We set up correctly imo. Sloppy defensive errors were our undoing not anything special that City did despite their excellent finishing. We could have easily scored 6 goals in that game and constant defending was what cost us against Napoli until they scored. Odds are City would have scored anyway if we just defended and our attack would have been non existent.
Unlike Spurs, who after the first 10 minutes never looked like scoring or challenging City we were a lot more threatening. Flamini had a poor game, Wilshere had a poor game and Kos and Monreal had nightmares. If Arteta played today he would have gotten a red card, game too fast paced for Arteta.
Podolski and Gibbs back in for Chelsea. Kos injured so Vermaelen and keep the same team for Chelsea and go again for me.
I'm very proud of the effort we put in. You could see how exhausted we were in the 80th minute. The team gave their all, a few players were disappointing, but it's all one can ask. You look at the effort our players put into that game and compare it to Napoli game? No comparison for me. On another night, we win today with different defending, against Napoli we lose much more than we win as we didn't look like scoring.
looooool you deluded monkey, how can you even be remotely proud of the effort we put in? Comparing how we did to other teams who played against City at home doesn't say much because of how bad those teams played.
Wilshere - Was absolutely horrendous, he put in some nice balls in to Giroud but more often than not you'd find the fucking turd lying on the ground and complaining about the ref's decisions instead of keeping his fat mouth shut and tracking back. I get it, the ref was a fucking cunt who surely affected the results to some extent but no play should fuck it up for the rest of the team
Özil - Did he even play? What the fuck did he do except being a vile cunt after the game was over?
Giroud - A pregnant woman is faster at giving birth than what Giroud is at connecting with the build-up play from our midfield. Let's not forget that he's also worse than Higuain at finishing. Truly an average striker who just had a good start in the season. We've needed a new striker since summer.
Koscielny - nothing short of shit in this game. What was he doing when they scored the first goal? Did he understand that we were playing a game?
Flamini - Couldn't hold up the defensive midfield which just put more pressure on our defense which was already shit from the start, god knows what those four were doing, especially Kos and Monreal in particular.
If Giroud had scored three goals or if our defense actually tried to fucking defend then we could have been proud of our effort. This is a defense that has been very solid for a while now and the dicks just decided to bottle it in this game. The Napoli victory wasn't enough of a wake-up call.
Yet we are supposed to be proud of our effort? looool someone shoot me already.