V Chelsea at Wembley

[gavin]

CITY XI: Ortega Moreno, Walker (C), Stones, Akanji, Ake, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Foden, Grealish, Alvarez

Subs: Ederson, Dias, Kovacic, Doku, Gomez, Gvardiol, Nunes, Bobb, Lewis

Haaland goosed

[Stephen Paul]

another big one

no penalties please

[Stephen Paul]

Walker all over the place ffs

[Stephen Paul]

We look leggy after 20 minutes ffs

[KunDB]

Disappointing first half. Lacking cutting edge again in and around the oppositions box

Need to improve second half.

C'mon City

[gavin]

A mixed half from City. Not quite there and dynamism certainly lacking. The referee should have booked Caicedo for the foul on Foden. Then he couldn't have pulled Kev for the foul shortly afterwards where he did get booked. This is how weak reffing affects games. There was no real excuse for not booking him for the first foul - he just booted Phil on the knee, miles away from the ball.

[Stephen Paul]

we are still shite at corners

[KunDB]

Only one team tried to win. Chelsea's done an Arsenal & Real Madrid blocking the middle of the field and just defending all game.

[Stephen Paul]

Thank fook for that , big win after the disappointment midweek 

[gavin]

The reffing in these matches is just embarrassing. He books Foden for complaining that Chelsea were time wasting. Then 8 minutes injury time, presumably for all the time wasting that they had been doing throughout. He gave a foul against Walker at the end for barging the bloke down the line. It was never a foul. The one that Walker did in the box was much more of a foul though I didn't think either was really a foul.

The commentary was awful too. City bossed possession but admittedly gave away a few chances to Chelsea as in the previous games against them this season. But they made it sound like City were lucky to come away without a hiding.

Not a great performance, we gave away the ball far too much, but a very good result after a very tough week. Well done to the lads for battling through in the end.

[Stephen Paul]

Surely Stones not injured again   

[Stephen Paul]

Manchester City have have played at Wembley every season for the last 14 years in a row:

2010/11: x2
2011/12: x1
2012/13: x2
2013/14: x1
2014/15: x1
2015/16: x1
2016/17: x1
2017/18: x2
2018/19: x5
2019/20: x3
2020/21: x2
2021/22: x2
2022/23: x2
2023/24: x2