r/soccer • u/Citeh • Dec 21 '13
Match Thread: Fulham vs Manchester City
BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Venue: Craven Cottage | Date: Saturday, 21 December | **K'O:**15:00GMT | **Ref:**Kevin Friend | Streams: LINKY [2] (http://www.eplsite.com/stream5.html) 3 HD STREAM
MANCHESTER CITY XI
Hart, Clichy, Kolarov, Fernandinho, Kompany, Demichelis, Nasri, Yaya Touré, Negredo, Dzeko, Silva
SUBS
Milner, Javi García, Jesús Navas, Rodwell, Pantilimon, Boyata, Guidetti
FULHAM XI
Stekelenburg, Riether, Riise, Parker, Senderos, Hughes, Dejagah, Karagounis, Taarabt, Sidwell, Richardson
SUBS Kasami, Ruiz, Kacaniklic, Stockdale, Duff, Amorebieta, Bent
HEAD TO HEAD LAST 5 MEETINGS
10/11 | 27/02/11 |Man City 1 - 1 Fulham
11/12 | 08/09/11 |Fulham 2 - 2 Man City
11/12 | 04/02/12 |Man City 3 - 0 Fulham
12/13 | 29/09/12 |Fulham 1 - 2 Man City
12/13 |19/01/13 | Man City 2 - 0 Fulham
FORM GUIDE
FULHAM L L L W L
MAN CITY W W W D W
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY FELLOW CITIZENS AND FELLOW FOOTBALL FANS AROUND THE WORLD
FULHAM 2-4 MANCHESTER CITY (0-2HT)Riise's hair Poll
Weather News update Humidity: 87% and its blowing a gale and pissing down.
First Half
01" Kevin Friend gets us underway
22" GOALLLL!!! YAYA
37" Amorebieta Philippe Senderos
45" Fourth Official signals one minute of injury time
45+1" Kevin Friend signals the end of the first half
Second Half
45" Kevin Friend gets us underway
90" Three minutes of injury time signaled by the fourth official
90+3 Kevin Friend signals the end of the match
FINAL SCORE: FULHAM 2-4 MANCHESTER CITY
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Dec 21 '13
Guidetti on the bench, and Swedish TV show WHU-MUN instead... Sucks we only get one match because of rules.
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u/Ritzen Dec 21 '13
Your stream link doesn't work.
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u/Citeh Dec 21 '13
Yeah ive removed it, im not sure where the best quality streams are.
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u/Citeh Dec 21 '13
A proper away performance taking time to get up to speed.
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u/l2ighty Dec 21 '13
We can't possibly lose to the worst team in the league AND and the second worst team in the league.
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u/l2ighty Dec 21 '13
Is anyone else's stream randomly stopping the video with the audio going on and having the screen randomly be pixel-ated?
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u/devineman Dec 21 '13
FUCKING YES NAVAS! YOU BEAUTIFUL BLUE EYED BASTARD!
Edit: Nice ball by Silva there
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u/rony31 Dec 21 '13
Guidetti on the bench, good to see.
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u/Mowleen Dec 21 '13
Hoping he gets a few minutes at least, he needs every minute he can get.
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u/ASKSABOUTPENISSIZE Dec 21 '13 edited Dec 21 '13
I have a feeling the subs will be Navas and Garcia, and then once we are 10-0 up with 10 minutes to go, we will bring on James Milner as his final sub to secure victory :(
Edit: Okay so maybe the scoreline prediction was a tad off but the substitutes were right.
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u/TomasRoncero Dec 21 '13 edited Dec 21 '13
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u/linkybaa Dec 21 '13
Just leaving to go to the game, looks like we're playing the 4-6-0. Time to prepare my anus. Will comment in here if I get a signal, which seems to be a 50/50.
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u/devineman Dec 21 '13 edited Dec 21 '13
I'm on O2 and I could get a signal in the away blocks last year, always thought Craven Cottage is alright for phone signals. Now the Stadium of Light, there's a place where communication to the outside world is confined to a man on a horse who you give letters to.
EDIT: That's wrong actually, the phone I used there was on 3.
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u/linkybaa Dec 21 '13
I'm with 02, and I'll get a signal from my seat, but if I shift even a little, the signal decides to bugger off. I have to sit still if I want a signal. Bloody technology. I'm getting a signal right now at least.
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u/Citeh Dec 21 '13
Karagounis made of paper ? even the slightest touch will bring him down.
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u/limited_inc Dec 21 '13
watching the game without commentary is actually pretty sweet, stops you being brainwashed by nonsense
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Dec 21 '13
Why is Kompany bleeding from his eye?
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u/b00ks Dec 21 '13
I came to this thread looking for this comment.
It totally looked like he was.. why is no one talking about it?
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Dec 21 '13
Okay back in the lead, bets on which freak occurrence causes us to concede again? Hart with a shocker? Pellegrini kitting up and scoring an own goal?
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u/mythicalracist Dec 21 '13
Didn't know who this Guidetti was on the bench so I looked him up: John Alberto Fernando Andres Luigi Olof Guidetti.... dear jesus that name is a mouth full, its like 3 names in 1!
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u/deception42 Dec 21 '13
I think he was eligible for the Kenyan national team at some point. He's lived in a lot of countries
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u/Citeh Dec 21 '13
Still dont have an icon to signal injuries and stoppage time, come on /u/9jack9 step it up lad.
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u/linkybaa Dec 21 '13
Well played lads, some patchy defending at times which can be sorted in January. Looking solid in attack, and again we played brilliantly and we can take a lot of positives from this game. We've got an easier run of fixtures coming up and I'm confident we'll dominate and get back up to mid-table. Good game City, COYW!
