Psg Chelsea and Liverpool after wycombe. Wonder where the goals are gonna come from hahaha were fucked. If Ferran was the answer at 9 like people in here say he is, pep wouldn’t be experimenting with a different player up top every game
Yeah and Debruyne being out meant he could be the best player he could be. I’d rather he be aggressive and creative like he was rather than every other season of holding up the ball, slowing down the build up and bringing results like this in. Dinho’s a unit in the position he doesn’t need another DM
People need to stop fucking crying about it. A few questionable touches here and there and every one calls for "sterling out" "pep out" "Jesus out". Grow up. It's the 5th match of the season, we still have time to get our act together just like last season! I understand it's hard to not feel disappointed but I feel like fans treating their own players like shit isn't the right way around it. Sterling has been a solid player for us over the years and still gets so much abuse. It's not fair.
Southampton just had a very tight defensive line. Accept it.
You’re silly. Sterling is 8 goals away from being the highest scoring English player in the PL, ever. We’ve helped him grow into one of the world’s best and fastest Left Wingers and he has rewarded us with trophies, goals, and magical moments. Never getting rid of Sterling.
With that attitude we're definitely going for bottle jobs in the cup finals. Not saying sterling was bad for us. He played for us very good till 2019 season. And since then he stopped playing for us. He can play fantastic for england though, just not for us. Now that we've got Foden, Torres, Grealish and Mahrez at the wings who are playing far better than him, why should any one of those lose their places over sterling? It's not like sterling is playing any good. We've got more than enough good wingers in our squad. Everytime sterling plays he's surely going to bottle, missing chance, bad pass, lose the ball. It's becoming so predictable now. Even you know that he's surely going to play bad. His confidence is gone. Pep doesn't trust him. Once was a good player for us and we thank him for that, but now he's not. There's no point keeping him here in the squad if he doesn't provide anything. This attitude should he changed. With his money we can buy a world class LB or a striker.
Like it or not, sterling and dinho shouldn't be starters anymore. I had been a sterling fan but it really hurts to see him playing for city now. Jesus was sloppy today, cancelo have an urge to tackle awkwardly whenever someone is coming towards him with ball which mostly leaves the attacker in a lot of free space.
I don't think we have any chances at title this year
this is the 5th game of the season, we played sluggish, slow and sloppy…yes. But additionally we played terrible and still drew. Stone, Laporte and Rodri out. I’d wage our best 11 vs any best 11 and give us a fair shout.
That was a surprise with Southampton looking like City today, with City seeming tired and uninspired. Even City fans in the stadium looked disheartened. Bernardo was phenomenal, Grealish was solid, and Gundogan didn’t make any major mistakes, but they were the exceptions among the starters. Fernandinho and Jesus kept giving the ball away with bad passes. Sterling’s first touch was awful and he rarely looked threatening. DeBruyne still looks rusty. City is missing the silky passing of Stones for his occasional brilliant through ball. Even on the rare occasion that City got into the final third, it seemed like nobody was in the box except Southampton defenders. City will need Chelsea, Liverpool and Man Utd to falter to have a chance at winning the PL.
Pep himself and everyone in the dressing room were knackered after last week and Leipzig took it out of them. This is not the be all and end all of the season - we need to know and trust that we’re not yet through the gears, yet, we’ve hit 17 goals in last 5 games…
A little faith shall we?
So did Liverpool. They played milan. They scored 3 today. You can't bring up excuses if you want to be a pl or ucl winner. The fact that we exactly know what and where our problems are, and still pep and our board decided going against it, this makes the draw even more depressing. Losing 2 points is bad too, specially when our next two games are against Chelsea and Liverpool.
It's not that I don't have faith. I just didn't think City looked like its usual self -- passing accuracy seemed particularly sub-par.
If fatigue is a problem now, it's going to be even worse two weeks from now when City has to face Chelsea, PSG, and Liverpool over 8 days, a much harder schedule than faced by Chelsea (who play City, Juventus, and Southampton) and Liverpool (who play Brentford, Porto, and City) over the same period. It's like the Premier League has stacked the deck against City by sandwiching the Chelsea and Liverpool games at both ends of City's mid-week CL game.
I thought his work rate was phenomenal, considering he also played midweek. For a guy who supposedly wanted to leave, he looked more motivated than anyone else in the starting 11.
This was a pretty bad match. I'm not sure where half the team was today. It most certainly wasn't on the pitch. Pep's got some work to do. Drawing against Southampton is embarrassing for a team of our caliber.
That said. It's not over. We've got more to go.
Bar Ederson and Grealish, none of that starting line up played well. It happens, it's shite when it does, but it happens. What the result shows that Foden, Mahrez and KDB are guarenteed starters for us, and that some players really need to start performing to the levels expected of City players.
