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Match Man City v TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR; Saturday 19th February; KO 17:30
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What I saw was a brilliant negation of City's strengths - flowing, incisive football taking fearful advantage of open spaces. A defensive line of 5 (sometimes 6) by Spurs, with well-executed movement of two to the ball, wherever it went on the wings, and some sterling "being in the way" from the 3 (or 4) in front of them.
It wasn't possible to keep City from scoring - 1 goal. For all their shots, twiddly bits, patience, and (ahem) genius players, they were stymied time and again. If no for Lloris' fluff, may have been zero. And of course, as they pressed forward, we had the opportunities to break out and score. Which we did, brilliantly, more times than three. It was a clinic of sorts.
But it wasn't parking the bus. That assumes a solely defensive hold-a-point stance. What Spurs were doing to City was different. Absorbing and rebounding. My TV signal went out at 76 mins and never came back. Watched the highlights on the interwebs later - that at least relieved me of worrying that City might score a 3rd in waffle time
It wasn't possible to keep City from scoring - 1 goal. For all their shots, twiddly bits, patience, and (ahem) genius players, they were stymied time and again. If no for Lloris' fluff, may have been zero. And of course, as they pressed forward, we had the opportunities to break out and score. Which we did, brilliantly, more times than three. It was a clinic of sorts.
But it wasn't parking the bus. That assumes a solely defensive hold-a-point stance. What Spurs were doing to City was different. Absorbing and rebounding. My TV signal went out at 76 mins and never came back. Watched the highlights on the interwebs later - that at least relieved me of worrying that City might score a 3rd in waffle time
Amazing result. City fans must HATE us.
Looking forward to watching MOTD later on.
COYS.
Looking forward to watching MOTD later on.
COYS.
You’ve missed it , we were first on . 7:25 start
Agree. I find it hard to argue against us being the better team on the day. We execute the most important parts of the game better than they did. Doesn’t matter how much you have the ball if you do fuck all with it.
What I think it did show more than anything else was our increase fitness levels Conte has brought us. There’s no way a team could concentrate and then continue to play the way we did for 100 minutes without being amazingly fit.
Yeah I need to Iplayer it later when I get home.
Waiting for the other half to get ready for breakfast…….
Had a view twitter views of the goals / reaction etc. It seemed like an epic night.
Might have time to visit the bi polar thread of madness and self harm/ doubt. . AKA the top 4 thread.
Thanks for clarifying. You have no answer so turn to abuse.
Having a skim through Blue Loon. Apparently its Kane's fault for not having a spine and forcing his way out of the club last season.
Tbf - this was how it went - yay!
" Nooooooo! How? How? Every time! Every time we play this shit team we concede counter attacking goals! Every time!" - City fan
I need some vinegar with all that salt
If not for Lloris' brilliance, it may have been more goals for Man City.
They had four shots on target. Despite all their dominance, that says it all.
We had 5.
The time I assumed was because it was nearly 92 mins before Mahrez took the penalty and they took the seven from there.
Or Taylor wanted them to score, so let them have four separate passages of play.
I think quite completely understates how good the bloke was yesterday.
His best performance this season in any shirt.
The definition of "plastic" right there
Their goal was their first shot on target.
It's funny, watching live I was permanently bricking it, every time they were around our area I was imagining the net bulging, but watching the half-hour highlights it all looks a lot more under control.
Massive credit to all concerned
You say that, but Mourinho and Nono both oversaw wins against City. In much the same fashion.
I'd have cracked up if Spurs official wrote Yid army over and over
Spurs have just done the double over City.
Spurs have just done the double over City.
So good I had to say it twice.
I want Harry Kane's children.
I'm sure he'd like to keep them tbh.
Make no mistake about it, their players are far more gifted than ours when it comes to ball control, passing and creativity. They have 2 full starting 11's that can play proper football better than us and they can do it against much better teams than us.
You don't beat City by going toe to toe and playing them at their own game. You best City by figuring out where they're weak and taking advantage of it. They play a very high backline, their game plan is to have everyone in the opposition half and keep the ball. If they have the ball, then they can't concede. They will absolutely dominate possession for this reason.
To beat them, you have to be absolutely error free for 90 minutes without the ball. You have to keep your shape, you have to reduce them to what they're weakest at, and then, on the rare occasion you get the ball, you have to use it.
Mourinho had it figured out and won. Nono had it figured out and won. Conte has it figured out and won.
It certainly helped we didn't have the coward Winks on the pitch or the donkey Davinson doing his best impression of Zoolander.