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At what point do we bring in Maz?

Cunha for Mbeumo.

My body dey shake.

Make ref give Arsenal red card. I don't care what people will say.

I need a second goal before the first half ends.

A very good take from Lammens.

I hate this Arsenal.

Just look at Bruno.

Jamiuokolaa:
Why didnt Mbuemo try his luck there?

his first touch was very poor.

TrebleChamp:
Do we really need Cole Palmer? Who is he coming in to bench? I would sign Hackney for cheap as a Bruno understudy rather than pay that huge for Palmer...

Let me check out this Hackney guy, you've been on his case for some time now.

Arizoner:
fan of a finished club. Continue fooling around

I will be back for you...

We are beating Arsenal today...

Roland17 and BlueRayDick, we will be partying here later on, keep the place tidy...

Mbappe na goat. Madrid were awarded a penalty yesterday, he had to use the Panenka style to score...The camera come focus on Diaz after the PK...😂

eph12:
Casemiro was a threat from set piece. We don't have that many in the club anymore

Just Maguire and De Ligt.

Casemiro has paid his dues...You just can't question his commitment to the course. He gave his all always...

Finally, we will get to invest in our midfield, and I hope we get it right....

Gyokeres should be ready to sit on the bench for some time because Jesus is looking very sharp...

Eze looks lost in this Arsenal setup. He doesn't seem to understand his role.

Roland17, have you noticed it?

CAPdan21:
That's what I'm talking about...instead of 6 matches you now play 8 and if your club is unlucky to finish outside top 8 you have 2 more round of 32 matches to stat pad if you're paired Against bums

That's true.

CAPdan21:
With the expanded group stage matches which means more matches against bums that record will go...

I am referring to the number of goals scored in a single UCL campaign...I also think Mbappe or Haaland will break that record...

Mbappe is already on 11 goals after 6 games. He might even score more tonight.

That CR7 record might be broken this season.

This Alleyne is a very poor footballer...

AirBere:
If he's the best CB from the famed City academy, then wahala dey. Pep may actually be truly finished or may be he's bored.

Cherki has shouted more times than I have ever seen him do. Playing with these brainless English boys can be so annoying...

Too many dull English boys in the City starting 11...Foden, Alleyne, O'Riley, Lewis...All brainless players.

Lewis runs around for 90 mins doing nothing.

Pep is an idiot for not taking Foden off since.

Jamiuokolaa:
City seem to be very poor currently..

Hopefully, this factor didnt contribute too much when we dominated and beat them a few days ago

I this game, they're lacking width. Doku and Marmoush need to come in for Foden who is simply not good enough and Ait-Nouri/Lewis...

Pep has a way of messing things up, what exactly is Lewis doing on the pitch? and why is Ait-Nouri at RB/RW? The man is crazy.

AirBere:
Tinker man must learn. I remember when he started a younger Jushua Kimmich at CB in an important UCL game. I think they were knocked out.

He's my goat manager though but I'm growing increasingly tired of his tinkering.

Blodo should add more goals pls

WITH Foden and Cherki, they do not have with, Doku and Marmoush should come in for Foden and Ait-Nouri. Lewis can play RB...

Pep might leave at the end of the season. I have never seen City look so ordinary, regardless of their injury concerns.

Why is Ake on the bench? Pep is an idiot.

eph12:
Thanks for this. Because it looks like we're trying to blame the rubbish we have experienced in the past on the 343 we started last year.

If Carrick is able to motivate the players to play every match like they're playing against City or the big teams, he would have done very well.

Whatever made Bruno so disciplined in maintaining his position on the pitch is not motivation, it is down to the set up and instructions from Carrick. We have had Bruno here under other managers, but I can't remember the last time he stuck to his task, he always tries to do it all.

With 3 in the middle, we stopped City from playing through the midfield and in the process, the CBs were more protected.

With 4-3-3, Shaw and Dalot were not tasked with providing width up front, thus focused more on their primary responsibility, which was shutting out the City wingers, and they did just that. In a 3-4-3 setup, we will have Dalot out of position with Yoro or any of the CBs trying to cover for him, and it was always a disaster.

All of the above is not just motivation...

Danhumprey:
Out of everything wey you read from that reply by Ephesus chapter 1, verse 2, this na the only thing you could come up with?

Haba!

Ephraim made solid points about mentality of the players and keeping tempo in every matches sha.

He completely dismissed the change in formation and set-up, which is not true. Go back to when we beat City at the Etihad. Didn't they outplay us? It took a late goal from Amad, against the run of play, for us to win that game. You can't compare how we played yesterday with that.

Eph12 first tried to credit our solid performance to Martinez and Maguire, but that point was dismissed, so he returned with this. How will any fan watch that game and not appreciate that we are much better playing 4-3-3 than 3-4-3?

When was the last time we saw Bruno stick to his position for most of the game?

Mainoo, whose quality fans had begun to question, was brought on and did a solid job...

Dorgu on the LW took everyone by surprise and had one of his best games there...

Of course, we all hope that performance is not a flash in the pan, but you can't say it is a one-off because of the bounce that characterises the first game of a new manager. At least we didn't even enjoy a new manager bounce with Amorim Bin Laden, so that argument should not even suffice...

eph12:
That's good. But this sounds like something we have heard before, then the players go back to default settings immediately we play against smaller teams. The urge to be more physical, run extra, cover more ground, attack games with extra passion, suddenly disappears. Carrick greatest contribution will be his ability to make the players do these things every game, from the start, not some formation nonsense. Because these guys have shown to lose that discipline easily, whether under Amorim, ETH, Ole, or anyone you want to mention. If Carrick can get them to attack every game like their lives depend on it, that will be the game changer. Fingers crossed

If you don't believe that the 3-4-3 formation was not suitable for us then I can't help you.

eph12:
Read this many times, still confused. What are you comparing with Amorim's set up exactly?

We started playing 343 last season. What was it like playing against the likes of LFC and City in the last couple of years when we didn't play 343? Do you remember the formation we played when we were thoroughly beaten in recent years?

I am seriously hoping it's not the case of the players being extra pumped for the game based on the opponent, and that they will approach all games same way.

If you can, watch the game again, you'd notice that Bruno was very disciplined in terms of his positioning on the pitch, it was not the Bruno that we used to see everywhere on the pitch. This alone is a big tactical approach.

Mainoo and Casemiro didn't push forward unnecessarily meaning that Foden and Bernado Silva had very little space to operate. Also, Dalot and Shaw did not allow Dorgu and Semenyo the space they needed to whip in crosses. All this meant Haaland was a passenger for the entirety of the game.

If you remember Carrick as a player, you'd know he was one of the most disciplined players when it came to positional discipline...In the whole, the setup brought out the best in our players...