MotM v Swansea

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Hart
28
53%
Sagna
1
2%
Otamendi
0
No votes
Mangala
0
No votes
Clichy
0
No votes
Fernandinho
1
2%
Toure
18
34%
Silva
0
No votes
Navas
1
2%
Sterling
1
2%
Bony
0
No votes
Delph
0
No votes
De Bruyne
0
No votes
Ian Nacho
3
6%
 
Total votes : 53

MotM v Swansea

Postby Beefymcfc » Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:17 am

Apologies Ladies & Gents, seems you were robbed of your chance to vote. I was driving back to the UK yesterday and onlky just made it for the final few minutes before being grabbed by the Mrs to do 'Man' tasks.

Anyway, after a little time to think, fill your boots and have your say.
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby Bluedj » Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:28 am

Joe for me. Totally keep us in the game with some fine saves. Shame he was beaten at the end, but it was a fierce shot that was well taken

Toure a close second

I know Biny scored but for me did f@@k all else, seemed like we were playing with ten men
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby Woodyblue » Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:28 am

Thought YaYa showed us what we love about him today. Just wish he was consistent. Great goal too.
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby Wonderwall » Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:54 am

Beefymcfc wrote:Apologies Ladies & Gents, seems you were robbed of your chance to vote. I was driving back to the UK yesterday and onlky just made it for the final few minutes before being grabbed by the Mrs to do 'Man' tasks.

Anyway, after a little time to think, fill your boots and have your say.


That is no excuse Pffft. Where are your priorities man.
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby Foreverinbluedreams » Sun Dec 13, 2015 10:33 am

Have to ask, of the saves Joe made yesterday is there any of them,the Routledge one aside ( where he made an idiot out of Otamendi ), that you wouldn't expect any decent keeper to make?

For me there's a massive overreaction to that game, we were poor, there's no getting away from that but the way some are talking you'd swear Swansea battered us, that wasn't the case at all.
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby City64 » Sun Dec 13, 2015 11:02 am

Hart was brilliant again and kept us in the game but my vote goes to Yaya who played well and kept going to the very end and produced another piece of genius to get us over the line and 3 very important points . Best player on the pitch by a mile yesterday .
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby plf blue » Sun Dec 13, 2015 11:21 am

City64 wrote:Hart was brilliant again and kept us in the game but my vote goes to Yaya who played well and kept going to the very end and produced another piece of genius to get us over the line and 3 very important points . Best player on the pitch by a mile yesterday .

agree yaya by a mile,that was a great goal,that made up for being soaked to the skin all day
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby nottsblue » Sun Dec 13, 2015 11:37 am

Beefymcfc wrote:Apologies Ladies & Gents, seems you were robbed of your chance to vote. I was driving back to the UK yesterday and onlky just made it for the final few minutes before being grabbed by the Mrs to do 'Man' tasks.

Anyway, after a little time to think, fill your boots and have your say.

Grabbed by the Mrs to do Man tasks. And it's not even Christmas yet. Lucky bastard
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby Douglas Higginbottom » Sun Dec 13, 2015 11:37 am

I am fascinated by the Yaya votes. I think it's great that he "kept going" till the end! Really. Aren't all players expected to keep going till the end?

There is no doubt at all that he has great quality on the ball and can score and create goals at key moments in games but as on of the middle 2 in midfield he remains a liability and that's how I saw it yesterday.Some good bits and pieces but there were so many times we had gaps in midfield where he wasn't in position or even if he was he was ignored by Swansea as if he was a dustbin.Even in the early minutes you could see he wasn't all there and was even using the old tieing of shoelaces to disguise the fact he wasn't going to get back and help.
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby South Stand Balti » Sun Dec 13, 2015 11:56 am

That's not how I saw it. For me Yaya was man of the match.....by a mile. We should build a statue of him at the ground. IMO he is the best player the Prem has seen.
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby iwasthere2012 » Sun Dec 13, 2015 12:22 pm

Foreverinbluedreams wrote:Have to ask, of the saves Joe made yesterday is there any of them,the Routledge one aside ( where he made an idiot out of Otamendi ), that you wouldn't expect any decent keeper to make?

For me there's a massive overreaction to that game, we were poor, there's no getting away from that but the way some are talking you'd swear Swansea battered us, that wasn't the case at all.

