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Manchester City vs Arsenal - Sunday, 31 March, 4:30 pm

Clrnc

goon His quality was immediately obvious when he came on even though he was still rusty. Those little body feints, calm in possession turning his marker and then brave in passing through the lines straight to Odegaard to progress. Things that Rice does not have in his locker

Qwiss

Clrnc Rice, Partey, Ode is an elite midfield if we can keep them all fit for the run in.

daredevil

Clrnc

Equally, the way De Bruyne shrugged him off leaving him for dead, and making him look slower than George, whilst Rice in a similar position got back to make the tackle highlighted their defensive differences. So they would make the ideal partnership. It's good to have him back.

Gazza M

Qwiss I'm all for putting partey and tomiyasu back in the 11. get them up to speed quickly and we'll be an even better side

Clrnc

Pep full of praise for us in post match. Probably the first time I have seen him genuinely praise us (not those condescending comments when he wins against us).

Gazza M

Clrnc was expecting more smarm and whinging, but he was pretty down the line

IBL

We've dropped our first points of 2024 and it was 2 against city away, we're still doing well overall and we showed so much more steel and maturity from last year, let's keep this momentum going.

Clrnc

daredevil

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Gazza M Tomi has it all to prove to be honest.

Overrated one on one, and a bit panicky in the biggest games.

Don Pacifico

RocktheCasbah I think that tells you where we need to invest this summer. We need more attacking options than we have right now - and not a Trossard level signing, we need someone who opposition defenders have nightmares about.

lorddulaarsenal

Don Pacifico think that’s the plan.

Madness incoming

MistaT

goon — saw Odegaard tracking back faster than Rice.

est

MistaT Tbh, Odegaard is a beast. It's crazy a creative attacking player like that can have such an appetite for dirty off-ball work. I think Ode had a wonderful performance. One overhit through-pass is pretty much the only mistake he made all night.

Regarding Rice- would be cool to give him a rest. Especially with Partey back to looking like a footballer again and Jorginho playing alright. I don't expect Arteta to give him any rest though. He'll play him into the ground like he did with Saka. And Rice is so good I can't really blame him.

MistaT

I’m surprised to see so much chatter for starting Tomi after a game in which Kiwior was solid. Thought he was one of the few getting good progressive passes mostly right in the first half. Also did well to get forward and setup Jesus.

Clrnc

MistaT Chatter was more of the fact next game was one of our last chance to rotate some rusty players in.

We lost the league last year because most of our players were fatigued without proper rotation

Qwiss

MistaT Kiwiors passing was terrible in the first half.

lorddulaarsenal

A fit and firing Partey may take us to the title

JazzG

Not a great performance going forward but another strong defensive display. Last time City didn't score at home was 3 years ago and they could have played another 90 mins today and they wouldn't have scored.

We had a couple chances where poor decisions let us down, I think not having Saka & Martinelli fully fit defo didn't help us going forward.

Happy with a point, last season we came here and got steam rolled, this time we stood up and held our ground.

JazzG

Crazy stat

Gurgen

JazzG To be fair there was also a lot of dogshit finishing from City, from Haaland missing the ball from 6 yards out and Doku being Doku on various occasions.

JazzG

😆

I'm enjoying the meltdown on Twitter about how we shut them, especially Liverpool fans getting all high and mighty about how we played.

JazzG

daredevil One thing this game showed me is apart from Rice we don't have any legs in midfield. Something we need to address in the summer.

Partey looks washed physically, we saw it at the end of last season as well especially in the game against City. Him and Xhaka were completely overrun.

MistaT

JazzG - Odegaard has taken his athleticism up a level, easily. Last year he was found wanting in most physical games vs Liverpool and City.

This year though, I doubt there’s a 8/10 that puts in as big of a shift as him in the league.

goon

Not sure how you can watch this game and take away that we have no legs. City broke our press a few times and still couldn’t take advantage because we were so quick to get men back behind the ball.

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