at scum efl cup

[gavin]

Caballero, Maffeo, Kompany, Otamendi, Clichy, A Garcia, Fernando, Nolito, Iheanacho, Sane, Navas

Subs: Gunn, Gundogan, Sterling, Aguero, Adarabioyo, Fernandinho, Kolarov

[goat]

looks like im not the only one not arsed with cup

[gavin]

Bit much lumbering Garcia with Fernando against the rags innit

[goat]

navas an all. its like starting with 9 men

[KunDB]

Maffeo and Garcia have slotted in seamlessly and look the real deal. Yet again so far we are just lacking the final pass.

[gavin]

To be fair Fernando has been decent too. I've been disappointed with Sane tho. Our reserves are making a good fist of it. But it has not been a good game to watch..

[Rowley Birkin QC]

Lively enough game - but short on final quality so far.

[Swiss]

I thought Maffeo has had a good half as had Garcia.

Navas has been our biggest creative outlet and thought Nacho should have done better with that early header. Shouldn't have been booked too.

[Rowley Birkin QC]

Just had a proper look at the penalty shout on Garcia. rags got very luck there.

[Rowley Birkin QC]

I knew we were in trouble straight from Caballero's poor clearance!

[gavin]

That was a foul on Fernando in the box before that 'goal'. He was just taken out by the rag. Not even mentioned by Sky. Of course the slightest tap on Ibrahmovic by Nico after and we were 'lucky to get away with it'. Terrible reffin and comments.

[Rowley Birkin QC]

Arguably two fouls in the run up to their goal. Both looked at on my commentary.

[Hesperus]

Piss poor tonight Pep.

[Hesperus]

If Pep really didn't care about this competition I would have preferred we got knocked out in the previous round.

Tough times for Pep. Team confidence must be low. We need 3 points in the league and a result against Barca.

[Rowley Birkin QC]

Nine changes - and some very sloppy passing at times. A bit too much unfamiliarity I think. Youngsters did OK though.

Poorly ref'ed game.

[gavin]

We did not create. Piss poor performance second half. Not near good enough in a derby. Pep didn't look bothered. Seems he's happy with fewer games. He might have a point but it shouldn't be allowed to happen against the rags.

[Neil Mcnab]

We were average. Plenty of hoofing it up the field. Extreme difficulty in finding a decent pass and even less chance of an accurate one.

Maffeo looked like he might make the grade at some point.

[goat]

fucking aids that

[KunDB]

Disappointing second half with zero bite up front.

[lee]

sane was bobbins
fernando is sunderland bound(must be)
garcia..the spanish ray wilkins


navas our best player..am i tripping?

[Hesperus]

Agree Gav. We should not be surrendering like that to the rags. It gives them impetus and knocks us back.

Team selection was poor. They were there for the taking.

I believe in pep but not happy tonight at all. He messed up.

[Rowley Birkin QC]

I agree. Pep put out an indifferent team tonight, to say the least, and that's not acceptable against the rags.

Our build up and tempo was way too slow in that second half.

[zacc]

Maffeo MOM need to put his grit and determination into the other players! Garcia not shabby either.
What was up with Sane this evening?
Well done City supporters heard ya singing loud   

[gavin]

Pep says he's happy and proud. Bizarre.

Vinny said he couldn't play any more which is not than a bit concerning as well.

Bad night.

[bluebrendan]

I don't have a problem with Pep resting some players, he was never going to risk Silva with KdB injured for example,but selecting two defensive minded players in the middle left us way short on creativity and Nacho and Nolito totally reliant on the service from the wings which as usual was sporadic to say the least.

Maffeo did very well and deserves a start on Saturday, Garcia also looks a good prospect.

I hate losing to that lot but we're still top and they're still shit. 

[Rowley Birkin QC]

I hate losing to that lot but we're still top and they're still shit. 

Well said that man!