***Official - Manchester City V Sunderland Match Thread***

[chips]

The one thing I noticed is that when we were 3-1 down, it was like SOME the players lost belief, like they thought 'forget it we've lost now' so the drive was not there, but as soon as balo got the second, then kolarov the third, the belief came back and we really went for it, but ofcourse it was a little too late as kompany said in his post match interview. I'm not criticising the players as I do genuinly love our squad (no matter how frustrating they can be at times) but I think they should never accept defeat. It can be hard as many of us thought it was all over aswell, but with that belief look how well they play! If they start every game with that passion and belief, the premier league would be a walk in the park. We can still win this, there are still enough games and I honestly see the rags dropping points. COME ON CITY!

[Swales4ever]

two poor defending situations opposed to their superb defending focus. definitely Mario and Edin not at their spark and Silva very positive but also very few accurate at passing (for what he can) but ehy, as much as I hate to claim for the fortune... we definitely are not lucky by late! at least when you compare the Chelsea deflection with all the great but also very lucky deflection/ clearances/sweepings the Black Cats' defenders have had inside the box.
a special mention to the great performance by Kolo, at least since he and Micah thought to the tgea cup few seconds earlier.

I believe, tho. we played well going fwd... we still can do IT"

COME ON CITY!!!! COME FROM BEHIND AGAIN!!

do you like it when they come from behind?

cheers

No I don't, what about You, darling?
cheers

i don't have the experience to judge. I suspected you had though. Duly noted.

cheers

p.s. i really hate today. who's with me?

p.s. I started loving you few while ago and you deffo caught me when introduced to the yacht rock classics!
just stop to be so PiC, because as much as I share your hate mood tonight, I wouldn't bear a further lesson on PC by BiB.

cheers inexperienced fella_(tor)... :-)

[MaineRoadMemories]

Same people who left against Chelsea as well. I always wonder if they leave the [highlight]cinema 5 mins before the end as well[/highlight]. Bizarre behaviour.

I do, those credits go on forever and are so boring to watch. Occasionally they put a little teaser/spoiler at the end of the credits but it's not enough for me to stay. :-)

[Jon London]

When I was a nipper used to stay right to the end in the cinema with me mates and then sneak into the other film on the other screen.

I don't know if anyone has mentioned it but Carlos has played about 90 mins now since his 5 month holiday and we have scored 5 and conceded 1 when he is on the pitch. For me him and Pizarro have to start vs Arsenal and then take them off at 60 when we are 3-0 up so they can go and get a Big Mac. Chunky lads them too but better to see them then Dzeko and Silva at the moment.

[Ted Hughes]

Today was mainly a combination of Sunderland busting a gut & playing out of their skins plus City defending like a bunch of wankers.

All the bollocks I've heard on the radio about Balotelli this & that; (he played ok but behaved like a total cunt) but we let 3 fucking goals in at home to Sunderland. It was a worse defensive display than the one which they pretended Hughes was sacked for.

They showed us how they were going to score the 1st goal a few minutes earlier & we still didn't defend the same fucking position.

For all Mario's despicably twattish unacceptable behaviour, both he & Dzeko did what they could on the day & contributed to us getting three goals. They didn't stroll today; people saying that are unfair.

We had a great big fucking hole on the edge of our box & a great big fucking hole whenever Kolarov went forward. We had Silva (trying hard enough but) doing ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL, seeing nothing & getting in the way of our attacks. (Pizarro showed a glimpse of what the old Silva would have done to that team) Barry could have filled all those positions, tidied up the loose ball & we would have won at a canter.

Last season, Bob kept picking Yaya Toure when he was having a fucking nightmare patch of form. This season, he's doing it with Silva. That's what cost us the game, we had the wrong team on the pitch & were playing with ten men & no left back.

Tactical fucking disaster.

Btw Sunderland were the team who played at OT after the 6-1. (ok it was under Bruce but) They lay down & died when the rags were a fucking shambles (especially fucking Bendtner). Will they take on the rags last game of the season like they did v us today ? If they do, the rags will struggle, but who thinks they will even try ?

[DoomMerchant]

Today was mainly a combination of Sunderland busting a gut & playing out of their skins plus City defending like a bunch of wankers.

All the bollocks I've heard on the radio about Balotelli this & that; (he played ok but behaved like a total cunt) but we let 3 fucking goals in at home to Sunderland. It was a worse defensive display than the one which they pretended Hughes was sacked for.

