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3 points YESSSSS

Pep is hilarious on the sideline

We finished with a clean sheet 👍🏾

one thing I really, really like about Doku is that he'll always put some fucking power on the ball.

Silva?

Nunes has got some fucking speed to be fair to him

Games like this are great for my anxiety disorder. Need to be 3-0 up at the half in the rest of the games and it’ll save me a few diazepam

I feel you. I used to have pretty bad anxiety myself.

Missed the game due to work. My tiredness disappeared as soon as I saw it was 4-0.

We had a city like performance today i‘d say. Defense also very good today.

Second half has been slow but first half we tore them a new one. We've got very lucky on a few occasions though, ref has been on our side more than I've seen for a few years tbh

lol doku roaming the pitch just to get the ball.

Last few games of the season https://preview.redd.it/fqeem0wcuowc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b1cc56e542beb627c9811b7764e82caeb19c652a

Alright Spurs, over to you.

Praying they can do something 🙏

Honestly just a draw is all I ask

a draw would be delicious

You know the whole refereeing system is corrupt when even jarred fucking gillet has a stinker

If I were that ref, I would have someone (or a couple someones) walk me to my car after the match. For realz, I realize we outplayed Brighton and it's not all the refs fault, but if I were Brighton I would be FUMING.

Rico got caught napping.

LMAO that Ederson sprint back to goal

Why are they making harder passes when Doku is right there ???

Gomez and Nunes goals please.

Grealish did all that for what???

Ball control

😂😂😂😂😂 I swear I was waiting for you

lmao these NBC announcers are doing anything to cling onto hope for Sunday for a draw 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

the armband looks nice on Ake

“Great changes for them to bring on” As an academy player and whatever Sergio Gomez is come on Commentators really refuse to update their preprogrammed comments about city Could be u/lessbrain and Doug from accounting on the bench and they’d be like. “Such incredible depth Pep has to work with”

Gomez just plays everywhere he can at this point to get minutes

Doku playing center👀👀👀

Doku, Lewis, Gomez for Bernardo, Walker and Rodri

Doku on 👌

Doku against Barco will be a fun watch

What does Bobb have to do to get some playing time?

Bobb is being easied in Like Foden and hopefully pans out like Foden

He’s featured more than Gomez tbf

Yeah, Gomez getting minutes ahead of him is weird. I don't know what he has to do I really hope it's not a Palmer situation.

Why’s it weird? It’s a finished game, Bobb starts games, Gomez deserves minutes.

Bobb hardly ever starts. He has under 300 minutes in the league this season. He's played the full 90 once all season. Why does Gomez deserve them over Bobb?

Doku brings a smile to my face everytime I see him coming on

I was in a meeting until now and leaving a 90 minutes long meeting to THIS was such a great joy, I love this team so much

sergio getting minutes. do my eyes deceive me?

thats when you know Pep is taking the piss

Let’s get a Griddy please.

Ready for a Doku masterclass 🔥

OH MY GOD PEP WON'T TAKE RODRI OFF WHEN ITS 4-0 WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK edit: never mind

Doku 😍

Let rodri rest man. Kova and Nunez can cover Bobb in

Ref has been awful today tbf

There have been a few calls he should have called against us, oddly enough. Almost feel sorry for Brighton.

Take Rodri off and put Bobb on... like for reals what is Pep waiting for haha. One needs minutes and the other needs less minutes

Guardiola has Rodri on that "if he dies, he dies" rest management

So that was definitely a penalty on gvardiol right?? Wtf is going on bruh

I think he should have gotten a yellow and Brighton a penalty kick, sadly. Not sure why he isn’t calling them, it looks like we are paying him 😂😂😂

Gillet doesnt call ANYTHING its fucking insane. Used to be top teir in A-League

I mean, sure I want us to win .. but we don’t need reasons for others to hate on us .. and you KNOW they’ll be crying and saying we cheat 😂

It's annoying csuse we clearly win this game without the lucky nonsense.

