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Football Thread 2015/16 |OT| The Great American Sport
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The_Hitcher89
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Skrtel needs to go. Contract terminated, locked in a shipping container destined for Alaska, assassinated, framed for murder, whatever. He just can't play for us again.
Entire team was poor after 30 mins, and dogshit after 45. Nobody passing well, nobody making any effort to give their teammate a simple pass.
Well deserved win for Southampton.
Entire team was poor after 30 mins, and dogshit after 45. Nobody passing well, nobody making any effort to give their teammate a simple pass.
Well deserved win for Southampton.
The_Hitcher89
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Just not fit enough to last 90 minutes. Not that Benteke at 100% looks much fitter than Sturridge at 70%
The way Sturridge is running, I think we bought him back early and are making him play through pain and/or on the verge of another injury. He's not fully sprinted once in these 8 or so games.
the better twin
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Oliver is a twat. Bottled it big time. And he's considered one of the country's best? What a joke.
Infernostew
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Probably should've been sent off for that challenge on Rashford too. A yellow at least.
Yep. He can't even jog let alone run. His legs are completely shot.
Milchmonster
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Yeah, ok.
BMO = GOAT
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Aguero has had so many opportunities :/ but still can't score
he's just waiting for maximum heartbreak.
Terbinator
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Infernostew
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Fuck. Rashford is in trouble. Calf or hamstring?
Could just be cramp to be honest.
lol hyperbole?
Infernostew
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He's one of our own. He's one of our ownnnnnn. Marcus Rashford, he's one of our own!
Except for the a short spell when we got the goal? Yeah, we grinded it out and got the result. But it wasn't exactly some master class of football out there. Rashford is class though. Along with Martial/Depay, that's a solid trio in attack going forward.
Milchmonster
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Dat Ramos
20m pls someone
20m pls someone
That is not crazy, Southampton has a bloody good team.
Defensively we were pretty solid though, hardly "garbage".
Don Draper's Hat
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I still can't understand how a team with Man City's resources can have such a piss poor defence. Every one of them is a shithouse.
Good goal from Rashford. For the love of God though, please don't pick him for the Euros. He's too young. Let him develop without putting so much pressure on him like we always do with any kid with the slightest bit of talent.
Good goal from Rashford. For the love of God though, please don't pick him for the Euros. He's too young. Let him develop without putting so much pressure on him like we always do with any kid with the slightest bit of talent.
the better twin
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Quinn looks like hes been crying.
Pep effect, City at this moment doesn't give a damn. Pretty much everyone who played today will be shipped out by Pep.
Heebie Jeebies
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Who would've thought we would improve tenfold without Fellaini in the side?!
GoldenCrow
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Easy. Have only one decent quality centre back that is injured more than he is fit. Tried to buy in youth with a similar play style that didn't really work out, bought an older defender to cover him, sold all the old centre backs except for one who was brought in. The eldest of the defenders has fully lost his legs and doesn't want to be there. The manager has a top heavy philosophy with a focus on a high line with no protection for the centre backs and likes his wing backs to play high. Though why we don't play Sagna in the centre is fucking lost on me. Considering Mancini had his team built from the defence and had some of the best records at the back it goes to show how Pelligrini and to an extent Tixi have fucked it up, what makes it worse is that he rarely mixes it up and always uses the same strategies time after time when the opposition know what they are. I get why RM got rid after a year.
Steverulez
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If LvG could get the same results against his non-rivals as he has recently against City/Liverpool etc he'd have walked the title
Terbinator
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Well of course. It's like being at school: "it would have been a mint goal if it had gone in".
Their only mistake was losing against all the lower teams in the league and drawing some.
Steverulez
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Well it was more a point about how he seems to be able to get results in games they should be struggling in with what you'd consider the "better" teams (without looking at the table) but when it comes to the ones you'd expect them to do better in they mostly look completely hopeless.
Perhaps an obvious statement with hindsight but you see where I'm going with it... strange thing really.
Imagine Pep managing in the Europa league though.
The same logic could have applied to anyone really. Any team that shows any kind of consistency can win the title, it just happens to be Leicester. Everyone else blows up the minute they seem to show any kind of momentum.
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