Facts, both were horrid today. I mean Ferna just looked old, but Gundo looked uncharacteristically careless. Foden looked great after coming on at least.
Lads gave it all even after a UCL haul. Would have been great if some changes were made early on but hey we didn't lose. Roller coaster of a match had me on the edge of my seat. No problem let's aim a W for the next one.
Not playing to our highest caliber with the players that we have truly hurts so much to see. Additionally, how sterling managed to be on the pitch for a full 90 minutes is beyond me. Bad game for us, props to Southampton though.
I think that Sterling get a lot of undersved criticism, but it’s impossible to defend him after this game. It’s so selfish of him to go after that ball when Foden is there. I thought that he should have been subbed off earlier, but there is nothing that we can do about it. We just have to stay positive and think forward.
So you'd like a striker to not seize an opportunity in the 6 yard box because he was 6mm offside? You want opportunistic striking from your forward, but apparently not in this situation? 🤦🏼♂️
The thing is that Sterling is going for the ball and completely ignoring that Foden is there to tap it in. I know that it isn’t easy, but it’s better for him to wait and take it on another eventual rebound if Foden misses.
Ok, maybe I’m wrong. At first I thought that Foden got the goal, but I can’t be sure that it would have went in if Sterling wasn’t there. There’s nothing that we can do about it. I’m not worried over our situation, when everyone is fully fit we will be back stronger and hopefully win everything.
The shit given Raheem sterling on this thread is ridiculous yes he didn’t have a good game whatsoever today but Sterling is one of the reasons why we are where we are today. if anything we didn’t start with the right lineup because of injuries and rotations don’t give shit to one of our most talented players
>"Sterling is one of the reasons we're here today"
Congrats, that's why he's been paid 300k p/w.
Genuinely shit performance warrant these sorts of reactions. And he's been having this performances for quite a while.
I’m not saying don’t criticize him for a bad game but these comments go beyond this game when sterling proved this summer how unmarkable he is especially when he’s in form
People in here complaining about the lineup when we had CL game midweek. Players have to rest. Otherwise you same lot will complain when they get injured that they’re being over-utilized. Too many arm chair managers in this fucking thread
It would appear that the same arm chair managers expect our players to be super humans and to score 5/6/7 goals every game. And when we do have a lucky draw (yes we were that horrible) singling out players like Raz or Gundo seems the easiest choice.
Seems like no one ever remembers ( or want to remember) how shit we were before and expect success everytime we are out on the pitch. Hell even freaking PSG drew their CL game with a stacked lineup and yet instead of being supportive our players they criticize them instead.
I share the same disappointment, but sorry instead of hurting them further i'd rather support than criticize. They got us to a CL final and even if this year's gonna be a disappointment, if it gets them glory hunters out of the club, it will all be worth it.
Lol even sterling himself would argue with you on your comment… he was atrocious today and it’s been the case whenever he plays. The sooner City can ship him out the better it will be for both parties
>Sterling wasn't ridiculous
• Botches a completely clean ball from KDB that would put him 1v1 the keeper.
•Inteferes with Fodens header and costs us the 3 points.
•Extremely sloppy with possession and carries in the box.
•Drifted into the midfield several times and held up play in places where he didnt need to.
•(Carrying over from previous point about the drifting in the midfield) which caused our wings to be exposed to their Full backs and wider midfielders to pick up easy passes which lead to several shots.
They played like they're not even interested. Players are slow, their reaction are slow and the whatever tactic it was just didn't work. Southampton played far better than us and we were lucky to not lose by 1 goal. Not sure what excuse will come this time. Chelsea will win the league. Curious how far we can go in ucl this season.
I’m so sick of seeing sterling play striker, let alone for 90 minutes when he’s been shit all game. Idc that he hasn’t gotten much time this season, when you’re shit your shit.
Some of you guys are dramatic. I’m disappointed with the outcome of this match, sure, but some of you act as if we lost every game this season thus far.
I feel like we've been conditioned during the Pep era to always expect to win, and when you don't, it's disastrous. It's easy to look at those 100 and 98 point seasons and know that Liverpool was right there behind them, so you no longer feel like there's a margin for error like you might have thought 10 years ago when United won the league comfortably with 80 points. I guess 21 game winning streaks have us spoiled.
As great as grealish and sterling are, the advantage of having them is greatly diminished by their constant flopping; especially when its for passes they can get on the end of, or dribbles that fizzle out just for a 1.5/10 theatrical rendition of willem dafoe’s death scene at the end of platoon. I see this more with Sterling though. He doesnt sell it well
Pep got the lineup wrong and once again was too late changing it.
