City away at Scousers

[KunDB]

The last and only time City won at Anfield was 2003 when a certain Nicolas Anelka scored a brace. Other than that Lost 13 Drew 5.

Shocking record that needs corrected today. Come on City.

CITY XI | Bravo, Zabaleta (C), Stones, Otamendi, Kolarov, Fernandinho, Yaya Toure, Sterling, Silva, De Bruyne, Aguero

CITY SUBS | Caballero, Clichy, Sagna, Fernando, A Garcia, Iheanacho, Navas

[gavin]

Is that stat just in the Prem? There was a world before!

Come on City! We need a big win today regardless of history. It is needed for this season. We can't let Chelsea run away from us.

[KunDB]

Has Pep ever told our players the game starts on the referees whistle not 20 minutes later. 

[gavin]

Abysmal.

[KunDB]

Abysmal.

Hard to believe we can be so impotent. Plan A B and C long punt forward or piss around passing in midfield.

[gavin]

Much better second half but not creating anything clear cut

[KunDB]

Deserved to lose.

As a team ineffectual.

[lee]

garbage

kolarov is shite

[gavin]

Load of shite

[Swiss]

garbage

kolarov is shite

Aye, was twice at fault for the goal and seemed determined to give the ball away at every opportunity. He wasn't the only shit player tonight but he did stand out the most.

Otamendi frustrates me immeasurably, he'll come up with some brilliant defending, and then get some simple defending wrong. He'll make a superb pass, then pass it to the opo in a 5 yard pass.

[lee]

i was gonna name otemendi as well but to be fair yes they were all shite

[Neil Mcnab]

A poor performance, not a great game. We were better in the second half. Was that Liverpool running out of steam and holding what they had? Sterling looks like he cant handle going back to his old employers. We had no star performers. De Bruyne was out of it and reluctant to work.

[Ludo]

There was quite a lot of shite on show tonight but Kolarov was extra specially shite.

A special mention in the shitness category must go to Pep. His reliance on Bravo, Kalarov and late substitutions is mind boggling.

[lee]

agree about the subs at the end..10 mins earlier would have seemed feasible

[gavin]

Yeh, fuckin waste of time bringing Iheanacho with a couple of minutes left. Made me laugh that Pep was so busy jabbering shite to Navas for several that he completely missed a chance to get him on when he'd been ready to get on for a while.

This league season has gone apart from making sure we get in top few places, above the rags.

[KunDB]

If we are to finish top 4 we will need to see some serious urgent improvement as we are playing like a hollow purposeless vessell waiting to be sunk.

Same players, same shite, same soloution - Get rid of the waste. Koloarov, Fernando, Navas, ............. and have as back up the nearly men, Bravo, Otamendi, Sterliing. I could name others but I am sure we all know the players incapable of delivering consistently good performances. Even the good players are struggling under Pep the tinker man DeBruyne, Silva.

Finally we are way to one dimensional and lightweight up front, that is blatantly obvious hence the need for continual creative genius or a lucky break just to get a goal against defender packed goal areas.

Slow, slow, slow, slower, slower still, then explode: oh dear too late there's a well organised brick wall of defenders in the way now - thats City under Pep.

Pep needs time and he will get it but boy what a challegne he now faces, we are nearly as bad as we were under Pelle. Out with the old and in with the new I say.

[Hesperus]

A disappointing performance and result, no doubt about that. I'm a big Pep fan and believe he'll get us to the very top, but not this season and not with the defence and keeper we have. Not many positives at the moment and the rest of the results yesterday made it even worse. Difficult understand the summer recruitment policy when you look at the way we've defended all season. Anyway Happy New year all, things will improve. 

[nimrod]

Depressingly predictable,  gutless half arsed lack of desire display

And who the fuck bought that old goalie.

[Gareth]

we are nearly as bad as we were under Pelle.

Didn't Pellegrini's team win the League Cup and Premier League in his first season as manager?

If only we were that bad now...

[bluebrendan]

garbage

kolarov is shite

I'm giving Yaya 50% of the blame for that goal, WTF was he thinking chipping a free kick sideways in a good attacking position?

Kolarov wasn't in space and he (and Clichy for that matter) aren't noted for their ability to play inch-perfect first-time volley passes so there was always a good chance that Liverpool would get possession.

As we conceded just the one goal our defending wasn't entirely catastrophic but our attacking threat was non-existent. I thought everyone, including Pep, was aware that Sergio is generally sluggish after a few games absence so he wasn't an ideal starter last night. KdB may make a top class no.10 eventually but in these games where the opposition are smothering the midfield he has to drop deeper to look for the ball instead of waiting for it to arrive. Without looking too threatening we did at least control the game better in the 2nd half when Silva moved into the no.10 slot.

Oh aye and the subs were about 15mins too late, it had been fairly obvious for a while that we weren't going to score with the starting formation.