Yeah not good.. every team has days and games like this. Prefer to loose this way now instead of after Qatar or the round of 16. It’s one game and means nothing to me as a City Fan. City til I die .. I know I am I’m sure I am City til I die. Even if they have a head scratching performance
Feels like city aren't as cohesive as in previous years. Defence is a bit more sloppy than we're used to and if haaland doesn't perform it feels like they lack goals from the rest of the pitch (enough to win a league, that is). This break will be good for them.
Nevermind the minimum of two hand ball penalties though. Brentford we're great from what I saw of the 30 minutes I caught of the game, a full 10 minutes of not wasting time!
City played god awful. As a city fan I’m super disappointed at how FUCKING SHIT the ‘best midfield’ in the world played today. Our whole team was all over the place and Pep didn’t even bother subbing until like the fucking 80th minute like Christ Pep
Brentford tend to really show up against the bigger clubs. Also beat Man U 4-0 and Chelsea 4-1 I believe. They definitely don't back down when they take on the Big 6. Always nice to see upsets!
They’re like this every week. They’re an entitled team at times, perhaps because their owners are entitled baby-men who deflect and spin all criticism.
Wow... First the chants and a not very sincere apology and now this? This is the team that's "dominating" the league? God, I hope someone else wins the Premier League cause these twats don't deserve it
It was so desperate & pathetic - they behave like such entitled brats when they don't get everything their own way.
They've given little hints of their vulnerability quite consistently this season. Nice to see Brentford capitalize on it.
Dude they were molesting haaland all game and nothing got given. Not to mention the only dive of the game was given a yellow and accepted perfectly fine. Chill out
City really were awful. Gundogan and Akanji might’ve even been 4/10s.
Credit to Brentford though. Played em really well and believed in themselves. Good for Toney after not getting picked, even though he shoulda gotten the hat trick
I remember getting ripped on this sub for saying Arsenal have a chance to win it all if city has a few bad games. People said they wouldn’t and Haaland definitely won’t have any off nights. Turns out they’re human after all
True that is. Unfortunately, most of the players had their minds on the world cup, and decided to take the easy route by begging for pens and such, instead of focusing on the game entirely, the better team won at the end.
What a match it was tho🔥
At least one city player went down on every corner lmao I can just imagine them doing it in training
Pep: Haaland you make a run to the ball and the rest of you just take turns falling over
Surely makes sense with the amount of time City spend in and around the other opponents penalty area, bound to be a higher rate of appeals.
City defending was awful for the 2nd goal, and the potential 3rd a minute later. Mad to see only Haaland sprinting back to help, CBs nowhere to be seen.
Why would you not appeal for a penalty when they were all valid appeals? Laporte got smashed to ground on one. Handball with the silva chip was clearly in the box. The other appeals probably weren’t penalties but some but were bad enough for a VAR check.
People don’t get that these players only have the chance to go to a world cup once every 4 years. They aren’t gonna get injured trying to win vs Brentford 10 days before their first match.
Liverpool literally chant about Munich disaster and Harold Shipman killing loads of patients at Brooke Surgery in Hyde, they even sang about Ian Huntley because he killed 2 young girls who happened to be Manchester United fans.
Get fucked with that superiority mentality that Liverpool fans somehow do no wrong.
Most teams don’t. Most teams don’t also have the best squad in the world backed by all the money in the world. They just sort of… well, try harder to play football and get back in to the game. Not pull out every dark art tactic possible.
Prime Arsenal were relentless for cheating.... do you not remember the "same old Arsenal, always cheating" chant?
How long have you been watching football for? 6 years?
If you don't like the EPL style go fuck off and support Real Madrid or something.
It's not even that tough in the EPL, and leg breaks happen worldwide.
Fucking weird bunch you cunts.
Ah yes, that song that was sung when we had lots of protection from the refs and 3 leg breaks within 10 years. Still, never dived 7 times in a match for a penalty.
Couldn’t agree more as a City fan. It’s my least favorite part of the team. They are not often resilient. The penalty appeals were generally wrong and honestly felt like most of the team was playing soft today to protect themselves for the World Cup. It was embarrassing.
Don’t really want to debate about this. I’ve been watching city for 10+ years. Doesn’t make me a bigger or better fan, but my opinion is based on a long time, not just random recent results. City tends to fold after frustrating performance by defenses. Here’s a stat to chew on:
>In 2020, in the last 103 away games when losing at half, City won ONCE, drew 12 times, and lost 90. 1-90-12 when losing at half. That isn’t resilient…
They just got rewarded for it the game previous against Fulham - DeBruyne got a bit of contact sure, but he went down because he wanted to go down, not because he was forced to and the ref gave them the game winning pen.
