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Not a good performance but the final 20 minutes was pitiful.
Same thing we have seen all season. We just do not create enough away from home. You cant rely on clean sheets every week.
Disappointing, but I think this is the week the title race turned. If we keep performing like that it will be over before we get to the Etihad.
No way we win this title. I'm sparing myself the pain and pulling out til next season. Hopefully Arteta will have moved to Spain or Portugal ( and taken Gronky the Donkey with him).Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
I cant see it. We're just not good enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
Rubbish, they?re a top 10, in form side, this was always going to be a big ask.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
We had two great chances to win it and just didnt take them, fine margins.
Gabi has to score and quite why Rice rolled it across to Gyok I don?t know.
4 points clear, 12 to go
A top 10 side....... **** me, Wes.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
That's half the ****ing league!! :-(
That last 20 minutes was awful. All over the place and couldn't string two passes together. Constantly at risk. And we snatched one chance on a scrambled counter attack.
If those are the standards we are setting then we haven't got a ****ing prayer.
City will win the title with at least 2 games in hand.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
Game management mode, again. I'm ****ing sick of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
One nil up and then decide to shut up shop.
We only actually turned up for 20 minutes either side of half time.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Apart from that we were ****e. Not sure it is even game management mode. We just weren't good enough to control the game.
I could call them a top 7 team that is challenging for a place in Europe if you like, Peter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
They are a good side in very good form. For 40min we were poor with Eze anonymous. We played well from 40 min on especially 2nd half with Ode back and looked likely to score a second and put the game away. Rice really had to score there. Then they equalised and it all got very disjointed again, possibly because we were getting desperate to ge the winner, which Gabi should have.
Certainly too wide open during that period, credit to Mosquera and Rice for some last second defending.
Point is a decent result, especially at their place with the players that were missing from the first 11.
All this doom n gloom is typical on here after we drop points. Still favourites imo.
They are a good side. The trouble is we seem to have forgotten what it takes to win the league. You have to beat good sides. You have to eb better than them.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
Last night we scored a goal, created a half chance that Rice passed up, and created one chance at the end for Martinelli. Other than that, I cannot remember so much as a half chance or even great situation. There is your problem, and it has been all season.
Top of the league, most wins, best defence, best set pieces, best goal difference......
But we are seventh when it comes to goals scored away from home. Even Spurs have scored more than us.
There is your problem. And it isn't getting better.
Last night wasnt a slip. It is just who we are. We have to operate on incredibly fine margins away from home because we simply do not score goals.
It is going to cost us the title unless City continue to fall over themselves.
And even if it doesn't, it needs fixing. It isnt good enough.
A point gained, I think. The good news is that of our remaining away games - most are in the bottom 6 of the league.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
So were Forest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
Also, how did we end up with 3 away matches in a row?
One of those is Spurs ffs. Spurs with a new manager bounce.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
Wolves, Spurs, Brighton, City, West Ham, Palace.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I'd be surprised if we win half of those.