***Champions v Palace Official Match Thread***

[Dubciteh]

The positive for me was Dias was outstanding today a one man defence.

[Mase]

The positive for me was Dias was outstanding today a one man defence.

The fact he isn’t captain is a disgrace.

[gmercer1]

The positive for me was Dias was outstanding today a one man defence.

The fact he isn’t captain is a disgrace.

No everything is fine we have Walker instead!

[salford city]

The positive for me was Dias was outstanding today a one man defence.

Agreed just as fucking well!

[Harry Dowd scored]

The positive for me was Dias was outstanding today a one man defence.

Spot on, surely he should be captain

[Indianablue]

Michael Owen saying Pep is spreading negative energy & his lack of inspiration is not helping. He also said someone at City needs to lift Pep. I think we need to manage our expectations this season. The teams we are dropping points against are not that good. Spurs have only won one out of six, that was the battering they gave us. Rags next week, God only knows what team is available

Michael Owen is a fool to say such things. Six titles in the last seven seasons. City squad battling injuries to many key players. Fool.

Jesus Christ open your fucking eyes

[Nick]

We have two captains and leaders. Both have been missing all season and dias only just getting back

Agreed class and again the walker captain thing was the start of me turning on him after him using Munich.

But who tf has voted for him??

[Mase]

Just seen the sending off. Pathetic. FA are cunts. Ref is a nonce. Huw Edwards runs the Premier League

[Nick]

Michael Owen saying Pep is spreading negative energy & his lack of inspiration is not helping. He also said someone at City needs to lift Pep. I think we need to manage our expectations this season. The teams we are dropping points against are not that good. Spurs have only won one out of six, that was the battering they gave us. Rags next week, God only knows what team is available

Michael Owen is a fool to say such things. Six titles in the last seven seasons. City squad battling injuries to many key players. Fool.

Jesus Christ open your fucking eyes

Agree with owen for once

Stop fucking saying "gonna be a long tough season"

"Everyones tired and injured" hes making it worse

[Harry Dowd scored]

Michael Owen saying Pep is spreading negative energy & his lack of inspiration is not helping. He also said someone at City needs to lift Pep. I think we need to manage our expectations this season. The teams we are dropping points against are not that good. Spurs have only won one out of six, that was the battering they gave us. Rags next week, God only knows what team is available

Michael Owen is a fool to say such things. Six titles in the last seven seasons. City squad battling injuries to many key players. Fool.

Jesus Christ open your fucking eyes

Agree with owen for once

Stop fucking saying "gonna be a long tough season"

"Everyones tired and injured" hes making it worse

It's called self fulfilling prophecy & it's known in management that if you preach negative its negative you get. I have been posting this for a long time. Man management is not Peps forta

[ayrshireblue]

Just to clarify, some seem to think the red can be appealed or rescinded. It can't, yellow cards cannot be reviewed so we have to accept Lewis suspension.

[Nick]

Beanie in midfield/ defence next week?

[Mase]

Just to clarify, some seem to think the red can be appealed or rescinded. It can't, yellow cards cannot be reviewed so we have to accept Lewis suspension.

Well…they can change it if they want. Ben Thatcher got a yellow for elbowing Mendes and it turned to a red

[ayrshireblue]

Just to clarify, some seem to think the red can be appealed or rescinded. It can't, yellow cards cannot be reviewed so we have to accept Lewis suspension.

Well…they can change it if they want. Ben Thatcher got a yellow for elbowing Mendes and it turned to a red

That was about 20 years ago and was an upgrading of a yellow to a red. Nowadays a yellow card can not be reviewed, probably can still be if upgraded to a straight red but harder to justify as VAR should already have recommended the upgrade to red. VAR cannot get involved in reviewing yellow cards other than recommending upgrading to red.

[Dub City]

The positive for me was Dias was outstanding today a one man defence.

The fact he isn’t captain is a disgrace.

Too right. Can see when they zoom in on tv before start of match when players in the huddle that it’s Dias that’s doing all the talking.

[sheblue]

Didn't expect to win when I saw the team. So a decent away point in the hunt for a top 4 place.

Savio and Silva were shocking. Couldn't understand why they were left on so long. Baffling stuff from Pep who also had a shocker today.

A midfield of silva, kdb and gundo just will not cut it in this league or the champions league.

It's very hard to see us winning anything this season with a team containing too many old men.

[CTID Hants]

Didn't expect to win when I saw the team. So a decent away point in the hunt for a top 4 place.

Savio and Silva were shocking. Couldn't understand why they were left on so long. Baffling stuff from Pep who also had a shocker today.

A midfield of silva, kdb and gundo just will not cut it in this league or the champions league.

It's very hard to see us winning anything this season with a team containing too many old men.

Despite what he says about 1 game at a time, I reckon he had one eye on the Juve game, I think he knows the league has slipped from us and he has to get a result in Europe....

[zuricity]

We are all over the place at the back. It doesn't matter if its ed or ortega atm. Got to hope for reinforcements in jan but who would be available ? We cannot end up with plan b players again. Gonna have to suck it up and crack on but we could well do without a trip to Turin on weds

We are not all over the place at the back.
We are all over the place in midfield.

Midfield is and always will be the driving force in a team.
It should not be that the back three are making the play when Gündo, Bernie , tin tin and Rico are hiding from their jobs.

Buried in "Pockets" along the "lines".

Jack showed on wednesday that midfield needs to move forward quickly. We are missing this at the moment.

Midfield is the key and at the moment we don't have one.

The back three should not be dictating possession, the midfield should be.

Tin tin gave the ball away cheaply a few times, bernie floated around the action and Gündo is trying to dominate the midfield but without the legs and strength to do it. Nuff said about Rico, he has been shocking for weeks now. Still the suspension will take the pressure off him.

[salford city]

Didn't expect to win when I saw the team. So a decent away point in the hunt for a top 4 place.

Savio and Silva were shocking. Couldn't understand why they were left on so long. Baffling stuff from Pep who also had a shocker today.

A midfield of silva, kdb and gundo just will not cut it in this league or the champions league.

It's very hard to see us winning anything this season with a team containing too many old men.

Despite what he says about 1 game at a time, I reckon he had one eye on the Juve game, I think he knows the league has slipped from us and he has to get a result in Europe....

I thought that when he left Grealish out. Has to start at Juve in a game we have to win after the farce last game. We cannot afford any more slip ups if we want to qualify automatically.

[Harry Dowd scored]

Shocking display from midfield, but hardly surprising given who was playing there. Jack should have been first name on sheet for inside forward, he was clearly not injured, perhaps Pep was saving him for CL, if so that is poor motivation, its saying you cannot play twice a week, absolute fucking ridiculous. This negative mantra off Pep is obviously being picked up by players. Salah seems to be ok playing every week. Send Pep on a course with Mr Motivator