They showed us how they were going to score the 1st goal a few minutes earlier & we still didn't defend the same fucking position.

For all Mario's despicably twattish unacceptable behaviour, both he & Dzeko did what they could on the day & contributed to us getting three goals. They didn't stroll today; people saying that are unfair.

We had a great big fucking hole on the edge of our box & a great big fucking hole whenever Kolarov went forward. We had Silva (trying hard enough but) doing ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL, seeing nothing & getting in the way of our attacks. (Pizarro showed a glimpse of what the old Silva would have done to that team) Barry could have filled all those positions, tidied up the loose ball & we would have won at a canter.

Last season, Bob kept picking Yaya Toure when he was having a fucking nightmare patch of form. This season, he's doing it with Silva. That's what cost us the game, we had the wrong team on the pitch & were playing with ten men & no left back.

Tactical fucking disaster.

Btw Sunderland were the team who played at OT after the 6-1. (ok it was under Bruce but) They lay down & died when the rags were a fucking shambles (especially fucking Bendtner). Will they take on the rags last game of the season like they did v us today ? If they do, the rags will struggle, but who thinks they will even try ?

they won't try. Ian Darke even mentioned that today on the US commentary during the match. something to the effect of "will Sunderland put this effort into the last match of the season against United? it's an interesting question isn't it?"

im paraphrasing...obv.

cheers

[dazby]

two poor defending situations opposed to their superb defending focus. definitely Mario and Edin not at their spark and Silva very positive but also very few accurate at passing (for what he can) but ehy, as much as I hate to claim for the fortune... we definitely are not lucky by late! at least when you compare the Chelsea deflection with all the great but also very lucky deflection/ clearances/sweepings the Black Cats' defenders have had inside the box.
a special mention to the great performance by Kolo, at least since he and Micah thought to the tgea cup few seconds earlier.

I believe, tho. we played well going fwd... we still can do IT"

COME ON CITY!!!! COME FROM BEHIND AGAIN!!

do you like it when they come from behind?

cheers

No I don't, what about You, darling?
cheers

i don't have the experience to judge. I suspected you had though. Duly noted.

cheers

p.s. i really hate today. who's with me?

Fuck yeah. My Aussie rules team lost a game by missing with the final kick of the game, THAT debacle, and then 3 hours sleep to work the hardest shift I've ever had at this job which is normally a bludge. Working all through the weekend, no results. A dirty dirty filthy bad mood.

The only thing to get me out of this funk is a rousing away win at the Emirates. Come on you useless mercenary cunts!!!!

[Goaters 103]

We've been leaning on our home form like a crutch, especially since we havent played well away for over 4 months, but eventually you are going to have quite an off day and that day was yesterday.

We looked so ponderous and lead footed, with again no pace or width in the final third - recurring themes. Despite playing in midweek Sunderland looked fresher and quicker, and it was a pleasant surprise that we scraped a point out of a game that looked lost.

Too many big players had bad days, Silva again anonymous, Ya Ya had a stinker, Kompany out of sorts etc, for us to overcome that and Mario's 90 minutes were a psychologists wet dream with all that is good and bad about his game thrown in to the melting pot. We also defended shockingly badly and conceding 3 goals at home was the result of that.

Its likely our title chances go completely in the can after next weekend at the Emirates but in reality we already need a miracle given our away form, and the way some of our big players have either been injured, or gone off the boil. Our season is mirrored completely by David Silva - pre-christmas he was the best player in The Premier League by some distance; from Feb onwards he has barely merited selection in our team, and his merciful dragging off yesterday highlighted how his form has dropped off a cliff. No doubt he's carrying an ankle knock and he should get that fixed rather than trying to play when he's nowhere near 100%.

[Dunnylad]

I see the FA are charging the Mackems over failure to control their players - funny as I was moaning about how much they surrounded the ref everytime a free kick & the pen was given against them - however no one on MoTD or in the press could be arsed to point it out, instead you had them fawning over O'Neill's tactical genius, not the fact that they are now a whinging bunch of shit houses

[Beefymcfc]

I see the FA are charging the Mackems over failure to control their players - funny as I was moaning about how much they surrounded the ref everytime a free kick & the pen was given against them - however no one on MoTD or in the press could be arsed to point it out, instead you had them fawning over O'Neill's tactical genius, not the fact that they are now a whinging bunch of shit houses

I was fuming at that. Seemed they all turned into Rag players for the day.