***Champions v Everton Official Match Thread***

[nottsblue]

Hope everyone is having a go at Bernie at HT. fucking horrendous decision to score with the outside of his boot. You can do that at 3-0

[blues2win]

We do come back to injuries. No consistent back four doesnt help.

[Sparklehorse]

Your Boxing Day City side

XI | Ortega Moreno, Lewis, Akanji, Ake, Gvardiol, Kovacic, Bernardo (C), Savinho, Foden, Doku, Haaland

SUBS | Carson, Brits, De Bruyne, Gundogan, Simpson-Pusey, Mubama, Alleyne, O'Reilly, McAtee

#ManCity | Etihad Airways

That bench fills me with dread. Pep doesn’t like to use subs at the best of times, let alone with 6 Academy boys on there.

Peps first 11 for the last couple of months filled me with dread and for good reason.

At least his best mate is on the bench and Walker has been dumped....I see the penny finally fucking dropped.

Walker not well according to Pep

Hangover !!

[stevefromdonny]

140 passes fuck all, 5 passes them goal

And that's it, we don't go nowhere but to pass and go backwards, instead of running at them, go past and cross
I'm missing david white and Peter Barnes, these wingers haven't a fucking clue

[sniffer]

These Prime commentators are really pissing me off

[branny]

We need to stop buying wingers with potential and buy a couple who can actually do the job. Doku has all the pace in the world but rarely uses it on the counter. Never gets the ball in motion, always standing still. Shite numbers and little end end product and now seems to look for the ground at the slightest touch. Savio beats his man time after time and then does nothing with the ball. His shooting is woeful. Either off target or no power. Grealish isn't and never will be a winger, neither are Nunes and Bernardo. It's poor from the club. To have gone from the likes of Sané, Sterling and Mahrez in such vital positions for how we play, to what we have now is criminal.

[Redna]

Fragile at the back, been the story for a long time.
CTID!

[dave watson's perm]

These Prime commentators are really pissing me off

It's on Prime? I'm fucking about with streams FFS

[s1ty m]

I would have taken Bernardo straight off after that miss

Bernardo must think we are top by 10 points. Almost unprofessional to try that. A very difficult skill. Touch and slot, or shoot in the correct, coached way. Not that fancy Dan, outside of the foot nonsense.

[nottsblue]

These Prime commentators are really pissing me off

It's on Prime? I'm fucking about with streams FFS

Clive the red is the main commentator
Don’t know who his cohort is

[s1ty m]

These Prime commentators are really pissing me off

There is an option to go to Stadium FX instead.

[sheblue]

Started well good first 25 mins then faded.
Like the more direct approach. Big second half push needed.

[Beefymcfc]

Come on City!

[nottsblue]

Everton finished the half stronger. I would say at the moment they look more likely to score next

[Dub City]

Doku doing fuck knows what gives ball away , Akanji doing fuck knows what trying clear the ball and Savinho stood watching not covering back on the goal. Pathetic to concede like that all over.

Bernardo missing a fucking sitter to have been 2-0 up. Slow and predictable trying to play too safe too often.

Can’t afford to drop points here today will have a mountain to climb to have any top 4 hopes.

Doku not run Coleman once when Coleman hang been able run for about 4 seasons is a weird tactic. Savinho looks out of confidence and ideas when begs to box. It’s a tough watch

[Sparklehorse]

Put a fucking tackle in, win the fucking ball, introduce some fucking pace and swap Ake and Gvardiol and maybe we will win.
I am watching the same game every fucking week.......DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT for Christ's sake, we are playing wretched team and making them look good.

[Mase]

Deserve to be 2-3 up here. We’ve seen this script before.

As I said. We played well, just individual errors again.

I'm watching a different game. I saw that as mainly abject.

Hit the post and Bernardo should have scored. Should have been 3-0 before they even got a sniff

[Mase]

These Prime commentators are really pissing me off

There is an option to go to Stadium FX instead.

The best option ever

[Mase]

Here they go on the counter….

[Mase]

Need McAtee on with these tight spaces… according to Pep