*** Official Match Thread - Stoke v Manchester City ***

[Ted Hughes]

Already fucking sick of hearing about Dzeko.

Mario did well today.

Im sick of Bobby treating him this way......Dzeko on fire for club and country...Ballo hardly played and out of action with his eye.......who plays next???

And your sick of hearing about Dzeko ???....Unless Dzeko is playing on tuesday then its a fuckign stupid move by Mancini.

Dzeko scored goals the other night against a poor side but he was fucking terrible.

[Dameerto]

Balotelli did well & worked a lot harder than Dzeko usually does.

Let's hope that when Dzeko does play, he puts in just as good a shift as Mario did today.

Oh, and he played better than Tevez btw.

Luckily he avoided getting sent off, against a team that was doing their utmost to provoke him off the ball, I doubt even you would have had a bet on that as a certainty before kickoff. Dzeko is more level headed, I can only think of his tantrum at getting taken off in the Munich game and a few frustrated reactions to not being passed to which could be used against him - Balotelli is a potential red card in many games when things aren't going our way. I would have played the percentages in this game with Europe in mind and used Dzeko with his recent goal scoring run of form and his high confidence as I mentioned earlier.

[Ted Hughes]

Already fucking sick of hearing about Dzeko.

Mario did well today.

well for me its not that he did not play but 3 minutes wtf is that , that is time for young players to fel the game , i fuckin dont get that and if Ballo was on hes form why we did not win and i dont remember one fuckin chance by him , sorry one in first half , its all been Tevez if anything hapend.

Same reason Owen was brought on; to try & nick a goal at the death.

Almost worked.

[Nick]

WELL I didn't see all of it on a stream but mario better than tevez? My view was that tevez was running EVERYWHERE fighting hard to win balls back that mario lost and then stayed on the floor. I think mario played half decent but mario and tevez doesnt work. Mario or dzeko never seem to work with the actual strikers (aguero & tevez) but dzeko is in the better form and came on and was unlucky not to score. Mario had a mint euros campaign but needs to show this form for city because he seems to flatter to deceive every time.

[Sideshow Bob]

No chance Dzeko starts against RM. tevez and aguero for sure.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Already fucking sick of hearing about Dzeko.

Mario did well today.

Im sick of Bobby treating him this way......Dzeko on fire for club and country...Ballo hardly played and out of action with his eye.......who plays next???

And your sick of hearing about Dzeko ???....Unless Dzeko is playing on tuesday then its a fuckign stupid move by Mancini.

Dzeko scored goals the other night against a poor side but he was fucking terrible.

Hes there to score goals....which he does and has done for us...there is no argument against.

[Ted Hughes]

Balotelli did well & worked a lot harder than Dzeko usually does.

Let's hope that when Dzeko does play, he puts in just as good a shift as Mario did today.

Oh, and he played better than Tevez btw.

Luckily he avoided getting sent off, against a team that was doing their utmost to provoke him off the ball, I doubt even you would have had a bet on that as a certainty before kickoff. Dzeko is more level headed, I can only think of his tantrum at getting taken off in the Munich game and a few frustrated reactions to not being passed to which could be used against him - Balotelli is a potential red card in many games when things aren't going our way. I would have played the percentages in this game with Europe in mind and used Dzeko with his recent goal scoring run of form and his high confidence as I mentioned earlier.

He avoided getting sent off by not doing anything wrong. Ran his balls off & was unlucky not to score.

Did brilliantly to keep his head amongst some diabolical, bent refereeing. Many strikers would have retaliated but Mario didn't.

One of his best performances since he signed imo.

[PALUS]

Already fucking sick of hearing about Dzeko.

Mario did well today.

Im sick of Bobby treating him this way......Dzeko on fire for club and country...Ballo hardly played and out of action with his eye.......who plays next???

And your sick of hearing about Dzeko ???....Unless Dzeko is playing on tuesday then its a fuckign stupid move by Mancini.

Dzeko scored goals the other night against a poor side but he was fucking terrible.

man u read wath u are writing he score goals who care how he score them hes striker he assist 3 penalty on him and score 4 that is enough and 3 fuckin minutes u know this was wrong but ok talk wath u want.

[Duckman]

Sad thing is that Dzeko will be benched for the next 5-6 games. The best thing for him would be to leave.

for some others as well.

[Spurge]

Already fucking sick of hearing about Dzeko.

Mario did well today.

Agree, I thought Mario did ok.

