FA Cup Final - Manchester City 6-0 Watford FC - 18/05/2019 Match Thread

We did not keep City narrow at all. We were narrow. Holebas gave City so much space to run into on the left.
City are a good side, but we were poor, clueless, tired and looked frightened. Too many players hid or had a very poor game. We were out-muscled by City. How can Sterling outjump Mariappa from a standing position?
We did not expect to win, but we wanted to see some heart, some passion, some effort. Sadly, we did not see any of this.
Pozzo, Duxbury and Gracia need to look at the performance and ask questions about heart and desire of the current squad . We must offload several players and soon.

 

Lol.

Perhaps they read some of your posts on the Politics forum just before the game. Might indicate why it looks like they're half asleep.

 

Can they read?

 

What are you on about? Of course it’s an opinion - this is a forum and in the wider football world (unless you want to ask a dull question like “which team let in most goals”) everything is opinion. What a bizarre point you have made. Capoue and Doucoure are obviously (in my opinion) a more robust DM pair than many teams have.

 

Well your question seemed to allude that nobody had. Given one team did you are making a false point.

 

I don't think that many teams win games by sitting back against City. If you think 1 in 38 is proves that those tactics are the best, then that is up to you. It wouldn't convince me though.

 

Only nutters allowed on?

 

Just checking, as your assertion that WFC had the 20th worst defence didn't seem based on the facts, that's all. Calm down!

 

And yet Leicester won the league. Apologies if that unconvenient truth is a little bit tiresome.

There's always been financial disparity between football teams. Everton were known as the mersey millionaires in the 60s due to their financial backing. It was ever thus.

We've suffered a world record defeat. Asking the authorities to step in just makes us look daft.

The team gave up at 2 or 3 nil. That's a disgrace and is nothing to do with citys money.

The Liverpool supporting media have whipped up this anti city propaganda and you've fallen for it.

But if blaming everything and everyone but our team makes you feel better then go for it. We all deal with disappointment and humiliation in our own way.

 

If

Not many teams win against City full stop. Name a team that went gung-ho against them and won?

 

A friend of mine watching it on TV said it looked as if Pep was getting a bit annoyed that they kept scoring and was trying to get his team to ease off. Anyone else see that?

 

I had a great day, the boxpark was fantastic, great atmosphere and lots going on. It went massively down hill at 5pm, 105 minutes later the day picked up again.

 

Is it true that the big clubs are gettting a bigger share of overseas rights from next season? That’s good. Hopefully they can hoover up a bit more talent and we can have an even more entertaining 8-0 cup final next season.

 

Perfect summary, but I fear it's downhill from here. We all agree that we need a central defender and a goalscorer but we have a number of ageing players in our squad who are not going to get any better and who will need replacing before long. We either need a lot of luck in the transfer market or a big spend

 

What impact will yesterday have on Gino?

Probably none but could it nudge him to invest more in the defence?

 

They should have played together yesterday, with Pereyra on the bench.

But I wonder if Janmaat will be off now

 

Not sure about that. He didn’t celebrate their 6th at all. Just sat on the bench, head in hands looking vaguely embarrassed.

I’ve no idea if he wanted them to ease up. But the main reason no one else has been humped like this in a final for over 100 years is most winning teams stop at about 3-0 up and go into olé mode. It certainly said something about City that they didn’t do that. I read someone somewhere suggest it was a sign a respect from them to us. That one made me laugh.

 

The current 2018/19 level of earnings is fixed. Any future increase is based on merit, the higher you finish the more cash you earn. It's capped at 1.8 times for the top to bottom earner.

 

I think some need to get a grip.

City are capable of spanking any team in the world 6-0 when they're firing. We're not the first team they've thrashed, and we won't be the last. Yes, the result is disappointing, but we were never going to get a result if they turned up anywhere near their peak and that's exactly what happened.

The frustrating bit is that they shouldn't have even been in the final in the first place, but it is what it is.

 

In what way do you think posters haven't got a grip? Everyone has been reasonable as far as I can see.

 

None. He will see 11th spot. Cathcart/Mariappa/Kabasele good to go again.

 

Two things

Firstly you keep saying ‘world record’. It’s not. It’s a joint national one. Don’t get me wrong it’s embarrassing enough but it’s as much a world record as it is a ‘World’ Series win in one of those American sports only teams from America compete in.

Secondly it’s not about Man City, they just happen to be the team this time. The statistics are there to see the gulf between the haves and have nots is getting bigger and it’s making the sport we all love more and more boring.

Leicester are the exception which will hopefully happen again one day, but 6-0 drubbings every single season are more likely.

 

3rd best season in the club’s history so all is good.

Maybe he’s right.

 

I thought Annie Nightingale spun a good disc.
I was dreading going to the club today but most people,Spurs,Arsenal,WHU,Bradford,Palace fans,said the same thing.
RP chance pivotal and unfair playing field given the wealth of City.
It's easy to be unkind and spiteful but most sensible fans know that on a given day it could have been and has been them.

 

They didn't enjoy paying £100+ to see their team carved up like a Christmas Turkey.

Stupid people need to have a look at themselves.

 

Rough numbers because I didn’t write it down, but on bbc before the game they said this

Watford starting 11 £50m

Man City sub beach £250m

What is the point.

 

It's quicker to type 2 words than 3.

We are a 'have' compared to the vast majority of clubs. It's ludicrous for us to complain about money when we are one of the main beneficiaries of the system.

We got to a final. That proves the system isn't as broken as you suggest.

To blame it on finances is just absolving the players of blame, and they don't deserve it.

 

I don't think you can judge a season performance on just 1 game. He was totally isolated 2nd half when City attacked. No sign of Hughes anywhere coming back to help. Or anyone else.

 

But what exactly do djs do these days apart from taking off/putting back on their headphones whilst looking serious?

 

Stocks to be set up on the High Street?

Ducking stool in the pond?

 

We didn’t play any of the top 6 to get to the final.

We have premier league money but not super rich billionaire owners money.

Some of the players could have done better, but (having watched the game today success could be the exception to this) they all tried hard.