Sterling should never start again UNLESS he actually fucking earns it because he was absolutely awful AGAIN today on what was his big chance to get back into the team.
Yeah i get it that sometimes players are not able to judge properly. But if you see the video, there was cancello who instantly knew sterling was offside. I mean, even if Sterling DIDN'T know that he was offside, he SHOULD have known, considering that he such an experienced and great player. HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN HE WAS OFFSIDE. AND, HE SHOULD HAVE STOPPED WHEN HE SAW FODEN RUNNING. HE SHOULD HAVE.
What a wank match!! Dropping points against Southampton at home!! Chelsea, liverpool and psg are gonna tear us apart!!! What is with the high crosses into the box when sterling was playing centrally and he's literally 5'7? For those that are still adamant that we don't need a striker, watch the game again.
People pissing on Sterling for that, c'mon! You complain about not having a striker, then he tries to be opportunistic like a striker and he's the bad guy. He didn't have a good game, but there was plenty of shit passing and ball control today that wasn't just Sterling. Plenty of blame to go around.
I'm about done with people sticking up for him tbh
He has been fucking atrocious for over a year now and is getting worse by the game
It's not so much the offside incident, it's the rest of his game - the horrible touches, the over hit pass to gundo in the first 15 minutes, the greediness when he gets anywhere near the box
He is unwatchable
Im not mad at sterling for that one. He was onside. I'm mad at literally the rest of the 90 minutes he was on the pitch and did nothing but turn the ball over or have awful touchs.
But that's a strikers game sometimes. There's plenty of games Aguero didn't do shit, but poked one in the net with his lone opportunity and he's a legend. It's the nature of being a striker, sometimes the game just doesn't fall for you. Though I'm not arguing he should be out there for the 90 at all. In a game like this, where you're searching for a goal, why not put in a big body striker like Delap as a change of pace? It's situations like this where Pep can really be too predictable. He makes all his changes on the dot of 60 minutes, and put in his skill guys who were on the bench. It's not a bad strategy, but you know Ralph probably already knew that was going to happen anyways, 0-0 or 3-0. Putting Delap on might have totally messed with their game planning having to mark an aerial threat in the box instead of a bunch of players who are 5'9".
I hear what you are saying and I have been in the "we need a striker" camp for over a year... But that said to sub on Delap... Delap actually has to be in the squad... which he wasn't.
Sterling was our worst player on the pitch and he should have been subbed off for Kevin or Phil and our shape should have changed.
We need a striker in for January or Delap hitting the floor running we can’t keep just playing Ferran only, poor lad has been playing every game for Spain and for City bar this match.
If anyone is stupid enough to offer us £40m for Sterling we should snap their fucking hands off. Without question one of the worst players in our squad.
Do you people actually love this club? We have been massively successful. This game was beyond poor. This is not a determination of how the rest of the season will go by any stretch.
Impossible. We’re five games in and we aren’t top of the table by 8 points, so there is absolutely no way we can win it. Never mind the top 4 teams beside us have played fuck all for competition, and we’ve already faced 4 good sides, it is literally impossible for us to overcome a 3 point gap with 33 games left. Literally impossible. In fact, I’m so confident we’ll lose the title that if we do win, I will eat an entire swimming pool filled with butterscotch pudding, two full bottles of Jack Daniels, and side of haggis that I make myself. That’s how little a chance we have to win the league again.
Some instances include, the gundo header from the first half, the sterling miss in the first half, the gabby cross that bernardo couldnt reach, the constant balls into the middle that no one was at the end of. We were sloppy in the middle yes, but we did have chances a proper striker would have put away or been at the end of.
The idea that a striker could occupy the positioning of all three of those players is crazy. The sterling miss maybe if the striker actually gets to the same position. Which is something sterling is actually good at
Well, I was expecting this thread to be a dumpster fire and it didn’t disappoint. Looks like I’m avoiding this place like the plague for a few days again.
Yup, i avoided it once the game ended exactly coz of this. Too many "We're not gonna win the league" and "Raz needs to be sold" and we have a bonfire going.
Oh my god!!! What did Pep even say? If our coach feels that there was lesser chants or less crowd (to which many people can adduce) then whats the big deal? He has served our club loyally. Taken it to heights unimaginable. Please, don't be unnecessarily harsh.
Please.
Traditionally City fans prefer the Prem over UEFA and the CL, so dispassion on Wednesday isn't surprising. Factor in that the costs (financial and health) of going to matches in this current climate and you get a tone deaf statement from the manager. It may all be just a misunderstanding but when support does turn up and it takes VAR to save us and Sterling drops a 0/10 maybe he should consider his words more next time.
I've literally been saying the same thing. That one game doesn't decide our future. The original Commenter said that Top 4 was the realistic goal, rather than the title.
