Sky are showing a new angle on the 'barge' incident which shows up both Haaland and the False Messiah as petulant twats! Not sure that Gio did anything wrong other than not move out of the way, before obviously reacting as The Scream headed off. Guardiola then sticks his oar in, waving his hands like he's just been robbed. Which, I suppose in one way he had been!
Apologies if this has been commented on previously, but WTF did we have to play last on Sunday when our next game is Thursday? And WTF are we playing on a Thursday anyway???
Everyone else plays on Tuesday or Wednesday, playing last and then again on Thursday seems the least worst option?
Everton v Newcastle is also on Thursday. Different kick off time. I assume it’s one of those Amazon Prime weeks?
Thought this was better answered here. Ederson could've done better with our first two goals on Sunday, in my opinion. He's generally very good, though. Guardiola's unbalanced City's defence with his weird formation this season. He used it quite a bit in the last campaign too, but he's basically abandoned using a left-back. Three centre-halves, one holding midfielder, one attacking midfielder, two wingers and two forwards. I think it's supposed to be fluid, but it gets caught out too much when moves break down. I suspect he'll either play Lewis more often, but a new left-back in January or both. They've not had any disasters, but three consecutive draws is not good enough for them.
I hit me watching back all of Son's goals against them. So many of those goals simply shouldn't happen against a supposedly elite side. It isn't just this season. Two of his three against them in the CL were a defensive embarrassment. His breakaway goal in the 1-0 league win is also baffling: watch John Stones' movement as we advance. At no point do we have a numerical advantage, yet he backtracks into a nowhere position instead of stepping out to close Son down. A bunch of our goals seem to go through Ederson as you've said, while Ake should not be allowing Kulu to barge him out the way in the 90th minute at home. Reminiscent of Kane's last minute winner when he did the same to Walker. And you're right, Pep does tinker his defence an awful lot. The way he used Cancelo was baffling. And he seems to have abandoned the need for a LB since Mendy decided he was the second coming of Hugh Hefner. I don't think anyone notices as most teams are understandably petrified of attacking them.
Look at this post on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/story.php?...93ooiu8VbYEJHjPoXRKFQ7ggYqYikpGTRa8a6nWNstB8l
Entirely consistent with all the Laws of the Game though where the punishment is insufficient to deter breaking them
"If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class." Nobody seems to know where that quote comes from, but it seems apt.