Swansea didn't batter us, but they showed all afternnot that they were capable of getting a goal if we didn't buck up.
And it happened right at the death. We were lucky there was time left to go ahead again.

I give it to Joe, because I thought his contribution was as significant to the result as anyone else on the park.
In short, he did his job, the rest were very hit and miss.
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby Douglas Higginbottom » Sun Dec 13, 2015 12:26 pm

South Stand Balti wrote:That's not how I saw it. For me Yaya was man of the match.....by a mile. We should build a statue of him at the ground. IMO he is the best player the Prem has seen.



Amazing how people see things differently at a game. If you can see a full replay of the game just watch Yaya and how often he was in terrible positions when we didn't have the ball and how easily he was bypassed if he was around. We often had a back 4 + Dinho and Yaya coming back when he could!

As for the statue I would be happy with that as he has been magificent for City
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby City64 » Sun Dec 13, 2015 12:40 pm

Douglas Higginbottom wrote:I am fascinated by the Yaya votes. I think it's great that he "kept going" till the end! Really. Aren't all players expected to keep going till the end?

There is no doubt at all that he has great quality on the ball and can score and create goals at key moments in games but as on of the middle 2 in midfield he remains a liability and that's how I saw it yesterday.Some good bits and pieces but there were so many times we had gaps in midfield where he wasn't in position or even if he was he was ignored by Swansea as if he was a dustbin.Even in the early minutes you could see he wasn't all there and was even using the old tieing of shoelaces to disguise the fact he wasn't going to get back and help.

"Kept going" until the very end meaning Yaya took the game by the scruff of the neck and went looking for the match winner Douglas . He produced a piece of brilliance also worthy of MoM on its own imho . Top performance from him on a thoroughly horrible forgettable day both weather and football wise .
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby Foreverinbluedreams » Sun Dec 13, 2015 12:42 pm

iwasthere2012 wrote:
Foreverinbluedreams wrote:Have to ask, of the saves Joe made yesterday is there any of them,the Routledge one aside ( where he made an idiot out of Otamendi ), that you wouldn't expect any decent keeper to make?

For me there's a massive overreaction to that game, we were poor, there's no getting away from that but the way some are talking you'd swear Swansea battered us, that wasn't the case at all.

Swansea didn't batter us, but they showed all afternnot that they were capable of getting a goal if we didn't buck up.
And it happened right at the death. We were lucky there was time left to go ahead again.

I give it to Joe, because I thought his contribution was as significant to the result as anyone else on the park.
In short, he did his job, the rest were very hit and miss.


That's all fair IWT, everything Joe needed to do he did well, apart from delaying coming out for the ball too late which led to Gomis kicking him. I won't disagree with him getting MOTM either because there's no one else that did their job as well as him.

I agree with your assessment of the game too, it was as if the players just thought job done at 1-0 and didn't push their obvious superiority home.
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby Piccsnumberoneblue » Sun Dec 13, 2015 12:45 pm

Yaya was immense
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby Pretty Boy Lee » Sun Dec 13, 2015 12:49 pm

Hart followed by yaya for me.

The goal and the desire to win sums him up. Him giving up a chase as Swansea get a shot on goal in the 1st half shoes what Doug is saying too tho. Best and worst is normal for yaya, it's just the best we've been missing lately.
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby Nigels Tackle » Sun Dec 13, 2015 12:57 pm

if motm decisions are based on 30 seconds - yaya
whole 90 - joe
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby Peter Doherty (AGAIG) » Sun Dec 13, 2015 1:44 pm

Yaya. Played well and got us out of jail.
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby Ray78 » Sun Dec 13, 2015 1:49 pm

Yaya.
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Re: MotM v Swansea

Postby roblues » Sun Dec 13, 2015 2:39 pm

Douglas Higginbottom wrote:
South Stand Balti wrote:That's not how I saw it. For me Yaya was man of the match.....by a mile. We should build a statue of him at the ground. IMO he is the best player the Prem has seen.



Amazing how people see things differently at a game. If you can see a full replay of the game just watch Yaya and how often he was in terrible positions when we didn't have the ball and how easily he was bypassed if he was around. We often had a back 4 + Dinho and Yaya coming back when he could!


If Yaya's ability to win MotM over the years was based on his positioning and desire to get back and defend, he would never have won.
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