Manchester City v Aston Villa Match Thread

[DrGonzo]

Zaniolo can't tackle, time a pass or beat a man...how is saying he's a waste of oxygen unfair?  That's without his diving away from a freekick being even taken into account.  Thought Rogers has looked decent in comparison.  Bailey for Zaniolo at halftime, please.

[Small Rodent]

One mistake by Zaniolo, and everyone's on his back again 😡. Great fans, eh?

It’s just the game.

[VillaTim]

Worked hard against largely one way traffic from the fraudsters . Lovely goal by Duran .

[Steve67]

Zaniolo is very poorly defensively full stop.  Does one good thing every three times he gets the ball.  We need more because he could be a really decent player.

[taylorsworkrate]

One mistake by Zaniolo, and everyone's on his back again 😡. Great fans, eh?

Its not a mere "mistake" though. It was fucking pathetic and borderline cowardly. Paid an absolute fortune and thinks he's above putting his body in the way of the ball

[DrGonzo]

One mistake by Zaniolo, and everyone's on his back again 😡. Great fans, eh?

Its not a mere "mistake" though. It was fucking pathetic and borderline cowardly. Paid an absolute fortune and thinks he's above putting his body in the way of the ball

Yep, kids in the playground will take one in the knackers to save a goal.

[BC54 VFC]

Calm down!

[ChicagoLion]

One mistake by Zaniolo, and everyone's on his back again 😡. Great fans, eh?

Mistake?
Cowardice.

[Ian.]

We've done well - the CB and CM haven't done well enough keeping the ball - shame that the wall was so poor for that. 

I would be tempted to take Morgan off for Bailey seems over his head. 

Roger’s looked good I thought, like him a lot.

[Small Rodent]

Zaniolo can't tackle, time a pass or beat a man...how is saying he's a waste of oxygen unfair?  That's without his diving away from a freekick being even taken into account.  Thought Rogers has looked decent in comparison.  Bailey for Zaniolo at halftime, please.

He didn’t dive, he twisted around.

He was a big part of the goal.

[DrGonzo]

Zaniolo can't tackle, time a pass or beat a man...how is saying he's a waste of oxygen unfair?  That's without his diving away from a freekick being even taken into account.  Thought Rogers has looked decent in comparison.  Bailey for Zaniolo at halftime, please.

He didn’t dive, he twisted around.

He was a big part of the goal.

That's semantics buddy.  He should have stayed where the keeper told him to be.

[Chris_Jephcott]

Let’s get Bailey on and give them a go.

I’d love nothing better than to get some sort of results against these total c…..

[Risso]

Zaniolo's given the ball away loads, and just falls over when crowded out. Rubbish.

Mate, you've just got rage covering your eyes. He's been fine. Better than Diaby for instance.

He's been dispossessed three times, the most of anybody on the pitch. He's just a liability.

[Demitri_C]

One mistake by Zaniolo, and everyone's on his back again 😡. Great fans, eh?

What you expect our fans to applaud him for that ? Rightly getting criticised as it was his fault that went in. Hopwfully hw can make up for it 2nd half

[Astnor]

Yes proud of the team given the circumstances. Emerys influence feel of. Rogers very good, also Zaniolo I think. Diaby with all his potential fails to deliver to often. Sorry to say this but Tim is not filling in as he should, way to slow to react and to run just jogging around - Douglases problems seems to be down to hin being alone in DM and Tim not being there ish (see especially the happenings before Douglas s yellow - is he banned for next game?). Get Tielemans and Leon on for Tim and Diaby. And of course in my eyes Emi would have saved those two  given by Olsen.