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Here's to hoping, there is normally a team that flies up from obscurity. Fingers crossed it can be us!

Yea, could have moved the ball way faster, got it into the wide players early to give them a chance to actually get at their man

I think their defence is probably one off the best in the league. All their games seem to be 1 nils or low scoring draws.

I don't think that's correct (6th best away record).

The free kick is given where the offside player receives the ball apparently, it was explained in the Comms.

This applies to basically all our forwards across many, many games. This stretches back to last season, Wright and particularly Simms had made a run and could have been found with a relatively simple pass but weren't. I think we are getting the ball forward better now in patches, some really...

2 points away from home all season and 30+ goals conceded so far this season. A factually correct chant for a change!

Shitter. What's EMC out with, some sort of strain?

That free kick against Van Heeke encapsulates "the game has gone".

2nd of the season?

Generally, yes IMO.

Especially someone like Rooney who is probably one of the most naturally gifted players this country has ever produced.

Odd refereeing display. Their 11 could have gone for two yellows way earlier in the game Same for one of their players who came on (Fawshaw maybe?) who blocked a quick free kick and was putting it about a bit and I think put in a few late heavy ones (may have been mistaken, how foggy was it).

Their determination to play out from the back started to annoy me by the end of the game, I couldn't grasp how Rooney or the players couldn't see that it was a tactic doomed to fail miserably which I think sums up Rooney as a manager. He is not tactically aware enough to keep a limited team up...

A lot of credit in the bank there, I don't think he'll be sacked anytime soon. That said, Manchester City could be in for a lean spell. That squad needs an overhaul basically from top to bottom.

Agreed. At a guess I'd say we're in the top 6 (good) but like you I think the xG doesn't tell the whole story. Our calamitous defending really has fucked us this season to date.

Manchester City's drop in performance is quite astonishing...

Lati had a game, he IMO has looked improved under Lampard. Way more combative.

Great result. Eccles man of the match for a complete midfield performance, ably abetted by Sheaf who had a very good game. EMC really is thriving under Lampard, looks unplayable at times. How shit was the ref?

I said that on the night. Personally I thought Usyk won but I was surprised at the unanimous decision.