Overall, I thought they gave it a reasonable go. A little bit of luck and composure, we could have gone in at 2-1, but with our usual luck that was not to be. I thought Austine put a shift in, Elouynissi worked hard ( but lacked quality). Slightly disappointed with the subs, thought both Long And Redmond just cruised a little, I know the game was gone. And PEH, silly, but love the passion of the man. Take that out this game and use lose the goal he scored in the first. He will learn and we need to support him rather than turn on him
I’d be pretty pissed had it been the other way round and Fernandinho tackled PEH like that and was only shown a yellow. Seen worse tackles go unpunished but you can’t argue with him showing a red for it , it wasn’t a great tackle.
Maybe Pierre was trying to do us all a favour by giving us a distraction to talk about eh? Also the notion of giving examples of 'this wasn't given a red card' doesn't give an amnesty to equivalently bad challenges. Yes it's frustrating seeing other teams get the rub of the green and us not, whether it's bias or incompetence or bad luck... But unfortunately there is no precedent for 'evening it up' and giving us a few bad decisions in our favour.
That was pathetic. Really disappointed with the manager and team selection. Though I cannot question the work rate or commitment of the players selected. We picked bodies to rest for the Chelsea game when actually despite Man City's team sheet we could have got something from the game. We played a back four against a team renown for playing wide men. Rested our most experienced centre backs and we picked an immobile target man. The result: a deflated fan base and frustrated players which culminated in our key player being sent off.
I am starting to think we should sell Lemina if a decent offer comes in. He just doesn't seem to have the heart in it
Andy Carroll's challenge the other night was wild and should have been carded...easily could have been a red. yet more inconsistency from referees
You do realise we just played the most expensive team ever assembled in football history? If our fan base is deflated after that, they’re even more pathetic than I thought.
Not much chance of getting anywhere near to beating a rampant Derby team ... Would it not be better to just chuck that anyhow ?
Haha well maybe not quite in dramatic cursing all around you to the depths of hell fashion! But you are going after Tom a bit unfairly here I'd say.
Agreed. Poor start, then we worked our way back in to the game and only a jammy goal against us after a referee who showed the big teams get the dodgy calls (ours wasn’t a penalty but the other way round it would have been given, or at Anfield) and then they nicked one while we were deflated... apart from that, it was City we played. Not sure what people expected.
Maybe Mikey, but after a while, the endless defending of referees and zero tolerance towards Sainst mistakes ( he has lots of form here), he can do one as far as I’m concerned. Fed up with him defending referees and crucifying our team. It’s pathetic at times.
In the end we actually stayed with the same formation. JWP played wing-back and Ramsay played right centre-back. Agree that I thought it was a game for Long rather than Austin though, even if both have their drawbacks.