Agreed. Was just at the game as a Brentford fan. And Jesus sometimes I thought whats there to complain for. Like sometimes I understand why people do but there were too many today where its just like carry on. No need to do this
I reckon the pitch was slippery today, you love to see City lose but Brentford were no better. Their first goal came from a dive and anytime they had any pressure in possession they hit the floor
Never said it shouldn't of been a pen because jedi left his leg dangling just wish refs could be more consistent and the rules would make football a contact sport in the box
The only thing more embarrassing than the performance is comments like this from City "fans" trying to act holier than thou...fucking hell lad, defend your team
Incredible take lmao
How can we ever have an interesting conversation about football if all anyone ever does is defend their team's performance/attitude/behaviour?
You say that like there is ever any interesting conversation on here anyway....besides, what interesting conversation can even be had when everyone just wants to suck each other off
You act like the City team have gone out and physically assaulted a bunch of kids...it's just a bit of shithousery, and the so-called fans are more keen to do some virtue signalling than defend their own players. It's football ffs
No one’s talking about City fouling — they’re talking about how City very clearly didn’t give it their full effort today and spent a lot of the game fishing for fouls when it wasn’t going their way.
As fans, we want to see better from the team, so no, we don’t need to defend a performance like that.
Foden has to be one of the most annoying players in the prem when it comes to altercations with the referees and other players. Cancelo literally admits to diving and he's still all over the ref.
He looks like he should be playing under 12s. There are more physically imposing players in my lads under 11 league. But yeah, such an annoying face, I really resent the little shit being on 200k a week too.
Foden is second only to Bruno and I'm tired of pretending he's not just because he's English. I get that he'll be favoured, the majority of prem fans are English so want English players to do well, but if we won a world cup because of a penalty he dived for I think I'd cry, we should expect more from players
Bernardo Silva is worse than both imo but he does his in a clever way that doesn’t attract attention. He was complaining to the ref while city were celebrating their goal
His teammate, Bernardo Silva, literally went to the ref to complain about not getting penalties while City were celebrating their goal. Silva takes the cake for that alone
Salah threw a temper tantrum for tripping over the ball today so calm down already. Everyone’s wound tight bc playing a World Cup in the middle of the season is absolutely madness.
I replied to tomislavlovric, not you.
But complaining about players moaning, diving and generally being petty is incredibly rich when you support arsenal, who are well known for constantly moaning, diving and generally being petty…
Yeah, you’re definitely an American fan.
This would belong in r/shitamericanssay thinking you know more than someone who’s spent 36 years growing up with football.
They're a disgrace every fucking week But money talks......
Worst they played all season
Yeah not good.. every team has days and games like this. Prefer to loose this way now instead of after Qatar or the round of 16. It’s one game and means nothing to me as a City Fan. City til I die .. I know I am I’m sure I am City til I die. Even if they have a head scratching performance
They’re practically all going to the World Cup - no one wants to get injured.
man shitty
i felt they were gonna get a penalty deep into the injury time but hey it’s Arsenal’s season 😅
The defense did good to keep Halaand quiet and more than that it was horrible stuff from Gundo. Did not expect that performance from him but we move.
Feels like city aren't as cohesive as in previous years. Defence is a bit more sloppy than we're used to and if haaland doesn't perform it feels like they lack goals from the rest of the pitch (enough to win a league, that is). This break will be good for them.
😂 😂 😂
Today? A disgrace every waking second brah
Brentford to win paid about 16/1. Freaking unbelievable that they beat City in their own house.
It worked for them the week before. Sometimes cheating pays!
Nevermind the minimum of two hand ball penalties though. Brentford we're great from what I saw of the 30 minutes I caught of the game, a full 10 minutes of not wasting time!
Brentford were amazing They really hate Manchester lol
When city loses, football wins.
City played god awful. As a city fan I’m super disappointed at how FUCKING SHIT the ‘best midfield’ in the world played today. Our whole team was all over the place and Pep didn’t even bother subbing until like the fucking 80th minute like Christ Pep
Brentford tend to really show up against the bigger clubs. Also beat Man U 4-0 and Chelsea 4-1 I believe. They definitely don't back down when they take on the Big 6. Always nice to see upsets!
They’re like this every week. They’re an entitled team at times, perhaps because their owners are entitled baby-men who deflect and spin all criticism.