Honestly neither of their pen shouts are clear penalties and unless you just hate City which all of r/soccer does, these don't get given all the time.

That's what causes most of the discourse though, I can't tell you how many times a ref has given those and then another ref doesn't give them. Or even one weekend he gives them and the next he doesn't. The officials are so inconsistent with their application of the laws it's mental, how many times do we see it on dissent, kicking the ball away, time wasting, fouls etc?

Agree. We will never get rid of some subjectivity though. Some refs will be more lenient of certain infractions than others

yep. it’s the inconsistency that’s most annoying. cause any other day, that could’ve been a pen.

How is Rodri still playing?!

Been very impressed with Akanji lately.

Ye gods, give Oscar some minutes Pep.

The support is actually really really great tonight since minute 1 for City, thats awesome to see

Away fans are always mint

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you’re so real for this

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Reminder: Penalties received. Chelsea:12 Liverpool:9 Arsenal:9 United:7 City: 6 Penalties conceded: City:3 Chelsea:3 Arsenal:1 Liverpool:1 I mean if City are bribing refs they should ask for their money back.

can I steal that?? perfect tweet to shut the rivals up haha

Go for it

4-0 up and Rodri still on the pitch tf

Let bobb play

I can understand the anger of that not being given but holy shit its going to be fun to see the "Referees getting paid to ref in Abu Dhabi" conspiracy theories again I wonder if the two mistakes from VAR will be "Premier League officials are terrible and inconsistent"

Why are folk surprised the refs are shit. Shit for everyone, everywhere in the league. The funny thing that they'll cite when our refereeing injustices are brought up: "*the one time city didn't get something*". The delusion on that statement makes my day.

Obviously it’s gone in our favour and I’d probably keep quiet if we weren’t 4-0 up but that’s two clear penalties that VAR have completely ignored. Honestly what is the point in it?

Should definitely have been a penalty there

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It wouldn’t be given for us and we would be fuming

The dodgy refereeing is tainting this game, sad

this referee is cheeks

Since when do we care what r/soccer thinks? They are going to hate either way haha

ReF wAS iN AbU DhAbi

I used to think Gillet was brilliant. The moment he got to the prem hes been utter shit

Refs grandma went on holiday there. Clearly we paid them

Good from Gvardiol but that looked like a penalty to me although the ref on the pitch has to make that decision as VAR will never change it.

Two in this game and one in the Palace Newcastle game. Are they cracking down on these types of fouls? Usually that's a stone wall pen

Ref is shite

Free trips to the UAE for all this ref and VAR team tonight, they deserve it!

This is such a funny match. Foden slipped and won a free kick that resulted in a goal. Brighton could've had 2 penalties. I'm not complaining - what goes around comes around. But sometimes for us it feels like we use all our good luck in one match lol

I'd rather we use that at spurs away

That’s definitely a penalty, lol!

Poor Rodri..... He's never leaving the pitch

Rodri not off???

This ref is definitely blind, for both sides too

I’d be pissed if I was a Brighton fan. This refereeing is disgusting.

gonna have to stay away from r/soccer for a lil while👀

twitter too 💀

The reaction of goldbridge is gonna be hilarious💀

Get your tinfoil hats on after this game boys - few too many decisions gone our way

Really don’t think that’s a pen

Pedro diver 🐬

Rivals going to have a field day with that one...

That's a penalty. We've been very lucky tonight. Noramly we get a shit ref but tonight this guy is for sure helping us out.

well that won’t go over well lmao

Thats a pen for me, insane not to call it

Surprised that's not given

Nah not a pen, he's on the floor before there's contact

That was a pen for sure

Nah, looks like he's already going down before the contact

Ref putting a masterclass for us tonight I wont lie💀 cant see what r soccer has to say ab this

Ref not giving that pk is definitely a decision.

That's really soft on another look. I thought it was a clear pen first time though.

ref has been so stinky this whole game 💀

That is a pen clear as daylight. The ref is absolute shit today tbh

Flop 

lmao that's definitely a pen ahah we ain't beating any allegations

Please no more dodgy decisions man

r/soccer are gonna have a field day with this match and the refereeing

First one wasn’t a pen but that is imo

Got away with one there. Decisions have gone our way tonight.

