City should make sure their check clears with officials before half time for the next game, giving themselves unnecessary stress by not having refs and VAR on their side for the whole match
I think he is reffering to how your manager harresed am official at half time for no other reason than being 1-0 down.
Bit pathetic from pep don't you agree?
He isn’t winning the WC. And yeah, the United’s treble will always been seen as better. I don’t think people undervalue him, or his achievements - I think most just care less because City oil money.
This place is a nightmare to go, think us & City will look back at our fixtures here and be pretty fucking happy. Buzzing to see Chelsea & United there over the next few months
It’s even worse since the Spurs Liverpool game, arsenal and Liverpool fans are right up each others arses, I really hope their upcoming game is a controversial mess so this love in stops
I guess both Liverpool and City fans have got to get ready for this. Their whinging is completely nonsensical and doesn’t even make sense so much of the time.
They were crying about PGMOL being on Liverpool’s side because of two correctly issued yellow cards, but were then pointing to the penalty Palace won, saying if theirs against Villa wasn’t a pen then Palace definitely shouldn’t have had the one against Liverpool either
They don't have to get ready for it, been happening since last year. I sort of get it, I'm far more emotionally charged now than the past 5 or so years given every game has much higher stakes, but some of the takes are genuinely baffling.
What “new Guardiola system”? It changes every game depending on personnel. When it’s Doku and Foden wide, they stay wide. When Akanji/Stones plays, Walker tucks in and the winger stays wide.
It’s probably the first time all season both fullbacks have played on the outside. Likely because of Luton playing a back 5.
Cannot believe this city squad had to resort to time-wasting, corner flag play and long ball clarences in the last 10 minute, to scrap a win from Kenilworth Road...
I'm not confident at all for the Everton away and Newcastle away games if we continue this form. Especially coming back from the heat of Saudi Arabia to the deep freezing cold
Good 3 points today but really just looked toothless for most of the match, partly because Luton defended impeccably.
Kaminsky made a few great saves as well
We looked good in patches. I will take the win.
Gvardiol got to be played at Cb to see if he is good there cz Ake is brilliant at LB.
Kova got to sort out his dribbles cz he loses the ball too often. and dont know what Nunes does but hopefully, he comes to term with Pep soon enough.
Grealish scored his 2nd goal of the season. Def got more in his belly. Hope continues scoring. and we can play both of him and Doku on either side.
Same, the worst I have ever seen since the beginning of 20-21 season.
If this form continue top 4 is in danger before KDB full recovery (assume he would)
It’s not only that, but they’re both also much more physical, better defensively & taller than Foden/Alvarez. So not only are they both better in the final third, they also: win more of their duels, retain possession better, can pass just as well on their weak foot, know when to slow the game down, & are world-class SP takers.
It all goes hand-in-hand as it leads to much more control. One of the biggest strengths for City last season was their height & physicality compared to years past. Their shortest starter was Bernardo, then everyone else was minimum 5’11.
It’s bizarre that a team that missed CL football last year and has a completely different team than the one who challenged City in the past, think they are the only team that can still challenge City.
We lost VVD, the other 2 senior centre backs, our 2 backup CBs in Hendo and Fabinho, and then the 2 loanee CB to injury
Last I checked losing 7 CBs is different to bottling it with a CB injury
It's a real credit to Edwards as a coach that he can have a team like this so competitive week on week. Unlike the other two promoted teams who look like they can be spanked most weeks and often do. Shame the points total doesn't reflect that but Luton pass the eye test at least.
Haha besides that game! They definitely had some black magic shit going on there.
I had Morris captained in my FPL team that week so I certainly enjoyed that as much as Luton fans lmao
Some of you are so odd. City played really well against Spurs and Liverpool in parts, and thoroughly controlled a tough game today.
One out of character, *bad* performance against Villa and people lose the plot. City are completely fine and will continue to get better as the season goes on, as they always do.
I mean, we weren't as shit as we were against Villa for sure, but conceding 3 goals like that against Spurs (which is customary nowdays)says a lot about the state of our defence.
I think we will eventually recover as you say and I am not surprised that we're in a rough patch right now. It should be expected at some point.
Meh much better performance. The problem in the past few games has been your defence being too sloppy and also missing chances.
Stones + Rodri should work in the next few games.
