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Originally Posted by lacoruna69
Match is 9pm.
Will Haaland bullied Martinez?
Can the midfield handled the fast rapid city attacks?
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No, no one or no team can stop Haaland n Citeh scoring his 3rd hattrick..not even the butcher of Amsterdam...that's the foolishness of the other top 6 managers not to get him into their teams during the summer but chasing other lesser players...n also goes to show Pep is the best manager in the world who knows how to get the world's best players to play for his team
Why they lost so miserably to their city arch rivals ??...v simple actually
1)...ETH doesn't know when to sub out Sancho n Rashford in the 1st half when he saw them struggling on the pitch surrounded by good city players esp after they scored the 3rd or 4th goal
..he shd hv put Martial or CR7 in earlier to replace them in the 1st half instead of putting them on only in the 2nd half after 4 goals hv been scored against them, which is too late already...poor time-substituting skills from the manager...had he done so, city won't hv been able to score so many goals...if Martinez n the other defenders manage to control Haaland from firing his 3 goals then the result would hv been a draw or even a win....ETH sure knows the goal scoring threats of Haaland after seeing him scored so many goals against other teams but he doesn't seem to know or learn from the other teams how to get his defenders to mark that beast tightly on the field leaving him with so much space n in good positions to score his hattrick
2) They were only able to score their 3 goals, 2 by Martial n one lovely one from Antony only because Pep lifted his foot off his gas pedal after scoring his 6th goal n let them breathe a little by substituting out his good experienced players like Grealish n the other hattrick scorer Phil Foden n putting his small trainee boys in instead.
Commentators hv described this game as a game of matured adults bullying n beating up young school boys ...while this is true of the 1st half, it is not of the 2nd half where they showed some courage to fight back n get their 3 goals though they hv pep to thank for his kindness.... Martial repeated causing a penalty again for the 2nd time against city like the 1st one he did 2 or 3'yrs ago