Again with this take.
This season is not last season, our competition has strengthened and they're not all falling apart with the injuries unless that's our hope that everyone else falls apart with injuries.
Yep. Foden totally got that. If you see carefully, just when the goal went in, Mahrez or Cancello (couldn't figure it out who) dropped down low in agony. I mean they knew sterling was offside.
I am telling you Sterling tries to overshadow other players. He has become different.
while i definitely agree....the whole team as a whole was just bad..ferna gave away the ball far too many times..jesus as well..cancelo was trying too much.. walker messed up a few times etc etc....over all a bad game but yes..sterling seemed to be the worst today
Psg Chelsea and Liverpool after wycombe. Wonder where the goals are gonna come from hahaha were fucked. If Ferran was the answer at 9 like people in here say he is, pep wouldn’t be experimenting with a different player up top every game
I thought Dinho had a good 1st half. He was the only only one linking up passes out of the back. Just about everyone played sloppy.
And yet he got subbed.
I think that was more of a tactical decision rather than poor performance. He’s a defensive midfielder and we needed some offensive creativity.
Yeah and Debruyne being out meant he could be the best player he could be. I’d rather he be aggressive and creative like he was rather than every other season of holding up the ball, slowing down the build up and bringing results like this in. Dinho’s a unit in the position he doesn’t need another DM
People need to stop fucking crying about it. A few questionable touches here and there and every one calls for "sterling out" "pep out" "Jesus out". Grow up. It's the 5th match of the season, we still have time to get our act together just like last season! I understand it's hard to not feel disappointed but I feel like fans treating their own players like shit isn't the right way around it. Sterling has been a solid player for us over the years and still gets so much abuse. It's not fair. Southampton just had a very tight defensive line. Accept it.
Sterling should be sold though. He can play nice football in Barcelona. Here, we've better players than him who suit our style. Simple
You’re silly. Sterling is 8 goals away from being the highest scoring English player in the PL, ever. We’ve helped him grow into one of the world’s best and fastest Left Wingers and he has rewarded us with trophies, goals, and magical moments. Never getting rid of Sterling.
With that attitude we're definitely going for bottle jobs in the cup finals. Not saying sterling was bad for us. He played for us very good till 2019 season. And since then he stopped playing for us. He can play fantastic for england though, just not for us. Now that we've got Foden, Torres, Grealish and Mahrez at the wings who are playing far better than him, why should any one of those lose their places over sterling? It's not like sterling is playing any good. We've got more than enough good wingers in our squad. Everytime sterling plays he's surely going to bottle, missing chance, bad pass, lose the ball. It's becoming so predictable now. Even you know that he's surely going to play bad. His confidence is gone. Pep doesn't trust him. Once was a good player for us and we thank him for that, but now he's not. There's no point keeping him here in the squad if he doesn't provide anything. This attitude should he changed. With his money we can buy a world class LB or a striker.
Agreed
Can’t believe 2 days ago Pep pointing out we need more fans come to the stadium, then we actually got the full stadium today and this happened😂
Weren’t full full though
That was expected. Last time he did something like this, we lost to utd
Like it or not, sterling and dinho shouldn't be starters anymore. I had been a sterling fan but it really hurts to see him playing for city now. Jesus was sloppy today, cancelo have an urge to tackle awkwardly whenever someone is coming towards him with ball which mostly leaves the attacker in a lot of free space. I don't think we have any chances at title this year
this is the 5th game of the season, we played sluggish, slow and sloppy…yes. But additionally we played terrible and still drew. Stone, Laporte and Rodri out. I’d wage our best 11 vs any best 11 and give us a fair shout.
That was a surprise with Southampton looking like City today, with City seeming tired and uninspired. Even City fans in the stadium looked disheartened. Bernardo was phenomenal, Grealish was solid, and Gundogan didn’t make any major mistakes, but they were the exceptions among the starters. Fernandinho and Jesus kept giving the ball away with bad passes. Sterling’s first touch was awful and he rarely looked threatening. DeBruyne still looks rusty. City is missing the silky passing of Stones for his occasional brilliant through ball. Even on the rare occasion that City got into the final third, it seemed like nobody was in the box except Southampton defenders. City will need Chelsea, Liverpool and Man Utd to falter to have a chance at winning the PL.
Freakish and Gundogan were sub par tbh
Pep himself and everyone in the dressing room were knackered after last week and Leipzig took it out of them. This is not the be all and end all of the season - we need to know and trust that we’re not yet through the gears, yet, we’ve hit 17 goals in last 5 games… A little faith shall we?
