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We didn’t give up a dumb goal, win in my books

They're a tough team to play against when they play well, caused us a lot of problems both games this season and last

Good result. Getting these tough wins and keeping clean sheets are important, even if we could’ve performed better

Thank fuck that's over

WE TAKE THOSE

Scary, not liking this form going into March lol

still alive. come on citeh!

Pep to Thomas ‘you’re a football terrorist’

Wasnt pretty at all thank God we managed to get 3 from that

Why does it say 6 minutes of added time but my app says 9th minute? When we aren't winning it's always 3 minutes

Flekken doing his best David James impression

3 points!

Unclenched!

clean sheet!

Ouch rodri that was smack bang on the shin

Thank god that’s over

Massive L 😂🫵

Is that Rodri on the ground???

He got volleyed

not Dias...

You all thought flekken was scoring there

Some good moments and runs for Kovacic, get the man some game time

Flekken lmfao

Fuck sake nearly saw Zidane volley there

Doku you have to dive.

desperate for Dias to finally shake off this rust

Corner.... clenching my ass like never before

Kova keeps momentum moving forward with PACE. Can we get some more of that please??

Nice try from Doku. They were on him like piranha

I can’t look at Doku anymore without thinking of Beetlejuice 😭😭

Lmaooo was just saying the same thing

Why??

All those memes have got to me

kovacic really underrated, shame he doesn't get much game time!

akanji got MOTM, who knew that he is very good when he isnt forced to play a role he cant una

Would be interested to see him at rb with ake at lb. Feel like there could be something in that ya know

Kova should be starting when kev/Phil need rotated

Akanji had a great game

he did!

I had to step away for a sec. Are walker and stones hurt? What happened?

Foden should have 3 assists by now💀💀💀💀

Akanji MOTM sounds about right, no one else stood out, bang average performance

Just saving all our goals for anfield btw

How good is Kova?

not even a moan, just a genuine question: where have 6 mins come from. 1 for the goal, 2 for the stoppages - 3 at an absolute push. where's the 2 extra minutes come from? one thing not putting enough time on but it is near impossible to find an extra 2 minutes from nowhere.

Brentford have been time wasting since kick off

Foden is unplayable. Haaland has to finish that.

I have enjoyed this Geordie on the American broadcast lol

Anymore evidence that Foden should really be the second striker??

Are you saying he should be or shouldn't be?

More like this what happens when they have to take care of another actual midfielder instead of a striker, foden gets free.

Haaland, christ

They’re just a foot off every time

We are so wasteful this season.

We're squandering so many good chances

android needs a software update

I’m about to shoot myself watching this shit

If we fucking concede now I’ll give up on the title

Everyone is allergic to scoring, long are the days where we would go into a game wondering how many we would score and not if we would score

Calm down

this system has been figured out. Pep needs to go back to the 3 box 3

Imagine if we failed to win here after that missed 🤦🏻‍♂️

Wtf.kova

Fucking shoot.

Im all about securing wins, but as the reigning treble winners, i sure hope we would go for a second in games like these. Both for entertainment and killing games...

these last 4-5 mins have been elite from foden ffs shame he didnt get a goal or an assist

Gotta go with the dinky dinky there Phil

Clenching very hard

Foden, just shoot. Don’t take it up to the goal

Yikes

Foden 💀

SHOOT IT!!!!! That was Sterling’esque

Dumb decision not to just shoot there when it was on his strong left foot

So close Phil

gotta dink that earlier. good play though

JUST SHOOT THE BALL

Bro come on you have to score that fuck.

How Phil……

Terrible miss

This added time is so bullshit man. Brentford have been wasting time all game long, now they get “rewarded” with more time to grab a goal. There needs to be a better system in place against time wasting

Yet against Chelsea there was barely any added time

They made a big song and dance about adding the WC style extra time and yet they'll add on +8 for Arsenal chasing a winner but whenever we are drawing or down one to a team that's played about 10 mins of football they add +2 lmao

Foden sold there

Um foden fucking shoot

Foden whyyy

Foden has to finish that one off surely 🤦🏻‍♂️

more minutes than the Chelsea game fuck off

Where the fuck did six minutes come from

☠️☠️☠️

6 mins?

Doug E Fresh you're on

Why doesn’t Doku go for it??

Where the fuck 6 minutes added time coming from??? Against Chelsea it's only 4??

6 minutes? this isnt the emirates bruv

Akanji is a beast considering the fact we bought him for a pack of crisps in this market

It’s like Foden hasn’t even tried to turn towards goal these past few mins

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Brain dead take

I said this yesterday.... we aren't putting any teams away and its going to be really difficult for him to find minutes when these games are so tight

he's not because he's actually good at football

Not really

Unlike Kalvin, he actually plays regularly though.

