briny_ear Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 Bloody brilliant goal by Coutinho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 9, 2015 Share Posted August 9, 2015 (edited) Stoke trying to play slick, passing football but they've only got about 5 players truly capable of it so the ones who need an extra touch are slowing them down. They'll need to improve that or change the style up a bit. Depends what their ambitions are. They have enough to finish top 10. Generally agree though and whilst Charlie Adam is a football's best friend at times, he really is fat and slow. And fat. It was more to suggest that they should make the most of the ones who are comfortable on the ball, like the ex Barça lads, Adam, even Glen Johnson, but not necessarily Diouf and Walters etc. It looked like they were expecting all of them to be able to pass first time or with one touch to control and they're not all capable of that. Glenn Whelan is the Irish Xavi Edited August 9, 2015 by Zatman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arj Guy Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 How do Stoke come 9th season after season with players like Glenn Whelan in their starting 11? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 because players like Glenn Whelan arent as bad as people make them out to be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arj Guy Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Yes but like Whelan you're Irish so I'll take that with a pinch of salt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepDish Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Is Delph injured? Not even on the bench today. I think he will have a depressing year (football wise), but will of course get lots of cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Yes but like Whelan you're Irish so I'll take that with a pinch of salt haha while he is hardly brilliant he gets a lot of unfair stick in my opinion more so from the Irish press you dont play 200 games for a mid-table Premier League team unless your at least decent. He is probably their Premier League appearance record holder be him or Shawcross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 HAHA 1-0 City. Big deflection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted August 10, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted August 10, 2015 Well Pullis' tactic of not getting out their own half has been undone in 9 minutes. Will be interesting to see how they approach this game now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 I must point out that todays date is NOT in the thread title. Also hahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa **** off Olbiyun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 InB4 Zatman.... Can Yaya do this on a humid Tuesday night in Barcelona? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Superb goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted August 10, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted August 10, 2015 Yup, seems Yaya had decided to turn up today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrinityRoadSteps Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Olbyun getting utterly fisted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Hehehehehehe what a shame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 How do Stoke come 9th season after season with players like Glenn Whelan in their starting 11? They just have a really solid defensive unit which gets them clean sheets and wins, even yesterday without Shawcross who's a massive loss for them they rarely looked like conceding. Also I think upfront they have a good array of attackers all offering something different.... Walters with his workrate and occasional goals. Diouf...powerful and scored I think 11 prem goals last season. Crouch is always good as a sub for last 20 minutes...get crosses in and he can still nick goals. Arnatouvic...wildly inconsistant but every 5th game he looks world class. Afellay...have to see how he does but could do a Bojan. Bojan...was in brilliant form before his injury, see if he can get back to that. Aside from Crouch, most of those were freebies or 2-3m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 They are getting mauled. Close to 80% possession for City, this is a piss-take. Forget Yaya though, Silva is a majestic player goddamn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjaacckk91 Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 It's not city blowing them away though is it? It's mostly boggies being shirt and giving the ball away whenever they get it. They look absolutely dreadful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Platt Posted August 10, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted August 10, 2015 Yep training game for City this don't even have to get out of 3rd gear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 Lambert will be hauled off at half time and Pulis will bring on another midfielder to save a battering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts