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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby iwasthere2012 » Fri Mar 03, 2017 7:37 pm

mr_nool wrote:
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mr_nool wrote:No one watching the Everton game?

Where's it on.


Facebook. On the Manchester City Academy page.
0-0 after half an hour. No big chances either way.

Thanks. I'm in.
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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby iwasthere2012 » Fri Mar 03, 2017 7:47 pm

Boadu might have taken that first time.
Should have scored.
A nice move and great work by Diaz.

How did most of the first half go Noolie.
Looked even enough.
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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby mr_nool » Fri Mar 03, 2017 7:54 pm

iwasthere2012 wrote:Boadu might have taken that first time.
Should have scored.
A nice move and great work by Diaz.

How did most of the first half go Noolie.
Looked even enough.


It was very even. Bodau's chance was the best of the half. To be honest it wasn't all too entertaining, which I'm not used to when watching the kids.
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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby iwasthere2012 » Fri Mar 03, 2017 7:59 pm

mr_nool wrote:
iwasthere2012 wrote:Boadu might have taken that first time.
Should have scored.
A nice move and great work by Diaz.

How did most of the first half go Noolie.
Looked even enough.


It was very even. Bodau's chance was the best of the half. To be honest it wasn't all too entertaining, which I'm not used to when watching the kids.

Yes. Know what you mean.
Are Everton being a bit tactical. They're six points ahead of us at the top of the league.

Maybe a case of what we have we hold.
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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby mr_nool » Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:02 pm

iwasthere2012 wrote:
mr_nool wrote:
iwasthere2012 wrote:Boadu might have taken that first time.
Should have scored.
A nice move and great work by Diaz.

How did most of the first half go Noolie.
Looked even enough.


It was very even. Bodau's chance was the best of the half. To be honest it wasn't all too entertaining, which I'm not used to when watching the kids.

Yes. Know what you mean.
Are Everton being a bit tactical. They're six points ahead of us at the top of the league.

Maybe a case of what we have we hold.


Yeah, they're not taking too many risks, but are sitting back and try to hit us on the counter.
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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby nottsblue » Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:24 pm

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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby iwasthere2012 » Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:24 pm

Great move. Diaz instrumental again. Good finish by Ambrose.
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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby mr_nool » Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:24 pm

Poacher's goal. Well taken.
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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby iwasthere2012 » Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:29 pm

2-0 Diaz. Getting in amongst them a lot more since Ambrose came on.
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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby iwasthere2012 » Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:30 pm

Looked suspiciously like hand ball by Diaz.
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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby mr_nool » Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:31 pm

iwasthere2012 wrote:Looked suspiciously like hand ball by Diaz.


Agree with you. We were lucky that one wasn't disallowed. Diaz off now.
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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby iwasthere2012 » Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:35 pm

3-0 Sancho. Everton looking very vulnerable all of a sudden.
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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby mr_nool » Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:36 pm

iwasthere2012 wrote:3-0 Sancho. Everton looking very vulnerable all of a sudden.


This is really a game of two halves. Great goal again, but very sloppily defended by Everton.
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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby iwasthere2012 » Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:39 pm

Everton have had two decent chances in the last 5 minutes and squandered both.

Good save by Gunn, though.
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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby iwasthere2012 » Fri Mar 03, 2017 8:41 pm

Nemane is lightening quick. Taken down there when clean through.
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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby Justified logic » Fri Mar 03, 2017 9:02 pm

Very cagey game with that stubborn resistance by Everton until breached. Good win. Wish they'd got a fourth though, for the GD. Still 2nd in the league but now 3pts and 7 goals behind Everton with 4 games to go. Next games for both are on Monday, 13th at 7pm.
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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby Blue Since 76 » Fri Mar 03, 2017 9:53 pm

Everton the best side I've seen us play and looked a lot bigger. They didn't show much ambition at 0-0 and we looked a bit toothless until Ambrose came on.

Suspect too little too late, but fingers crossed Everton crack under the pressure
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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby Douglas Higginbottom » Fri Mar 03, 2017 11:34 pm

One for the little guys! I don't know if it was obvious but at the game it was so noticeable that Everton were stuffed with massive players and we had a couple. Seems that's the norm watching City teams but it was so marked tonight it was ridiculous.They had 4 defensive monsters and 4 more as their forward players and a couple of normal ones in the middle

I love watching City youth teams play but if it was Everton instead I wouldn't bother. They are still 3 points ahead of City after they lost tonight but all they had was organisation, power and strength. I went to watch the reverse game earlier in the season (it was at Southport) and we lost 1 nil and it was similar to tonight but they had a few players then who are now in the first team squad like that Tom Davies plus a big striker and a defender. I thought Everton were crap that day but you can see why they don't lose games.

Quite a few Everton fans around me tonight and they were a weird bunch. They got excited if they strung two passes together ( didn't happen often) and especially if they won a challenge and they were oblvious to how poor they were.

As for City it was obviously a good win without being at their best but it took time for them to really settle and work out how to beat the giants. Diaz was the main threat but he was doing it from that striking role that isn't his best position. A few close calls but nothing that good in the first half. Sancho I thought was a bit lost and I think some of that must have been because I assume he had a wing back role and the responsibilities that go with that.

I get the experience part but I just don't think he should be playing that sort of role. The 3 at the back surprised me but overall worked quite well. I thought Matt Smith did a great job in the sitting role with Kongolo.

For me it made a big difference when Ambrose came on. He is a much more natural center forward and of course it allows Diaz to drop a little deeper so no great surprise that the goals came shortly after the change. So pleased for Thierry Ambrose and I do hope he can go injury free now. Sancho definitely more at it 2nd half even if he didn't roast the defence as he so often does but great that he popped in with a goal too. He needs games at this level with big dobbers against him doubling and trebling up to stop him.

So a good win and now its the 18's turn away at Liverpool. Can't wait for that tomorrow and to see who the team will be without Lattibeaudierre, Smith and Sancho.
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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby Justified logic » Sat Mar 04, 2017 11:53 am

Half time and the u18s are 1-0 down at Liverpool.

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Re: EDS/Academy Games

Postby Justified logic » Sat Mar 04, 2017 11:57 am

Yep. Half time and LFCTV is glorying in the mighty Reds glorious history with legend after legend past, present and, er... that's it.

And now that I've got my streams sort, I see that they're not covering this game.
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