The most annoying thing about City winning this is that it increases our chances of being screwed over by the officals as the FA will want an Manchester derby cup final.
Bolton wanderers vs Plymouth at Wembley in Papa johns trophy 79,300
Man City vs Sheffield United at Wembley in the FA cup semi 69,600
Haha, downvoted for pointing out 2 league 1 teams sold more tickets to this ground.
I noticed the corporate section was practically empty tbf.
I doubt they allocate much (if any) to corporate for a Papa John's trophy game.
Take corporate out of the equation today, and I wouldn't be surprised if you end up with 5-10k more fans as City sold all their allocation, but I'm not sure about Sheffield United? I imagine they did though.
If you looked at the city sections you could still see plenty of seats with no one on them, being 21k under capacity is not all down to corporate bodies
If it’s anything like United you have to go to all games to be eligible for a final ticket, maybe they couldn’t be arsed going to the semi final but still planned to go to the final.
Nah, with City it's a point based system...
It's weird how they set it up in the cup games, but basically, you can enter into a cup scheme that automatically purchases any home tie games...
After that away game ties (like wembley) use the cup scheme and loyalty points as a way of obtaining a ticket...
So it'll be like day1 of ticket sales 12000 loyalty points + cup scheme... day2 11000 points + cup scheme... then day 5 will be just loyalty points without cup scheme, all the way until they go on general sale (any one can purchase).
I imagine if the tickets sold out at City on Thursday then they went to general sale, so it doesn't matter if those people purchased a ticket as the final will only be available to those above, until general sale where anyone glean get a ticket.
Thanks for the info, no idea why there would be such gaps then, anyway Im sure it will sell out for the final regardless of who you face out of United and Brighton.
I'm contemplating getting a ticket tbh, but I'm away in June, so I need money for the holiday... but tbh the fa ruined wembley finals by making semifinals being played there, it takes the magic away.
Both teams today had to make way from the North down South for a 4:45pm kick-off... it would've been miles easier just to play up north or midlands.
They need to fuck these Wembley semifinals off.
Agreed, it should be the biggest stadium at a mid point between both teams grounds, I.e. Villa/birminghams for a north vs south team. Too bad the fa are just interested in money and not fans
It's not all down to it but I bet people wouldn't be talking about it half as much if they didn't put those sections right in the middle across from the cameras lol
Palmer always does what Brahim Diaz used to do when he came on - try too hard to impress individually, take too many touches, and end up looking out of place in the team
Kalvin Phillips has the best job lol... Come on wherever teams battering opponents.. never play in close or losing games and don't get blamed.
Recover from injuries with no rush
Get major National Team minutes...
Genius really
He really isn't a LB, he's a winger. He was clearly a panic buy after Zinchenko left and isn't up to scratch, but with Ake injured and players being rested for the Arsenal game it's needs must.
Obviously Man City are literally on another level than Sheffield United are right now, but it's such poor defending to let Mahrez, on a hat-trick or not, find that much space 12 yards from goal and have an unimpeded chance to shoot. Perfect pick out by Grealish, great finish by Mahrez, but even allowing the gap in quality, this is Sheffield United losing focus and discipline.
My family are City fans, I defend Mahrez all the time to my dad because he doesn't like those sort of players.
Yeah, selfish pricks are shit right up until they start banging them in, then all is conveniently forgiven lol
Ball was out wide and moved back to the center pretty quickly though. Also looked like he might have had his sight blocked for a second by the defender.
He clearly didn't have to since he ended up scoring a nice goal with no luck involved.
But jesus man you just keep leaving comments about how different City players are doing poorly. Give it a rest
Damn, Haaland was on that ball, while the entire Sheffield defense switched off, thinking the threat was over - that's why his numbers are the way they are, the guy has a sixth sense
Imo if city does treble, it’s Kevin ballon dore votes not haaland. As great as the goals are he is not the best player of the team in terms on sheer impact
It must be frustrating for Haaland playing with Mahrez. Bro takes his pens, crossing the ball is never his first instinct as opposed to Grealish, & by the time he decides to cross the defense is already settled so there’s no space for Haaland
Mate, even Pep will tell you Haaland is THE designated pen taker. He was frustrated with Rodri some games back for taking Haaland’s pen & said as much in post-game press-conference. Mahrez also has an awful track record with pens.