Whilst I'm not sick of hearing about Dzeko I know the point you are making here. We'll never know if coming on earlier would have made a difference, but because he had that chance and would have scored if not cleared off the line people seem to think he would have been a match winner if introduced earlier. Those comments are either naive or made in the heat of moment.

[The Italian Job]

Palus is right for once. Yes, Balotelli was decent, but waiting until the 91st minute to introduce a 'confidence player' who's shown good goal scoring form is a pisstake. There's no argument against it. Bring him on 10 minutes earlier or not at all.

Bad management by Mancini.

[Ted Hughes]

Already fucking sick of hearing about Dzeko.

Mario did well today.

Im sick of Bobby treating him this way......Dzeko on fire for club and country...Ballo hardly played and out of action with his eye.......who plays next???

And your sick of hearing about Dzeko ???....Unless Dzeko is playing on tuesday then its a fuckign stupid move by Mancini.

Dzeko scored goals the other night against a poor side but he was fucking terrible.

Hes there to score goals....which he does and has done for us...there is no argument against.

The argument against is if he doesn't score & doesn't try.

Provided he gets stuck in, I have no problem with playing him, even if he doesn't score. If he strolls around giving the ball away however, I don't want him here. Mario worked his balls off today. Hopefully Dzeko will also have turned over a new leaf & do the same when he gets his chance.

Both will get plenty of games if they put the effort in.

[Ted Hughes]

Already fucking sick of hearing about Dzeko.

Mario did well today.

Im sick of Bobby treating him this way......Dzeko on fire for club and country...Ballo hardly played and out of action with his eye.......who plays next???

And your sick of hearing about Dzeko ???....Unless Dzeko is playing on tuesday then its a fuckign stupid move by Mancini.

Dzeko scored goals the other night against a poor side but he was fucking terrible.

man u read wath u are writing he score goals who care how he score them hes striker he assist 3 penalty on him and score 4 that is enough and 3 fuckin minutes u know this was wrong but ok talk wath u want.

I don't think it was wrong, it almost won us the fucking game.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Already fucking sick of hearing about Dzeko.

Mario did well today.

Agree, I thought Mario did ok.

Whilst I'm not sick of hearing about Dzeko I know the point you are making here. We'll never know if coming on earlier would have made a difference, but because he had that chance and would have scored if not cleared off the line people seem to think he would have been a match winner if introduced earlier. Those comments are either naive or made in the heat of moment.[/quote

Bolloks mate...you and ted are ignoring the fucking facts...Dzeko has been on fire scoring goals, I couldnt give a flying fuck if he doesnt do anything else other than score goals or assists...he has done both and deserved to be on the fuckign starting 11....christ on a fuckign Bike !!! we even have our Doug TELLING US that Dzeko was very impressive in training and yet we go with the guy that hasnt played for a while and he doesnt score......which is his job....but you and Ted are happy because the cunt played well (I thought he spent more time going down on the floor too easily)

Its bolloks.

[The Italian Job]

Already fucking sick of hearing about Dzeko.

Mario did well today.

Im sick of Bobby treating him this way......Dzeko on fire for club and country...Ballo hardly played and out of action with his eye.......who plays next???

And your sick of hearing about Dzeko ???....Unless Dzeko is playing on tuesday then its a fuckign stupid move by Mancini.

Dzeko scored goals the other night against a poor side but he was fucking terrible.

Hes there to score goals....which he does and has done for us...there is no argument against.

The argument against is if he doesn't score & doesn't try.

Provided he gets stuck in, I have no problem with playing him, even if he doesn't score. If he strolls around giving the ball away however, I don't want him here. Mario worked his balls off today. Hopefully Dzeko will also have turned over a new leaf & do the same when he gets his chance.

Both will get plenty of games if they put the effort in.

Dzeko did get stuck in, chased around etc AND scored against Soton & QPR. What's your point exactly?

[PALUS]

Balotelli did well & worked a lot harder than Dzeko usually does.

Let's hope that when Dzeko does play, he puts in just as good a shift as Mario did today.

Oh, and he played better than Tevez btw.

Luckily he avoided getting sent off, against a team that was doing their utmost to provoke him off the ball, I doubt even you would have had a bet on that as a certainty before kickoff. Dzeko is more level headed, I can only think of his tantrum at getting taken off in the Munich game and a few frustrated reactions to not being passed to which could be used against him - Balotelli is a potential red card in many games when things aren't going our way. I would have played the percentages in this game with Europe in mind and used Dzeko with his recent goal scoring run of form and his high confidence as I mentioned earlier.

