It took Pep 58 minutes to make the substitution we were crying out for (don't play Gundogan when you have Rodri or Fernandinho available), and what a difference it made! 

 

Silva MOM; his best game for a while. Ederson couple of important saves. 

Palace
City 

Newcastle  
Ben Stokes
Carlsberg don’t do weekends !!!

2 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said:

Palace
City 

Newcastle  
Ben Stokes
Carlsberg don’t do weekends !!!

That Ben Stokes innings was one of the greatest I've ever seen. 

1 hour ago, BangrakBob said:

That Ben Stokes innings was one of the greatest I've ever seen. 

Unbelievable. Fortunately the pub I was in had both City and the Cricket on.

Most definitely not one of our best performances. Got bullied quite a bit by Bouremouth's physicality. Would still rather play like that and come away with 3 points, than batter a team like last week and only get 1 point

This just came up on one of my feeds. He's proved that he'd be cheap at thrice the price

 

40 minutes ago, mrbojangles said:

This just came up on one of my feeds. He's proved that he'd be cheap at thrice the price

 

...my eyes immediately honed in on the geezer behind KDB. I'd completely forgotten Benteke used to play for liverpool.

20 minutes ago, Bredbury Blue said:

...my eyes immediately honed in on the geezer behind KDB. I'd completely forgotten Benteke used to play for liverpool.

Yeah and how many trophies did he "Kop"

Been very impressed with Rodri to date; him coming on and winning that midfield on Saturday showed how good he is. He's settled in very quickly. Got to feel sorry for Fernandinho in all of this; last season he was our most important player and this season he can't get a kick. Just don't play Gundogan there again - he has no physicality.

 

2 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said:

Just don't play Gundogan there again - he has no physicality.

Totally agree. Don't know why we tried so hard to get him to extend his contract.

 

I'm also dying to see what Cancelo has to offer

2 hours ago, mrbojangles said:

Totally agree. Don't know why we tried so hard to get him to extend his contract.

 

I'm also dying to see what Cancelo has to offer

Don't get my wife started on Gundogan, she hates him. He's decent going forward, rubbish in reverse.

*Fun fact of the day*

 

Bredbury will get through twelve bottles of Grecian 2000 before Foden becomes a Man City regular starter. 

On 8/27/2019 at 4:03 PM, mrbojangles said:

 

I'm also dying to see what Cancelo has to offer

Won't have to wait long the rate Walker is collecting yellows.

1 minute ago, champers said:

Won't have to wait long the rate Walker is collecting yellows.

Should be a legit competition between those two. Looking forward to it.

Nice CL group.:)

Atalanta are an excellent team and I recall you lost Shakhtar a couple of seasons back. 

4 hours ago, jellydog said:

Nice CL group.:)

Incredibly fortunate once again. Should see you through to the quarters again ????

 

17 minutes ago, BangrakBob said:

Incredibly fortunate once again. Should see you through to the quarters again ????

 

You're a vicious cur BBob!

2 hours ago, jellydog said:

You're a vicious cur BBob!

I take that as a compliment. ????

6 hours ago, RickG16 said:

Atalanta are an excellent team and I recall you lost Shakhtar a couple of seasons back. 

You're correct. I had to go read the BBC article to remind myself what happened. We were 8 points clear in the PL, already qualified in the CL, our first loss in 29 games, Adarabioyo, Foden (first CL start) and Diaz played and Everton's Bernard was MOM.

 

 

 

27 minutes ago, BangrakBob said:

I take that as a compliment. ????

Jelly cant spell; he meant c*nt ????

11 hours ago, RickG16 said:

Atalanta are an excellent team

Read they're playing their games at the San Siro.

Good to ex-blue Lucy Bronze won Women's UEFA Player of the Year Award

22 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said:

Jelly cant spell; he meant c*nt ????

He certainly did and again a term of endearment I appreciate ????

On 8/30/2019 at 4:45 AM, BangrakBob said:

Incredibly fortunate once again. Should see you through to the quarters again ????

 

^^^It's easy to see the implication here... it's not fair.... City have the better draw.... we are being hard done by...conspiracy against the scousers.

 

Even when they are European champions they prefer to cry about being victimised. 

19 minutes ago, RickG16 said:

^^^It's easy to see the implication here... it's not fair.... City have the better draw.... we are being hard done by...conspiracy against the scousers.

 

Even when they are European champions they prefer to cry about being victimised. 

Hello, hello, United agro!

 

I'm really looking forward to reading the bin-dippers response to you Rick.

Oh Laporte. That looks bad.

4v0 win but a bit of a bore. Aguero Silva Mahrez Rodri all excellent - Aguero's finishing for his last 3 goals has been so precise. Sterling was the invisible man.

 

Very worrying about Laporte, looked bad. Stones injured. Otamendi and Fernandinho partnership...oh dear.

16 hours ago, RickG16 said:

^^^It's easy to see the implication here... it's not fair.... City have the better draw.... we are being hard done by...conspiracy against the scousers.

 

Even when they are European champions they prefer to cry about being victimised. 

City seemingly getting a kind draw every CL group stage is an actual fun fact. How has it got anything to do with us?

 

You're yearning to interpret it how you want to again Rick. Mad that you'd actually think back to back finalist, last season winners, would even consider anyone else's draw as positive or negative for us. We don't give a <deleted> who we or anyone else draws, we are going for back to back titles.

 

Enjoy your trip to dark-durka-stan or where ever it is you'll be playing in the second class of Europe!

 

Congratulations on another great result today!

 

 

5 hours ago, BangrakBob said:

City seemingly getting a kind draw every CL group stage is an actual fun fact.

You need to check your "actual fun facts" more closely!

 

Just to clarify this nonsense that City get an easy group every year ive posted the "facts".

 

Initially we always drew a favourite.

 

Maybe it balances out (i know  some of you are fans of the 'it balances out' theory).

2011/12 Bayern Munich..Napoli..Villarreal

2012/13 Real Madrid..Dortmund..Ajax

2013/14 Bayern Munich..CSKA Moscow..Viktoria Plzen

2014/15 Bayern Munich..CSKA Moscow..Roma

2015/16 Juventus..Borussia Monchengladbach..Sevilla

2016/17 Barcelona..Borussia Monchengladbach..Celtic

2017/18 Napoli..Feyenoord..Shaktar Donetsk  

2018/19 Lyon..Hoffenheim..Shaktar Donetsk  

2019/20 Dinamo Zagreb..Atalanta..Shaktar Donetsk