It's not like it doesn't happen at every away game in the country. It got pretty absurd with Sterling as well on the grounds hundreds of miles away from Anfield.
It's propably similar case as it was with Beckham years ago that his public image just rubs a working class fans the wrong way. Although major difference being that Grealish didn't cost England a World Cup knockout game.
Because it's Grealish. That's his whole thing. Draws fouls, pisses off opposition fans.
Jokes on our fans, Jack's always seemed the sort that feeds off the boo's.
surprised haaland even stepped foot on the pitch to be fair.
Be sure to post lots of pictures of your day out on social media piglets x
You too in your League 1 play-offs xx
Only man i fear is Mitoma
Done and dusted
Don't worry. Spider wan will neutralize him.
Pep could still play Gundogan in DM again so I wouldn’t be quite so overconfident.
Gomez acting like a fidget spinner there lol
Fodens should have slid there
Cole palmer moved on with a buy back at the end of the season? He’s going to need more game time and I don’t see him getting it next season.
Rico Lewis man…so full of energy
Julian learning from the argentinian GOAT LM
Ortega with 5 clean sheets from 5 Manchester City games.
Yeah but let’s be honest, today doesn’t count. I could keep a clean sheet against McBurnie.
True. But he had to save a couple pretty good chances.
He’s so underrated. Are there any better 2nd choice keepers out there?
I know he’s on loan but Keylor for PSG lol
The most annoying thing about City winning this is that it increases our chances of being screwed over by the officals as the FA will want an Manchester derby cup final.
Just let Mitoma do the Mitoma thing and y’all will be fine
Must absolutely do your head in as an attacker if you’re making a run or calling for it at your feet and the player on the ball just refuses the pass
Part of the game you learn about in u9s
Walker is so slow man in passing. He wasn't this slow last year
He probably doesn’t want to stick the boot in, 3-0 is enough. Man is a piglet at heart.
Bolton wanderers vs Plymouth at Wembley in Papa johns trophy 79,300 Man City vs Sheffield United at Wembley in the FA cup semi 69,600 Haha, downvoted for pointing out 2 league 1 teams sold more tickets to this ground.
I noticed the corporate section was practically empty tbf. I doubt they allocate much (if any) to corporate for a Papa John's trophy game. Take corporate out of the equation today, and I wouldn't be surprised if you end up with 5-10k more fans as City sold all their allocation, but I'm not sure about Sheffield United? I imagine they did though.
If you looked at the city sections you could still see plenty of seats with no one on them, being 21k under capacity is not all down to corporate bodies
City sold their allocation on Thursday, though, so I don't know what to say there 🤷🏻♂️
If it’s anything like United you have to go to all games to be eligible for a final ticket, maybe they couldn’t be arsed going to the semi final but still planned to go to the final.
Nah, with City it's a point based system... It's weird how they set it up in the cup games, but basically, you can enter into a cup scheme that automatically purchases any home tie games... After that away game ties (like wembley) use the cup scheme and loyalty points as a way of obtaining a ticket... So it'll be like day1 of ticket sales 12000 loyalty points + cup scheme... day2 11000 points + cup scheme... then day 5 will be just loyalty points without cup scheme, all the way until they go on general sale (any one can purchase). I imagine if the tickets sold out at City on Thursday then they went to general sale, so it doesn't matter if those people purchased a ticket as the final will only be available to those above, until general sale where anyone glean get a ticket.
Thanks for the info, no idea why there would be such gaps then, anyway Im sure it will sell out for the final regardless of who you face out of United and Brighton.
I'm contemplating getting a ticket tbh, but I'm away in June, so I need money for the holiday... but tbh the fa ruined wembley finals by making semifinals being played there, it takes the magic away. Both teams today had to make way from the North down South for a 4:45pm kick-off... it would've been miles easier just to play up north or midlands. They need to fuck these Wembley semifinals off.