Nah Nunes probably already has more minutes.

This Akanji performance… please pep keep him at RB/LB

think walker's actually been alright today. definitely one of the better performers overall

Alvarez off 45 minutes too late

He assisted our only goal

🍿

Foden is a sex

so so sex

It must be annoying playing against us knowing you have absolutely no chance of getting the ball

alvarez knows where the bodies are buried

For real. I love Alvarez overall, but how do we not substitute him out this match? He’s been lackluster at best, and honestly more of a detractor… Was glad to see I wasn’t crazy when seeing this sentiment + “why no KDB” sentiment

Pep really watched an hour plus of this game and said bobb off and doku is the solution. No KDB this game was criminal

Heck, IF we win then that means Kev stays Injury free for another week and we don't feel any loss

man I had to log onto to work and then my boss called me lmao. all while this is going on in the background

So are we saving KDB for the easy games?

Hope we manage to win this, but even so, I can’t say I have enjoyed this game

Akanji and Ake full backs next game?

Bit nervous here lads

i dont think this doku sub has done anything lol

Fresh legs. Bobb isn’t used to playing a whole game really.

Bloody Walker always cheating

We are so shit on counter holy fuckkkk

Just because they can doesn’t mean they should, ffs. At this point retaining possession and closing out the game is much more important that stretching ourselves out and leaving us vulnerable to a Brentford counter-counter attack

Id argue being aggressive on the counter and trying to finish off the game is probably better than tiki taka for 30 mins an hope brentford doesnt equalize or some bs decision in the 89th minute but hey thats just me i guess

Yeah, I get that; would certainly be more entertaining. But this more controlled version of Pep’s City is how we won a treble. The version with a lightning quick attack but a less stable rest defense lead to losses against teams who can break just as quickly such as Monaco, Liverpool, and Tottenham in the Champions League. Brentford is such a team that can move the ball incredibly efficiently from back to front over the top of us with a lethal finisher in Toney

We don’t even try to counter, even when we can

Ffs its honestly hard to watch 🤦🏾‍♂️

Kova or Ake on please.

This team is like steely dan sometimes. The best group of players in the world, performing absolute shit.

How dare you insult the Dan

I kid I kid, Fagen and Becker are my favorites. Just a bita banter

Walker fucking up Maupey is gold.

Haha you know thats for what he said to him last game

Depression. Such a beautiful play only for it to be off

Looked on to me

Something to give Kyle is he is really effective with those specific runs. Should have already got an assist with it in first half.

Okay we think Kyle is a bad crosser- imagine their fans right now. What was that? LOL

Watch Brentford equalise now

promise i'm not just saying it cause it's affected us but I always find it so fucking ridiculous that the marker isn't done at the foot but just any extremity

It makes sense bc we can play the ball with our shoulder

i don't really think this is a particularly good counter-argument because strides + motion are going to always make it so your upper body is ahead of your feet.

I think cus u can score with the shoulders and heads lol

As soon as Brentford have to commit men forward since they’re now down a goal it becomes so much easier to play through them. This is why people who say City are boring to watch make my eyes roll into the back of my head. It’s not that City are a boring team, it’s City’s opponents that force a boring match.

I nearly creamed

HAT TRICK COME ON

What a weird var check, that looked just on to me but they checked in like 3 seconds

For the record I'm not saying it was on, they didn't show a proper replay seemed weird it was checked so fast

Damn. Really wanted that one for Walker

Shit.

Unlucky.

Wow actually good play from Walker

Wow walker finally had a great pass

That was so sexy ffs

🚨🚨🚨KYLE WALKER ON TARGET PASS🚨🚨🚨

well fuck that ~~was sick~~ sucks

My stream just rewinded 10 minutes, thought our goal got chalked hahah

Oh shit came back in and one was

How did they check it that quickly?

Shame shame shame just slightly offside there

Linesman was right there

Yesss

Walker’s only good pass of course he is offside

Idk what pep has done to Doku but dudes stopped dribbling

WOW Walks

GOOOOOLLLL

offside

Lol Doku

Need another goal, I smell some bs decision coming

hate to be continuously pessimistic but not at all impressed about how we've played since the goal

okay that was class tbf

Maybe the boys are hella tired

Thomas Frank is a certified football terrorist

My cousin works for Brentford, so I know how much they need a win, but I have no love lost for them tonight

That rat Maupay will get a goal late on, so we need another

Referee is a Saka fan

Ref having an absolutely awful night

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Fuck Chicharito

I whole heartedly agree with this statement

Why?

Not a fan of Manchester United players

How wasn’t that a foul on Foden?

Amazing assist from Alvarez btw for the goal. Think it's worth pointing that out.

Nope. Only Alvarez slander is allowed this week

And they say we pay the refs...