Noisy Neighbours - the Man City thread

[pleno1]

Yeah exactly, Hart simply wouldn't work in this team. Stones is absolutely amazing imo. Would be first name on England team sheet in World Cup for me. Different class and I said it at he time playoff Cahill instead of him vs Iceland was terrible decision and he should have been on at 1-2. International teams have always let our centre backs have the ball, I remember Cahill and Jags? Just punting it out of play repeatedly during Iceland it was so frustrating, Stones would gallop up the field with the ball

[hhyftrftdr]

Yeah exactly, Hart simply wouldn't work in this team. Stones is absolutely amazing imo. Would be first name on England team sheet in World Cup for me. Different class and I said it at he time playoff Cahill instead of him vs Iceland was terrible decision and he should have been on at 1-2. International teams have always let our centre backs have the ball, I remember Cahill and Jags? Just punting it out of play repeatedly during Iceland it was so frustrating, Stones would gallop up the field with the ball

He's gotta get in ahead of this one first

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/12016/11019710/phil-jones-is-englands-best-defender-gareth-southgate-says

[Archer]

I love watching city. I chose them instead of Spurs/real today, will pep really be so stubborn with playing out from the back once you take on Barca/PSG/Real?

What hhy said and also tikay with his vg "induce" analogy...

It's proving to be a winning strategy and  we are getting better and better at it. Most teams back off or don't bother with the very high press against City because they will get killed. Napoli are probably the most accomplished high pressing team in Europe at the moment and City broke the lines many times last night and ended up with overloads. The 2nd goal started with Ederson, involved him again, and finished with a 3 v 3 in the Napoli box with Jesus converting. Several great goals the same way this season including my favourite which was the 2nd against Stoke at the weekend. Meanwhile the Dinho error/John Stones block last night was the closest to catastrophe this season. Risk v reward innit.

[TightEnd]

Man City completed 844 passes against West Brom: the most by a team in the Premier League since the start of the 2003-04 season.

[flushthemout]

Decent performance yesterday, Sane looked a bit tired, pep didn't seem to happy after the game as always approaches fans after final whistle but declined yesterday, seemed happier on motd. Ready for Napoli today, rumour has it we have only sold 2000 tickets. Strange info on Napoli website that no belts to be worn in the stadium. Blues all are meeting at the port then bused to the ground, our hotel is ten minutes from the port so good choice in gaff. We fly out Tuesday and leave Thursday night so a bit off sight seeing Thursday if we still have our pants on.

[engy]

How many tickets were allocated ? 2000 seems a low turnout,

[flushthemout]

3,000 but there was lots of trouble last visit there. Lots of city booked flights through Ryan air as well which hasn't helped, and most of other flights were via Milan, we were lucky direct to Naples from Gatwick.

[engy]

Ah ok I can see why some wouldn't travel, Absolutely love the football City are playing at the minute.

[hhyftrftdr]

I don't think 2k is a bad turnout whatsoever.

Whilst Naples isn't too difficult to get to, its an away day we've had very recently (2/3 years ago?), and I know a lot of fans that might travel to Europe to watch us ideally want to visit new cities and stadiums. Factor in half term, Christmas being round the corner, the reputation of the home fans, Monarch going tits up, and I think 2000 is a more than decent following.

Have a great and safe trip Flushthemout!

[flushthemout]

Cheers H

[Archer]

Man City completed 844 passes against West Brom: the most by a team in the Premier League since the start of the 2003-04 season.

So many of these records and fun facts  at the moment.

My favourite is this one showing Sterling in a good light (and Aguero, Jesus and Sane)...

[Archer]

Decent performance yesterday, Sane looked a bit tired, pep didn't seem to happy after the game as always approaches fans after final whistle but declined yesterday, seemed happier on motd. Ready for Napoli today, rumour has it we have only sold 2000 tickets. Strange info on Napoli website that no belts to be worn in the stadium. Blues all are meeting at the port then bused to the ground, our hotel is ten minutes from the port so good choice in gaff. We fly out Tuesday and leave Thursday night so a bit off sight seeing Thursday if we still have our pants on.

Have a good one flush.

[flushthemout]

Cheers Archer. What a mad Place Napoli is, so much traffic, good flight, landed 30 minutes early, mad taxi driver from Airport and even a worse one from Restaurant back to hotel tonight. Restaurant was nice and the staff looked after us really well. Let's see what tomorrow brings.

[bergeroo]

Great match vs Napoli. Really exciting to watch and so glad that Sterling is getting a run in the side and seems to be doing well. Bodes well for the national team.

[hhyftrftdr]

Great match vs Napoli. Really exciting to watch and so glad that Sterling is getting a run in the side and seems to be doing well. Bodes well for the national team.

Was a great game and essentially mirrored the Etihad match but reversed; we were sloppy and not at the races in the first 30 mins or so, but then began to get a foothold in proceedings and ended the half on top, and probs the best team in the 2nd half too and worthy winners by the final whistle.

To go to Napoli, who are steamrolling Serie A, and score 4 is quite incredible. To do it with both Silva's, Jesus and Walker on the bench really underlines the quality of the squad. We so lacked these options last year, such an improvement on Navas, Fernando, Clichy, Nolito, Sagna etc

Was a solid team performance, but extra credit has to go to the defence for a tight 90 minutes facing a strong attacking team, and to the players like Gundogan and Danilo who haven't had loads of game time but stepped in seamlessly. Thought Sterling was excellent and caused them problems all game. He's making a mockery of people who were quick to write him off. In all honesty I think Sterling should fuck off the national team, but I just hate international football

Can't not mention the record breaker. Take a bow Sergio, take a bow.

Ralph's boys next up on Sunday....