Arsenal Vs City

Originally Posted by Danoli

We just got to hang on in there, we can still do this.

I just wish Casemiro was playing on Sunday

Nah, not enough goals in the team. Put Haaland in our side then yes, but unfortunately our two central striker options are a heartless Frenchman and £#%&!Horse.

Would be funny to finish above Arsenal mind you, after their fans’ hubris this season.

Originally Posted by Dr Stranger

Every team can point to dropped points, but to drop points in the last minute in two games in a week is hard to not look back on. We should have won at Palace. That was the big one we threw away. And we were a minute away from drawing at Arsenal too. All in the space of four days.

3rd is the best we can hope for. We haven't the squad or the goals to properly challenge city. Their enormous and expensively assembled squad will be the difference, as usual.

Originally Posted by Selhurst Samurai

Nah, not enough goals in the team. Put Haaland in our side then yes, but unfortunately our two central striker options are a heartless Frenchman and £#%&!Horse.

Would be funny to finish above Arsenal mind you, after their fans’ hubris this season.

Haaland had scored 2 in his last 11 before tonight ..

Not fit to lace rashfords boots ..

5 behind 15 to play...

We're right in there ..

Originally Posted by Sparky***

3rd is the best we can hope for. We haven't the squad or the goals to properly challenge city. Their enormous and expensively assembled squad will be the difference, as usual.

Agreed. The fact we’re even talking about it shows just how much we’ve progressed.

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Haaland had scored 2 in his last 11 before tonight ..

Not fit to lace rashfords boots ..

5 behind 15 to play...

We're right in there ..

Fair enough. We’ll ignore the other 20 or so PL goals he scored before that run then.

Rashford is a far more talented all round player, but put a ruthless finisher like Haaland through the middle for us and he’d bang them in for fun.

Originally Posted by Dr Stranger

Agreed. The fact we’re even talking about it shows just how much we’ve progressed.

It’s incredible tbh. After Brentford and Brighton we were at our lowest. Ten Hag is a £#%&!ing wizard

City galvanised by their own cheating ffs

Originally Posted by Sapien

Trossard looks like a corpse

He looks £#%&!ing ill. Blood tests asap imo.

Originally Posted by Vedder

It’s incredible tbh. After Brentford and Brighton we were at our lowest. Ten Hag is a £#%&!ing wizard

It’s always a little disingenuous to take out games that don’t suit an argument, but it did feel like our season started after those first two games. That felt the old United. Liverpool H felt like ten Hag’s United and we’ve been as good as anyone since then.

Arsenal may be new to this, but Arteta is five years in. City are city. Ten Hag took over the lowest ebb of any United side of the last 30 years. Dealt with the Ronaldo situation and was literally given a horse in January. He’s working miracles to have us competing and having discussions about the title.

"is this a good result for Utd?"

So asked Clive Tyldsley last night whilst commentating - there is now a 14 page thread on BlueMoon tearing him to strips for saying it.

They're so £#%&!ing insecure. Check out this tit...

Didn’t want to jump to a quick conclusion, so I slept on it.....

What a @#%&!, even dragged the normally neutral McCoist down with him

Slept on it

Went to bed fuming over a simple comment a football commentator made and spent the night mulling over it

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Eventually in a long season all that performative chest thumping and engineered 'intensity' will tell on you. You can't win a title by screaming at yourself in the changing room mirror and slapping yourself across the face before every game... In the end you ask who are they trying to convince? Everyone else or themselves?

All that £#%&!ing silly touchline panto antics is for the birds at some point in a title race you need what City showed today - cold, ruthless and efficient. They were brilliant City, as much as i hate to say it. They did exactly what we would have done at our peak, rode the waves, stayed solid, and let Arsenal tie themselves in knots and undermine their own confidence.

All that shit Gary Neville got for saying that City would chase them down...

Did you see some of the team tallks Arteta did in that documentary ? some proper weird / cringe stuff going on.

When everything is going well I guess you can get away with it, but during the tough times you need more than silly anectdotes and drawings on a flip chart.

When the chips are down you can imagine the palyers thinking "what the £#%&!" and switching off to what he says

Originally Posted by Parlabane

Did you see some of the team tallks Arteta did in that documentary ? some proper weird / cringe stuff going on.

When everything is going well I guess you can get away with it, but during the tough times you need more than silly anectdotes and drawings on a flip chart.

When the chips are down you can imagine the palyers thinking "what the £#%&!" and switching off to what he says

I did find it amusing that he’s spent the whole season flailing away and apoplectically riverdancing at every little decision….yet when his team needed a bit of help second half, he had nothing.

They spend so long geeing up their crowd that they forgot to actually play the game in front of them. They did well first half and completely lost the plot second half.

A giddy, chaotic mess. Just like their manager.

Weird, weird performance from Arsenal in that second half. It was like the most important thing was proving they could play out from the back through City’s press, like it was a badge of honour actually getting into City’s half and trying to score? Nah, that’s for Neanderthals that don’t understand the game

Giving it the big ‘un and geeing up the crowd when winning a throw 40 yards from their own goal after a pass was intercepted

Originally Posted by dunk

Weird, weird performance from Arsenal in that second half. It was like the most important thing was proving they could play out from the back through City’s press, like it was a badge of honour actually getting into City’s half and trying to score? Nah, that’s for Neanderthals that don’t understand the game

‘Trying to play the game the right way’.

Who decides what the right way is?

arsenal i knew they would bottle it.

they'll eventually win this season's title when city are stripped of their honours anyway.

Originally Posted by MagnificentSeven

arsenal i knew they would bottle it.

they'll eventually win this season's title when city are stripped of their honours anyway.

The race for second is the true title race

Originally Posted by Dr Stranger

‘Trying to play the game the right way’.

Who decides what the right way is?

Liverpool.

Originally Posted by Dr Stranger

‘Trying to play the game the right way’.

Who decides what the right way is?

Jonathan Wilson, Michael Cox, & all the other pseudo-intellectual bores that have drained the game of its character.

Originally Posted by 53RedRum

State of the blue @#%&!s in the crowd. A truly odd bunch.

That's why they are cITY fans in the 1st place though, as they are clearly misfits

City seemed more powerful than Arsenal in the second half not prepared to let them play. Arsenal look like a team of spoilt posh kids.

Against City you need to close down KdB and stop his supply against Arsenal you need to get tight on the wide players.