Super Sunday Podcast – 1st May
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What were the key moments in the Leicester vs Manchester United match?
And what is love? If this building knows nothing, we'll never see how far we've come.
Manchester City, Graham, why were they so off the speed today?
Well, the obvious thing, the big game in midweek, but a lot of those players are not going to be involved in that, and you can see why. To pick and choose, if you're at a big football club, to pick and choose when you want to give 100% is not acceptable. I think that typifies Man City's season, that 90 minutes. They've not been at it enough times this year, even the French players. When you think of the stats, 60% possession away from home, you're thinking they must have had a good day. They did between the two boxes, the two business ends, the attacking end, defending end. When it got to those two areas, there was no urgency, there was no desire, there was no aggression. And for a team to win as easily as that, Southampton, having 40% of the ball tells you something is not right.
If you have that much ball and you defend properly, you're always in with a chance. They just didn't do anything right today for me. They played it like a five-a-side, like a game that didn't really matter. And that's alarming. And that's why City have not won the league this year. Because I still believe they have the best group. But too many times this year, they've not shown the correct attitude. Their desire has not been there. And it leaves the door open for Man United. Because if you think of Man City's next game, after possibly losing in Madrid, is Arsenal at home. We don't know what's up. Arsenal will turn up. And then after that, they've got Swansea away who have won four of their last home games.
So they're not certain to be in the Champions League next year. Then you think of Pep Guardiola coming to a Man City team and not in the Champions League. That is a poor, poor performance today by Man City. In every shape, in every form.
How alarming for you, Thierry? It is alarming. I do not think that we're going to see the same Man City that we saw today. We're not going to see the same Man City at Bernabeu. But that doesn't mean I'm going to have to agree with you that you need to pick and choose which game you want to play or not. Those guys on the field should have been good enough today to perform against Southampton. And today I don't want to take anything away from Mane, Tadic and for me the man of the match.
That would be wrong because Southampton were good.
And for me, the man of the match was Shen Long. I know he didn't score the hat-trick. I know he wasn't involved in all of the stuff, but some of the runs that he made, he got them going in every way, every sense of the word. He was outstanding for me. But they allowed those three guys that I mentioned to look like Messi, Suarez and Neymar today.
Why did Manchester City struggle against Southampton?
They could do whatever they want. They had space. They could turn. They could control, let the ball off. You want it? No, I want it. You have it? No, I have it. That's not good enough.
It's not the only reason why a lot of foreign players like English football and they want to stay in English football. Obviously, our league is the most watched, the most exciting. But another part of it, they like it here because if you work at a big club abroad and you put a performance in like that, They're waiting for you when you get back to the airport. They're waiting for you when you get back to the training ground. You can't get out of the training ground. And the following week, your life's miserable because the crowd are not happy with you. Man City are now a big football club. That won't happen to those Man City players when they get home tonight to Manchester. It won't happen to them in training next week.
It'll be the manager who got it wrong. The players get away with it now. And those players there deserve extreme criticism for whether it was 1,000 or 2,000 people that travelled from Manchester today to go down and watch that performance of people maybe putting in a 75% effort today in a football match that mattered to City. And when you're looking at the game, the one outstanding player there, the one player that continually wanted the ball, the one player that ran forward with aggression, sometimes put his foot in, was a 19-year-old boy, the one who gets a fabulous goal.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What were the key moments in the Leicester vs Manchester United match?
0:05–3:06
2
Why did Manchester City struggle against Southampton?
3:06–6:43
3
What impact did player attitude have on Manchester City's performance?
6:43–9:58
4
How did Southampton capitalize on Manchester City's weaknesses?
9:58–13:21
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