The Manchester Derby - City vs United Match Thread

Beau x1

Ah close for City

Daysha

Frisbee wrote: »

It looked like he was pointing at the badge on his sleeve though instead of his chest?
Or was that just me?

He did. Premiership champions have a gold EPL emblem on their sleeve, as opposed to normal white emblems for everyone else.

Nice little touch I have to say

ntlbell

Ronaldo having a nightmare tbh bring on JOS :pac:

LuckyLloyd

ntlbell wrote: »

he threw it in the same spot the kick was at

ronaldo did it 5 mins later and nothing was said?

irelands yellow a joke, fletechers the same the cards were redic

Well, you're entitled to your opinion. Webb is doing fine so far in my mind.

RasTa

Who gets the assist?

Chong

I agree on the Ronaldo comment, he is woeful today, anonymous.

ntlbell

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Well, you're entitled to your opinion. Webb is doing fine so far in my mind.

what did ireland do wrong?

Chong

So far so good.

Ronnie is dreadful.

Park, Rafa, Roon, Carrick, Fletch and the Defense playing well.

herbieflowers

he never does it in the big games

ghouldaddy07

Delighted with the first half.:)

Hope utd dont drop down a gear in the second half as I feel city have a goal in them.

Chong

Its true, good to see he isnt being fed the ball the whole time.

There was one stage in the first half , and it was so refreshing seeing Rafa just bombing up the line for his cross for Berba.

Then you have that knob Ronaldo , dicking about with the ball and losing it .

RasTa

Webb has turned into an awful ref, he has displayed in countless times now on the European stage and sounds like he is doing so again today.

As soon as a ref gets a bit of hype they seem to turn crap ala Poll.

ntlbell

Cruijff wrote: »

Then you have that knob Ronaldo , dicking about with the ball and losing it .

step overs 19

balls given away 6

balls blasted into the stand 2

nightmare is not the word

Xavi6

Better team up at the half. We're just dire. Vas needs to be hauled off for starters. Didi is doin ok but is too slow. Defending awful as expected, though Kompany has done well. Need Elano, Sturridge, and Zab on to change things up a bit and give us any sort of chance.

cardshark202

anyone got a good stream. need one pronto please!

Frisbee

RasTa wrote: »

Webb has turned into an awful ref, he has displayed in countless times now on the European stage and sounds like he is doing so again today.

I don't think Webb is performing that bad. He's not having a great one, but not a poor one either

ghouldaddy07

ntlbell wrote: »

step overs 19

balls given away 6

balls blasted into the stand 2

nightmare is not the word

Indeed, Wish someone would tell him he dosnt need to flick every fecking pass.

anonymous_joe

Hmmm. Guess the FA was serious about hitting the streams.

Every stream on Justin.tv is being pulled within a few minutes. Lame.

PHB

Happy enough. We shoulda have more goals to show for our dominance, but I can live with it.

Ronaldo pretty quiet, but he's drawing people off him giving Evra an awful lot of space to run into, which has been our main route for attack. Then again, most people would be happy to just knock him, but he's putting in a solid enough performance, just not outstanding. I won't complain if he plays this way till the end of the match.

Good goal for Rooney, he should score a couple now in the coming weeks.

Rafael doing well, silly booking and it cost could him later on, but he's doing well. Carrick is putting in an absolutely fantastic performance in midfield, fantastic, MOM by a country mile so far.

I must say, I've watched Ireland for a couple of games now this season, and he's been good, but today is the first time I've really been convinced that he is going to be at least a top 4 quality midfielder. They are getting completely dominated by everyone, United are just better than them all over the pitch, but yet he's come extremely close to scoring, and set up two fantastic chances with some great skill. He's playing well when the team around him are playing ****e, which is downright impressive.

LuckyLloyd

ntlbell wrote: »

what did ireland do wrong?

Kicked the ball away after the whistle had gone.

ghouldaddy07

http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=24933&part=sports

the espn streams are decent if ye have sopcast.

Raskolnikov

After the sitters that Rooney has missed in recent weeks, he had to get that one.

ntlbell

PHB wrote: »

I must say, I've watched Ireland for a couple of games now this season, and he's been good, but today is the first time I've really been convinced that he is going to be at least a top 4 quality midfielder. They are getting completely dominated by everyone, United are just better than them all over the pitch, but yet he's come extremely close to scoring, and set up two fantastic chances with some great skill. He's playing well when the team around him are playing ****e, which is downright impressive.

he had a fluff of a shot from outside the box

has made a number of passes that floated into VDS

given away free kicks when has tried to put in tackles, and very rarley got close enough to make one

are we watching the same game?

