Post Match Thread - Man City (A)

[Col city fan 11,431]

40 minutes ago, Cadno'r Cymoedd said:

I agree. I was driving back from work so could only listen to the opening 20 minutes on 5 live. Interestingly, Murray and Waddle were quite scathing about us in that period with Waddle in particular picking up on Vardy's deep positioning even when we went behind. I say interestingly because in his post match interview, Rodgers mentioned how we did that very deliberately on this occasion and of course it worked out brilliantly eventually. So anyone who was only looking at the opening 25 or so would rightly have been concerned, especially since we have been overwhelmed in most previous games of this type and some of us, me included, underestimated Rodgers tactical insight yesterday. Mea culpa! 

There was no ‘switch’ yesterday

We set out with a game-plan, suffered an early wonder goal, then the plan unfolded and we won

Again, it shows... watch the game, give it time and don’t be too rushed to give it up too soon.

Anyone really watching yesterday ( as opposed to posting on here every five minutes) would have seen we spurned a couple of good opportunities quite early on

Defensively they were WIDE open and this was clear pretty much from the start.

[Ollie93 298]

Castagne is ****ing brilliant isn't he.

[HighPeakFox 11,533]

2 minutes ago, Ollie93 said:

Castagne is ****ing brilliant isn't he.

If you find anyone that disagrees, you've been pretty unlucky.

[StriderHiryu 17,572]

6 hours ago, SO1 said:

Is this guy a moron or what. Handed hundreds of millions of pounds and world class players. Practically any one he wants. And he complains about us. Maybe someday he'll actually have a tenth of his budget and have to try and build a team that competes in the most difficult league in the world. Week after week. Talk about having things handed to you on a Golden platter.

Hear hear! I’m glad to see his arrogance showing himself up. He’s such a bad loser and is rarely complimentary - when Kompany scored that screamer to win them the title he was extremely disrespectful to us even though we played very well and had that Nacho chance late on. 
 

Playing against the counter attack is frustrating and we know what it’s like ourselves as plenty of teams do it to us too. But he’s got one of the best budgets in the league to sort it. They went one up in this game early on from a world class goal scored by a player they signed from us! 

 

It says it all that after 400m spent they conceded three penalties from three separate players who each made the same basic mistake. 
 

Glorious salty tears!

[Babylon 29,007]

24 minutes ago, Mint23 said:

Have any of the Monday papers lead with the headline Maroon 5???

You know they always go with the angle on the big teams. So it will be Marooned 5

 

 

[gw_leics772 1,306]

13 hours ago, fuchsntf said:

I am the General of the "told ya so..Devils brigade"...

Nice feeling being an Happy clapper...My W.Chair went in a spin, & did 5 wheelies....!!!

I'm visualising a herbie goes bananas/chitty chitty bang bang version of your wheelchair, with a mind of its own 🤣🤣🤣

[Danizen 2,340]

The missus watched the Man City documentary with me a few months ago (she's got a bit of a thing for Pep). She knows just how good De Bruyne is. Ten minutes from time she said, "I've not seen the blond one at all". I told her that he was playing. She said, "I know, I've just not seen him do anything."

 

Testament to the job we did on one of the best players in the world. Mendy and Youri didn't give him an inch and Man City suffered.

[Dahnsouff 5,752]

Monday, work time.

Working at home, two monitors connected.

1st  monitor, work stuff, 2nd monitor, full match on replay.

 

[AKCJ 15,297]

32 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

There was no ‘switch’ yesterday

We set out with a game-plan, suffered an early wonder goal, then the plan unfolded and we won

Again, it shows... watch the game, give it time and don’t be too rushed to give it up too soon.

Anyone really watching yesterday ( as opposed to posting on here every five minutes) would have seen we spurned a couple of good opportunities quite early on

Defensively they were WIDE open and this was clear pretty much from the start.

In the opening 25/30 minutes? No don't think so.

 

We had all 11 men behind the ball and were extremely press-shy.

 

After we weathered that storm we gained confidence from a couple of counter attacks that should have surmounted to more (Barnes tackled by Garcia following long Tielemans pass and Justin passing in between Vardy and Barnes to Ake) and of course the goal that came about from brave play from Mendy (the type of turn that if he was tackled we would have been ****ed).

 

Following from that we pressed Man City in everything they did and they couldn't handle it.

 

Praet, Tielemans, Mendy and the two full backs were positionally superb in their pressing and off the ball running.

 

We won the game because we deviated from the tactics used in the opening half hour, not because we continued with them.

[Cadno'r Cymoedd 1,707]

41 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

There was no ‘switch’ yesterday

We set out with a game-plan, suffered an early wonder goal, then the plan unfolded and we won

Again, it shows... watch the game, give it time and don’t be too rushed to give it up too soon.

Anyone really watching yesterday ( as opposed to posting on here every five minutes) would have seen we spurned a couple of good opportunities quite early on

Defensively they were WIDE open and this was clear pretty much from the start.

Did I say that there was a 'switch'? No. 

[Col city fan 11,431]

5 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

In the opening 25/30 minutes? No don't think so.

 

We had all 11 men behind the ball and were extremely press-shy.