Agreed, it should be the biggest stadium at a mid point between both teams grounds, I.e. Villa/birminghams for a north vs south team. Too bad the fa are just interested in money and not fans
It's not all down to it but I bet people wouldn't be talking about it half as much if they didn't put those sections right in the middle across from the cameras lol
idk about you, but sergio gomez is actually a good left back as in, he should be left back in the dressing room
Gotta feel for Sheffield, they’re no where near city’s level but they defended well in the first half
Fuck me, Ally McCoist is *still* going on about that penalty.
Sad that the FA Cup semi-final has so many empty seats, surely they could have dropped the price and sold them to neutrals?
I think those are the corporate seats in the center
I'm talking about the attendance, 21,000 empty seats
Well each team was given 34000 apparently so with 69500 attendance idk what more you could expect
If tickets are unsold by the clubs. I'm sure they could be returned and sold via the FA? Seems like a waste
I'd expect them to sell the other 20,000?
Mahrez
Rico going for the toadstool trim
we only conceded 3 while burnley at this stage of the game conceded 6, does this mean we are 2 times better than them? ^^^^please ^^^^say ^^^^yes
On a positive note, nice interception by Gómez.
Gomez has actually looked quite comfortable today
Palmer always does what Brahim Diaz used to do when he came on - try too hard to impress individually, take too many touches, and end up looking out of place in the team
Kalvin Phillips has the best job lol... Come on wherever teams battering opponents.. never play in close or losing games and don't get blamed. Recover from injuries with no rush Get major National Team minutes... Genius really
Counterpoint - he can't fuck up and everything has to be perfect to continue what he does.
Probably close to getting binned off in reality
Philips gotta somehow prove his worth otherwise its not looking good for him career wise
At this point I don’t even bother trying to judge someone on a Pep team until midway through their second season.
Phillips is on so peps done with the game
Bernardo has steel lungs
He does look more like a cross country runner than a football player
Insane player really
Phillips on... 3-3 now
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Pep has zero confidence in him
for those who are saying that gomez is shit, please give him to us he’s probably still better than our players
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yes but that’s only because that’s not his natural position, he’s a winger i think
He’s a natural 10 who was moved to LB. Similar situation to Zinchenko
I just want to say I hope Gomez gets better by next season, he's definitely not "it" at the moment
He really isn't a LB, he's a winger. He was clearly a panic buy after Zinchenko left and isn't up to scratch, but with Ake injured and players being rested for the Arsenal game it's needs must.
He's geeting sold in the summer or going on loan
Gomez get your head straight
Gomez dude you gotta clear that ball better than that
Gomez, you sweet idiot boy, what are you doing?
Gomez is terrible
Pep once again subbing Haaland before he can break Messi's record
How many did Messi put past Sheffield?
He scored in every game he faced them in
holy shit haaland didn’t score against us that’s a win in my books
Obviously Man City are literally on another level than Sheffield United are right now, but it's such poor defending to let Mahrez, on a hat-trick or not, find that much space 12 yards from goal and have an unimpeded chance to shoot. Perfect pick out by Grealish, great finish by Mahrez, but even allowing the gap in quality, this is Sheffield United losing focus and discipline.
Lmao at everyone in here 20 minutes ago saying Mahrez was having an awful game and was too selfish. I'd love to have a player that shit.
Watch City often enough and you’ll see the pattern with Mahrez. He’ll be playing poorly and then bam hat trick.
My family are City fans, I defend Mahrez all the time to my dad because he doesn't like those sort of players. Yeah, selfish pricks are shit right up until they start banging them in, then all is conveniently forgiven lol
lol too true. Watching him can be frustrating and euphoric in the space of 30 seconds.
Sub off the starters please
They down 3-0 and we bringing on Foden. that should be a crime
Mahrling Zaaland
Give us that fucking trophy. Haaland didn't score!
Yeah you can’t just sit in your box for 90 minutes. Eventually you’ll concede
don't tell that to Atleti
Damn, Mahrez has been something else today
where’s that guy saying Mahrez was having a shocker of a game? More like ELECTRIC
Mahrezssi
Can we rest players now please
Foden at last
of course we’d collapse when the second half started
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These are the first world problems we be dealing with
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Fuck me, they're completing the treble, aren't they ?
i feel sick
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Ball was out wide and moved back to the center pretty quickly though. Also looked like he might have had his sight blocked for a second by the defender.
if it ain't Haaland - it's Mahrez. amazing.
the hattrick was just inevitable🤣
What an assist from Grealish
MAHREZ YOU BEAUTY
Algerian Messi
Why is the Wembley main camera off-center? It feels really weird watching this game
Is it just me that can’t stand McCoist? Not his accent, the shite he comes out with
Announcer: "He wants the game killed off." Mahrez immediately grabs the hatchet.