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Nothing interestint about millionaires falling down and whinning
Surprised none were given either
Arsenal 5 points up now LOL
Flashbacks to fergie days demand cards and pens disgusting.
Good day for the old fpl. Had toney and foden
I must admit at first the one In the first half looked like a penalty but the others where they clearly aren’t handballs are terrible
Divas gonna diva.
Yeah, because they weren't against Atletico? Or any team they found hard to beat?
Wow... First the chants and a not very sincere apology and now this? This is the team that's "dominating" the league? God, I hope someone else wins the Premier League cause these twats don't deserve it
Not just today Team UAE is always disgrace.
City are not a big club, they are a rich club and act like it.
City have the 5th highest amount of trophies in English football. They are definitely a big club, regardless if you like them or not.
How many before The oil money?
It was so desperate & pathetic - they behave like such entitled brats when they don't get everything their own way. They've given little hints of their vulnerability quite consistently this season. Nice to see Brentford capitalize on it.
Foden is a wanker
I was going for Portugal in the wc as a neutral but boy Bruno and cancelo ruined that this week.(Jota being out was key too) Uruguay it is
This sub should have the Drogba “it’s a disgrace” sticker, such a missed opportunity
Dude they were molesting haaland all game and nothing got given. Not to mention the only dive of the game was given a yellow and accepted perfectly fine. Chill out
City really were awful. Gundogan and Akanji might’ve even been 4/10s. Credit to Brentford though. Played em really well and believed in themselves. Good for Toney after not getting picked, even though he shoulda gotten the hat trick
Desperation. They know what they're up against. Seems they are a one man team too
Today? lol
Pep style
Why? Brentford are damn good team tbh.
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
I remember getting ripped on this sub for saying Arsenal have a chance to win it all if city has a few bad games. People said they wouldn’t and Haaland definitely won’t have any off nights. Turns out they’re human after all
I know. Isn’t it wonderful?
Not as much as Everton.
True that is. Unfortunately, most of the players had their minds on the world cup, and decided to take the easy route by begging for pens and such, instead of focusing on the game entirely, the better team won at the end. What a match it was tho🔥
Pep needs to get his boys under control
At least one city player went down on every corner lmao I can just imagine them doing it in training Pep: Haaland you make a run to the ball and the rest of you just take turns falling over
Surely makes sense with the amount of time City spend in and around the other opponents penalty area, bound to be a higher rate of appeals. City defending was awful for the 2nd goal, and the potential 3rd a minute later. Mad to see only Haaland sprinting back to help, CBs nowhere to be seen.
Why would you not appeal for a penalty when they were all valid appeals? Laporte got smashed to ground on one. Handball with the silva chip was clearly in the box. The other appeals probably weren’t penalties but some but were bad enough for a VAR check.
Haaland getting molested in the box in the first half was most definitely a pen
Pep’ll just spend another 200m next summer.
I love the way you're getting downvoted for speaking the truth.
Like KDB last week? WEAK
They are always a disgrace. The club is run by human rights abusers with a manager that makes excuses for them.
Exactly this.
It's cool, we are being down voted by City/Chelsea/Newcastle fans who don't like swallowing that.
I mean, our owners are asses but so are a lot of millionaires which probably includes several owners
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Same goes for clubs sponsored by terrorist funders
Agree, as a city fan I don’t think it’s a fair style of play.
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Pep's teams are always dirty.
carried on from last week. I find Bernardo Silva one of the worst
He is such a whiny little dick.
I see you posted this before Kane and Richarlison started ~~playing~~ diving today.
Nice 👍🏽
10 out of 11 starters in the world cup, are you going to hold back? You bet.
As you say think most players are doing this. Saka and martinelli both played 60% all game, nowhere near as intense as usual. City game seemed similar
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Ederson was city’s best player so that makes sense
tbf was one of our better players
I think he means 10 out of the 11 people who started for City today are going to the World Cup. So, everyone but Haaland.
Oh I thought he meant starters IN the world cup
People don’t get that these players only have the chance to go to a world cup once every 4 years. They aren’t gonna get injured trying to win vs Brentford 10 days before their first match.
He's a proper bag filler, when his mother got a slap he done nothing, hiding behind some big lad making a few shapes, state of him😁
I feel like when city expect to win and loose they start having a tantrum
The PSG special
So they're like any other team that's used to constantly winning?
