v Liverpool Match Thread

[KunDB]

Starting Eleven & Subs

Ederson, Walker, Stones, Otamendi, Delph, Fernandinho (c), De Bruyne, Gundogan, Sane, Sterling, Aguero

SUBS | Bravo, Zinchenko, Danilo, Mangala, D Silva, Bernardo, Diaz


Van Dijk out injured

C'mon City about time we beat this arrogant, living in the past, deluded crew at Anfield.

[The Blue Blooded Maniac]

Sane and Stones better have a better game than against Bristol.

[silvablue]

Sane and Stones better have a better game than against Bristol.

Well that is not setting the bar too high, should be easily achievable. I think Pep will have the team up for this game.

[gavin]

No Dave is a bit of a surprise but still a good enough team to win anywhere. Come on City.

[KunDB]

Panc passing at start and giving ball away.

[KunDB]

and pay the price we do, calm down guys.

[KunDB]

Sane and Stones better have a better game than against Bristol.

Well you can tick Sane off your list and Stones doing alright.

[silvablue]

Danilo is a disaster waiting to happen.

[KunDB]

Bad first 10 minutes and lots of poor passing, but good first half and game there to be won if we calm down play our game and impose our tempo and not the helter skelter tempo Liverpool want.

[gavin]

In and out half for us but we can play much better second half. What a great goal from Sane, yes the defender and keeper could have done better but still a fantastic effort.

[KunDB]

Silva coming on would be good.

[KunDB]

Terrible defending by Stones.

[KunDB]

Crumbling in defence like putty.

[Neil Mcnab]

Filthy Koppites looking like the league leaders.

[silvablue]

Shambles, a massive wake up call to these players and our defence.

[Neil Mcnab]

Mistake after mistake.

[Neil Mcnab]

Stones looks like last seasons Stones.

[KunDB]

What was Stones thinking when he did not clear the ball for their second goal? Hard to figure that out, but total stupidity.

I think this sends out a massive wake up call for our chances of winning the Champions league, too soft when the going gets tough and not enough composure. Work for Pep still to do.

[goat]

pep out

[gavin]

Stones was shoved in the back for the second and it should have been a foul to City. I don't understand how attackers get away with that.

[KunDB]

pep out

Klopp in!

[goat]

come on gav, chances are he would have fucked it up anyway if he wasnt slightly nudged

[KunDB]

Good stuff 4 2 not as bad as 4 1 somehow.

Stones has no excuse Gavin.

[KunDB]

4 3 is even better

[KunDB]

Oh no I thought that was in?

[lee]

i agree with gav..stones was fuckin fouled

anyway scousers have just won the world cup...well done

[Neil Mcnab]

Stones needs to work on his strength, but dont do a Micah Richards. Competition for places in defence will help. 
Did we want it as much as Liverpool? This seemed to be everything to them.
Just hope this wasnt the Celtic moment of last season.

[Lekos]

Scousers bossed that but we gifted them goals. Otamendi should have scored from the KDB cross and stones eas fouled.

Call it 3-4.

[Hesperus]

Didn’t get chance to watch any of the game. Just got the goal alerts. Gutted by the result. How did we play? Was it the dicking that the score line suggests?

[gavin]

No, they had a short spell where they scored their goals but I thought City were on top in the second half until then. There was a few errors after the second goal from a foul on Stones. But we came back into it in the end and come out with a good deal of credit. We certainly don't look like a team ready to give up a decent lead at the top.

[Rowley Birkin QC]

Liverpool at Anfield. It seemed to have a certain depressing inevitability about it. I've been fretting about this game all week.

Klopp seems to be one of the rare mangers who can consistently put out a team that can unsettle Pep's game plan. Mind you... if we'd defended better... and 64% of the possession but only 4 shots on target (to Liverpool's 7 shots out only 36%)? What's going on there then?

I'm not unduly worried, We'll still win the Prem, and probably lose a game or two more along the way, but it just had to be Liverpool at Anfield didn't it? And perhaps, as someone said, a sign that in a crunch European Cup match - with this defence and no Silva on the pitch - we might have a problem.

[Hesperus]

Thanks Gav.

Clearly our defence wasn't at the races today. Stones seems to be struggling a bit since coming back from injury. I'm very disappointed but I think this will focus the team again. We've certainly taken our foot off the gas recently, either through fatigue from a busy Christmas schedule or injury. We could do with someone new upfront though and probably in defence just to refesh us a bit.

