Match Threads Manchester City Vs Spurs

[werty]

the first one was the definition of a counter attack.

It came from us taking a short goal kick.

 

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[Geez]

Haven't seen a stat like that for ages

 

[MB31spurs]

Now beat Burnley!!!!!!

 

[ernie78]

Didn’t watch the game but tracked progress through Twitter. Amazing how many fans take the piss out of a team with “11 players behind the ball” type comments when said team is in a winning position. I’d call that disciplined

Exactly. Look at our game against Ajax - complete mismanagement by them to keep attacking us.
Look at our result at Leicester - they rightly got criticism for attacking us after our equaliser. Yet a team (Us) tries to manage a result and gets criticised. The media are never happy, always need a stick to beat you with.

 

[SandroClegane]

The quality of the build up play ahead of our third goal was something to behold.

StreamGG

Patient and well worked. This team has great potential

That chance Kane had saved by Ederson was incredible build up as well. Some moments of brilliance tonight

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Souness is an idiot. Is he suggesting we play like that every week? Just showing his ignorance

No. No he isn’t. You’re reacting to a post that totally misrepresented what he was saying. He actually said we can’t play like that every week. Don’t let yourself get dragged into that.

But fuck it. If I’m being honest, I keep defending them because people are just outright talking bollocks about it and it’s pointless, some people just plain twist things to put to put the boot in.

Souness has actually been really good tonight and given us plenty of praise. Plenty.

 

[Rosco1984]

all counter attacks start with your keeper or defenders. They were atacking and stayed up the pitch we countered quickly and scored whether it was a goalkick or the keeper throwing it out quickly makes no difference.

 

[felmani26]

Listen, obviously you savour a win like this and not dwell too much on the next game but like it or not, we are much better suited to play against the likes of City than (next up) Burnley.

Need to find a way to change up our game against teams that will cede much more possession and leave little space in behind. If we can find a way from hereon out then we can absolutely battle for that last CL space.

 

[Ray_Evans]

I still can't quite believe it..

 

[glacierSpurs]

This win means nothing unless we win Wednesday

We can also view this as, "the loss to Wolves meant nothing if we can win at City".

 

[rossdapep]

Brilliant ??

 

[Geez]

This win means nothing unless we win Wednesday

 

[SpursSince1980]

City claiming they should have won the game because they had most of the ball and did most of the attacking is understandable but sad. What they need to understand is that, self evidently, our defending was better than their attacking and our attacking was better than their defending, their two goals came from a bad mistake by our keeper and a penalty, they never really broke us down and got through us otherwise.

Yes. Well said. Not sure if I recall the same level of annoyance when Chelsea beat them in the CL final, by playing a very similar tactic.

 

[werty]

all counter attacks start with your keeper or defenders. They were atacking and stayed up the pitch we countered quickly and scored whether it was a goalkick or the keeper throwing it out quickly makes no difference.

They weren't attacking. The ball had gone dead. By your definition every goal scored from open play is a counter attack.

 

[UbeAstard]

I think that should always be a penalty (but no card, as not intentional). However, other handballs have been dismissed this season when the defender's arm has been in an equally "unnatural" position, so it's one that I would always expect to be given against us, but would expect to be dismissed more often than not when it's for us.
The VAR decision to rule out Kane's goal for offside looked very clear cut, even though it looked onside to me in real time, so the ref probably got all of the "key" decisions right.
However, in terms of general game management (letting minor fouls go, randomly adding on extra injury time etc.), it did feel like a lot went in Man City's favour.

I know subconscious bias influences all of our perceptions, but there have been multiple articles over the years that have statistically proven the 'big' clubs get more decisions their way.

Is that because they have more of the ball and play in the oppositions half and penalty area to a higher percentage. I would expect if we had more of the ball and touches in the oppositions area more often decisions would go for us too. If the opposition were in our area to a lower statistical percentage there would be lower penalties going against us (the statistics of officials getting decisions right or wrong would still be the same), and vice versa if we were more in the oppositions area we would have more penalty claims though the statistics of right/wrong decisions would be the same. We had 2 marginal VAR decisions go against us at Southampton's 1-1 draw, no one can complain that it was a 'big' club getting decisions. I think it all comes down to how much you have the ball and the areas where you have the ball.

 

[Cavehillspur]

Ill be watching with my sister in laws fella..... Who's a city fan. Cant wait.

Oh well i fuckin enjoyed that!!!! Antonio Antonio Antonioooooo

 

[tony0379]

Took my boy to the cinema. How did we play?

 

[dannyo]

MNF is all we have for good insightful football conversation, the rest is generic bullshit.

Souness talking about the style of play today, has he not watched how 95% of teams play vs Man City?

How any times have we beaten them using the same template?

I wish English football analysis and general conversation was on the level of other sports.

I listened to Andy Gray and his creepy mate’s after match ‘analysis’, where he murdered Kulusevski’s name twice and then proclaimed that ‘the two Italian boys’ we’d brought in January had played very well today.

 

[fridgemagnet]

If we make our new home a fortress & stop conceding sloppy two or three goals a game, sprinkled with a bit more mental fortitude (fans and players alike) and proper recruitment and backing in transfer windows then we can be very very good next season, that starts with not taking the games like Burnley away for granted.

Please don't take this post as a whinge in the the match day thread as I thought they played very well; I missed the first half (also I hate VAR or at least how it's being used)