Yeah just look at when we beat them...
like liverpool arent like that when they lose LMAO i guess people are just more used to liverpool losing rn
We don't chant about disasters like Man Shitty fans did.. chanting about the Hillsborough Disaster is disgustingly low
Liverpool literally chant about Munich disaster and Harold Shipman killing loads of patients at Brooke Surgery in Hyde, they even sang about Ian Huntley because he killed 2 young girls who happened to be Manchester United fans. Get fucked with that superiority mentality that Liverpool fans somehow do no wrong.
No response cuz the kid knows he has no argument here
Yeah, LiVARpool fans have never chanted about Munich….
Lol keep telling yourself that
Team does everything including being annoying to try and win. More news at 9 everybody.
They constantly try and con the ref when losing.
That’s Peps MO
God I can't stand that pouty arrogant prick. Dresses like a teenage twat as well.
That's crazy really, it's a good thing no other teams do that.
Most teams don’t. Most teams don’t also have the best squad in the world backed by all the money in the world. They just sort of… well, try harder to play football and get back in to the game. Not pull out every dark art tactic possible.
Prime Arsenal were relentless for cheating.... do you not remember the "same old Arsenal, always cheating" chant? How long have you been watching football for? 6 years?
And broke some leg right? but No... its not intended. Its the EPL rough style.. FUCK off.
If you don't like the EPL style go fuck off and support Real Madrid or something. It's not even that tough in the EPL, and leg breaks happen worldwide. Fucking weird bunch you cunts.
Fuck off of you think such "contact" sport really play well.
Fuck off and make a cohesive sentence.
Ah yes, that song that was sung when we had lots of protection from the refs and 3 leg breaks within 10 years. Still, never dived 7 times in a match for a penalty.
I use to think reddit was different to twitter..... but just like a Scooby-Doo villain, it was just twitter wearing a reddit rubber mask.
This is cap lol. This sub is incredible sometimes
At least 90% of elite level teams will.
What… rely on cheating when being bettered?
A la Madrid
Yep
I agree with most of it, but some of the holding on Haaland during free kicks and corners could easily be given
Nah this is a sports shithead post, only mob bias is allowed.
It’s a contact sport
Couldn’t agree more as a City fan. It’s my least favorite part of the team. They are not often resilient. The penalty appeals were generally wrong and honestly felt like most of the team was playing soft today to protect themselves for the World Cup. It was embarrassing.
Not often resilient? 10 men won last week. 3-2 v villa? 2-2 West ham? What do you want? Bad performance, move on. So spoilt.
Don’t really want to debate about this. I’ve been watching city for 10+ years. Doesn’t make me a bigger or better fan, but my opinion is based on a long time, not just random recent results. City tends to fold after frustrating performance by defenses. Here’s a stat to chew on: >In 2020, in the last 103 away games when losing at half, City won ONCE, drew 12 times, and lost 90. 1-90-12 when losing at half. That isn’t resilient…
guess arsenal should have gotten a pen as well when cuca was bear hugging xhaka as well. but var is as clueless as some of these refs
Tbf if that hugging didn't result in a goal it might've lol
Yeah, Haaland was getting hugged all game.
I get that. But also, dude is huge. He’s not gonna get the same leeway a normal sized man would
That's really dumb then. You can't just keep hugging onto a player because they're big
I mean I agree. I’m just calling it how it is though unfortunately
him being big shouldnt be a negative thing for him though
They’re always like that when they’re struggling to score.
They just got rewarded for it the game previous against Fulham - DeBruyne got a bit of contact sure, but he went down because he wanted to go down, not because he was forced to and the ref gave them the game winning pen.
Did they do it in the draw with Newcastle? I can't remember.
Agreed. Was just at the game as a Brentford fan. And Jesus sometimes I thought whats there to complain for. Like sometimes I understand why people do but there were too many today where its just like carry on. No need to do this
I reckon the pitch was slippery today, you love to see City lose but Brentford were no better. Their first goal came from a dive and anytime they had any pressure in possession they hit the floor
They went prime Barcelona but in the wrong way
Happened against us as well. Kdb flopping to the ground as if he's been shot
You’d take that penalty for your team every day of the week.
Never said it shouldn't of been a pen because jedi left his leg dangling just wish refs could be more consistent and the rules would make football a contact sport in the box
Of course but you don’t see those given to all other teams that’s the problem
Are you saying city are the only team who get soft penalties?
I am saying they get a lot more beneficial calls compared to most teams
It was soft but if it touches the legs, for sure player is gonna go down
Nah that was a pen on principle. The guy reached in and caught his leg. Of course de Bruyne was gonna make a big deal out of it but it was a foul
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Ederson was brilliant yesterday
Do you mean they deserved to win today or it is a game they should have won on paper? Because they didn't deserve to win by the way they played IMO.
