for Burnley to stop that) i thought we were very professional yesterday with the spine of the team (two CB's, two CM's and CF all being very impressive)
Good point. Solid defence takes you all the way.
Yeah just had a look in the PL fixtures book and this week should have been Fulham v Utd and City v Brighton
Well they aren’t. We are.
Not without a striker it doesn’t.
Jose will roll over for Klopp and hand him three points gift wrapped.
Exactly, the table does not lie. For these first 17 games, we have been the best of a 'bad bunch', although not by much.
so I presume you are thinking
Liverpool a DRAW
Fulham a WIN
Sheff Utd h WIN
Arsenal a DRAW
City seemed to grow out of the game! The commentary was the usual Pep love-in anyhow, talk of some changes being "strange" but with the inference that he's a genius. I also recall some "credit to the player & credit to Pep" comments about Stones coming back from the wilderness. Remember the last time you heard that about a United player? No, they always find a way to frame it negatively or use it in the agenda against whoever our manager is.
Yes that's what I'm thinking. Arsenal have improved and I don't think we can beat Liverpool at Anfield so I'm hoping for a draw to be honest.
We have to beat Fulham and Sheffield United. These are the games we must collect all points in as I don't overly fancy our chances against the big teams based on the lack of wins and goals against them so far. We have 18 more points to play for against the big 5 and 45 points from the rest of our games. If we have ambitions of winning this league, it may be possible on a tally of points in the low 80s, we just need to become more efficient in front of goal and hope the other teams keep slipping up... It's a very strange season so far but if City and Liverpool manage to go on a run like last season I feel we don't have enough quality to stay in a chase.
Theyre playing exactly how they did weeks ago if we take Chelsea result to the side. Theyre still too rigid going forward but are relying on a defence over performing that let Leeds etc score those goals earlier on.
Bringing Jesus on to play left wing was bizarre, when they had Silva/Mahrez playing as a false 9 and Sterling also on the bench. He promptly gave the ball away 3 or 4 times in his own half trying to do stuff which would be fine higher up the pitch, where he usually plays.