 

After we weathered that storm we gained confidence from a couple of counter attacks that should have surmounted to more (Barnes tackled by Garcia following long Tielemans pass and Justin passing in between Vardy and Barnes to Ake) and of course the goal that came about from brave play from Mendy (the type of turn that if he was tackled we would have been ****ed).

 

Following from that we pressed Man City in everything they did and they couldn't handle it.

 

Praet, Tielemans, Mendy and the two full backs were positionally superb in their pressing and off the ball running.

 

We won the game because we deviated from the tactics used in the opening half hour, not because we continued with them.

Don’t agree

We didn’t deviate, the plan unfolded. We gained confidence in it (by seeing we could hit on the counter) and the rest was history 

[Vlad the Fox 2,399]

15 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

Don’t agree

We didn’t deviate, the plan unfolded. We gained confidence in it (by seeing we could hit on the counter) and the rest was history 

This is it. There was two or three times in the first half before we scored where we opened them up down the left with Barnes. Better control, touch and or decision making and we’d have been in. 

[foxfanazer 13,309]

1 hour ago, Col city fan said:

There was no ‘switch’ yesterday

We set out with a game-plan, suffered an early wonder goal, then the plan unfolded and we won

Again, it shows... watch the game, give it time and don’t be too rushed to give it up too soon.

Anyone really watching yesterday ( as opposed to posting on here every five minutes) would have seen we spurned a couple of good opportunities quite early on

Defensively they were WIDE open and this was clear pretty much from the start.

Loving this new holier than thou persona Col. Not like you've ever been involved in match threads talking out your arse

[pazzerfox 577]

Rodgers got the tactics spot on.  We grew into the game very well, despite going down to 10 men!  Great decision not to play Peres!

[HighPeakFox 11,533]

8 minutes ago, foxfanazer said:

Loving this new holier than thou persona Col. Not like you've ever been involved in match threads talking out your arse

Why get personal fella? What he said was right on this occasion. None of us is always right.

[Aleksz 223]

6 hours ago, Lineker's Lugs said:

Glorious result.  Vardy's pens used to worry me - he just used to blast them and it seemed a bit random if he'd score or not.  Now, he's far more precise and I have complete confidence in them.  If anyone can can discover the secret of eternal youth I'll pay them a king's ransom to only reveal it to Jamie, thought it seems he might know it anyway.

 

Not sure if I should be surprised or not that no pundit has likened his second today to the goal v Germany. You'd think they would see the parallels but no.  Further evidence they are all stealing a living.

 

So happy for Mendy too, and great to see Amartey back and putting in a solid performance, suspect it will be him and Cäglar v West Ham.  

I thought this. Not even Gary Neville who was on the England coaching staff that night.

[foxfanazer 13,309]

2 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Why get personal fella? What he said was right on this occasion. None of us is always right.

Its not personal in the slightest. @Col city fan has always been one of my favourite posters. We all talk out of our arse at some point.

 

It's fine saying it was right last night, no arguments there but it's fair to say the first 20 minutes we looked poor and could've conceded another which would've taken the game away from us

 

 

[Aleksz 223]

9 hours ago, Vardinio'sCat said:

So, what was our shape in the 2nd half?

 

The second coming of Daniel Amartey appeared to be in a sort of right half position when we had goal kicks, and just in general play really, with some success. Was he the CB that pushed into midfield when we had the ball, or what?

 

I struggled to work it out. Not that it matters as much as the result.

Was just on goal kicks from what I noticed. Brendan was keen to mention we were going a little more direct from goal kicks so I think the idea was for him to just step up for those and give us an option to win the ball with no real height in midfield or forwards.

[HighPeakFox 11,533]

1 minute ago, foxfanazer said:

Its not personal in the slightest. @Col city fan has always been one of my favourite posters. We all talk out of our arse at some point.

 

It's fine saying it was right last night, no arguments there but it's fair to say the first 20 minutes we looked poor and could've conceded another which would've taken the game away from us

Could have, would have, agreed. But didn't. We were pressed back, sure, but I suspect it was a response to what happened last time, and perhaps there was an instruction to wait and see. Who knows, but it became apparent to me fairly quickly that things were going to be ok.

[Hales 1,049]

Noticed pep pinging that elastic band on his wrist frantically at one point, that is one very stressed out man!

[st albans fox 8,472]

2 hours ago, Babylon said:

You know they always go with the angle on the big teams. So it will be Marooned 5

 

 

Airbrushed JJ out babs ? 

Edited 28 September 2020 by st albans fox

[PrecociousFox93 57]

9 hours ago, Sunbury Fox said:

Not even a competition. Vardy 108 in 214 games, Drogba 104 in 254, including several years where he was clearly playing for the best team in the league. 

Totally agree. Both exceptional forwards but there’s no doubt who’s record is more impressive.

[justfoxes 1,693]

It was asked when we beat Man Utd 5-3 what time is it? 
 

well This time it’s definitely 5 past Man City !!

[foxes_rule1978 3,484]

1 hour ago, Babylon said:

You know they always go with the angle on the big teams. So it will be Marooned 5

 

 

Vardy is decent 

[Bablemikey 200]

52 minutes ago, Hales said:

Noticed pep pinging that elastic band on his wrist frantically at one point, that is one very stressed out man!

Yeah, but it's a measure of the man that he has already developed a strategy to deal with us next time we meet.

Apparently unless we let them score more he's gonna take the ball back & tell his mum.