Match Day Thread Manchester City FC v Sunderland AFC - Saturday 6th December 2025 - KO 15:00

No crucial bookings and no disgrace against more oil money.

Hopefully a good week rest and training and we are up for the Saudis.

 

We definitely need the 8 days off.

We play a really intense style 3 games in a week and the 3rd against a phenomenal team for movement was always going to cause some pain.

A week ago if someone offered us 4 points from those 3 games against 3 teams of exceptional quality we’d have been delighted. We should be delighted.

The Mags had a slogger of a game today and have to play midweek, way to a team that likes to have the ball.

We in great shape for the derby. Let’s not let an inflated scoreline blur that. City deserved to win, by one. We should have scored at least 2.

Every time we’ve lost we’ve reacted beautifully.

 

It's always a shame to lose but I thought we weren't particularly bad today. City were very good and Cherki decided this was the game to remember he is actually quite a handful.

Don't think losing at the Etihad makes much of a difference to anything in the end as long as the players take the lesson and put the loss itself behind them.

Funnily enough City beat Forest in December last year 3-0 at home and they ended up qualifying for Europe so who knows...

 

I thought we were not very good in the 1st half.

We were a lot better in the 2nd half.

Got to take your chances... we had 2 good chances... didn't take them

Their 3rd goal made brilliantly by Cherki

 

Aye, just don't look at where they are now

 

How many out of thr next 4? 4/6 points would set us up nicely for January.

 

Amen to that brother.

 

Good post

 

We are game of the day on Sky
- if you want to watch it again

 

Just f*ck off and get your derby day match thread started

 

It is in motion just looking for a suitable tifo for the murdering Saudi scumbags

 

Agreed.

It was middle-to-end stuff in the first half, but we got on the front foot after the break.

City are very good and deserved the win, but we could easily have scored at least one.

No shame, continue learning, move on.

 

Never been to City, I imagine it smells like bleach, sterile as f**k.

 

Annoying that our central midfield couldn’t make a challenge but it’s done and they’re available. Roll on next week, absolutely massive

 

Does it have Eric Smug Morecombe beheading Saudi Mags at Central Station?