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Melvyn11:
So because Mctominay has more open play goals than Kdb he has been better this season? That's what you are saying right.

Other factors apart from goals - the goals help too.

What a sumptuous goal by Harry Kane. If Rashford received the ball from that area, his first instinct would be to dribble 3 players.

Ole should be showing clips like this to Rashford and Martial. They are so clueless outside the box.

handelex:
True that, the whole team contributed immensely in defense maybe apart from Martial.

Fred, McTominay, etc.

Even Rashford ran 60 yards to stop a City counterattack and got injured as a result.

United defended very well but this tactic isn’t sustainable against bottom teams who sit back. We need a creative player to unlock such stubborn tactics and this is where Pep excels and Ole often fails.

Trevor012:
You have jumped from scoring penalties is a skill to this nonsense here .

Show me any post or comment from pundit or even Nairaland here where Kdb is rated by goals . I repeat stat mongers no wonder Bruno keep deceiving you with penalties and sideways passes

Why shouldn’t he rated by goals?

Until Bruno’s arrival, the general perception was that attacking midfielders should only be rated by assists and key passes, Bruno has quickly changed that notion.

He’s leading your favorite strikers(Kane, Calvert-Lewin, Vardy, Aubameyang, Watkins, Ings) on the scorer’s chart. Bruno has changed the narrative, an attacking midfielder can score goals too.

Tell KDB to work on his scoring boots.

Trevor012:
. The only skill Bruno possess then is scoring penalities cause that's the only thing he is good at.

Nigga said scoring from penalities is a skill

Non-penalty goals.

Bruno 8-1 De Bruyne

Any more excuse?

Melvyn11:
So Mctominay is a better player than Kdb?

This season? Yes!

Even Opta’s performance index has McSauce at 100 to KDB’s 87.

CapitalCee:
Mctoms 4 goals KDB 1 goal from open play

You have put the nail on his coffin!

You mean McSauce(the Scottish Casemiro) has more open play goals than the creative Belgian monster?

KDB should be reported to FIFA for stealing a living at Man City.

handelex:
Yes, our entire backline was good today, Henderson was great. AWB and Shaw too but Mahrez wanted to break the guy waist. God pass am shaa.

It was a team effort!

Trevor012:
Bruno scored a penalty. Nigga a gad damn penalty . Then went on to ghost the entire 90mins doing absolutely nothing else.

Kdb created 8key passes and created one big chance. It's even a poor game by kdb standard.

Penalties aren’t easy to score - if it is, Pep won’t take the rights from KDB & Gundogan, to give it to Rodri. Even Ederson has been claiming the rights to be taking them as there’s no single City player that is consistent with scoring from them.

Scoring from a penalty is a skill!

As for the 8 key passes created by KDB, 2 were from corner kicks and some of the other 6 were from indirect freekicks into United box. KDB did little today.

Bruno’s number of key passes have been reduced ever since Ole has put Shaw on set plays. It still doesn’t justify why KDB has just 1 open play goal in 22 appearances this season.

Wan Bissaka has more open play goals than KDB.

Pathetic!

Trevor012:
These are also fake as well. Kdb 7 keypasses is also fake . Guy rest

The stats aren’t fake, the ratings are fake.

Bruno and De Bruyne went into this game with the objective of winning the match for their respective teams.

Bruno got the job done by scoring one of the goals, KDB shot blanks and his team lost.

How then is KDB rated higher?

Lana1:
He may only be a PE teacher without taktiks but it takes more than vibes and individual brilliance to beat Pep 4 out of 8 times, and stopping City from scoring in 3 of those 4 wins.

That’s because Pep has no plan B.

Pep simply doesn’t respond to adversity. His plan A works 99% of the time but when it doesn’t work, his players can’t adapt.

Sam Allardyce would have gotten a draw from that game after United went a goal up. He will just keep pumping high balls into the box and one of them would find a way into the net but Pep doesn’t want such area boy football.

CapitalCee:
Very good.

Another angle is that KDB has scored (O. N. E) goal from open play this season

Let me expose KDB further.....

Trevor012:
In other words the site disapprove my agenda so I will call it shit .

What’s the name of the site and how much credibility do they have?

Trevor012:

That’s a shit site & you know it.

Trevor012:
Definition of a disaster class .

Bruno was rated higher than any City midfielder today.

Joezinho:
I said what I said. Trevor12, you are a bastarrd son of a wh0re!!!

Run and call the mods, sissy..

Joezinho chose violence

JayromWrites:
across all games this season in what metric has kdb outperformed Bruno?

oh wait he was actually injured

Okay since Bruno's debut, roll out the stats


You here screaming activity


Don't bother reply, I know where you stand

KDB stopped performing the moment Bruno started playing for us.

