Huge huge win in the grand scheme of things. The performance at times was average but you can’t fault the fight and character. Lack of ability to manage the game in the right situations will have Klopp furious on review.
I’ll say it again massive win this!
Looking at our fixtures a couple of weeks ago, this one stuck out for me as one of the hardest ones we have left. To come through it, even with such a messy performance is a show of Champion material IMO. Last season City really struggled against Huddersfield, Bournemouth and Saints I think it was, they scored a winning goal past the 90th minute. But people soon forget them performances and think they had a flawless season. It doesn’t work like that though, there will always be games where you have to really dig deep and often they are the games that are forgotten about come the end of the season.
My mate messaged me saying we were lucky and it’s another game we’ve scraped a win...well, I bet if a scraped win vs Palace was on offer for City last month then they’d have bitten your hand off for it.
I’m expecting to see Milly get a lot of flak and hear the same old Clyne this Clyne that, when in truth Matip was utterly horrific all game and the first goal is on him IMO. The red card for Milly was unavoidable too, I can’t remember who it was but they played an under hit pass to nobody and then Bobby just let it roll past him, what Milly supposed to do? Let them pick up the loose ball and exploit the space? No chance, sometimes you have to take the hit when a team mate has stitched you up with a god awful pass.
Glad we have an 11 day break now, go into the next game with Trent, Gomez, Fab and Gini hopefully all fit and raring to go.
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