v Southampton Match Thread

[KunDB]

Flaming 6pm kick off. I presumed 8pm, grr.

Ederson, Walker, Dias, Laporte, Zinchenko, Fernandinho (C), Gündogan, Mahrez, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Foden

SUBS | Steffen, Stones, Sterling, Jesus, Agüero, Rodrigo, Torres, Mendy, Cancelo

C'mon City

[lee]

thats should have been the team that played the rags

[Stephen Paul]

Great starting 11 with Foden

[gavin]

I'd like to have seen Sergio start.

[The Blue Blooded Maniac]

thats should have been the team that played the rags

Zink for Stones and Mahrez for Jesus I would have gone for in the Derby.

[Stephen Paul]

I'd like to have seen Sergio start.

Something going on with Augero or think

[KunDB]

Poor pressing and passing and work rate topped off by conceding fourth game in a row.

Not good sign.

[The Blue Blooded Maniac]

That wasn't a penalty!?!?

[lee]

piss poor so far

[Stephen Paul]

How in the name of good fuck was that not a penalty

[KunDB]

How in the name of good fuck was that not a penalty

Exactly and how was their penalty awarded and ours not. Theirs was so soft.

Great goal Mahrez, but:

Why is our defence standing back letting Southampton players have free shots? 

[KunDB]

We definitely don’t deserve that 3 1 lead. Three good moments well taken. 

[gavin]

Mahrez has been our best player for the last month and another starring performance.

Again, an easy pen for the opposition and City players have to be hit with an axe to get a pen.

Southampton play good football and have a good attitude. Hate them as a club but as a team, at the moment, I like them.

[lee]

No joy in this perfomance so far.The lads looks pissed off!!

[Stephen Paul]

Souness say that VAR officials just make it up

[The Blue Blooded Maniac]

Should have been a penalty and a red but even the commentators didn't seem arsed.

[KunDB]

No one could review that incident and conclude no foul on Foden. It is ridiculous bias against City players because the club doesn’t make a fuss about poor refereeing.

[KunDB]

Time to stop pissing around with central defence Stones and Dias every game until season end bar injury.

[Stephen Paul]

Time to stop pissing around with central defence Stones and Dias every game until season end bar injury.

Exactly

[Stephen Paul]

Pep out 😉

[KunDB]

Defence starting to look poor again, last season revisited.

[Stephen Paul]

Decent result wit a very average performance

[KunDB]

14 clear all that matters really.

[lee]

Defence starting to look poor again, last season revisited.

Hardly poor..Conceded a penalty and bit of mix up for their second

[Stephen Paul]

14 clear all that matters really.

We are getting there

[gavin]

A decent win and an enjoyable match. Foden was decent but harsh indeed for Mahrez not to get Man of the Match.

[KunDB]

Hardly poor..Conceded a penalty and bit of mix up for their second

Conceded a poor penalty and an absolute shambles for their second. Four games now in a row we have conceded and two in a row two conceded.

[lee]

Conceded a poor penalty and an absolute shambles for their second. Four games now in a row we have conceded and two in a row two conceded.

Your living on another planet of you think the lads wont concede every game.
Other teams will score against City.It's the way the game works.
To says its last season revisited is hilarious!!!

[KunDB]

Well Lee it is not as bad as last season but keep on defending this way and it well could be.

Laporte is all over the place which is confusing given how solid he was last season. He is a liability this season near every game with at least one key error per game.

The defending problem is down to lower pressing and work rate by the whole team and very sloppy passing at times recently.

Need solidity and confidence in defence to win Cl and other trophies.

[Stephen Paul]

Conceded a poor penalty and an absolute shambles for their second. Four games now in a row we have conceded and two in a row two conceded.

Pep out

[KunDB]

           STORY LINK         

Andrew Madley, the VAR official, reviewed on field Referee Jon Moss' call but stood by the on-field decision.

It is understood that the VAR did not feel footage of the incident conclusively proved that McCarthy had not touched the ball and therefore did not ask Moss to review his decision on the pitchside monitor.

Take a BIG RED FACE, so embarrassing. Could not prove a negative (VAR did not feel footage of the incident conclusively proved that McCarthy had not touched the ball).

So the VAR official Andrew Madley was looking for positive proof that the goalie had indeed touched the ball as believed by the on field referee but could not find any touch shown on the video. Therefore, as there was NO VIDEO EVIDENCE supporting the on field referee view he decided he could not overturn referees Jon Moss view, basing his decision on the view it must be the video footage that was lacking.

Clear as mud. So glad they cleared that up, so in future if a referee believes he saw something that simply did not happen in reality and consequently there is no video of this non existent event, VAR will BLAME THE VIDEO as inadequate and inconclusive and uphold the referees decision.

[jingoe]

If the pen had been given we would probably have missed it anyway!

Absolutely shocking decision

[gavin]

It is so good to be back with the winning feeling. I was out of kilter for days after Sunday. Just not used to defeat.