Claudius wrote:
Hope folks can see that this is a tough team to break down. Even Gladbach only got 2 shots on target.
On to the JV league tomorrow night
It's very hard to put them on the back foot, I agree 100%. But as soon as you do, they're still ropey as hell. I wouldn't be so quick to praise Ruben Dias, good as I also think he looks, until City stop controlling games and suffocating opponents 70 yards from goal - and we know that will happen when their form drops. And don't be suckered in by John Stones, he's a fundamnentally stupid footballer. It was the same things being said when City were last playing like this. He has almost no defending to do.
Re your point about our game with them, we exposed them in the 15 minutes before half-time because we actually managed to engage their defence in a meaningful way, but in the whole match, that's the only time we could do it.
