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Match FA Cup 4th Round - Man City [H] - Friday 26 Jan 20:00

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Richard Arlison said:
Yup

We don’t have a right to beat the best team in the world. We had a chance but it was a free hit really.

Early on in the Ange project and this team is still learning to play together.

Need to get angry and fucking destroy Brentford
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Said heading into the game it was a free hit. Some people won't like it but it was.

We weren't at full strength outside of our defence and that game showed that. We had nothing offensively because we were missing our top goalscorer and our most creative player. Yet defensively, we were pretty solid.

City are a brilliant team. The fact they can bring the likes of Doku and de Bruyne off the bench shows that. They were brilliant tonight.
 
Hampshire Spur said:
I applaud levy that hes taken us to 21st century in business. But annoyed hes allowed us to stop winning trophies. Sort of 50/50 with the bloke. Top 4 is a good season for us.
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I'm more 40/60 because as a football fan I couldn't give two fucks about the business. And being the richest club in London while simultaneously having a trophy cabinet that's been empty for sixteen years is, quite frankly, taking us for mugs
 
Starks said:
Said heading into the game it was a free hit. Some people won't like it but it was.

We weren't at full strength outside of our defence and that game showed that. We had nothing offensively because we were missing our top goalscorer and our most creative player. Yet defensively, we were pretty solid.

City are a brilliant team. The fact they can bring the likes of Doku and de Bruyne off the bench shows that. They were brilliant tonight.
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Hmmm they weren't brilliant tonight...didn't need to be. We'd have lost to a fair few other (lesser) teams the way we 'tried' tonite.

Oh and City had no Haaland. No Stones. Didn't start Doku or KDB or Grealish.
 
anderton46 said:
Both players are entitled to compete for the ball. It's not a free zone for the keeper. Diaz tried to play the ball, and Vicario fucked up.
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Starks said:
Said heading into the game it was a free hit. Some people won't like it but it was.
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They won't like it because it's an absolutely biblically stupid thing to say about a knockout game in the only cup competition we're still in, whilst being at home vs a team who were yet to beat us at our stadium and whilst being very good, are not sparkling this season.

It was never a "free hit" - it was the biggest game of the season so far and a majority on here thought it was winnable.
 
dmize1 said:
Understand the point, but I’ve seen games like that against City for years. And Son would have scored on a quick cut in and curled shot into the corner.

Honestly it’s the only way we’ve beat them.
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I suppose that’s the hope we’ve had under Ange, that we might have a chance winning differently than under Jose and Conte. But we need both the players available and for them to play more boldly, and it didn‘t happen tonight on both fronts.
 
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Starks said:
Said heading into the game it was a free hit. Some people won't like it but it was.

We weren't at full strength outside of our defence and that game showed that. We had nothing offensively because we were missing our top goalscorer and our most creative player. Yet defensively, we were pretty solid.

City are a brilliant team. The fact they can bring the likes of Doku and de Bruyne off the bench shows that. They were brilliant tonight.
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I bet we beat them in the league game.
 
Gazzapen said:
We don't have the depth to go toe to toe with City. Most of us where hoping for 'The Underdog' sucker punch. Just look at their players. Anyone on their bench would walk into our first team.

Doku and De Bruine come on as Subs. Grealish, Stones and Gomez didn't even come on. How do you compete with that when you have to play Kulu, Johnson and Werner? You subs are Madison, Skipp and Scarlett. Even Madison would ha e to fight for game time at city. Let's not even mention the rest Davies, Emerson, Gil and Santiago. Conte, Jose and even Nuno pulled off miracles against City.

Again I ask, being the Deloitte's richest club in London, where does our problem lie? Our riches definitely doesn't lie in our Football Team.
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Yeh, I can't think why we don't have depth as good as City(*)......



















Actually; I can think of at least 115 good reasons actually.

(*No other club does either........ Idiot.)
 
When the media etc go on about our long wait for the trophy they really need to look no further than tonight
Knocked out again by oil financed cheating be it these middle Eastern criminals or the russian ones down the road .

Without the cheating of those 2 clubs we'd have a prem title, a league cup and probably an fa cup
 
Of course the first game they score at our ground, and the first game we don't, is decisive!

The last few seasons it hadn't made a jot of difference (except in the CL) as they've gone on to win the League each time...

Tonight, we're out of a Cup we could've won...

Then again, this year it'll probably be renamed The Jürgen Klopp memorial trophy, and Liverpool will be encouraged and helped to win it...
So we didn't really stand a chance!
 
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