[Albion] The best team won today but...

[Mr Putdown]

I was back in Sussex for the weekend so i watched the game in a pub I used to frequent back when I lived locally.

Thought your lot made far more of a game of it than I was expecting, especially after going one down in the opening minutes.

When that ball was looped in to the box and I saw Murray lurking, I honestly thought you would equalise. If Laporte had not managed to get his boot on it, you’d have been right back in the game.

Hope all of your fans who went enjoyed the day, despite the result. At least you all left the ground with your heads held high, plenty of teams have been overrun by Man City this season.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Still don't know how Murray didn't score and I've seen the replays! Incredible defending by Laporte (I think).

Duffy definitely committed a foul, before winning that header. If Murray had put it in, it would almost certainly have been chalked off after a VAR review.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Gave it a good go second half, without making their keeper make a save! Just not enough to break them diwn

Jose Izquierdo did force him to make one, and he very nearly ballsed it up.

 

[OzMike]

Still don't know how Murray didn't score and I've seen the replays! Incredible defending by Laporte (I think).

Same here, I thought the momentum was going to take it in anyway, so unlucky.

 

[OzMike]

Jose Izquierdo did force him to make one, and he very nearly ballsed it up.

Izzy’s shot was bending fiercely and if the goalie had gone any further to his left he may not have been able to correct himself quick enough.

 

[trueblue]

Thought we were excellent. Every player gave it their all. I’m sure City fans - and some of the national press who can only see everything from the point of view of the big 6 - will say they strolled through without engaging their extra gear. Bullshit. Guardiola teams don’t settle for 1-0. We made it very tough for them. Sure, they probably had an extra gear for emergencies but a couple of reports I’ve already seen are disappointing.

The 5 Live interview with Chris Hughton went the same way. The reporter saying to Chris Hughton (paraphrased), “the football purists night ask why you would be proud of a performance like that?”. Frankly a piss-take of a question exploiting the fact she knows he’s possibly the nicest men in football. 99% of managers would have ripped her head off for that.

It makes it sound like we’re just kicking lumps out of people, rather than playing in some matches where the deck is massively stacked against us. If the sniffy ‘football purists’ don’t like teams (not just us) trying to hang in and nick a goal, they should take it out on the clubs that are wealthy beyond belief that have distorted competition to such an extent that it’s now pretty much the only option. And still doesn’t work very often. As we’ve seen this week with the mooted European changes, they won’t stop until they’ve effectively killed the domestic leagues.

 

[Brovion]

Yeah, having thought beforehand that we were going to get spanked (and fearing the worst when they scored) I was actually a bit disappointed at the final whistle. We knew that to get a result City would not have to be at their best, whist we'd have to play WAY better than we have done. Well both those things were true, but even though we were better we weren't quite good enough.

Not really complaining though. It was a great day and the fans' 2nd half performance was good. Just hope we (fans and players) can take that performance into the remaining league games

 

[darkwolf666]

Jose Izquierdo did force him to make one, and he very nearly ballsed it up.

That's true, forgot that, from my seat it seemed a fairly routine body stop that the keeper made to look awkward. It was hit with some venom though!

 

[neilbard]

We equipped ourselves okay but once City had scored they were in cruise control, not the best of games to watch but our supporters made it a decent day out.

 

[trueblue]

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We equipped ourselves okay but once City had scored they were in cruise control, not the best of games to watch but our supporters made it a decent day out.

If you're citing possession for 'cruise control', it's meaningless. Leicester won the league with stats like that. With all City's resources they managed a whopping 4 shots on target. Albion deserve huge credit for that. Just a shame we couldn't nick something from a set-piece (and we nearly did) - that was always likely to be our only real chance.

 

[neilbard]

If you're citing possession for 'cruise control', it's meaningless. Leicester won the league with stats like that. With all City's resources they managed a whopping 4 shots on target. Albion deserve huge credit for that. Just a shame we couldn't nick something from a set-piece (and we nearly did) - that was always likely to be our only real chance.

Hence my comment "not the best of games to watch" Leicester did win the league with stats like that, remind me again who won on Saturday?

Yes it was a shame we couldn't nick one, but to be honest we never really looked like doing so, plenty of effort with no end product,
just accept it for what it was a fantastic day out with us having a slim outside chance of winning..

Our support was immense and the team gave it their best shot..