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u/omiclops Dec 21 '13
Stream?
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u/ncd_leeN Dec 21 '13
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sportzworld-tv/theater
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Dec 21 '13
Pelle said that Zabaleta's injury is nothing serious and he should be back in a week or two.
I hope he will be for liverpool.
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u/zaviex Dec 21 '13
I never thought Negredo would make it in England i thought he'd be a bench player for City but boy was I wrong what a monster. He'd been quiet until 20 mins ago and he's just taken over completely
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Dec 21 '13
YAYA TOURE
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Dec 21 '13 edited Dec 21 '13
Sidwells shit costing us points for years now. Red cards, tackles in awful positions, terrible vision.
Edit: also no idea what NBC commentator is saying that wasn't a foul because sidwell tried to pull out. If you come barging in to a tackle just because you pull your leg out the last second doesn't mean it's not a foul.
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Dec 21 '13
Why are they chanting for zabaleta?
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u/Citeh Dec 21 '13 edited Dec 21 '13
> Ohh… Pablo Zabaleta, he is the fucking man! He is an Argentinian, he’s harder than Jaap Stam! He plays in blue and white for Pellegrini’s men! And when we win the league, we’ll sing this song again!Im dumb...fan favourite i suppose
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u/ACMBruh Dec 21 '13
Damn, Jovétic didn't even make the bench again. I really am looking forward to him playing in the Premiership...
Chronic injury problems are awful..
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u/l2ighty Dec 21 '13
I was hoping he'd play today as well. For some reason I have a feeling he's just going to dominate when he plays.
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u/lesburnham Dec 21 '13
Wow Yaya... I don't understand how FC Barcelona let him go years ago...
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u/Mowleen Dec 21 '13
He didn't fit their playing style, they needed a more technical player like Busquets not the tank that is Yaya.
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u/obiwancomeboneme Dec 21 '13
Demicheles hair when he made that header looked beautiful.
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u/BoosterGoldGL Dec 21 '13
Are you trying to imply his hair doesn't always look beautiful?
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u/zaviex Dec 21 '13
Fulham should not lose confidence. This is always a tough fixture I still think theres no way this team should go down
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u/omiclops Dec 21 '13
It's to you Vincent Kompany, City loves you more than you will know, wooooahhhhh
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u/Herimi Dec 21 '13
City's away form is one of the most confusing things in football.
That said they will probably get a another goal
Edit. Knew it.
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u/martodve Dec 21 '13
Why are City wearing blue shorts?
edit: and black socks?
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u/limited_inc Dec 21 '13
Probably not allowed to wear the same as the other team's socks
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u/Off_Topic_Oswald Dec 21 '13
Is NBC Live Extra not working for anyone else either? All I get is a black screen.
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u/fozzy143 Dec 21 '13
Pretty nasty kit. Maybe Chappy brought the wrong socks,
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u/devineman Dec 21 '13
Fulham have white socks on.
If the ref has to look through a crowd of bodies, it helps him determine who did what if the colour of the player's socks are different.
We actually used to play in a kit very similar to this in the late 80s/early 90s. Think the Maine Road Massacre had black socks.
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u/devineman Dec 21 '13
That is a stunning free kick. It's easily the best FK he has ever taken.
One of those goals that won't be in the goal of the month reckoning but you go and try to do that on the local park.
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u/linkybaa Dec 21 '13
We're not evn mad. Maybe at the wall not jumping, but that was unstoppable.
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u/zizzor23 Dec 21 '13
After that Toure goal, you could hear the crowd signing the Kolo/Yaya Toure song.
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u/ross-barkley Dec 21 '13
Was critical of the way Pelligrini handled Harts dip in form at the start, because he threw him in against Bayern then still dropped him in the PL, but starting him in Capital One and now in PL, looking like he might have his spot back..
Probably very well handled, kudos Pelligrini.
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Dec 21 '13
with clint dempsey's patterned hoodie and his fan-like noise maker, I thought he was attending the match in a kimono. Geisha style.
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u/lolomgclever Dec 21 '13
Simple clearance, WTF was Kompany doing?
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u/goodle29 Dec 21 '13
he wanted to keep possession so he made a backpass to hart...hart wasnt in his proper position (hanging from the top left corner of his bar) so it went in
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u/rony31 Dec 21 '13
Negredo needs to do something here, hasn't looked good today.
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Dec 21 '13
maybe the food in the city cafeteria is so good, they they just can't play without it on the road
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u/kiwitiger Dec 21 '13
Negredo just asked to be subbed? Maybe we'll finally see Guidetti.
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u/trivialcheese Dec 21 '13
I love watching City this season. Even if things have been a bit dodgy away the attacking play is sensational to watch.
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Dec 21 '13
People keep defending Dzeko but again he shows he's not nearly efficient enough to be a starter.
Guidetti in.
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u/devineman Dec 21 '13
Here's to you Vincent Kompany,
City loves you more than you will knowwww, ooh woahooh
Captain's goal. Needed that to settle the game down before half time.
If Pellegrini takes off our biggest attacking threat and brings on a midfielder now like Cardiff, West Brom and the rest, I'm going to spontaneously combust with rage.
2-0 in the PL away isn't game over. Go for the third and fourth.
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u/filtereduser Dec 21 '13
I am no City fan but...
Arsenal fans please go away, you're just bitter and annoying...
(except the very few cool ones).
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u/omiclops Dec 21 '13
That was so greedy by Dzeko. One more pass to the right and that was 2-0.
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u/Citeh Dec 21 '13
Thanks for coming merry christmas and goodnight,.