Im_Spartacus wrote:Beefymcfc wrote:Im_Spartacus wrote:Beefymcfc wrote:Fucking love it! Sky, with Stan, Talksport with Stan, skriking about how illa should'e won the game, but they didn't and we're now sat above the Arse nan Rags; Dippers lose, so there's a bonus ........... for us!
Fuck the fucking lot of them, I thought we deserved it and Villa were lucky, just. The way the Rag scum carry on you'd think they want us to lose and be well away from the top 4!
Do you remember the days of the Sky 4, Rags, Arse, Dippers & Chavs? Fuck, how much would these fuckers like to see the old regime back to normal.
Thank fuck for City, we have made it really happen.
If you thought we deserved it, your blue tinted specs really have no limits
We were fucking abject, the only good thing on our horizon was that we kept playing bent eke offside, and even that went tits up and should have resulted in a penalty and sending off for hart.
On the topic of hart, couple of good interventions, but aside from that my God he was fucking horrendous
Blue tints? What was the score again?
Some people.
Some people bury their heads in the sand whilst others see a very disappointing performance amidst many other disappointing performances and worry about the pattern. The last two games have been virtually identical to those that went before, other than the outcome, it doesn't mean the problem has gone away does it?
You make good contributions to footballing discussions, yet a seemingly clever bloke can't see any problem with what is on the pitch, just because we got 3 points - that's blue tinted specs defined right there
Considering even Pellegrini found the performance disappointing, you seem to be in a minority of 1 who saw nothing wrong with yesterday's performance
I'm fairly certain that I haven't really mentioned the performance apart from this so I'm not quite sure where you're getting it from, unless it's to aid your debate.
Beefymcfc wrote:Mase wrote:I'm at the match steaming!!
I don't usually get that way but I'll admit, that wasn't the best. We seemed to take it easy, knowing we are winning. We didn't try to get forward and allowed them space. Villa have a game plan which is similar to what we've seen for years but that fuck-up let us in.
It said it all when Kolarov had a throw-in and said 'For Fuck Sake' as nobody was moving for him. No wonder we're saying that Pellers is here next season!
We as City fans have come to expect more and we'e all complained about not getting wins when we have plenty of possession and enough chances to be out of sight. However, this wasn't one of those games and it was a game that all's we needed was a win, to give us confidence going forward.
All this 'Deserved' stuff just irritates me because the reality is we won 3-2 with an excellent last minute goal. The media et al can say all they want about the offside foul on Benteke (not goal) but the truth is it was easy to see why it wasn't given as when you look at the line it's only Demi's heel of his foot that's playing him onside while he's actually running away from goal. From the lino's pov Benteke would of certainly looked offside, and probably was when the ball was actually played.
And let's not forget Benteke could/should have been flagged for their 1st goal and the possibility of us having a couple of penalty shouts dismissed, one which I though was nailed on. Swings and roundabouts I'd say.
What does make me laugh is that Fernandinho scores a fairly spectacular goal to win us the game in the last minute yet the world and his dog can't even be arsed talking about it. If that was Wiggy, Stevie Me, Hazard or any other player, it would be lauded as some kind of super goal, being shown over and over, non-stop looped to keep us informed of how good they are, but not us. From yesterdays build-up, commentary and post-match, what I got was that they were all gunning for a Villa win. Whether it be because they see Villa as a team who shouldn't be relegation threatened, prefer to see City below the Rags and scrapping with the Dippers, or because they now have Sherwood there, I'm not sure but it felt like everybody was ainst us, even the ref.
The performance was not the best, we've been lacklustre for a number of months now and we are well aware of how we've done, but to not take heart out of a game where we could've walked it but ended up having to come back from the brink, is not in my nature.
I'll take those points and take a little heart in us being above the Rags and Arse, for 24 hours at least, and then hope we can build on what we've got for the last 4 games. If we play that way again and win, I don't really care, points in the bag are what counts, not pretty football.
Edit: And has anybody seen the report that Villa had the most possession at the Etihad than any other team in 6 years? BBC stats say they had 55% possession but I seem the remember the Dippers game in the 1st PL winning season where they had around 65%. We went on to beat them 3-0.
Not like the media to do such things is it. Sort of goes to back-up the line that most of them were wanting a Villa win, even if it was just to spout more shit about our club.