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None of which takes into account how well Man City played on each occasion. Maybe Man City were playing at the top of their game when they played Ipswich off the park and maybe, just maybe, were not playing to the best of their ability yesterday? How do we know the results would have been the same if the 'good' Man City turned up against us and the 'below par' Man City turned up against Ipswich? Comparing outcomes with no context doesn't tell us anything. Yes, we put in a decent performance yesterday (relative for us) but that has to be considered in the context that Man City were way off their best...

Indeed 😂

Yes, fair point, but why blatantly lie about it by saying he's not focused on it, when he obviously is?

"I don't focus on it" Says the bloke who makes a barbed comment on it in every interview....

It's a reasonable question, but I don't think anyone could have watched that game and concluded anything other than at no point did Man City bust a gut and could've done more if they'd wanted to. We'll probably never know for sure why they chose not to.

Self-deprecation will get you nowhere on here, sir. I should know....

I think it was more down to City having a below par day rather than us giving them a "hard game" TBH, but we don't have to agree on that viewpoint, of course.

You think Russ being banned from the touchline will have a positive effect then...?

Brentford winner!

Probably the best scoreline we could've envisaged before the game. City played well below par for them, so have to keep that in perspective, but we've had worse afternoons....

Our first corner in the 94th minute...

Downes injury and a shed load of subs I guess

Jack Stephens our lone holding midfielder for the last 5 minutes then...

Yeah, ridiculous to keep him on.

I would

Pretty clear that Russ is playing for the 1-0 I reckon...

The keeper tipped that over...?

We had a shot!

Especially given the inevitable praise from Pep that will follow...

Man City up to 3rd gear now

Lallana about to be replaced by Aribo... Surely he can last more than 60 minutes in a pedestrian game like this...?

Armstrong doing a Shane Long there #inevitableoffside

Yep, started going down before the challenge