Chong

All about confidence with Wayne , I hope this spurs the lad on.

ntlbell

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Kicked the ball away after the whistle had gone.

the card was for the foul?

apoligises i thought it was for the foul which wasnt that bad.

didn't see him kick the ball away

ROCKMAN

very happy with the first half, But we've been here before, Need to kept in up for the full 90.

Rafael has had a good game so far ( that brainfart off throwing the ball i'll put down to age and lack off.)

Evra has been fantastic ,

Rooney goal celebration look like a man who has really really under pressure ie.that 100th (probably self inflicted pressure )


Think Ireland was just stupid to kick away the ball after seen rafael yellow:eek:

ntlbell

ROCKMAN wrote: »

very happy with the first half, But we've been here before, Need to kept in up for the full 90.

Rafael has had a good game so far ( that brainfart off throwing the ball i'll put down to age and lack off.)

granted if he banged the ball on the ground and was moaning and groaning he threw the ball in the air at the spot of the kick as he ran back into position there was no real disent and webb should of used common sense

Xavi6

Here come Zab and Elano like I asked.

LuckyLloyd

ntlbell wrote: »

the card was for the foul?

I didn't thinkso. How are you sure?

While a willingness to change things is positive, I'm not sure taking off Hamman was the right decision. We'll see.

ntlbell

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

I didn't thinkso. How are you sure?

While a willingness to change things is positive, I'm not sure taking off Hamman was the right decision. We'll see.

post edited apoligies..

Raskolnikov

I agree with PHB, Ireland has been decent, just a shame that his team mates are playing poorly.

Hughes needs to change things here. Haman needs to come off for Ben-Haim, that'll mean Kompany can move into midfield. Vassell needs to come off for Elano with SWP on the wing and Elano in midfield. Benjani is a disaster and needs to be hauled off for Jo.

I can't see City getting anything here. Totally outclassed.

ROCKMAN

ntlbell wrote: »

granted if he banged the ball on the ground and was moaning and groaning he threw the ball in the air at the spot of the kick as he ran back into position there was no real disent and webb should of used common sense

Totally agree should have never been a card,
My point was more about having the experience to not give Webb the opportunity in the first place.

Xavi6

Much better now. We're actually getting some possession and look more balanced. Elano has made a huge difference already.

LuckyLloyd

City showing signs of life - but needed a great intervention from Dunne there to stay in it.

ntlbell

citeh looking a lot more of a threat this half.

this is setup for ryan giggs

Frisbee

ntlbell wrote: »

this is setup for ryan giggs

Why?

I dont think Benjani has played poorly myself, he's done the best that could be expected of him up there on his own.
Maybe there was a few times he should have held the ball up and waited for support, but Vassell and Robinho have been fairly far behind him most times he gets the ball.

Daysha

FFS Ronaldo....

Chong

Terrible attitude there from Ronaldo.

LuckyLloyd

ntlbell wrote: »

this is setup for ryan giggs

Huh? I'd keep things as pacey and athletic as possible tbh. Going to get more and more counter attack opportunities as the half goes on.

Dave!

lol, Ronaldo has no friends

Raskolnikov

Dunphy would have a field day with Ronaldo.

Get Tevez on for him.

RasTa

Cruijff wrote: »

Terrible attitude there from Ronaldo.

He moaning again?

LuckyLloyd

lol, Fletcher just got owned.

LuckyLloyd

Hmmm, Elano gets the poorest set piece of the week award. And it ain't close.

PHB

Jesus christ, do people not have better things to do than watch every single thing Ronaldo does?

Made a foul, it was maybe a yellow, he argued, the ref gave it, he gave him some stick, they moved on. Theres a game on!

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City are getting back into this, we need another goal I think.

Dave!

mad skillz from elano there

poor from berbatov

Xavi6

Kompany and SWP have been superb for us.

LuckyLloyd

Well, Xavi has been critical of Dunne recently - but he's been great today.

PHB

Robinho did a very clever thing trying to get Rafael sent off, very clever. Tried to kick the ball off him when he wasn't 10 yards away, to get him booked. But he missed

Chong

This is getting very very dodgy, Rafa , Fletch need to watch it or be replaced.