it was funny when they suddenly realised they were no konger winning so decided to start attacking again . 8 mins of injury time
So Spurs, Everton and WHU drop points. The sun’s out and beer gardens are open. Not a bad weekend so far
Big old result right enough. Not only on west ham side as well. Newcastle are now really just about safe. Hopefully they drop the level they have sort of scraped to over the past few when we play them. West ham now need a result from others as they have the points but not the GD so others like us need to drop points. Still looking to 3rd not 4th here. Need to beat leeds.
City make 7 or 8 changes and apart from the GK it looks like a regular 1st team. Rest of the league does that and you can bet it'd be full of kids and fringe players.
Man City: Steffen, Joao Cancelo, Laporte, Dias, Mendy, Fernandinho, Rodri, Torres, De Bruyne, Sterling, Gabriel Jesus. Subs: Walker, Stones, Ake, Gundogan, Zinchenko, Bernardo Silva, Mahrez, Ederson, Foden. It’s ridiculous how much talent they have. Gundogan or Foden or both make their strongest eleven imo.
it is shocking. Dean should actually be taken off already as completely bias ref who is unable to control this game. he's booked james for one challenge and let Fernandinho away with two very much worse challenges. the one on mount ticked all the required boxes. From behind, got the player, no contact with ball, off his feet. What more is needed? mount to roll about screaming to make sure of it? cheslea formation is killing themselves as they cannot get out. one too many players deep. going to bet on pens here. already has the feeling.
game sort of reminds me of a more classic european game. both sides wanting possession. Few chances due to solid defenses, tactical passage of play that probe but none of the bash it up the middle english game. quite a bit of timewasting as well tbh.
It was and he's done about 5 bad challenges in that first half, no Yellow card. In fact the only Yellow came from a foul on Fernandinho.
The mount stamp was shown just now again. IMO its absolutely deliberate, not to hurt the player but done coldly to provoke a reaction. Its snide and this ref has let fernandinho away with at least 3 times where he could be booked. Quite how james merited a yellow for a tackle when just minutes before fernanindo did worse but mount stay on his feet. Its EVERYTHING wrong with the game. Mount should dive and scream and get the player sent off is the lesson. the honest(ish) player who has not reacted and not fell over gets ZERO the guy who fell over gets the yellow in his favour.
Azpil makes a challenge, a good one and then the ball goes straight to cheslea so he dives and dean blows up. Sterling barely touched him.