Race for the Top 4 - 2017/18

SugarRay said:

It’s about combinations and systems. City have a shitload of creative and technically brilliant players. We only have one really.
Eriksen would get an absolute armchair ride alongside the type of players Silva plays with. He’d flourish at City.
It’s one of the reasons why I’d like us to sign one or two really technical and creative players to play alongside him.

City’s play is so sharp and incisive. We have our moments obviously but there’s too many times where Dele or Son can’t trap a bag of cement. Lamela had a similar problem too, he gave up possession quite easily at times.

Sane is an absolute star of a player by the way. For me, he’s well on his way to world class status. He’d improve us hugely

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coys200 said:

City XI | Ederson, Walker, Otamendi, Kompany (c), Delph, Fernandinho, De Bruyne, Silva, Sterling, Sane, Aguero

Funny when you actually look Player for player. For me the only player that 100% walks into our team imo is de Bruyne instead of winks/dembele and I guess walker .Ederson otamendi kompany Delph don’t get in. The rest are all debatable.

Feranandinho over winks/Dier/wanyama not sure
Silva over eriksen not sure eriksen more goal threat imo.
Sterling over dele I’d prob take dele.
Sane over Son. Not sure Son is more of a goal threat.
Kane all day over aguero for me.
Our defence is markedly stronger imo. On paper there really isn’t a massive amount in it.Unless the likes of dele eriksen are vastly overrated?

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Woodyy said:

I love Son but I think Sane is quickly becoming one of the best platers in the league. Also the options they have compared to us is the difference. They can rotate between Aguero and Jesus at will whereas we rely on Kane. Also we seem to rely solely on Eriksen and to a lesser degree Dele for creativity whereas they have KDB, Silva x 2 and then Gundogan from CM who are all "creative" players.

I do agree though that on paper the first 11's (when all fully fit) are pretty even.[/QU
I disagree they have much more movement and are able to break down Park the buss teams. Sane, Auguero, Silver, Jesus, sterling are all quick tricky players you can slide balls into and will get around a tough defense.

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Lighty64 said:

because at the end of the day the players have failed to do it. it's not Poch's fault the passes or shots don't come off.

no matter what player plays in any game, if the ball does fall in the right place, a player can't pass it to the player they want, or hit the cross they want, or guarantee that the keeper will make a save. it doesn't matter how quick you pass it, if 1 of the 10 defenders are in the way.

what's gone wrong this season, compared to last season is failing to get the 1st goal very early, get that then the parkers have to come out

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coys200 said:

It’s honestly very fine margins. Just from memory city have lucked 4 pts late on with with very lucky goals. Today and Bournemouth. We’ve been unlucky v Burnley late goal and say Kane’s effort goes on v Swansea instead of bar that’s an 8 point swing and we’d be right in it. Virtually all the points we’ve lost this season we’ve more or less thrown away. Arsenal was probably only game we were fairly beaten apart from 2 offsides. Maintain with a bit more luck we could be a lot closer.

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Everlasting Seconds said:

Oh my fudge. Close this embarrassing thread and stick only to "The race for top 4 and maybe a trophy", which is exactly the very best we can be close to even dreaming about.

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PeeEyeEmPee said:

the points we've dropped have all been because we were poor, nothing to do with luck whatsoever. there's nothing "fine" about these margins at all.

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SugarRay said:

Please, someone change the title of this! We won't finish within 20 points of City

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noggen said:

Race for the top six.

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