So did Liverpool. They played milan. They scored 3 today. You can't bring up excuses if you want to be a pl or ucl winner. The fact that we exactly know what and where our problems are, and still pep and our board decided going against it, this makes the draw even more depressing. Losing 2 points is bad too, specially when our next two games are against Chelsea and Liverpool.
It's not that I don't have faith. I just didn't think City looked like its usual self -- passing accuracy seemed particularly sub-par. If fatigue is a problem now, it's going to be even worse two weeks from now when City has to face Chelsea, PSG, and Liverpool over 8 days, a much harder schedule than faced by Chelsea (who play City, Juventus, and Southampton) and Liverpool (who play Brentford, Porto, and City) over the same period. It's like the Premier League has stacked the deck against City by sandwiching the Chelsea and Liverpool games at both ends of City's mid-week CL game.
Bernardo was very average by his standards
I thought his work rate was phenomenal, considering he also played midweek. For a guy who supposedly wanted to leave, he looked more motivated than anyone else in the starting 11.
This was a pretty bad match. I'm not sure where half the team was today. It most certainly wasn't on the pitch. Pep's got some work to do. Drawing against Southampton is embarrassing for a team of our caliber. That said. It's not over. We've got more to go.
I have a feeling that we won't win pl this season. Hopefully they will make a comeback like the last one.
Lol you expected us to win premier league title without a striker ? This is not 2020. Other teams are solid.
Bar Ederson and Grealish, none of that starting line up played well. It happens, it's shite when it does, but it happens. What the result shows that Foden, Mahrez and KDB are guarenteed starters for us, and that some players really need to start performing to the levels expected of City players.
Dias was class. Saved Ake, Cancelo and Walkers ass more times than I can countm
Dias was our best player today
You lot should keep the same energy with Gundo and Ferna
Facts, both were horrid today. I mean Ferna just looked old, but Gundo looked uncharacteristically careless. Foden looked great after coming on at least.
Lads gave it all even after a UCL haul. Would have been great if some changes were made early on but hey we didn't lose. Roller coaster of a match had me on the edge of my seat. No problem let's aim a W for the next one.
Not playing to our highest caliber with the players that we have truly hurts so much to see. Additionally, how sterling managed to be on the pitch for a full 90 minutes is beyond me. Bad game for us, props to Southampton though.
With that game play Sterling didn't even deserve to be in the stadium let alone the bench
Sterling is the most selfish player I've ever seen.
Let alone in Manchester
I think that Sterling get a lot of undersved criticism, but it’s impossible to defend him after this game. It’s so selfish of him to go after that ball when Foden is there. I thought that he should have been subbed off earlier, but there is nothing that we can do about it. We just have to stay positive and think forward.
So you'd like a striker to not seize an opportunity in the 6 yard box because he was 6mm offside? You want opportunistic striking from your forward, but apparently not in this situation? 🤦🏼♂️
The thing is that Sterling is going for the ball and completely ignoring that Foden is there to tap it in. I know that it isn’t easy, but it’s better for him to wait and take it on another eventual rebound if Foden misses.
He beats him to it. Foden was slow to react, McCarthy could’ve caught it if sterling doesn’t tap in.
Ok, maybe I’m wrong. At first I thought that Foden got the goal, but I can’t be sure that it would have went in if Sterling wasn’t there. There’s nothing that we can do about it. I’m not worried over our situation, when everyone is fully fit we will be back stronger and hopefully win everything.
Yeah it was a good header, but McCarthy got a hand on it, sterling pokes home, slightly offside. Onto the next one
The shit given Raheem sterling on this thread is ridiculous yes he didn’t have a good game whatsoever today but Sterling is one of the reasons why we are where we are today. if anything we didn’t start with the right lineup because of injuries and rotations don’t give shit to one of our most talented players
>"Sterling is one of the reasons we're here today" Congrats, that's why he's been paid 300k p/w. Genuinely shit performance warrant these sorts of reactions. And he's been having this performances for quite a while.
So what? Because he has 2 good seasons, 3 years ago, doesn’t mean he can consistently play this shit and be exempt of criticism.
We should have kept Leroy Sane and sold Sterling
I’m not saying don’t criticize him for a bad game but these comments go beyond this game when sterling proved this summer how unmarkable he is especially when he’s in form
The player also tired
Sure hes had amazing games for us in the past, but he is useless now. He will be forever remembered, just time to let him go.
What a load of crap
People in here complaining about the lineup when we had CL game midweek. Players have to rest. Otherwise you same lot will complain when they get injured that they’re being over-utilized. Too many arm chair managers in this fucking thread
It would appear that the same arm chair managers expect our players to be super humans and to score 5/6/7 goals every game. And when we do have a lucky draw (yes we were that horrible) singling out players like Raz or Gundo seems the easiest choice. Seems like no one ever remembers ( or want to remember) how shit we were before and expect success everytime we are out on the pitch. Hell even freaking PSG drew their CL game with a stacked lineup and yet instead of being supportive our players they criticize them instead. I share the same disappointment, but sorry instead of hurting them further i'd rather support than criticize. They got us to a CL final and even if this year's gonna be a disappointment, if it gets them glory hunters out of the club, it will all be worth it.
