Today's Football 2016 / 2017 Season

[MartyMcFly]

John Stones was really poor. He's just not a very good defender. City better hope he improves with age otherwise I can't see him lasting there.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Messi was poor. But scored a hat trick got an assist and won a pen.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Battered

 

[Darth Toffeeman]

£50m for Stones. Useless under pressure and will not change his ways. Shown up badly tonight. Love it

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Well , it's over now

It's an ending, that's enough

 

[ToffeeTim]

Arsenal look like they have improved

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Arsenal look like they have improved

They were playing Bulgarians to be fair

Hardly a stern test

 

[davmaher]

Sterling has been as bad. If this game teaches us anything, its that if you are going to spend tens of millions on a player from a club in Liverpool you had better make sure he is a racist man-eating cheat.

Or not English.

 

[zandvoort blue]

"Phenomenal performance by City"

Said the goon in the stands

Always makes me chuckle when I see Bobby, Graeme Jones and Thierry Henry together. That must of been some pissup the night the Belgian FA got together to find a new coaching team.

 

[tommye]

Always makes me chuckle when I see Bobby, Graeme Jones and Thierry Henry together. That must of been some mighty fine acid the night the Belgian FA got together to find a new coaching team.

 

[ToffeeDan]

I wouldn't blame Stones in particular. City were poor at Celtic (3-3) when perhaps they started, like last season, to believe their own hype. They were no better at Spurs and - whilst on the attack they were good against us (penalty misses apart) - they were all at sea and missing for our goal. So tonight - a man down and 0-1 you were left wondering who was organising this defence? The new keeper? Nope, he was receiving some pointless instructions from Pep when he should have been on the pitch getting used to the light/talking to his defence. A moment later and the 8 man defence was squeezed into a 15 yards (across) and 5 yards (deep) box - in the same way Celtic ended up with 7 men in their 6 yard box for one of Messi's goals. So what perhaps we're seeing is that Pep is a flat track bully and now he's being handed his backside by well organised and/or very good sides. He dropped Aguero when he really was needed against a disorganised and then re-disorganised Barca back line..

 

[ToffeeDan]

Arsenal look like they have improved

They were only playing a side that drew home and away with the RS..

 

[RomanReigns]

bravo, stones and otamendi is a disaster trio

dont rate otamendi at all, far too rash in the challenge.

 

[ToffeeTim]

They were only playing a side that drew home and away with the RS..

Not really based on just tonight. Just a general observation. Still don't see them being strong enough for the title.

 

[ToffeeTim]

bravo, stones and otamendi is a disaster trio

dont rate otamendi at all, far too rash in the challenge.

Otamendi is the stand out performer at the back for them this year. Really looks vastly improved. Stonesy is making daft errors. And Hart is better than Bravo.