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Stoke v Manchester City 20/08/16 12.30 Skysports

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  • #52
    Blatter
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    That's a shocking decision. This isn't a no contact sport.


  • #53
    CSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,561 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    Tomagotchye wrote: »
    I don't think shawcross was getting to that anyways. Hmm... Pathetically soft

    Nah, it's just time for people to stop dragging out of each other in the box, regardless of whether they're going to score.


  • #54
    GreNoLi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,292 ✭✭✭GreNoLi


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Mike Dean having a Mike Dean. I'm old enough to remember when the game had some decent men in black what has gone wrong? Is the game too fast, are the rules and their interpretations too messy to be consistent?

    Long gone are the days of Uriah Rennie.


  • #55
    CSF
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    Blatter wrote: »
    That's a shocking decision. This isn't a no contact sport.

    It's a no dragging out of people sport though.


  • #56
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    Sterling barely touched Shawcross.

    Sky's commentators seemed to have been paid to keep telling everyone the ref was consistent , when Shawcross didn't look to be impeded at all and it was a completely different scenario to the first penalty.


  • #57
    The Backwards Man
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    niallo27 wrote: »
    Shocking call there by the ref. You will 20 pens a game if this is the way it goes.
    You'll have none if players cop themselves on


  • #58
    Burial.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Burial.


    That's one of the worst penalty calls I have ever seen. Scratch that one of the worst refereeing decisions. Nonsense from Dean.


  • #59
    JakeArmitage
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    Unearthly wrote: »
    What a soft pen. Like as if he was determined to make up for mistake first half

    Which mistake, the penalty City got or the penalty Stoke should have gotten


  • #60
    razorblunt
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    No complaints from me for either of those penalties. Dean needs to apply that for the rest of the season.
    Can you see him awarding one of those against a bigger team when they're at home, probably not.


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  • #61
    GreNoLi
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    Amazing distribution by Willy.


  • #62
    Agent Coulson
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    Stokealona starting to turn up now.


  • #63
    martyos121
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    Can any City fan tell me what Navas actually offers to the team? He's sort of quick, that's all I see and nothing else.


  • #64
    the whole year inn
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    martyos121 wrote: »
    Can any City fan tell me what Navas actually offers to the team? He's sort of quick, that's all I see and nothing else.

    Hes fast and has stamina and plays till the very end.He cant shot and is very predicatable.


  • #65
    Ardent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,329 ✭✭✭Ardent


    martyos121 wrote: »
    Can any City fan tell me what Navas actually offers to the team? He's sort of quick, that's all I see and nothing else.

    He's the Spanish Aaron Lennon.


  • #66
    Blatter
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    martyos121 wrote: »
    Can any City fan tell me what Navas actually offers to the team? He's sort of quick, that's all I see and nothing else.

    Not a City fan but his primary purpose would be to create space for the other City attackers. His mere presence on the right will worry defenders because of his pace and ability to run in behind. City could obviously do a lot better though as his end product sucks big time.


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  • #67
    Skylinehead
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    Iheanacho is brilliant.


  • #68
    HalloweenJack
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    Very nice goal, very calm and collected from Iheanacho.


  • #69
    JakeArmitage
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    is that city top on goal difference now :(


  • #70
    Mushy
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    JakeArmitage wrote: »
    is that city top on goal difference now :(

    Don't think so, city conceded one more.


  • #71
    martyos121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,497 ✭✭✭✭martyos121


    JakeArmitage wrote: »
    is that city top on goal difference now :(

    They are now.


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  • #72
    the whole year inn
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    Sterling selfless fairplay!


  • #73
    JPA
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    City should win the league, crazy good squad.
    They've underperformed massively the last 2 years.


  • #74
    Burial.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Burial.


    Iheanacho brilliant in that second goal for Nolito too.


  • #75
    blueser
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    Job done. Accomplished first half display, ropey in the second half. I'd say Pep won't be happy with the drop-off in the second half, notwithstanding that Stoke didn't actually create that much in the way of decent chances. Not sure why he didn't leave Raheem on the right wing; Navas shouldn't be out there. Anyway, it made a nice change from our customary poor result at Stoke.


  • #76
    Andersonisgod
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    blueser wrote: »
    Job done. Accomplished first half display, ropey in the second half. I'd say Pep won't be happy with the drop-off in the second half, notwithstanding that Stoke didn't actually create that much in the way of decent chances. Not sure why he didn't leave Raheem on the right wing; Navas shouldn't be out there. Anyway, it made a nice change from our customary poor result at Stoke.

    Same thing in his first season at Bayern. Lots of great half performances or strong showings for 60 minutes then a big drop off in sections of games. At the end of the day the football he is trying to implement takes time and hard work both on the part of himself and his coaching staff and his team of players but he will undoubtedly be overjoyed with how City have taken to his ways so quickly. I think that first season at Bayern and the trials, tribulations and issues that came with it have benefited City hugely because it appears that he and his team have taken a lot of lessons from what went well and what didnt go well and theyve adjusted their approach here.


  • #77
    HalloweenJack
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    Not as good in the second half but a better performance than the Sunderland game. Looking very rosy for City.


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