City 2022-23: Fighting Boredom

[Huckleberry 32848]

Season thread full of updates. 

We lost the Community Shield. 

We won our league opener 2-0 at West Ham. 

More to come. 

[Huckleberry 32848]

City 4, Bournemouth 0

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Newcastle 3
City 3

Speaking of boredom, poor play today. Point salvaged in a 5 minute span by Haaland instinctive positioning and finish and then by standard issue Kevin De Bruyne wizardry.

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City 4
Crystal Palace 2

Still playing lethargically, Haaland hat trick helps save the day. Not playing like champions of anything, plenty of time to get better.

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City 6
Nottingham Forest 0

Acceptable performance for the first time in a few matches.

[Texas Flood 1356]

This Haaland guy might have promise after all. We'll see

[sidis 9823]

city grabbed a back from dortmund as well. 

[MoJames 8244]

omg this thread is perfect.

[WBT 20561]

*was perfect

[Huckleberry 32848]

Aston Villa 1

City 1

More lazy and lethargic offense perfectly happy to pass it forever with no attack. By the time the attack woke up it was too late and Villa had energy. Stats will say we controlled the game but it was not an impressive performance and City deserved not to get the 3 points. 

Edited September 3, 2022 by Huckleberry

[Huckleberry 32848]

Delayed report as I was hoping to find time to watch the full replay but it's not going to happen this week.

Sevilla 0
City 4

Controlled from start to finish with some more incisive runs than the weekend's letdown. Of course some of that had to do with how Sevilla played versus Villa.

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City 2
Dortmund 1

Stifled a bit, unlikely hero goal from John "Huge" Stones followed by Haaland rescuing City once again. Don't want to keep relying on his brilliance to save us but then again that's why you get someone like that.

[Bartles 769]

Haaland goal today looked more like D & GK panic than his own skill. But that's what teams have to account for. He gets loose and they assume he's going to embarrass them so they take risks.

[Huckleberry 32848]

Wolves 0

City 3

For once the opponent was literally outmanned. I only watched highlights so no penetrating analysis this time. 

[sidis 9823]

18 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

I only watched highlights so no penetrating analysis this time. 

Would you say you’ve been getting bored?

[Huckleberry 32848]

City 6
Trafford United 3

A bit of a disappointing defensive performance tbh but hey, it happens. Hat tricks for Foden and Haaland. Onward and upward.

Edited October 3, 2022 by Huckleberry

[Huckleberry 32848]

City 5
FC København 0

Completely dominated a team that we should have completely dominated.

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City 4

Southampton 0

Handled. Only watched highlights because well you all know what I was watching. 

[sidis 9823]

four pretty good games coming up for city with liverpool, arsenal, brighton, and dortmund.

pretty big break that liverpool lost far and away their best player in diaz to injury so it goes from a 70% chance of outright win at anfield to more like 85%.

[yoladu 4090]

Saints supporters were breathing a sigh of relief that Southampton only lost 4 - 0 last weekend against City.

Edited October 11, 2022 by yoladu

[Huckleberry 32848]

FC København 0

City 0

10 men, tired, rested some guys, but still a pretty weak effort. Iffy handball on Rodri but advanced. 

[yoladu 4090]

4 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

FC København 0

City 0

10 men, tired, rested some guys, but still a pretty weak effort. Iffy handball on Rodri but advanced. 

donn't forget fighting boredom!

[sidis 9823]

Your center backs suck. 

[Huckleberry 32848]

Liverpool 1
City 0

Deserved loss, better figure out the boredom thing

[Huckleberry 32848]

City 3
Brighton & Hove Albion 1

Not great, not terrible. Still need to play better, hopefully urgency is building.

[Huckleberry 32848]

Dortmund 0
City 0

Leicester 0
City 1

More pretty uninspired play. The Dortmund match not really mattering. But thanks KDB for the 3 points.

[sidis 9823]

[Huckleberry 32848]

I guess this season is still happening or something.

City 3
Liverpool 2

in the most prestigious competition in the world, the Manchester City Invitational no sorry the League no Carling no Carabao Cup.

[Huckleberry 32848]

City beats Arsenal 3-1. Cool.

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Multiple European Champions Nottingham Forest 1, City 1

Not cool.

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City 7
Leipzig 0

Haaland 5 goals. Imagine his sponsorship income potential if he wasn't so damn ugly.

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City 4
Liverpool 1

Haaland 0 goals while healing. Good performance here but he'll obviously be needed moving forward. 

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City 3
Bayern 0

Nice.

[Bartles 769]

Pretty much wire-to-wire domination. City shouldn't have to kill themselves to finish this off next week, which is immediately followed by Sheffield FA Cup final and the massive Arsenal clash.

[Huckleberry 32848]

City 3
Leicester 1

Took care of business. Important stuff coming up.

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City 3
Sheffield United 0

On to the final.

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City 4
Arsenal 1

Disappointing to give up that lazy goal in the 86th minute. Haaland's closer not good enough to redeem the squad. We will have to clean that up. 

Also, I literally love Kevin De Bruyne.

[Napoleon 8660]

5 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

City 4
Arsenal 1

Also, I literally love Kevin De Bruyne.

 

[Huckleberry 32848]

City 3
West Ham 0

Big match against Leeds on Saturday.

[Huckleberry 32848]

Real Madrid 1
City 1

Decent away first leg I suppose. A couple of beautiful strikes from each squad.

[Huckleberry 32848]

Everton 0
City 3

Gündoğan.

[Huckleberry 32848]

City 4
Real Madrid 0

Acceptable performance, all things considered. Some important matches coming up.

[Huckleberry 32848]

EPL Champs

FA Cup Champs

Cool.

[Huckleberry 32848]

City 1
Inter Milan 0

A nervy match but a win. Still, a bit disappointing of a season without the quadruple. I suppose we'll have to sell some oil and buy some more players.

[yoladu 4090]

5 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

City 1
Inter Milan 0

A nervy match but a win. Still, a bit disappointing of a season without the quadruple. 

couldn't get past mighty, mighty Southampton*

 

*will be a trivia question

Edited June 10, 2023 by yoladu

[MoJames 8244]

Gg

[Bartles 769]

Finally this is put to bed, the UCL failures. The last two matches show what a grind a full, full season is on these teams. City weren't great in FA Cup final, nor today. It took some unusual heroics like a fantastic pass by Akanji and a monster last few minutes from Ederson. It may have helped City to play Bayern and Real prior to the final, when they weren't so drained.

[Texas Flood 1356]

Julian Alvarez just needs the elusive Carabao Cup. His career is meaningless until then.

Edited June 11, 2023 by Texas Flood