'Even allowing for inflation, this thread is not worth 198 Terry Francises' - EPL 2017-18

21%-79% possession o_O

lol

wtf

I won't watch united under mourinho because he is a murderer of justice

That was not good at all. Jesse looks like a spare part again and isnt really getting involved. Maybe take him off, stick lindelof on and get Valencia and young to push a bit further up the pitch?

it's just been brainless

launching the ball up to Lukakau when we should be looking to get Martial and Rashford running at their (not very good) defence

Pretty obvious that Mourinho's entire game plan was based on the assumption City would get 75% of the possession but their counter attacks have been very poor.

Two cracking assists from Lukaku today.

finally Lukaku makes an impact

lol snap

looool

he layed on the first goal too

United are fair shite

Unggggghhhh

throat-save and a beauty

Ederson wow x2.

fucking cowards from top to bottom

shameful shameful shit

yeah there’s not a lot of positives there. pogba was so badly missed

Pogba was missed but not badly. It's the intention with which you send them out there that makes the diff. Mou doesn't want to play.

I don’t know about that, he’s not started rashford and martial together in that many games before, so it was a fairly attacking team sheet

Attacking on the sheet, defending in the street

Still the most competitive league in the world?

there's no way these player are that bad (and City weren't even particularly good)

blame has to lie with the manager

seriously concerned that Lukaku just isn't good enough though

Obv can’t pin the result on him but zlatan looks terrible atm

he was fairly rubbish but at least he contested a few aerial balls

Lukaku gets beaten every single time. Barely tries

I'm sure it's just a blip, but maybe give rashford a crack up front for a few games?

he's played every minute in the PL this season

no chance

City weren't even particularly good

Gabriel Jesus looked off his game (not that you'd notice with Lukaku on the pitch) but I don't think this is true otherwise? Having said that, the current City midfield (certainly the KDB/Silva/Fernandinho trio) is one of the best there's ever been in the Premiership and them on an off day > most other teams.

They barely created any chances and their two goals came from defensive fuck ups

They were obviously much better than Utd but they've definitely been wobbling in the past few weeks - which makes Utd's refusal/inability to play doubly frustrating. They were there to be got at today

this has cheered me up a smidge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuhDmOAQQgw

Jose Mourinho in furious dressing-room bust-up with Man City keeper Ederson as tempers flare after Manchester derby

"Sources claimed the Manchester United manager had milk and water thrown at him after the spat with Ederson."

Milk?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pieK7b4KLL4

easily explained tbh

funny, I'd have Jose down as a bottler rather than a bottlee

Man City P16 W15 D1 L0 F48 A11 Pts 46

Celtic P16 W11 D5 L0 F38 A10 Pts 38

Averaging 3 a game!

this has cheered me up a smidge

in what way? easing the pain of having continental pulis as the next boss to continue the failure?

absolute state of jose's man u - it's a lol festival for all. moyes plus ego.

also like the fact united happened to be playing city today does not establish them as rivals.

city are city. a chasing pack will fumble around below them.

I think we almost pushed City closer for a draw than M Utd did. Playing the same deep counterattacking game as well. They are a nightmare though - so many class players and even when you get some rare possession, they work hard with extreme intensity, like sharks on a feeding frenzy for the ball - every attacking move seems to get easily snuffed out in open play. Reducing you just to rare defensive errors or set-pieces as your only chances against the Wehrmacht onslaught.

Watching yesterday it was really obvious that, Matic aside, United just don't have the defensive players to play proper Mourinho football. Of the various CB options they have, only Bailly is really at the level they require.

(And he obviously wasn't on the pitch yesterday)

as bad as they looked yesterday, they still have the joint best defensive record in the league. slightly shuddering at the thought that we need a john terry at the back, i guess the bandaged and bloody rojo is as close as we've got but i feel he lacks the racist edge in his game

Of the various CB options they have, only Bailly is really at the level they require.

Lindelof does seem to be improving, and his long passing was a vast improvement over Rojo when he came one

but yeah, our distribution from the back is a serious problem

and LG, you really cannot take a joke when it comes to Klopp

"Champions of England, you'll never sing that" taunt Chelsea fans. Huddersfield three-times champions of England

— Simon Evans (@sgevans) December 12, 2017

Some of these cunts think football was invented in 1992.

This Chelsea may never get three points tonight. Mounie rising to the challenge.

ffs

at this juncture it might be advisable to rule out winning the league tbf !

I could imagine VLP starting the 2nd half and a perhaps bolder approach. So yeah, we'll probably lose it 4-0!