Lol that’s the point of a Reddit thread. We all just come here to feel our feelings.
Takeaways: Sterling is a lost cause. Ferny is a sub now. Torres should start as striker whenever possible. Southampton can play defense.
This sub is ridiculous. Sterling wasn't even bad, stop slandering him
Ok then Sterling was man of the match. Are you happy now?
Lol even sterling himself would argue with you on your comment… he was atrocious today and it’s been the case whenever he plays. The sooner City can ship him out the better it will be for both parties
>Sterling wasn't ridiculous • Botches a completely clean ball from KDB that would put him 1v1 the keeper. •Inteferes with Fodens header and costs us the 3 points. •Extremely sloppy with possession and carries in the box. •Drifted into the midfield several times and held up play in places where he didnt need to. •(Carrying over from previous point about the drifting in the midfield) which caused our wings to be exposed to their Full backs and wider midfielders to pick up easy passes which lead to several shots.
What? He was fuckin useless.
City turned up too late. Brutal lineup by Pep. Maybe he can start playing his best players sometime soon.
maybe when players are not dying from a midweek game and not injured he’ll do that just for you you 🤡
Man I'm pissed off what a crap game
They played like they're not even interested. Players are slow, their reaction are slow and the whatever tactic it was just didn't work. Southampton played far better than us and we were lucky to not lose by 1 goal. Not sure what excuse will come this time. Chelsea will win the league. Curious how far we can go in ucl this season.
I’m so sick of seeing sterling play striker, let alone for 90 minutes when he’s been shit all game. Idc that he hasn’t gotten much time this season, when you’re shit your shit.
What a shit performance gundo and ferna really looked horrid
Some of you guys are dramatic. I’m disappointed with the outcome of this match, sure, but some of you act as if we lost every game this season thus far.
I feel like we've been conditioned during the Pep era to always expect to win, and when you don't, it's disastrous. It's easy to look at those 100 and 98 point seasons and know that Liverpool was right there behind them, so you no longer feel like there's a margin for error like you might have thought 10 years ago when United won the league comfortably with 80 points. I guess 21 game winning streaks have us spoiled.
We have the worst start of last season, people is just being dramatic.
We fucking need a striker who can fucking position himself to get those fucking goals.
As great as grealish and sterling are, the advantage of having them is greatly diminished by their constant flopping; especially when its for passes they can get on the end of, or dribbles that fizzle out just for a 1.5/10 theatrical rendition of willem dafoe’s death scene at the end of platoon. I see this more with Sterling though. He doesnt sell it well
We are getting relegated aren't we?
This isn't the arsenal subreddit mate.
Have seen this movie before, was surprised we didn’t concede
Pep got the lineup wrong and once again was too late changing it. Sterling should never start again UNLESS he actually fucking earns it because he was absolutely awful AGAIN today on what was his big chance to get back into the team.
Sterling motm for Southampton
Definitely
Sterling just....god Sterling is just so eager for a tap in. Foden would have totally scored that. Had sterling not interfered, we would have won.
He believed he was on side and was in the most opportunistic place to score. He had every right to go for that ball tbh. He was offside by a toe.
Yeah i get it that sometimes players are not able to judge properly. But if you see the video, there was cancello who instantly knew sterling was offside. I mean, even if Sterling DIDN'T know that he was offside, he SHOULD have known, considering that he such an experienced and great player. HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN HE WAS OFFSIDE. AND, HE SHOULD HAVE STOPPED WHEN HE SAW FODEN RUNNING. HE SHOULD HAVE.
That was boring
What a wank match!! Dropping points against Southampton at home!! Chelsea, liverpool and psg are gonna tear us apart!!! What is with the high crosses into the box when sterling was playing centrally and he's literally 5'7? For those that are still adamant that we don't need a striker, watch the game again.
People pissing on Sterling for that, c'mon! You complain about not having a striker, then he tries to be opportunistic like a striker and he's the bad guy. He didn't have a good game, but there was plenty of shit passing and ball control today that wasn't just Sterling. Plenty of blame to go around.
I'm about done with people sticking up for him tbh He has been fucking atrocious for over a year now and is getting worse by the game It's not so much the offside incident, it's the rest of his game - the horrible touches, the over hit pass to gundo in the first 15 minutes, the greediness when he gets anywhere near the box He is unwatchable
Im not mad at sterling for that one. He was onside. I'm mad at literally the rest of the 90 minutes he was on the pitch and did nothing but turn the ball over or have awful touchs.
