Manchester City v West Ham United (Kick off: 8pm)

Mr.Nice Guy · 28-09-2009 9:31pm

Ah there's no need to bother counting Owen's goals. Sure he justified his signing last week.

City are extraordinarily lax about defending short corners. There's acres of space to exploit for West Ham, just like there was last week.

Gillington · 28-09-2009 9:34pm

Stanislas and Hines on for West Ham wonder when we'll see Santa.

Need one more goal for me over 4.5 goals bet to come in,c'mon Tevez!

Xavi6 · 28-09-2009 9:43pm

ntlbell wrote: »

what excuses am i making?

You dismissed West Ham as decent opposition, even though everyone knows they are. Maybe he just needed a move to re-discover his goalscoring touch. Looks sharp tonight anyway.

Anyhoo, great to see Roque on the pitch now.

Mr.Nice Guy · 28-09-2009 9:49pm

Poor miss from Santa Cruz, although he is rusty I suppose.

Xavi6 · 28-09-2009 9:51pm

Jonno back as well! Fantastic

Mr.Nice Guy · 28-09-2009 9:55pm

Xavi6 wrote: »

Jonno back as well! Fantastic

Looks like he's put on a good bit of muscle. I remember him being quite slight the last time I saw him.

Xavi6 · 28-09-2009 9:56pm

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Looks like he's put on a good bit of muscle. I remember him being quite slight the last time I saw him.

Yeah he put on a lot of weight at first but has now turned most of it into muscle. If he stays fit he'll be brilliant for us.

Another three points on the board. Very happy overall, particularly with Petrov. Great to see him back to his best after so long out.

Holsten · 28-09-2009 10:23pm

Good win for City.

JPA · 28-09-2009 10:24pm

Citys defence is still porous. Maybe it just needs time to gel.

bigstar · 28-09-2009 10:26pm

Xavi6 wrote: »

Yeah he put on a lot of weight at first but has now turned most of it into muscle. If he stays fit he'll be brilliant for us.

Another three points on the board. Very happy overall, particularly with Petrov. Great to see him back to his best after so long out.

theres good bit of fat on him too, reminded me of fowler a bit, though id say hell lose that easy enough over the next few weeks. great to see him back.

nice game, could have had a load more goals but the defence still looks iffy especially at set pieces. bellamy is playing really well though, its gonna be tough to drop him or tevez for ade or rocky. nice position to be in though.

SlickRic · 28-09-2009 11:27pm

Zola wrote: »

"It was a game, in my opinion, that we didn't play at all and yes maybe there was a couple of mistakes from the referee but that is part of the game,"

"But the standard I am expecting from the team is much more, in the second-half we were better.
"I am talking about the first-half which wasn't good enough and you can't afford to come to places like this and just give presents to the opposition, they will take advantage of the smallest opportunity."

"For the moment, we haven't been able to show it [how good they are],"

"Unless we improve it is not good enough - no doubt we will improve our position and will ask more of ourselves."

refreshing to see Zola not focus on the referee. it's so easy to sound bitter, especially after the fact it should have been 2-2 at half-time with Parker's 'goal'.

good to see, therefore, him focus on the fact West Ham simply weren't as good as City, and that was the reason they didn't win.

you could do a lot worse than Gianfranco as your manager I suspect.