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Match Threads Man City vs Spurs - Match thread - Carabao Cup Final 2021 - KO 4:30pm

Match Prediction

  • We lift our first Trophy in 13 years

    Votes: 124 38.9%
  • We lose out on another Trophy

    Votes: 170 53.3%
  • Cannot make up my mind

    Votes: 25 7.8%

  • Total voters
    319

fishhhandaricecake

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Nov 15, 2018
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If we are not expected to win, why not just go out and play with Bale, Ndombele, Lamela, Dele, Bergwijn. Give it a fucking go. Losing 1-0 today in such a flacid manner is worse than us playing with some hope going forward with our attacking talents and lost 5-0. Makes no difference in a cup game. This is what pissed me so much.

I said before the game we had better win this because Mason will not be spared from the decisions he made in the lineup. His subs made it even worse. The players we had in Ndombele and Lamela sitting on the bench and yet the two donkeys of Winks and Sissoko were playing. Unforgivable.
Oh yea mate completely agree. Think Mason got it completely wrong which isn’t surprising given his experience but yea we should’ve just had a go, no difference in losing 4-1 to 1-0 and that 1-0 today should’ve been 4/5 anyway and we didn’t have barely a shot.

Kane and Son surely want out
 

Rout-Ledge

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Jul 29, 2005
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Nobody expected us to win today. But we expected a positive lineup and giving it a good go. We didn’t get either. That’s the problem. There’s not a single positive to take from today. Zero.
 

C0YS

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Jul 9, 2007
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Yeah cool. But a couple of points. Firstly it's a cup final and we hadn't scored, so yeah we needed a goal. Secondly, both Winks and Højbjerg were still on the pitch when he brought Sissoko on. Is Bale such a drain on our defensive side of the game that we needed another holding midfielder? It was a poor substitution, an awful call to make in a cup final bringing on a guy who can't keep the ball, can't pass it, looks to hide from receiving passes, rarely wins a tackle, goes asleep on defensive set pieces. Basically a 6'2" coward who has let the team down time and time again.
Mate, seriously bringing on Bale on was simply the wrong decision to begin with, but yes, we needed to retain the same balance, absolutely. This is a team with 30 wins in 33 games, like they can and will rip you to shreds.

It's so bizarre how many managers continue to trust Sissoko in football games really considering how crap fans think he is. It might have been the wrong decision, but it is absolutely defensible.
 

Guntz

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Aug 15, 2011
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£50m Ederson - top 3 GKS in league

£50m Walker - best RB in prem or close
£50m each Dias & Laporte 2 of best CBs apart from VVD
£50m Cancelo - one of best FB’s in league

£50m Rodri or Fernandiniho - world class holding miss
£30m KDB - best player in Orem
£30m Gundogan - one of best CM’s in league

£50m Sterling - top player
- foden - world class talent
£50m Marhez - incredible player

Then on bench likes of:
£50m Mendy
£50m Stones
£50m ake
£30m Bernardo silva
£30m Torres
£30m jesus
£30m aguero
*figures are very approx but all those players are big money signings*
It’s basically cheating. Absolute joke how good their team and squad are. ? ? ?

How did 10 man Leeds manage to beat them just the other week then?
 

Barrd10

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Aug 25, 2013
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We tried but this club will win nothing under this ownership. ENICOUT
They’ve won a League Cup in their tender! All that only 20 years. Though weirdly their “investment “ is now worth billions....... I am not sure they care about anything else.
 

SargeantMeatCurtains

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Jan 5, 2013
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I have no issue with criticising Mason. I think the Lucas sub was embarrassing. It felt entirely pre planned regardless of how well Lucas was playing. As it was, Lucas was comfortably our biggest threat going forward. The fact we’ve taken off our best attacker and GLC who was growing into the game for Bale and Sissoko because Aurier needed his hand held was amateurish and cost us the game. Don’t get me started on our third sub.
 

DannyNZ

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Jul 3, 2017
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Need Nagelsman desperately. Need a style of play. Can't win anything if you go sideways and backwards every cup final. We made the club proud against city away and Ajax away in the champions League by going for it.
Agree we need a footballing style of play and then the players to play it.
 

fishhhandaricecake

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Nov 15, 2018
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Man C are a very good side but they’re not unbeatable. Look at Leeds last week, turned them over with 10 men. If you don’t pressure them then you’re leaving yourself open for a world of pain. We played right into their hands.
Yep again completely agree, think tactics were wrong and we should’ve given it a go like Leeds etc did and showed how you can beat them if you go toe to toe, that’s the only real way.
 

ackie

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Dec 29, 2005
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Jose would have started Sissoko and kept Bale on the bench
Mate, you are a football man - tell me please, really help me understand, just what did Bale, Alli and Winks (90 mins) offer in our final today?
 

glacierSpurs

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Sep 28, 2013
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I don't understand what you mean by not given the chances Glacier? Surely the players create their own chances by running themselves into the ground and closing down like their life depended upon it? Leeds managed it.
I was replying to a post saying we didn't turn up. We couldn't even turn up when the better players are on the bench leaving the mediocre and weak ones playing/being subbed in.
 

SirHarryHotspur

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Aug 9, 2017
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Tbf our performance was toxic how can you be in a final a real rarity for us and not even really try and win.

Very true , didn't make much of an effort in Madrid either under Poch, think it was about the 80th minute before we had a shot on target , that final was also lacking in passion at least we had a yellow card today.
When we had a couple of breaks on today we just couldn't make the right pass.
 
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