sussex_guy2k2
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Sure, but I don't rate my fullbacks solely on their defensive performance. I might also be mistaken but he seemed to give the ball away a fair amount.
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[Albion] Player Ratings - FA Cup Semi Final
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Sure, but I don't rate my fullbacks solely on their defensive performance. I might also be mistaken but he seemed to give the ball away a fair amount.
Genuine question, did you read the whole bit you quoted?
Popped back in to see the replies to my post to your Bernardo thread re the daily mail article. My post wasn't allowed. So i doubt the mods will allow this one.
I thought Bernardo kept Sterling quiet and yes if the full backs did progress to far forward to early in the 2nd half, city would have broken the lines on the counter.
It was interesting to watch Houghton screaming orders to his full backs. His tactics were right but also flawed, i didn't think you had the pace to counter until you played the team and formation 4 4 2 at the end. BUT, that formation and team would have taken too many chances in the 1st half and the loss would have been greater.
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I thought Bernardo kept Sterling quiet and yes if the full backs did progress to far forward to early in the 2nd half, city would have broken the lines on the counter.
It was interesting to watch Houghton screaming orders to his full backs. His tactics were right but also flawed, i didn't think you had the pace to counter until you played the team and formation 4 4 2 at the end. BUT, that formation and team would have taken too many chances in the 1st half and the loss would have been greater.
Thanks for the cheese. Good luck in staying up. See you next year x
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Genuine question - can VAR downgrade a judgement - i.e. from Red to yellow if they think the red not justified? I presume not, but it can reverse goals and give offside or whatever instead.
The Kid Frankie
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You will see us on May 12th mate
mikeyjh
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I suspect it's more a comparative with expectations - City were awful by their standards, Brighton did what Brighton do. Most people will have expected a far more comfortable win for City so are probably giving Brighton their deserved credit.
All that said, anyone that managed to watch it to the end deserves a medal....
Not my belief VAR can recommend but all decisions are down to the match Ref.
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sussex_guy2k2
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Seasider78
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We probably won’t as we saw on Saturday they don’t really do away games do they
Yes I did, because (a) it wasn't his fault nor the result of any of his actions and (b) he deserved a 9. Unless you're expecting him to rush onto the field and go in two-footed in de Bruyne just as he picked out a cross?
sussex_guy2k2
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By your logic (for point B), it's never the fault of the manager and only ever the fault of the players as no manager can ever "rush onto the field and go in two-footed in de Bruyne" ("in De Bruyne" sounds filthy by the way). And yet managers regularly lose their jobs ahead of players, so clearly many within football regularly blame managers for continued poor performances.
Personally I think you're being incredibly generous. We lost the semi final and all this nicey nice stuff about us working hard is great and all, but it's another game where we've lost without scoring and where we've barely looked like scoring. Were City at their best? Absolutely not, but they were incredibly comfortable for the majority of that game. It's on our manager to do enough to try and change that, which he really didn't do. So how anyone can rate him anything above average is beyond me. But then again I suppose a lot of people have such low expectations that managing a side to a loss in a semi final is apparently worth a near perfect rating.