*** MAN CITY v SPURS *** Official Match Thread

[Flatters]

my personal opinion...

For Now!! O'hara Huddlestone Lennon and Malbranque should be our midfield. Lennon as an Attacking midfield!

Zokora and Jenas, thank you for your services and occassional goals and MISSES! Your off in the Summer

You're an idiot.

 

[si_yidarmy]

i think the morale of the story is, we need new players, get rid of majority of the old regime signing. Including that Benter up front

 

[KentuckyYid]

I'm struggling to think of any positives to come out of this game.

Robbo should have at least moved for both their goals instead of standing in one spot.
Was Zokora even playing?

Nobody stood out for me as a worthy MOTM.

 

[si_yidarmy]

New Keeper
Three new midfielders
One new Striker

Bloody bent. Whenever he comes on i never want to watch the rest of the game. Even if he scores

 

[Marty]

We weren't better than City, but there's no way in hell they were better than us.

Both linesmen got one decision horribly wrong. One gave City a goal and the other denied us a goal, but a draw would've been the fair result.

We looked a bit tired (as expected), Jenas had an off day (but one bad game doesn't make him a bad player), and why the hell did Ramos take Lennon off at half time? If he wasn't carrying a knock it was a very strange decision.

Bent tried very hard, and scored a perfectly legit goal, but taking Keane off was also not the wisest of Ramos' decisions. But now Keane will be fresher for the Chelski game.

Not worried about Keane's tantrum. He always reacts badly to being subbed, and he had played well and scored a great goal so I can fully understand his frustration. Just as long as he doesn't hold the grudge, which I'm pretty sure he doesn't.

Chimbonda worries me. He must be the most one-footed player I've ever seen in my life, much more so than Lee or O'Hara, at least the latter two occasionally pass the ball with their 'wrong' foot! Having said that he did very well to expose Corluka and find Keane for the goal, and his defending was good for most of the game apart from a few attacks down his side where he just backed off too much and allowed the opponent space.

 

[JKD76]

I'm struggling to think of any positives to come out of this game.

Robbo should have at least moved for both their goals instead of standing in one spot.
Was Zokora even playing?

Nobody stood out for me as a worthy MOTM.

One positive is we most probably wont see such a poor perfomance two games on the bounce.Im very confident of a good show wednesday night,and given the choice would rather have got this showing out of the way today.
There was obviously some bad luck about the result,alway

 

[Marty]

Anyone who blames Robinson for not moving for the first goal is an absolute knob. First of all, Ireland was clearly offside, and secondly, there were two or three Spurs players who could and should have picked him up.

The second goal was strange. Dawson and Chimbonda should have had the situation fully under control, but Onouha somehow managed to sneak in. The header was very powerful, but I must admit I do think he should've reacted to that one. Still, he's hardly to blame for it.

At least he came out and collected a few crosses today! Vast improvement!

 

[DFF]

Than Zokora who runs into a wall and gives the ball away too much

This is a player who had ~60 passes with a ~95% accuracy rating last week.

I'll agree that Jenas can blow hot and cold, but Zokora has really come on the second half of this season.

 

[camaj]

Can't blame robbo, he was brilliant for most of the match. The defence was all over the place and we gifted city chance after chance but managed to scramble it away. Dawson should have been marking the first goalscorer and Chimbonda was useless for the second.Yes robbo should have moved but both were pretty much in the net before he had a chance to react.

Our problem today was sloppy defending from the whole team not just the back 4. I think there was a lack of clinicalness up front too. We had several chances and ended up stalling and then having to attack a full compliment of defenders

 

[KentuckyYid]

Anyone who blames Robinson for not moving for the first goal is an absolute knob. First of all, Ireland was clearly offside, and secondly, there were two or three Spurs players who could and should have picked him up.

The second goal was strange. Dawson and Chimbonda should have had the situation fully under control, but Onouha somehow managed to sneak in. The header was very powerful, but I must admit I do think he should've reacted to that one. Still, he's hardly to blame for it.

At least he came out and collected a few crosses today! Vast improvement!

Other than the two goals he did ok, however the two goals are what counts.

Regardless if Ireland was offside or not you play to the whistle and I stand by he could have done better for both the goals. If he had dived down to his right it wouldn't have gone in but he stood still.

I'm not one for blaming Robbo and usually stick up for him. Today I feel he could have done better for both their goals and the replays back that up too.