There’s a reason Bruno is the most productive midfielder since he arrived in England. His stats are ridiculous - he’s always involved.

Whether it’s because he’s the only creative hub we have and KDB has like 5 is a different argument entirely. It’s fraudulent to deny what Bruno has contributed since his arrival.

He’s just won himself the PFA player of the season with tonight’s performance. He cannot be stopped now.

Illimitable:
They will do extremely well against City in curtailing or stopping their intricate passes. The biggest challenge with McFred is what they do with the ball after winning it. This seems to be their biggest weakness. Fred’s use of the ball is horrendous but he’s excellent at winning them.

Ole’s tactical acumen will be to sit back, hope McFred wins the ball in a moment when City have camped in United’s half and then launch a counterattack.

If Fred makes use of the ball very well like he did in the same fixture last season, United could get a draw or even win. Besides, don’t forget it’s a derby game. Form flies out of the window in such games because a lot of other factors are in play.

I told you guys yesterday - this sort of game is bread and butter for McFred.

Wan Bissaka is the unsung hero though - 5 interceptions(the most), 3 tackles(the most) and no City player dribbled past him.

codedguy1:
Even the ones that don't sit back, don't we miss CCC and decide to be confused where we are supposed to press and kill of teams.

So Rashford, greenwood, Martial, Bruno and Pogba at this stage are not talented enough to unluck teams that pack the bus?

Then we have no business thinking we can win the league. Simple.

They don’t.....

Bruno & Pogba can do it, they will find a pass to unlock the defence but do we really have consistent strikers that can take advantage of those key passes? No.

Martial - lazy, ponderous, uninterested
Rashford - poor decision making, poor finishing
Greenwood - inexperienced, often played out of position.

The trio won’t win us a PL title. None of them would make our 07/08 or 12/13 starting XIs.

Roland17:
I am not sure how many of you watch football games.. Fred and McTom have been immense for United!

They have soaked and covered all the spaces making it difficult for City to create from the middle! They have been disciplined with positioning and tackled well. Please don’t construe this post to mean I think greatly about both players but for this match wen I dey watch so? Fred and McTom have been terrific!

One of them should be MOTM

codedguy1:
You see wetin we dey talk since. Just watch how if city lose they will go on a winning binge while we start messing around with teams we should kill off.

And that’s because we don’t have the talents to unlock teams that sit back. This is when McFred get exposed for their lack of talents.

chrisley024:
This team is sh!t to be honest. Highly paid professionals playing like amateurs. Smh

I agree with you.

We shouldn’t be playing like Burnley against our city rivals.

olabode89:
Fred is a baaaaaastard

He’s a bästard at passing the ball but he must have won the ball like 200 times today.

Fred and McTominay have done so well.....

They might not be good passers or good at transitioning the ball but they have done everything to tackle, disrupt, intercept City’s flow.

nitrogen:
Geez, Rashford, no injury o

We are better off without him.

He’s had about 6 chances to shoot tonight and he chose to pass or dribble instead.

Beorn:
Rashford is very stupid.


Then Martial outdid him in stupidity. That chance would've been buried by Cavani.

The Queen would have buried that chance & she’s 94 years of age.

Martial missed a sitter.....

What a liability!

Rashford hesitating to shoot and trying to dribble every time is costing this team.

That was a good chance to score there and he chose to dribble.

nitrogen:
Lol, useless Shaw?

Useless.

The goal he scored does not nullify his uselessness in the last 7 seasons.

Mr Burger’s goal was sumptuous.

Shaw is justifying his £195,000 per week wage.

BARAJ92:
The games that Pogba was fit, how many did we score three

In those games, the opposition didn’t leave so much gap behind trying to get the equalizer. That’s the difference.

I am not saying Pogba has been excellent in every game he’s played, I am saying this particular game would have suited Pogba because of the high risk Guardiola is taking to get back into the game.

If United have forwards and midfielders that can pass, they would be 4 goals up in this game.

It’s a shame Pogba wasn’t fit for this game. The entire midfield can’t pass the ball accurately.

I am wondering what the trident of Rooney, Ronaldo & Tevez would have done to Man City by now with all the gaps City are leaving behind to press.

United need to scrap this team and start all over again.

Fred & McTominay bossing this so far.

They excel in games like this and play absolute shit against bottom sides.

LostMyZeal:




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But if I say the game of soccer is staged just like wrestling matches now... people are gonna think I'm crayzee
I repeat...Klopp has enjoyed ..now it's time to take the fall... it's all in a bid to spice up the story tho.
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Football isn’t staged - Klopp had the same kind of meltdown in his last year at Dortmund. They were in relegation in the first half of the season.