City seriously declined this season from finishing with 98 points last season to very likely finishing with less than 80 point this season. Serious questions have to be asked to pep even fa cup win won't really save him.
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Premier League 19/20: Matchday 33 (July 4-6)
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Country: Scotland
champions league might though.
their big issue was the loss of Laporte. Massive for them at the back. Just shows how well Arteta has done given who he has and what he is trying to do.
Really annoying watching this. I cannot help but think what if Xhaka and Mari didn't go off injured.
sdotzdot
Established Member
City have played some of the best football I’ve ever seen for 2 seasons straight, it is only possible to keep that up for so long.
Especially with a massive injury in their already weakest position on the pitch and the biggest leader in the dressing room leaving. This drop off was inevitable, they’ll be back and better than everyone next season.
Especially with a massive injury in their already weakest position on the pitch and the biggest leader in the dressing room leaving. This drop off was inevitable, they’ll be back and better than everyone next season.
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They've actually played quite well today, just been some unbelievable last ditch defending from Southampton.
Tir Na Nog
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Country: Ireland
Southampton have been outstanding, incredibly disciplined performance. Hasenhuttl has done a superb job to turn things around.
Notorious Big
Drunka In Friend Zone
Yeah,they were on amazing run last season and won 14 games in a row.It's kinda reasonable that they dropped off this season and some injuries didn't help at all.
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I didn't watch the game, did the commentators think this was a pen? Man is desperate for the Golden Boot.
Now I'm more impressed by our wins against Southampton and wolves it wasn't fun but against these teams being clinical and not making mistakes is important
Lidl_Reed
Wants a new name
That was an awful, awful performance by De Bruyne since he came on lol
We lost 8 games this season man city 10 still they 17 points ahead of us 
Country: Wales
Big love for Alex McCarthy saving my fantasy team this week.
I'm loving the media and the little credit they gave us after beating Southampton Sheffield and wolves scoring conceding 1.
Country: Scotland
Player:Gabriel
Very little mention of Arteta's defensive record since taking over. Clearly much of the pundits pay very little attention to our games until a defensive performance like the City game happens
They say Sheffield were unlucky against us and wolves were jaded
Country: Scotland
Player:Gabriel
A Wolves side that hadn't played for a week!They say Sheffield were unlucky against us and wolves were jaded
Country: Wales
I thought Sheffield Utd were on the beach but last two games they’ve been really at it. Same with Saints and Wolves.
In particular Wolves, who had an 8 game run of clean sheets and have only conceded 2 goals in a game at home three times this season, to Liverpool, City and Chelsea before us.
Looking back at it, very impressive run of games by Arteta. If we’d sacked Emery after Leicester away who knows where we’d be?
7 clean sheets in the league after his first 15 games. Emery had 10 clean sheets in the league during his time here. The improvement is night and day.
Country: Scotland
Player:Gabriel
Yep, I'm so glad Arteta prioritised making us more solid defensively. I know we all would loving to see free flowing attacking football every week and hopefully in time that will come but for too many years we'd looked so shaky defensively
Ash10
Chairman of the Bum Brigade
Even in his supposed 'great' games he plays like that all the time. It’s his output & media's love for players that run is what makes him get away with them
Lidl_Reed
Wants a new name
Tbf no player whose first instinct is to pass forward is going to have a good pass completion rate. What I like about him is that he keeps trying those balls and he's good enough for at least two to three to be bang on per game which is more than enough
Özil comparitively plays it much safer with his passes