 

[Marty]

KY, I'm not disagreeing about the second goal, he should have moved for that. But I don't think he would've reached the first goal even if he had dived.

 

[truespur]

today would of been perfect to try someone like taarabt, someone who can open the opposition up

 

[KentuckyYid]

KY, I'm not disagreeing about the second goal, he should have moved for that. But I don't think he would've reached the first goal even if he had dived.[/quote]

I guess we'll never know as he didn't attempt to save it. If he had dived it might not have gone in and even if it had, he would have at least tried.

Like most of us 'I want our Robbo back'. The Robbo of old might have saved both those goals.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

Chimbonda looked eager for the first half and started the second looking in good shape, then faded away.

The narrow midfield/wingback system was much more obvious today, relying on Hutton and Chimbo to take charge of the wings and get much further forward and i thought both of them worked really hard. We took our foot off the gas on about 50 minutes and then it started to go a bit pear shaped.

I'm starting to think if we're not concentrating too much on attacking play and not enough on out and out defending - we're still looking frail when we need to defend a lead, even with Woodgate doing a grand job of tidying up when needed.

 

[Marty]

I guess we'll never know as he didn't attempt to save it. If he had dived it might not have gone in and even if it had, he would have at least tried.

Like most of us 'I want our Robbo back'. The Robbo of old might have saved both those goals.

I think the old Robbo is coming back slowly but surely now. As I've said, he looked confident in the box for the first time in ages. I do partially agree with you as I'm the sort of fan who always wants to see the keeper try to get the ball even if it does look like a lost cause, but I do seriously doubt that he would've got the first goal anyway. The second goal he might have got a finger onto.

 

[TheChosenOne]

Worryingly shit second half, the fuckin commentators on sky were lovin it, they must have mentioned about 20 times that we drop a lot of points from winning positions.

I'm glad someone else noticed this, I actually turned the commentary off at half time and watched in silence -Parry & Gray had so much negative output they were getting on my fucking tits, the usual British thing when teams win something - knock them down.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

I'm glad someone else noticed this, I actually turned the commentary off at half time and watched in silence -Parry & Gray had so much negative output they were getting on my fucking tits, the usual British thing when teams win something - knock them down.

Jamie was on fanzone again today, but i was on and off the phone so had it on mute for a lot of the second half...

 

[truespur]

Jamie was on fanzone again today, but i was on and off the phone so had it on mute for a lot of the second half...

yeah, he was not really pleased with jj or bent today

 

[nightgoat]

thats it blame it on the officials

It's not like we wasted several clear cut chances and blamed the pitch, they had a clearly offside goal given, and we had a clearly onside goal not given... Clattenburg is always rubbish for our games - at one point today he told Caicedo he'd book him next foul, so about 30 seconds later when he fouled Jenas I think it was, just told him to calm down...

Has nearly everyone forgotten we played 120 minutes in another country on Wednesday? I don't think our substitutions did us any favours, but today we lost because we didn't get any luck...

On the plus side, Chimbonda played really well after missing the penalty on Wednesday... :clap:

 

[SpurSince57]

We weren't better than City, but there's no way in hell they were better than us.

Both linesmen got one decision horribly wrong. One gave City a goal and the other denied us a goal, but a draw would've been the fair result.

We looked a bit tired (as expected), Jenas had an off day (but one bad game doesn't make him a bad player), and why the hell did Ramos take Lennon off at half time? If he wasn't carrying a knock it was a very strange decision.

Bent tried very hard, and scored a perfectly legit goal, but taking Keane off was also not the wisest of Ramos' decisions. But now Keane will be fresher for the Chelski game.

Not worried about Keane's tantrum. He always reacts badly to being subbed, and he had played well and scored a great goal so I can fully understand his frustration. Just as long as he doesn't hold the grudge, which I'm pretty sure he doesn't.

Chimbonda worries me. He must be the most one-footed player I've ever seen in my life, much more so than Lee or O'Hara, at least the latter two occasionally pass the ball with their 'wrong' foot! Having said that he did very well to expose Corluka and find Keane for the goal, and his defending was good for most of the game apart from a few attacks down his side where he just backed off too much and allowed the opponent space.

I'll take a flying guess that it was not entirely unconnected with the fact that his passing was pretty dire. I'd say barely half of them found their mark. There weren't that many of them. either.

Chimbo more one-footed than Diaby? Never! :grin: