Man City away. Sat 14th. 12.45pm.

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Originally Posted by Özim

Didn't see any of the match, not surprised at the result as expected to lose to be honest, bit surprised at the score though considering our defence is suppose to be watertight.

When we come up against the real quality sides we always struggle to get any sort of result.

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You do if you give them freebies all fucking game. Stupidity.

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Originally Posted by Penguin

You're lucky you didn't watch it. Horrible defending, horrible officiating and horrible finishing (by us).

Theo was the one positive in this game, two well taken goals and unfortunate not to get a hatrick. Mertesacker got the other one for us.

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Yeah looks like it, like I said not surprised at the result but the score does surprise me, conceding 6 goals again anyone is not good, rarely do sides concede that many.

Guess this answers those people who say why are Man City more likely to win the title than we are though.

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Originally Posted by Özim

Did we cheat our way to three goals again :run:

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It was pretty blatant stuff, but fully expected. Rather obvious why their home record is so good but they can't get a sniff away. Doesn't excuse our lack of finishing which was enough to get the points today. Doesn't excuse our defensive lapses. This will be played up as a great performance by them but it was nothing of the sort, on on-form striker would have slaughtered them today. They are very poor at the back.

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Originally Posted by NoeLDG

You do if you give them freebies all fucking game. Stupidity.

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The you have to ask yourself why in a game as big and important as this we we're so slack, I can't comment as I haven't seen any of the goals but if you're saying we gave them free chances at goal then we clearly weren't up for this game like we should have been.

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Originally Posted by Ralpheroo72

Commentators saying Mertesacker and Ozil arguing after the whistle, apparently around work rate

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I'm guessing it was Ozil's workrate that was the problem

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

It was pretty blatant stuff, but fully expected. Rather obvious why their home record is so good but they can't get a sniff away. Doesn't excuse our lack of finishing which was enough to get the points today. Doesn't excuse our defensive lapses. This will be played up as a great performance by them but it was nothing of the sort, on on-form striker would have slaughtered them today. They are very poor at the back.

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Who missed our chances? Surprised about the defence to be honest as it's been pretty good all season, but City do have a pretty amazing attack to be fair, 6 goals is a shocker though.

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Originally Posted by Steve French

I'm guessing it was Ozil's workrate that was the problem

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Ozil's always run up and down the pitch everytime I've seen him, he doesn't come across as a lazy player. Conceding 6 though suggests poor defending which the defence have to take a large part of the blame for.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

It was pretty blatant stuff, but fully expected. Rather obvious why their home record is so good but they can't get a sniff away. Doesn't excuse our lack of finishing which was enough to get the points today. Doesn't excuse our defensive lapses. This will be played up as a great performance by them but it was nothing of the sort, on on-form striker would have slaughtered them today. They are very poor at the back.

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you were obviously watching a different game if you thought we could have got the points and saying they were defensively poor when we conceded 6 and it could easily been double

No team scores 6 by playing badly.

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Originally Posted by Özim

Who missed our chances? Surprised about the defence to be honest as it's been pretty good all season, but City do have a pretty amazing attack to be fair, 6 goals is a shocker though.

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Giroud should have had a hattrick. His best finish was when he buried it having been incorrectly ruled offside.