***city v liverpool official match day thread***

[carl_feedthegoat]

For forty minutes Liverpool controlled the game and dominated the game....apparently.

They must fart rainbows and jelly babies these deluded cunts. This win was more satisfying than when we beat the Munichs last year.

[beehive's dodgy pint]

Greedy I know but I think we could have smashed another couple past the Dippers in the last 10. Navas was in acres on the right screaming for the ball a few times and Yaya and Nasri wanted to play short one two's with each other in the centre of the park. Really wanted to rub their rancid snozzers right in it and come away with a 4 or 5 goal margin. Should we have tried to hurt them more in the last 10?

[Nigels Tackle]

[Chinners]

Marvellous stuff .... only just got back, hence no bollox today .... not that its needed really

[Dameerto]

In a few hours we will be coming up to the 24th hour memorial of their loss to us, have they laid a wreath yet?

[Mikhail Chigorin]

[carl_feedthegoat]

[Mikhail Chigorin]

I suppose it could be argued that Brendan Bodger IS a tactical genius.

If he wasn't, Cesspool would have lost by more goals last night......

[patrickblue]

[Piccsnumberoneblue]

After all last season's carping about the money we have spent, strangely Brenda was pontificating about how money doesn't guarantee success last night. I wonder why the change in his opinion. Snigger.

[Ted Hughes]

Liverpool too honest and too fair, says Joe Allen after City mauling

Joe Allen believes Liverpool need to be more cynical after describing Brendan Rodgers’ team as “too honest and too fair” in their defeat at Manchester City.

While the Liverpool manager blamed Monday’s 3-1 reverse on defensive lapses, and his side lacked City’s clinical touch in front of goal, Allen thought the champions cut through the visiting ranks too easily at the Etihad Stadium. By contrast, City largely restricted Liverpool’s threat during their ultimately comfortable win and were not averse to halting counterattacks with a foul. The Wales international believes that side of Liverpool’s game needs to develop this season.

“We can be too honest and too fair at times,” the midfielder said. “It can be seen as a good thing but at this level you need to be clever at times. At times we can maybe stop things at source and save ourselves a lot of trouble.”

[Foreverinbluedreams]

Coutinho and Sterling were far from honest, hitting the deck as soon as anyone so much as breathed on them.

I think Liverpool's problem was fairly obvious, they lacked bite up front.

[Slim]

[Slim]

[bayblue]

Just watched it on telly after enjoying it hugely at stadium on Monday.
Ruthless is the word that keeps coming to mind. I think we have a bunch of players who know what it's like to win (must have at least ten who have won league twice; how many are there in all the other teams put together? A handful in total?). We also have a manager who preaches patience and keeping playing our way. We saw the benefits of that on Monday.

Having said that I thought Liverpool did have control of the game for about the tenth to the fortieth minute, a direct result of outnumbering us in midfield. Better, or luckier, teams will punish us - think Chelsea, Liverpool, Bayern, Barca last year. I guess the Chelsea game next month will be the next indicator as to whether Pellers will adopt a strengthened centre mid approach, or continue to trust that our firepower will mean we can out score most teams on our day

[Mikhail Chigorin]

[Foreverinbluedreams]

[patrickblue]

[Ted Hughes]

[MaineRoadblue]

What did everyone think of the LED boards on tier two?. Drove me mental especially the pink advert.