Man City v Everton. 13th Jan at 1945.

[Jeff Jones]

Shot stopping wise, Howard has been tremendous like.

I don't think his shot stopping has ever really been the problem.

 

[ToffeeDan]

6,000 plus missing at the Emptihad.

 

[arch stanton]

6,000 plus missing at the Emptihad.

could be still on their way there, we didnt get in til half time, feckin traffic

 

[evertony]

Decent result. Confidence booster for TH and the defence. We'll beat Chelsea.

 

[Woolly Blue]

Not been home long and can't be arsed getting up to speed with what's been said, so I'm probably going to repeat what everyone else has said. NEA

• Not much in it first half, arguably we had the better chances
• Tremendous backs to the wall display in the second half. We rode our luck a bit, but earned that luck really
• Howard had a good game
• Ossie nearly scored a worldie, but this is increasingly looking like his last meaningful season
• Stones isn't a right back, but we knew that
• Pienaar was a good sub to make
• Kone wasn't ( but this about the only thing that Martinez got wrong )
• Jags experience was crucial
• Besic was ace, particularly in the first half
• Traffic was awful

Overall, a very good display. Hopefully we can repeat, or better it in a fortnight.

 

[kithnou]

Overall, a very good display. Hopefully we can repeat, or better it in a fortnight.

I think we will be parking the bus again in two weeks after holding them out today.

 

[tmgc]

Not been home long and can't be arsed getting up to speed with what's been said, so I'm probably going to repeat what everyone else has said. NEA

Can't defend to save our lives all season,then go and keep a clean sheet at arguably the most difficult ground in the country,proper Everton that!

• Not much in it first half, arguably we had the better chances
• Tremendous backs to the wall display in the second half. We rode our luck a bit, but earned that luck really
• Howard had a good game
• Ossie nearly scored a worldie, but this is increasingly looking like his last meaningful season
• Stones isn't a right back, but we knew that
• Pienaar was a good sub to make
• Kone wasn't ( but this about the only thing that Martinez got wrong )
• Jags experience was crucial
• Besic was ace, particularly in the first half
• Traffic was awful

Overall, a very good display. Hopefully we can repeat, or better it in a fortnight.

Fixed that for you mate.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Terrible Moyes-style tactics in the second half. No pressure on the ball at all, two lines of four just letting city come at them. Lucky Aguero had an off day and Howard made a couple of decent stops. Always felt 0-0 was our only chance of any points.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Someone wrote on here we need Barry because we have a young team, erm Howard, Baines, Jagielka, Pienaar, Barry and Kone finished the game, has Moyes wangled himself a job at Finch Farm

And yet in the previous City game


Given the frequency of games and injury list, squad rotation is to be expected in January.

 

[dave abrahams]

We are better than our league position imo (potentially that is, because the table doesn't lie). I think somewhere around 6th is the very best we can expect this season looking at the fixture list, but if we get anywhere near that position i would see it as a worthwhile improvement on last season, especially given the way the squad has gelled together and the quality of football we are playing. I reckon that we are only two or three players away from being a match for anyone, and one of those needs to be a striker imo to support Lukaku (i'll be really disappointed to lose Naismith unless we replace him with quality). This may be Tim's last season as No. 1, and whether Joel is a competent replacement is still an unknown factor, but i wouldn't write him off on the strength of what i've seen.

Yes we are playing some good football, if you want to be really successful you've got to plat it for more than forty five
minutes, in a forty five minute league we'd walk it.

 

[4737carlin]

Joke they didn't put the game back 15minutes, 1000s outside, traffic was horrible, i had some local radio on on the way up, Shaun Goater was meant to be doing commentary and he was stuck outside as well haha, i heard 4 coaches didn't get there till half time? Shocking.
Wasn't just a one off thing as from what they was saying on the radio its like this all the time up there now.

 

[Walken]

how did we get on?

 

[SPOTTER]

I really hope we try to score in the 2nd leg cos I don't think we can hold out for 90 mins just sitting back without even a counter threat like that 2nd half.

 

[hibbo'sclass]

Will someone write a first half report please.
Left Southport at 5 and got to the ground just as the 2nd half kicked off!!!
PS just got home so can't be bothered what's already been written.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Will someone write a first half report please.
Left Southport at 5 and got to the ground just as the 2nd half kicked off!!!
PS just got home so can't be bothered what's already been written.

Guardian MBM was pretty accurate mate if still interested.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2016/jan/13/manchester-city-v-everton-premier-league-live

Although Jags never touched Aguero @10 mins!

Sorry to hear about the delays - at least we didn't lose x