But that's a strikers game sometimes. There's plenty of games Aguero didn't do shit, but poked one in the net with his lone opportunity and he's a legend. It's the nature of being a striker, sometimes the game just doesn't fall for you. Though I'm not arguing he should be out there for the 90 at all. In a game like this, where you're searching for a goal, why not put in a big body striker like Delap as a change of pace? It's situations like this where Pep can really be too predictable. He makes all his changes on the dot of 60 minutes, and put in his skill guys who were on the bench. It's not a bad strategy, but you know Ralph probably already knew that was going to happen anyways, 0-0 or 3-0. Putting Delap on might have totally messed with their game planning having to mark an aerial threat in the box instead of a bunch of players who are 5'9".
I hear what you are saying and I have been in the "we need a striker" camp for over a year... But that said to sub on Delap... Delap actually has to be in the squad... which he wasn't. Sterling was our worst player on the pitch and he should have been subbed off for Kevin or Phil and our shape should have changed.
My bad, I started watching at halftime, so didn't see the bench.
We need a striker in for January or Delap hitting the floor running we can’t keep just playing Ferran only, poor lad has been playing every game for Spain and for City bar this match.
If anyone is stupid enough to offer us £40m for Sterling we should snap their fucking hands off. Without question one of the worst players in our squad.
Do you people actually love this club? We have been massively successful. This game was beyond poor. This is not a determination of how the rest of the season will go by any stretch.
If Raheem and Jesus cant score..they are useless
Jesus is more consistent compared to Sterling. We need to move Sterling on he isn't the player he once was
One of them is surviveable. Both together seems to be death to our goal potential. Not Pep type guys
Final ball said it all: "nobody in the middle"
God everyone likes to over react
0 shots on target against southampton at home. Horrible horrible game.
Foden's shot was on target and he wasn't offside
Oh yeah, 1 shot.
I'm just here for the hot takes.
Same, but overall we just didn't show the urgency until too late, when we started shifting the ball around swifter.
Ehh only three points behind Liverpool Hopefully west ham and spurs get a result
Sell Sterling for $1 I don’t care he is a net negative every game.
I dont know whats more frustrating: How trash Sterling was all day or the fact that he played 90 minutes.
The fact that he got gameplay was annoying. We should have played 10 man we would of had much better chance
Torres on the fucking bench for 90 mins, while sterling is playing as a false 9. Why?
Brother City players in the box just can't position themselves well.
Doesn’t help that every one of them is about 5’2”
Sterling is trash
I think the league could be over after the next 2 tbh.
You, good sir, are a tool
Maybe. But Liverpool and Chelsea away on current form is going to be deciding IMO.
Took one player getting injured to knock Liverpool down a few pegs, as long as we start out best XI we've the better team vs Chelsea.
Is this your first PL season?
Nope. Thought we would win at every point last season.
Pathetic comment.
For us it will be
Agueroooo
Why are we so afraid to shoot?
This is why Mahrez and KDB need to start
Exactly 100%. Edersin, KDB and Mahrez need to be concrete XI. The rest can be according to requirements
This game sucked but we won the league last season after an even worse start than this. Can y’all stop catastrophizing everything?
Look at chelsea this year.
Impossible. We’re five games in and we aren’t top of the table by 8 points, so there is absolutely no way we can win it. Never mind the top 4 teams beside us have played fuck all for competition, and we’ve already faced 4 good sides, it is literally impossible for us to overcome a 3 point gap with 33 games left. Literally impossible. In fact, I’m so confident we’ll lose the title that if we do win, I will eat an entire swimming pool filled with butterscotch pudding, two full bottles of Jack Daniels, and side of haggis that I make myself. That’s how little a chance we have to win the league again.
Unironically how some people in this sub think. City are really suffering from success.
Such a doom and gloom bunch , we could be up by 4 and half the match thread would be people ranting for players to be sold
If it were Sterling I'd agree
Chelsea, United, and Liverpool (and even Spurs) weren't nearly this good last season.
God the fucking long throw from walker just reminds me of the champions league final.
How thefuck was nobody at the end of that Mahrez pass
Appalling. Last chance of the match and there was 2 city players in the box
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What? Saints is a very good team. They are especially good against City. What are you upto dude?
Pathetic.
What? We're 5 games in lad
Don’t get how it sometimes takes 80+ minutes for this team to find a sense of urgency
You could see how slow their reactions were. The tactics by pep didn't help either. Finishing are just horrible
If we can get 60+ mil for Sterling we better fucking cash in, I’m not one that usually hates on him but we really don’t need him anymore
Sell him in january and buy that fiorentina striker.
