Chelseafan1:


Add David Luiz to the list, all the players Mou shipped away must give him a hard time in ds EPL....De bruyne tormented his life today.

Leyqute:


Only God knows what EPL referees are watching on the pitch these days. We had several penalty appeals turned down

Chelseafan1:


That yeye man, sold Debryne 4 less dan 25m, bought Pogba for 100m.....smh

SailorXY:
Statistics suggest the first half was really poor cuz I didn't see much wrong for the 40mins I viewed.

Pogba need to do much better attacking & this is why I advocate a 3 man midfield. Either Schneiderlin or Herrera should join the CMF & release Pogba going forward. This is the only way we can get good value. Besides I didn't see the midfield prowess from Man City many people seem to be raving about.

Smalling & Bailly should be our pairing. These men together will be indomitable.

& Zlatan should have gotten more than a fücking goal!

dmcdad:

De Bruyne na boss na. That boi dey play plenty ball.

elampiro:

Even Mata and Young would have done better on the wings than Mkhitaryan and Lingard.

It's like SAF wasn't okay with something.

dmcdad:

City impressed me. They exceeded my expectation. The defence I was afraid of did great in containing United, and especially Ibrahimovic.

Nihilstjnr:
Can we also get some KWAM1 in memoriam of Anthony Martial 11?
I also want to shout out the the great grandson of Ogendengbe himself, Mr Chief AdisaOwala III esquire.
Raumdeuter please help us with some Yoruba classics there...

nyabinghi:
Mourinho the father of route 1 football

elampiro:


I believe they had more stable team. I can coach City and they will finish top 4


Lol

Diademk07:


His defence and Gk na wash though...even worse than his Barca side.. He can't be lord with that.

raumdeuter:


Why the change of mind

elampiro:


I believe they had more stable team. I can coach City and they will finish top 4


Lol

eph12:

I agree with the 3 man midfield but then Rooney won't have any place in the team which is a taboo. If only Miki upped his game city would have been sorry by now. He was bullied and he gave up too easily. I can't afford to drop Smalling as a coach. Those justifying this I hope they see reason.

eph12:

They were able to contain Ibra because Lingard and Miki couldn't hold their own side of the bargain. Of course you don't expect Ibra to beat 3 4 defenders to score a goal or do you?

SailorXY:
reports said he was injured on internationals. I didn't even see the first half so I can't really say but Jose should have known better...

I don't buy the Rooney-must nonsense, never had never will. I said if LvG insisted on that he was going to get himself sacked & so it was. If Mourinho doesn't learn from it, well that's his beeswax. The club must move forward no matter the sacrifice.

AdisaOwala:


Elampiro, Valencia's positioning is poor..

There were atleast two occassions where he drew tight to an opponent on the flank (who wasnt with the ball)...only for another city player to run into the space created

Valencia did he best - he supplied width (especially in a match where our wingers failed to turn up) and he also showed commitment but I think there are still flaws that would make some people wish that we sign a natural RB.

He's still the best we have got at the moment though..

capricornian:

Are you still doing number 2 on yourself cos of our loss??!

Today must be XMAS for you, shame

T5OM:


Yet he won against club football's most prized players. Without his main talisman. With a 19-year-old boy.

He dominated the midfield and took the game to them. And his supposedly 'shady' defense conceded just one goal.

Need I go on, sir?

T5OM:


Yet he won against club football's most prized players. Without his main talisman. With a 19-year-old boy.

He dominated the midfield and took the game to them. And his supposedly 'shady' defense conceded just one goal.

Need I go on, sir?

ollah1:


I thought you said u weren't pained with the outcome, why quote me? Where you expecting him to wallop him 5 -0 again? You are indeed a bad person. City had more chances, possession, shots on/off target. Ain't that schooling enough?

capricornian:



They were better than us Elampiro. Some of our players didn't perform enough which made them better than us today...No winner wins all battles hey.

All I see are lessons to be learnt and that will make us dangerous

sinizia:
I wanted to watch the match till the end before giving my appraisal.

I'll start with the man that cost us the match - Mourinho.

Mourinho showed he didn't learn anything from van Goat's mistakes, I wonder what he's doing during his free periods. Doesn't he read the papers? Doesn't he read pundits' criticisms of United last season? He repeated all van Goat's mistakes. He went for the wrong players and played them out of positions. Same thing that made me hate van Goat. His first mistake was sticking with Rooney despite how useless he's been for 4 years now. Rooney has been this season and even against Slovakia, England fans complained and yet Mourinho stuck with him. Read this space, Mourinho will NEVER succeed if Rooney is a sure starter. He couldn't sub him and instead pushed Rushford to the wings and Mhiki too. Rooney is holding the success of Rashford, Mhiki and Mata, all by himself. What was Rooney doing at wings where Lingard ought to have started? And then removing Shaw and keeping quiet as United kept sending the ball in the air hoping for some useless luck during the ending stages. What happened to asking them to keep it a bit low? Mourinho killed this match. Enough said.

De Gea - good keeper. No doubts.
Valencia - simply our best player. A rare gem.
Bailly - was shaky, was also to be blamed for our first goal. He improved in the second-half but his first-half was all shades of wrong. But he wasn't helped with our poor midfield in the first-half. He needs to improve, a lot too.
Blind - I wasn't surprised, me and elampiro have stated it so many times that he's not a defender. If Mourinho can't find a place in the midfield for him, he'd be sold or benched. He's useless in the first-half.
Shaw - nothing spectacular but was defensively solid.
Fellani - was our only recognizable and competent midfielder, rooney and Pogba were too useless.
Pogba - flop of the match. He's only good with a good DM like Kante to sit back and mop his mistakes. Waste of money.
Rooney - total failure. Only positive thing is his fighting spirit.
Lingard and Mhiki - played out of position. Mourinho to be blamed.
Ibra - our best striker. Derived of any helping hand up front no thanks to Mourinho benching Rashford.
Rashford - has great potential and one helluva of a striker but Mourinho keeps wasting his talent. I saw it coming with Ibra's punchase.


On Man Shitty, Guardiola is a good coach, take away the hate and you'd see that. He has his philosophies but it requires the right players to implement. He'd be winner with another side but he might not succeed with City's current side. The City side is not good enough to implement his visions consistently. I see City improving to a great force if all Guardiola's ideas are properly mastered.


Sane, Stones and Bravo - are all frauds though. With this match we can lay to rest that Guardiola doesn't defend. It's a lie. The truth is a coach will defend or attack depending on his players. City is no Barca so expect defensive games in some matches.


The only positive thing for me is that this is not a title deciding match. So both coaches have all the time to improve their squad's style of play.

SailorXY:
reports said he was injured on internationals. I didn't even see the first half so I can't really say but Jose should have known better...

I don't buy the Rooney-must nonsense, never had never will. I said if LvG insisted on that he was going to get himself sacked & so it was. If Mourinho doesn't learn from it, well that's his beeswax. The club must move forward no matter the sacrifice.