He avoided getting sent off by not doing anything wrong. Ran his balls off & was unlucky not to score.

Did brilliantly to keep his head amongst some diabolical, bent refereeing. Many strikers would have retaliated but Mario didn't.

One of his best performances since he signed imo.

this game todey is one of best hes game ?

[Ted Hughes]

Balotelli did well & worked a lot harder than Dzeko usually does.

Let's hope that when Dzeko does play, he puts in just as good a shift as Mario did today.

Oh, and he played better than Tevez btw.

Luckily he avoided getting sent off, against a team that was doing their utmost to provoke him off the ball, I doubt even you would have had a bet on that as a certainty before kickoff. Dzeko is more level headed, I can only think of his tantrum at getting taken off in the Munich game and a few frustrated reactions to not being passed to which could be used against him - Balotelli is a potential red card in many games when things aren't going our way. I would have played the percentages in this game with Europe in mind and used Dzeko with his recent goal scoring run of form and his high confidence as I mentioned earlier.

He avoided getting sent off by not doing anything wrong. Ran his balls off & was unlucky not to score.

Did brilliantly to keep his head amongst some diabolical, bent refereeing. Many strikers would have retaliated but Mario didn't.

One of his best performances since he signed imo.

this game todey is one of best hes game ?

Yes.

Mario is usually like Dzeko; a lazy fucker who scores but doesn't do much else. Today he really worked hard for the team & led the line well. Hopefully Dzeko will be as energetic when he plays.

[PALUS]

Already fucking sick of hearing about Dzeko.

Mario did well today.

Agree, I thought Mario did ok.

Whilst I'm not sick of hearing about Dzeko I know the point you are making here. We'll never know if coming on earlier would have made a difference, but because he had that chance and would have scored if not cleared off the line people seem to think he would have been a match winner if introduced earlier. Those comments are either naive or made in the heat of moment.[/quote

Bolloks mate...you and ted are ignoring the fucking facts...Dzeko has been on fire scoring goals, I couldnt give a flying fuck if he doesnt do anything else other than score goals or assists...he has done both and deserved to be on the fuckign starting 11....christ on a fuckign Bike !!! we even have our Doug TELLING US that Dzeko was very impressive in training and yet we go with the guy that hasnt played for a while and he doesnt score......which is his job....but you and Ted are happy because the cunt played well (I thought he spent more time going down on the floor too easily)

Its bolloks.

No its best Edin to leave manager dont like him most suporters dont like him even do he bring them a lot and u can always find a way to turn araund talk , Dzeko on form going in in 91 minute , if Ballo stay i would not say a word but now Ted is saying is better to play well and npt score goals then to play wathewer and score bunch of them but ok that is hes wright , i think this is bad managment.

[PALUS]

Balotelli did well & worked a lot harder than Dzeko usually does.

Let's hope that when Dzeko does play, he puts in just as good a shift as Mario did today.

Oh, and he played better than Tevez btw.

Luckily he avoided getting sent off, against a team that was doing their utmost to provoke him off the ball, I doubt even you would have had a bet on that as a certainty before kickoff. Dzeko is more level headed, I can only think of his tantrum at getting taken off in the Munich game and a few frustrated reactions to not being passed to which could be used against him - Balotelli is a potential red card in many games when things aren't going our way. I would have played the percentages in this game with Europe in mind and used Dzeko with his recent goal scoring run of form and his high confidence as I mentioned earlier.

He avoided getting sent off by not doing anything wrong. Ran his balls off & was unlucky not to score.

Did brilliantly to keep his head amongst some diabolical, bent refereeing. Many strikers would have retaliated but Mario didn't.

One of his best performances since he signed imo.

this game todey is one of best hes game ?

Yes.

Mario is usually like Dzeko; a lazy fucker who scores but doesn't do much else. Today he really worked hard for the team & led the line well. Hopefully Dzeko will be as energetic when he plays.

this is all i wont to hear this was best game of Ballo acording to u .... ok

[Dameerto]

The argument against is if he doesn't score & doesn't try.

Provided he gets stuck in, I have no problem with playing him, even if he doesn't score. If he strolls around giving the ball away however, I don't want him here. Mario worked his balls off today. Hopefully Dzeko will also have turned over a new leaf & do the same when he gets his chance.

Both will get plenty of games if they put the effort in.

Dzeko worked his balls off at the beginning of last season and it didn't do him much good, I just don't think Mancini likes him too much, which is his perogative. Probably better for all if he's allowed to leave at the end of the season (or sooner if we have a target that we couldn't quite get this window just gone).