Match Day Thread Rival Watch Special: Man City v Everton

Martinez is now under massive pressure.

The players heads will be down and a trip to Carlisle who'll be chomping at the bit, could well be a tough afternoon...

The atmosphere at home to the Skunks the week after will be interesting......

He's losing the fanbase, those he won over and now wavering, that was apparent at the Swansea game. His comments before the game about "I'm not interested in clean sheets" when all we needed to get to Wembley was a clean sheet, sums up his attitude, and it's failing. Despite having 3 England defenders in the backline, we're absolutely rotten defensively and that's down to the lack of drilling and defensive work on the training ground imo.

 

Three England defenders and the best right back in the league, though Coleman is coming back from injury. I only caught the last half hour last night, but I am gutted that it's not a Merseyside final. Think you'd have hosed Stoke over two legs, but I am hopeful we'll have more players back for the final, so I don't fear City.

That said, I'm also hoping Aguero's not fit again. Class act, indeed.

 

Moyes back? #serious

 

Dodgy decisions in both Semi's..
Whilst they were knocking on the door, who's to say that City would def. had scored if their second goal had been rightly ruled out!
Not one for too much technology in Footie but game changing decisions need to be reviewed..
For example, every Touch down in the NFL is reviewed. it takes 20-30 seconds..
Modern day goal celebrations take over a bloody minute, so we wouldn't be slowing the game down if they bought in such rules!

 

The technology is already there, except it only currently applies inside the goalposts rather than either side

 

same old same old in football.

poor decisions made, manager rants, fans rant, players don't care cuz they get paid anyways

 

I personally felt everton started negatively and that set the tone.

City can blow anyone off the park but they back line and CMs are dirt and you can pressurize a lot of errors out of them.

Once everton surrendered initiative it let city get set. I would be totally disappointed that even then you went ahead in tie and then immediately conceded.

For me the goal was a total flog by officials and everton can feel very aggrieved.

 

I hope someone is taking the piss!

 

Indeed. You need Rafa to sort that defence out

He would have got the 0-0 you needed lol. Shame, was looking forward to an all Mersey final. Wembley wouldn't have known what hit them lol.

 

Funny thing is that with the PL this poor this season, Moyes would've had Everton 4th. 5th minimum.

Thought it was an even, open game... City maybe created more but the game turned on the out-of-play goal.

Ridiculous that in 2016 BOTH semi-finals could have been decided by illegitimate goals. Fortunately Liverpool scraped by.

 

As loathsome a character that he is.....I'd take him tomorrow over Mr Martinez.

The fume from Reds would be epic as well

Fat Rafa in!

 

Said before and I'm sure I'll say it again; Rafa joining Chelsea is worse than him joining Everton. Only team worse than Chelsea is Man Utd.

If Rafa joined Everton I'd wish him well and hope to see him do well too

 

#nofume

 

He adores the City and won't get a chance with us again so I'd wish him well

 

Did the ball even go that far over the line. Im not convinced it was as clear cut as everyone says (remember its the whole ball over the line) and the speed of the game is so fast. It would have been nice for the toffees to have made it to the final for once and they were unfortunate with the deflection and the stering decision.

However you cant just say the whole matcg hinged on that 1 decision. City have had loads of decisions against then against everton which pellegrini pointed out

 

Oh, thats okay then....his opinion against the fact the ball went out? a foul can be subjective, however if the ball has/hasn't crossed a line is something that can be shown/replayed and tracked

 

Yes it did, it's not even a matter of contention, it was well out, you could see it in real time, I was screaming it was out before De Bruyne scored.

There's a still on this thread which shows it btw.

The match did hinge on that decision though. As it finished 3-1, without that goal it goes to extra time and they had 10 men....

Pelligrini was still yabbering on about the supposed offside by Lukaku in the first leg, he's obviously still not read the rules That goal was perfectly legit.

The only genuine gripe he could have was the Mirallas foul on Navas, which should have been a penalty, so one isn't 'loads'.

 

It looked out to me as soon as he knocked it past the defender

I thought "you're not getting on that you mong"

Then I thought "yep you didn't get on it"

Then I thought "omg the officials are ****s if City get anything from this"

Then I thought "FFS"

#truestory

 

http://www.theguardian.com/football...tic-comment-everton-defending-manchester-city

Jagielka accuses Martin Atkinson of arrogance over alleged comment

“I tried to [speak to the referee about the incident] but he just told me that our defending was brilliant,” said Jagielka

 

Once it was given I knew it wasn't going to be our night.

...and true to form we crumpled like a cheap suit.

Taking off our outlet ball and probably the biggest threat we had on the night on the hour mark - and replacing him with the one legged Ivorian was #tacticalgenius