[KunDB]

City played 33 incomplete passes in their own half against Liverpool on Sunday - 50 per cent more than in any other away game this season.

That what I thought watching the match, but that was credit to Liverpool for constant pressing and it was 10 minutes madness that cost us the game.

[Lekos]

Aye, we gave the ball away a lot due to their pressure. We had the most of the possession but they had the best of the game, no getting around that. We barely had a sniff in the second half until the 80th whatever minute when the second goal went in then came alive.

[Stephen Paul]

another 5 minutes of play and would have won that game

10 sloppy minutes cost us dearly

Whats the crack with Silva on the bench

[Swiss]

Ok. As long as I don't see any Liverpool fans today I can cope. Stupid mistakes. There was afoul further up the pitch n'all for their second. So almost got it back to a draw too.

[Hesperus]

Just seen the goals 🙁  They were all awful and each came from an error by one of our players. We got severely punished for our mistakes. Good to see we never gave up though.

The dippers fans are going to be insufferable today.

[KunDB]

Well I think we can all survive this now rare defeat, just a pity it was against those bunch of deluded shit heads fans. Still on aggregate this season we win 8 4, they should remember that and bricking themselves at the end having been 4 1 up.

Despite the defeat, an awful lot of positives came from the game and I feel it will only make us much stronger for the future and Champions League, particularly mentally assuming Pep addresses the issues around our 10 minute collective panic attack and absence of leadership.

[Paddy]

Why did Ederson not boot the ball into the crowd. It was the logical thing to do

[gavin]

He never does and nor should he. He's been great with his distribution this season and that has been a key part in how we've been playing. Stick with it. It has got us where we are.

[Swiss]

I'm not keen on gundog and dinho being in the same team. There are holes of availability in the middle which they fail to occupy

[Stephen Paul]

you would have thought Liverpool fans had won the Champions league on Sunday fs

Just shows how far we have come

[nimrod]

I'm not keen on gundog and dinho being in the same team. There are holes of availability in the middle which they fail to occupy

Puzzles me , I thought B Silva was replacement for D Silva and yet Gundo always plays when David is missing

Shame we didnt (couldnt be arsed) start playing till we were 4-1 down

[Paddy]

We did play we also made silly mistakes. I still say Ederson should have put it out of play, he was to far out of position to get back safely

[nimrod]

We did play we also made silly mistakes. I still say Ederson should have put it out of play, he was to far out of position to get back safely

We didnt hit top gear till about the last 10 minutes

Id say Ederson wouldnt argue with you looking back

[zacc]

Anyone know why David Silva did not play, not even used as a sub?
Said few weeks back to ones into EPL here Liverpool were the team to do damage to City.
Disappointing gifting 2 goals though, was fuming at the time.
Now all the talk here (E.Malaysia) is Sanchez transfer the catch up to City back on blah blah.
Hardly any mention of City you'd never think they were top!!
As Pep would say onto the next game   

[nimrod]

Anyone know why David Silva did not play, not even used as a sub?
Said few weeks back to ones into EPL here Liverpool were the team to do damage to City.
Disappointing gifting 2 goals though, was fuming at the time.
Now all the talk here (E.Malaysia) is Sanchez transfer the catch up to City back on blah blah.
Hardly any mention of City you'd never think they were top!!
As Pep would say onto the next game   

The Asians are obsessed with Man U Zacc

Or the Dippers

[zacc]

The Asians are obsessed with Man U Zacc

Or the Dippers

don't I know it whole view of footy, EPL is bizarre to me

[Swiss]

We did play we also made silly mistakes. I still say Ederson should have put it out of play, he was to far out of position to get back safely

Or even some air time on it! He just shanked it that's all.

Had a wee fumble against toon today too

[gavin]

Yeh, he's had a couple of wobbles. Long overdue probably. Hope they don't last.

[gavin]

Typical scousers. Lost at Swansea.

[Swiss]

I had a little chuckle at that. It's like we were their world cup final and they can't sustain the levels of intensity they had against us

[KunDB]

Never ever was a humiliation better deserved, some fans you feel sorry for at times. Other fans are hard to take, those that think a one-off win makes them the World Club Champions elect.

As Liverpool fans bump down back to earth again I cannot help feel that the world is so wonderful tonight. A week is a long time in football.