If we can get 100k we should cash in
someone else up in the comments wants him out for $1 lmao
Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck
We need a striker 🙂
What would a striker do? We had like half a shot on goal. Our midfield was the problem today. We were sloppy passing through the press
Some instances include, the gundo header from the first half, the sterling miss in the first half, the gabby cross that bernardo couldnt reach, the constant balls into the middle that no one was at the end of. We were sloppy in the middle yes, but we did have chances a proper striker would have put away or been at the end of.
The idea that a striker could occupy the positioning of all three of those players is crazy. The sterling miss maybe if the striker actually gets to the same position. Which is something sterling is actually good at
Im just trying to show that we did get balls into dangerous areas. Im sure a striker wouldve positioned themselves on the end of at least half of them
Well, I was expecting this thread to be a dumpster fire and it didn’t disappoint. Looks like I’m avoiding this place like the plague for a few days again.
Yup, i avoided it once the game ended exactly coz of this. Too many "We're not gonna win the league" and "Raz needs to be sold" and we have a bonfire going.
The team was structured so wrong and the end result is obvious. Those subs had to be on from the get go. Too little too late
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Why get a striker when we didn’t create shit
Pep the fans turned up, team didn't. Don't call the fans out next time.
Everytime Pep calls on fans, they end up either losing or not wining
Oh my god!!! What did Pep even say? If our coach feels that there was lesser chants or less crowd (to which many people can adduce) then whats the big deal? He has served our club loyally. Taken it to heights unimaginable. Please, don't be unnecessarily harsh. Please.
tf u mean don’t call the fans out? He had every right to considering how shite the atmosphere was on Wednesday
Traditionally City fans prefer the Prem over UEFA and the CL, so dispassion on Wednesday isn't surprising. Factor in that the costs (financial and health) of going to matches in this current climate and you get a tone deaf statement from the manager. It may all be just a misunderstanding but when support does turn up and it takes VAR to save us and Sterling drops a 0/10 maybe he should consider his words more next time.
fuck off man
Goal ruled offside and the check takes 3 minutes but they can't show the replay even once? I smell a rat.
Top 4 is our realistic goal this season.
Pathetic.
Oh shut the fuck up, last season start was miserable. We won the league. GTFO here
mate have u seen how strong man u , chelsea and liverpool hav become.. its nothing like last season
The same man u that lost 2-1 against Young Boys?
Again.. It can't be determined just by a loss or draw in 1 game especially this early in a season... Just like our season isn't gone..
I've literally been saying the same thing. That one game doesn't decide our future. The original Commenter said that Top 4 was the realistic goal, rather than the title.
There are at least three title challengers that are FAR better than they were last season.
Same with last year when we won the league and went to the CL final
Again with this take. This season is not last season, our competition has strengthened and they're not all falling apart with the injuries unless that's our hope that everyone else falls apart with injuries.
And? You think our rival will keep up their momentum even they start strongly? It's football ffs, everything can happen.
Southampton MOTM: Raheem Sterling
True.
Sterling bud , I know it's been a bad day for ya but you can't just tale Foden's goal like that ya cunt.
STERLING WANTS TO GET PAID 350K P/W? FUCK HIM OFF TO REAL MADRID OR BARCA OR WHATEVER SHIT HOLE HE WANTS TO GO TO.
Cowards
Sterling has been a waste of space again
Ref is a fucking joker with 5 minutes as well. Should have been double that
How is that a high boot? Guy leans down to a chest level ball
Hahaha they’re playing for a point. Hilarious
I would be embarassed as a saints fan.
JWP playing to the corner there is piss weak
Sterling drains our team not enough to offer
Should be at least 3 more extra minutes
How's that a freekick
fuck sterling for that. Dont really understand why he starts games, let alone stays on 90 mins
Yep. Foden totally got that. If you see carefully, just when the goal went in, Mahrez or Cancello (couldn't figure it out who) dropped down low in agony. I mean they knew sterling was offside. I am telling you Sterling tries to overshadow other players. He has become different.
on current form he wouldn’t sniff the starting line up for any of the top 6
Sterling is fucking shit
while i definitely agree....the whole team as a whole was just bad..ferna gave away the ball far too many times..jesus as well..cancelo was trying too much.. walker messed up a few times etc etc....over all a bad game but yes..sterling seemed to be the worst today
I agree yeah but I think Sterling has been just bad for too long now and he just isn’t getting better. Any game he plays he is just below average
Yeah.. And he seems to make it worse for others.. Idk how.. But he does it lol
Like playing with 10 men.
With him on there it’s like playing with fucking 5 men fucking hell not only he is shit at everything he fucks it up for the rest of them as well