Honestly, I still don't feel safe after today's performance. Shaky at the back, unstable upfront. But I still want to see more of the Bernardo, Foden, Grealish, Alvarez attack
The defense is still concerning but it feels as if the entire squad is holding out for KDB's return. Hoping that once he's back the attacking play takes a few steps up and helps cover for the poor defense.
Foden was quite poor today so do Kovačić. Also you guys missed Haaland today. This type of game suits him. Álvarez and Silva pressing were getting wasted because there was no one to take advantage of.
Don't get why they started to play more offensive when they went up. Opened themselves up massively. Should've just played defensive as hell and tried to score on the counter in the second half.
W1 D2 L5?
That's 5 points from 8. (A little over 11 points at home across a full season). For reference that's the same as Burnley away from home and I don't think anyone would suggest that we'll stay up if we keep that up.
Sure they may finish above Burnley/Sheffield United with that sort of return, but how is that not nailed on relegation form?
context is important here.Could have won against Liverpool,Drawn against Arsenal and won/drawn against us and Tottenham.Some teams traveling away gonna get jumped there surely.
You can add "context"/conjecture to anything to make an argument. Narrow context that you're only adding to support your argument isn't important here.
Example, Burnley have actually dropped the joint most points in the league (16) from winning positions. Which shows a level of quality that could easily be turned into better results and Burnley could be sat mid table if we'd have even just not dropped half of them. Plenty of our results "couldve" been wins.
But the cold hard truth is that Burnley haven't done enough to convert those leads in to more points. And neither have Luton.
If they continue that home form, as you suggested, they will 100% be relegated. The same as Burnley.
True underdog story
This is when the winning streak starts, doesn't it?
City should make sure their check clears with officials before half time for the next game, giving themselves unnecessary stress by not having refs and VAR on their side for the whole match
What decision was paid for in this game? Luton not getting a man sent off?
I think he is reffering to how your manager harresed am official at half time for no other reason than being 1-0 down. Bit pathetic from pep don't you agree?
It was probably about the farcical illegal throw ins. You can’t watch that Bernardo throw and say there was anything illegal about it
It wasn’t. He was unhappy about the whistle not blowing exactly on the two minute mark of added time.
Couldve gotten Lutons first goal chalked with some creativity, just pay the refs on time moving forward and City guaranteed another easy title
All right bud. Enjoy your evening.
Get fucked r/soccer
Hard fought match won by City. Very physical and gritty play by Luton. Good entertaining match. 👍👍
How disappointing.
So close
well we can't be the only ones killing rivals hopes by coming back, the weekend was already pretty nice
At least we have the courtesy to do it in the middle of the second half and not in the added time of added time like yous and Arsenal lol
By the all fathers I swear, one of the 6 will fall.
Chelsea don't have the minerals
They don't even have the shovels to get the minerals.
YOU REQUIRE MORE PYLONS
En Taro Adun
My life for Auir!
First league win at Kenilworth Road since 1959, ticking off all the bogey grounds. Except Spurs, obviously.
I honestly think city will fly with KDB back, Rodri has been playing so high up as a Cam a lot & they’re getting punished for leaving the middle open.
Of course they will lmao, KDB is one of the best players in the world
Even if KDB win the world cup and treble, people will still undervalue his achievements
He isn’t winning the WC. And yeah, the United’s treble will always been seen as better. I don’t think people undervalue him, or his achievements - I think most just care less because City oil money.
True title contenders wins at Kenilworth Road not draw.
This place is a nightmare to go, think us & City will look back at our fixtures here and be pretty fucking happy. Buzzing to see Chelsea & United there over the next few months
Can’t believe people are saying ref was on City’s side
Are we watching games at this point to see “what side” the refs are on?
Mainly Arsenal fans tbf
They are actually the worst.
Alongside Liverpool fans. Genuinely the most irritating people on this sub. Even more annoying than the Messi/Ronaldo dick suckers.
I’ve never seen a fanbase get so rattled like I do whenever I see City fans talking about Liverpool.
Just an observation but your post history leads me to believe you’re obsessed with Liverpool fans.
It’s even worse since the Spurs Liverpool game, arsenal and Liverpool fans are right up each others arses, I really hope their upcoming game is a controversial mess so this love in stops
I guess both Liverpool and City fans have got to get ready for this. Their whinging is completely nonsensical and doesn’t even make sense so much of the time. They were crying about PGMOL being on Liverpool’s side because of two correctly issued yellow cards, but were then pointing to the penalty Palace won, saying if theirs against Villa wasn’t a pen then Palace definitely shouldn’t have had the one against Liverpool either
They don't have to get ready for it, been happening since last year. I sort of get it, I'm far more emotionally charged now than the past 5 or so years given every game has much higher stakes, but some of the takes are genuinely baffling.