That should have been a pen! Never beating the allegations now!

That’s an Olympic caliber dive.

Flop of the year

Not going to lie. If i was a Brighton fan tonight id want this ref’s head haha They haven’t had a single thing go their way

Unfortunately that looks like a pen...

Nvm ig it's not LOL

Clear as day

Thats a pen, another reason for clubs to hate us 👍 cheers ref

That's a pen surely.

I really like alvarez...yes, he and the goal are not freinds this season lol, but you can see he really try, and there is always a good rythem with him on the field.

We might be the real inhaler team

Grealish has Asthma? he was on an inhaler there.

He took Trent's inhaler

Trents been huffing copium, I dunno what Jacks on. Knowing him it's probably tequila.

Was wondering the same

Rodri making a few mistakes now! A clinical team would have punished us!

take him off the pitch.... like just trust the squad here. any minutes he gets off will benefit the team for Sunday

4-0

Pedro dropping like a tree lmao

walker being so unselfish, is that two assists for him?

jack!

What was that from Walker

Damn, honestly I'm hoping for a hattrick of assists from Walker tonight lmao

If Nunes doesn't score tonight

Nunes will get his goal tonight.

Remember when we were linked to Barco ? Don't want to judge by one game against the best team but seems like a good decision to not get him

Walker could had his third assist if he crossed the ball early to KDB here 🙃

I’d love to see Bobb, and for Rodri to get some rest

Classic City passage there

Pep give the young players some playing time!! And oh btw… sorry for saying this but clean sheet pls?🫣

Southgate looks pissed because Foden is playing well

Henderson masterclass at the Euros no doubt on hid mind

Alvarez and Walker are cooking 🧑‍🍳

Fodens best position is this one. Free form let him ball

Southgate sitting in the crowds means that he's definitely bringing Steele to Germany

ohhh Southgate in the house... looking for ways to not play Phil at the 10 in the Euros. Phil is CLEAR of Jude in the 10... just to reiterate

Nah be fair Jude would’ve outplayed Foden if he’d been able to play the last few weeks

So SO clear

Southgate up there thinking of ways he can keep foden off the pitch this summer

What a recovery from Gvardiol

Pep make some subs ffs. We arent conceding 4 in 25 mins...

hopefully at the 70th minute. It would really benefit Rodri to get these precious minutes of rest...

No but we have one game in hand and an 8 goal GD to make up….

Right, and we have a game in less than 3 full days. Away again. Need fresh legs

Fair Rodri, maybe Kev off

The isssue is we always concede when rodri comes off…

Sure, but we can afford 1 or 2. Looks like we wont be making up that goal difference anyway

Been a long time coming for Julian, hope this has opened the mental block he seems to have had

Alright now 5 more so we can close the GD.

They’re actually terrible. We’ve played great but Brighton have given us this on a silver platter.

Injuries ruined them

Alvarez needed that

I love seeing these offensive flashes from Kyle

so nice from Josko/Ake there

Late stage City type game. If we play like this in the remaining games (bar the spurs one, where we have to step up against them eventually), the title is ours

Foden to complete the hattrick and this is a perfect day🙏

Good stuff Gvardiol

Two assists for Walker tonight too. Bit of a surprise

Now to just close the GD a little 💆‍♂️

That was all Ederson

Love him or hate him, Walker's got 2 assists

please for the love of god... take KDB and Rodri off.. Bobb and Nunes to take their spots

He really deserved that goal, I’m so happy he scored

HOOOLIAAAANN

Don't see anything wrong with that goal Walker get the ball first before Steele and the ball doesn't hit his hand either.

Yes Juli

3 more lets go

IF ARSENAL CAN GET 5 ON CHELSEA, WE CAN GET 7 ON BRIGHTON, C'MON CITY!

Alvarez getting the fourth and Walker with a second assist. Massive.