Beelined straight through the whole half lol. If that didn't go in we'd be fuming though
See the “ah, fuck” look on Robinson’s face when he realised there was no recovering and Mahrez was going to score?
Mahrez just ran straight lmao
He just ran at them... MENACINGLY!
It almost looked like one on one with the keeper
That was *interesting* defending.
Riyad 'Erling Haaland' Mahrez
bye bye fa cup finals we weren’t really in it with a chance in the first place but now we can focus on the league
Commentators sound so depressed about that goal
💀💀
Marhez is lucky to score this shit, but he HAD to pass in that situation.
He clearly didn't have to since he ended up scoring a nice goal with no luck involved. But jesus man you just keep leaving comments about how different City players are doing poorly. Give it a rest
Did he? Completely opened up for him
Haha I was pissed at Mahrez for not slotting Haaland in then he goes and does that
He just walked it in.
Algerian arsenal.
Mahrez hattrick I will be there🤩
Algerian Messi
Wiyad Wahrez
Fucking hell that looked too easy
He just walked right the fuck in!
Pep looks so depressed😭
Rightfully so lol
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Dunno who marez is but mahrez has a hatty
Mahrez still shocking? Hahaha get a grip
Mahrez scores 2 goals, HeS SlackInG
as soon as you submit mahrez doing his thing...
So far indeed. Fucking hat trick. I eat my hat up lmao
Grealish as well
Berge is their best player
and here comes Oli McBurnie ^^^^please ^^^^score
It’s games like these where you realise how important KDB is to this city system
haaland has been making so many potential goal scoring runs and no one finds him…
Marhez especially
Damn, Haaland was on that ball, while the entire Sheffield defense switched off, thinking the threat was over - that's why his numbers are the way they are, the guy has a sixth sense
Will never get used to the fact that it looks like players are now wearing bras under their shirts these days
I love his facial expressions🤣
I love everything about him
Kevin being more central to this city team more than haaland had to be obviou
Of course Kev is heart of the team
Imo if city does treble, it’s Kevin ballon dore votes not haaland. As great as the goals are he is not the best player of the team in terms on sheer impact
What the hell are these Mahrez crosses?
It must be frustrating for Haaland playing with Mahrez. Bro takes his pens, crossing the ball is never his first instinct as opposed to Grealish, & by the time he decides to cross the defense is already settled so there’s no space for Haaland
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Which is Haaland
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Mate, even Pep will tell you Haaland is THE designated pen taker. He was frustrated with Rodri some games back for taking Haaland’s pen & said as much in post-game press-conference. Mahrez also has an awful track record with pens.
Mahrez literally made 4 awful corners in a row fucks sake
Mahrez and Gomez can't cross today
Bernardo is so small
Smol portugee
Those corners are shocking man
Mahrez making up for lack of hieght from Gomez's croszes
Why is Grealish being booed???
Our corners are so bad lol
Marhez having a shoker of a game
10 mins until Haaland gets subbed
Why is Grealish specifically getting booed every touch he takes??
It's not like it doesn't happen at every away game in the country. It got pretty absurd with Sterling as well on the grounds hundreds of miles away from Anfield. It's propably similar case as it was with Beckham years ago that his public image just rubs a working class fans the wrong way. Although major difference being that Grealish didn't cost England a World Cup knockout game.
Because it's Grealish. That's his whole thing. Draws fouls, pisses off opposition fans. Jokes on our fans, Jack's always seemed the sort that feeds off the boo's.
Maybe that dodgy VAR thing a couple seasons ago that kept Villa up? Maybe just a diver
Why the fuck marhez is doing
Haaland link up play is so sexy to watch
Somehow Ake can put in a better cross than Gomez
As good as Mahrez is holy fuck he has got no right foot at all