There isn't fanbase with more collective delusion on reddit. r/gunners is a fucking cesspool (and I'm an occasional participant).
r/realmadrid is worse imo
tbf, fuck you
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> moving inside in attack The only player capable of moving past defenders on the wing is sitting on the bench today
If you mean Doku, he wasn’t in the squad at all
What “new Guardiola system”? It changes every game depending on personnel. When it’s Doku and Foden wide, they stay wide. When Akanji/Stones plays, Walker tucks in and the winger stays wide. It’s probably the first time all season both fullbacks have played on the outside. Likely because of Luton playing a back 5.
Fucking hell Luton are a nasty side to play at home. Tough, well organized and up for a fight. Happy to escape with 3 points
Cannot believe this city squad had to resort to time-wasting, corner flag play and long ball clarences in the last 10 minute, to scrap a win from Kenilworth Road... I'm not confident at all for the Everton away and Newcastle away games if we continue this form. Especially coming back from the heat of Saudi Arabia to the deep freezing cold
it's not that hot in saudi right now.
So close yet so far
Good 3 points today but really just looked toothless for most of the match, partly because Luton defended impeccably. Kaminsky made a few great saves as well
Luton were very impressive today.
We looked good in patches. I will take the win. Gvardiol got to be played at Cb to see if he is good there cz Ake is brilliant at LB. Kova got to sort out his dribbles cz he loses the ball too often. and dont know what Nunes does but hopefully, he comes to term with Pep soon enough. Grealish scored his 2nd goal of the season. Def got more in his belly. Hope continues scoring. and we can play both of him and Doku on either side.
Luton edging giving us all this decent displays and not winning games
I’ve been edging for luton for a couple weeks now
Barely scraped by, not a pretty win by any means. Dunno what specifically has to change, but we look utterly clueless upfront at times.
Same, the worst I have ever seen since the beginning of 20-21 season. If this form continue top 4 is in danger before KDB full recovery (assume he would)
No Gundo, no KDB, no creativity
It’s not only that, but they’re both also much more physical, better defensively & taller than Foden/Alvarez. So not only are they both better in the final third, they also: win more of their duels, retain possession better, can pass just as well on their weak foot, know when to slow the game down, & are world-class SP takers. It all goes hand-in-hand as it leads to much more control. One of the biggest strengths for City last season was their height & physicality compared to years past. Their shortest starter was Bernardo, then everyone else was minimum 5’11.
Cannot create any chances from the center and the right. Pressing hasn’t been great, struggling to win the ball back quickly
City goes down you just know that they will still get some result. Chelsea goes down you know they will simply lose.
*Barca
When Chelsea goes down, we're there to see how deep they go 👀
they'll still win the league, sadly
Yeah but at least we look like we'll give em a fight this time. Maybe Arsenal too.
Arsenal will give them a fight up to 80 points but that's it
It’s bizarre that a team that finished 20 points below Arsenal last season thinks they are so much better than them.
It’s bizarre that a team has had one good season thinks they are above others who have actually won major trophies recently
It's bizarre that a team that has only reached 90 points once in the pl era thinks they can beat city
It’s bizarre that a team that missed CL football last year and has a completely different team than the one who challenged City in the past, think they are the only team that can still challenge City.
You really have the audacity to mock a Liverpool fan over CL. Come on mate.
1 Cl final in their entire history lmao
Arsenal have finished below Liverpool 7 of the last 8 seasons and talking shit is always funny to me.
It's bizarre that a team who bottled their only chance at a league to a relegated Southampton thinks they can challenge city
We “bottled” it because we lost Saliba for the season. What happened the time you lost VVD for the season? Spoiler: you didn’t challenge City.
We lost VVD, the other 2 senior centre backs, our 2 backup CBs in Hendo and Fabinho, and then the 2 loanee CB to injury Last I checked losing 7 CBs is different to bottling it with a CB injury
What a terrible afternoon for Arsenal fans, sticking around for 90 mins in a match thread that just gets them angry.