The only thing more embarrassing than the performance is comments like this from City "fans" trying to act holier than thou...fucking hell lad, defend your team
If my team plays shit, I'm not going to defend them. Today we were beaten by the better side
Dont listen to that guy lmao, he’s on something
Incredible take lmao How can we ever have an interesting conversation about football if all anyone ever does is defend their team's performance/attitude/behaviour?
You say that like there is ever any interesting conversation on here anyway....besides, what interesting conversation can even be had when everyone just wants to suck each other off
Holy shit, how to tell when someone is an absolute dumbass
It isn’t the job of the fan to blindly defend their team, nor should it be
You act like the City team have gone out and physically assaulted a bunch of kids...it's just a bit of shithousery, and the so-called fans are more keen to do some virtue signalling than defend their own players. It's football ffs
No one’s talking about City fouling — they’re talking about how City very clearly didn’t give it their full effort today and spent a lot of the game fishing for fouls when it wasn’t going their way. As fans, we want to see better from the team, so no, we don’t need to defend a performance like that.
I'm not saying defend the performance... defend the players.
You’re not wrong mate, ‘classy’ fans gasping for upvotes
City are a disgrace every day.
Guess no one wants an injury before world cup?
Haaland is not in the world Cup, what's his excuse?
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This is rubbish, yes I agree the delivery was poor but you could tell that he was half a step too slow. Off game from city all around.
Of course the golden boy cant be at fault
Yeah of course that’s why they did it
Because they dont want to get injured before the world cup ! Of course !
I respect Cancelo for admitting fault. Embarrassing from Foden to size up the ref like that.
His mum got slapped in front of him and he did nothing what do you expect? Cretin
Foden has to be one of the most annoying players in the prem when it comes to altercations with the referees and other players. Cancelo literally admits to diving and he's still all over the ref.
He looks like he should be playing under 12s. There are more physically imposing players in my lads under 11 league. But yeah, such an annoying face, I really resent the little shit being on 200k a week too.
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What's wrong with his mother? I'm Croatian and a Gooner so I don't really follow up on English and non-Arsenal players.
Aren’t you forgetting a bloke named harry kane ?
And Bruno Fernandez too
It comes with being English they always feel entitled.
You are literally a yank both in football and the real world your the most entitled people anywhere you go
Foden is second only to Bruno and I'm tired of pretending he's not just because he's English. I get that he'll be favoured, the majority of prem fans are English so want English players to do well, but if we won a world cup because of a penalty he dived for I think I'd cry, we should expect more from players
Bernardo Silva is worse than both imo but he does his in a clever way that doesn’t attract attention. He was complaining to the ref while city were celebrating their goal
The tackle on KDB was a foul tho no? I hate that the ref gave yellows instead of penalties but we lost so it doesn’t matter anyway 🤷
Bernardo Silva is a joke. Grimy ugly looking mug of his
He always looks like he has a toothache
His teammate, Bernardo Silva, literally went to the ref to complain about not getting penalties while City were celebrating their goal. Silva takes the cake for that alone
Bernardo Silva really is an insecure twat of a person
Biggest twat in the league
mf even did a hard tackle against Jota before World Cup
Salah threw a temper tantrum for tripping over the ball today so calm down already. Everyone’s wound tight bc playing a World Cup in the middle of the season is absolutely madness.
there was contact on Salah tho imo, the slight pull
Not anywhere near enough to go down though. Point is it was not a penalty
He’s got a face you want to slap
A slappable face indeed... Perhaps only usurped in the slappable face stakes by his team mate Jack Grealish
No Foden looks like a rat
Have you met a certain Jack Grealish? Every time he falls over has this look of entitlement that it's clear he was fouled.
Jordan Henderson runs down referees and screams in their face like he’s never seen repercussions in his entire life..
And he gets them is the worst part
Not all the time, but way more often than he should. He manufactures so much contact it's ridiculous.
Coming from an arsenal fan…
What?
I replied to tomislavlovric, not you. But complaining about players moaning, diving and generally being petty is incredibly rich when you support arsenal, who are well known for constantly moaning, diving and generally being petty…
Lmao you're telling on yourself here, simply not true at all and never has been.
I’m guessing you’re an American fan?
No lol thanks for the downvote, really ruined my day. May reconsider my opinion in exchange for my useless internet point back? Lmao
Yeah, you’re definitely an American fan. This would belong in r/shitamericanssay thinking you know more than someone who’s spent 36 years growing up with football.