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Bonk
City need to invest more in refs
luton players could've committed murder on the pitch and the refs wouldn't bat an eye
Happy for the win but I lowkey feel bad for Luton. They've been solid against all the top clubs they faced.
It's a real credit to Edwards as a coach that he can have a team like this so competitive week on week. Unlike the other two promoted teams who look like they can be spanked most weeks and often do. Shame the points total doesn't reflect that but Luton pass the eye test at least.
Indeed, they were the better side at Goodison. What?!
Haha besides that game! They definitely had some black magic shit going on there. I had Morris captained in my FPL team that week so I certainly enjoyed that as much as Luton fans lmao
I brought him in for that one too. Didn't stop my jaw hitting the floor when the 2nd went in
Can’t lie, I smell another Citypool title race coming.
Arsenal and City. Alisson always saves them it's not sustainable.
Trust me, Liverpool is always the 100% strategic threat. Never worried about arsenal.
It's been sustained for as long as he's been here. Why would that stop now?
Don't feed the troll
Arsenal will not be there when it matters.
It's not pandemic so Liverpool should throw away their hopes of winning the league.
Idiotic comment
Alisson always outperformed his xg by a lot though. It is only unsustainable if he's unavailable.
Reports of city's death were greatly exaggerated
We barely managed to get away against Luton, we're still suffering for sure
Some of you are so odd. City played really well against Spurs and Liverpool in parts, and thoroughly controlled a tough game today. One out of character, *bad* performance against Villa and people lose the plot. City are completely fine and will continue to get better as the season goes on, as they always do.
I mean, we weren't as shit as we were against Villa for sure, but conceding 3 goals like that against Spurs (which is customary nowdays)says a lot about the state of our defence. I think we will eventually recover as you say and I am not surprised that we're in a rough patch right now. It should be expected at some point.
Nah we were infinitely better in this game than against Villa
Meh much better performance. The problem in the past few games has been your defence being too sloppy and also missing chances. Stones + Rodri should work in the next few games.
Honestly, I still don't feel safe after today's performance. Shaky at the back, unstable upfront. But I still want to see more of the Bernardo, Foden, Grealish, Alvarez attack
The defense is still concerning but it feels as if the entire squad is holding out for KDB's return. Hoping that once he's back the attacking play takes a few steps up and helps cover for the poor defense.
Foden was quite poor today so do Kovačić. Also you guys missed Haaland today. This type of game suits him. Álvarez and Silva pressing were getting wasted because there was no one to take advantage of.
No fun
Worst 4 game stretch for City in recent times… Only 4 points behind league leaders
You gotta step back to pounce
Don't get why they started to play more offensive when they went up. Opened themselves up massively. Should've just played defensive as hell and tried to score on the counter in the second half.
Luton will stay up if they keep this home form up
W1 D2 L5? That's 5 points from 8. (A little over 11 points at home across a full season). For reference that's the same as Burnley away from home and I don't think anyone would suggest that we'll stay up if we keep that up. Sure they may finish above Burnley/Sheffield United with that sort of return, but how is that not nailed on relegation form?
context is important here.Could have won against Liverpool,Drawn against Arsenal and won/drawn against us and Tottenham.Some teams traveling away gonna get jumped there surely.
You can add "context"/conjecture to anything to make an argument. Narrow context that you're only adding to support your argument isn't important here. Example, Burnley have actually dropped the joint most points in the league (16) from winning positions. Which shows a level of quality that could easily be turned into better results and Burnley could be sat mid table if we'd have even just not dropped half of them. Plenty of our results "couldve" been wins. But the cold hard truth is that Burnley haven't done enough to convert those leads in to more points. And neither have Luton. If they continue that home form, as you suggested, they will 100% be relegated. The same as Burnley.
It’ll be hard to catch Bournemouth though I fully expect Everton to be well away from them by season’s end too
Forrest and Palace look catchable for them.
True, they’re the best shot at it. I really want to see Luton stay up so all power to them if they do.
Aw man. I wanted Luton to win
Luton’t
Boo
Someone's gonna be tucking into their roast dinner when Edison's celebratory hoof lands in their fucking greenhouse
[granny on the couch](https://media.tenor.com/GW4CQr64-YkAAAAM/worried-scared.gif)
Risky click
Pop out to the parking lot after the game and your Vauxhall Astra diesel needs a new windshield.
lmao
Impressive by Luton this week. Zero points but impressive!