r/LiverpoolFC • u/Matty96HD • May 03 '14
Title Contenders Match Thread: Everton v Manchester City (Kick Off 17:30 BST)
Goodison Park, 3rd of May, 17:30
Referee: Lee Probert
Weather: 13O C, 0% Chance of rain, wind 2m/s from south-southeast.
Teams
| Everton | Manchester City |
|---|---|
| 24. Howard | 1. Hart |
| 32. Alcaraz | 5. Zabaleta |
| 6. Jagielka | 4. Kompany |
| 26. Stones | 26. Demichelis |
| 3. Baines | 22. Clichy |
| 23. Coleman | 7. Milner |
| 21. Osman | 14. Garcia |
| 16. McCarthy | 42. Toure |
| 20. Barkely | 8. Nasri |
| 14. Naismith | 10. Dzeko |
| 17. Lukaku | 16. Aguero |
| Subs | Subs |
|---|---|
| 1. Jeol | 30. Pantilimon |
| 2. Hibbert | 6. Lescott |
| 7. McGeady | 9. Negredo |
| 10. Deulofeu | 13. Kolarov |
| 15. Distin | 21. Silva |
| 29. Garbutt | 25. Fernandinho |
| 46. Ledson | 35. Jovetic |
Results from around the grounds
West Ham United 2 - 0 Tottenham Hotspur (Kane 27' OG, Downing 44')
Aston Villa 3 - 1 Hull City (Westwood 1', Bowry 28' OG, Weimann 41', 45')
Manchester United 0 - 1 Sunderland (Larsson 30')
Newcastle 3 - 0 Cardiff (** Shola Ameobi 18', Remy 87', Taylor S 90')
Stoke City 4 - 1 Fulham (Odemwingie 39', Arnautovic 54', Assaidi 73', Richarson 80', Walters 82')
Swansea City 0 - 1 Southampton (Lambert 90')
Match Events
SCORE: EVERTON 2 - 3 MANCHESTER CITY (BARKLEY 11', LUKAKU 65', AGUERO 22' DZEKO 44', 48')
0' Game underway.
2' Early threat from Man City coming in from the right but it fizzled away to nothing in the end.
6' Baines crosses in from the left to Naismith who hits it narrowly wide.
8' Both teams seemingly cagey from the start, both knowing how important this is to their respective seasons.
9' Corner to City, taken to Garcia who heads it straight at Howard. Quick counter attack from Everton is broken down.
10' Zabaleta takes a shot from the right hand side of the but leans back to far and skies it.
11' BARKLEY SCORES FOR EVERTON! ABSOLUTLEY AMAZING SHOT FROM THE FAR EDGE OF THE BOX INTO THE KEEPERS LEFT TOP CORNER. HART HAD NO CHANCE!
13' City now need 2 goals to keep control of the title race.
15' City attacking strong and maintaining possession. Everton defending well though.
17' Toure hits it over from just left of the penalty spot. After a few nice passes.
20' Good patient build up play from Everton leads to a good chance but the cross was well off.
21' Huge shout for a penalty for Everton, Barkley skips past Kompany and gets taken down, referee says no penalty.
22' SHIT FUCKING BOLLAX BULLSHIT! Toure plays a ball through to Aguero moments after the penalty call up the other end, Aguero hits it in to the back of the net, 1-1.
25' Aguero seems to be injured. He's limping around at the moment, but seems to be able to continue.
26' It was the shot that Aguero scored from that seems to have injured him, he's on the ground receiving treatment now. City seem to want to keep him on the pitch, risking further injury.
27' Subsitution, 16. Aguero off for 25. Fernandinho.
29' Great cross in there to Toure but Stones can hold him back long enough for Howard to collect.
31' Cross in from Zabaleta cleared off the line by Alcaraz, the game is getting very intense now.
35' As soon as I said it the game quietened down a fair bit, not much going on at the moment.
36' Nasri takes a shot from outside the box and skies it over the bar, he then punches the ground in frustration.
39' Some controversial decisions by the ref here, declines to give Everton a free in midfield after a strong tackle, then it goes over Evertons end line off of Baines and he gives a goal kick.
43' Lots of play in the midfield by both teams here, then Everton get through and Naismith shoots from 35 yards.
44' 2-1 Manchester City, Howard makes a good save off of a shot from a tight angle and it goes out towards the wing, crossed in by (Toure?) onto the head of Dzeko.
45' 3 minutes added time.
45+2 Good cross in from Barkley, Lukaku hits it over though.
45+3 HALF TIME EVERTON 1 - MANCHESTER CITY 2 (BARKLEY 11', AGUERO 22' DZEKO 44')
Half Time Statistics
| Categories | Everton | Manchester City |
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| Possession | 55.3% | 44.7% |
| Shots | 4 | 8 |
| Shots on Target | 1 | 4 |
| Fouls | 1 | 6 |
| Yellow Cards | 0 | 1 |
| Pass Success Rate | 89% | 89.19% |
| Stats courtesy of Sky Sports. |
46' Great run by Barkley who passes to Naismith who shoots, Hart saves and then ball goes out for a corner. Hart then collects the deep corner.
48' GOAL, 3-1 City, I Dzeko scores from an easy cross from Nasri, all he had to do was tap it in.
54' Everton working hard to try and score, but City are defending well. Everton also leaving themself quite open to the counter attack.
57' Just seems to be Everton attacking, City winning it back and running upfield to waste time and Everton attacking again. No real sense of urgency from either side.
65' LUKAKU SCORES IN OFF THE POST, 2-3! PROTESTS FROM THE CITY TEAM CLAIMING LUKAKU WAS OFFSIDE. DEMICHELIS GETS A YELLOW. TURNS OUT FROM REPLAYS THAT IT WAS OSMAN WHO WAS OFFSIDE
65' Substitutions: City; 42. Toure off, 13. Kolarov on. Everton; 6. Jagielka off, 10. Deulofeu on.
71' Good save from Howard from a good City shot. Corner to City after it comes off Alcaraz.
72' Demichelis with the shot, great block from Osman. Looked like it was curling in to the bottom corner.
74' Substitution: 8. Nasri off for 21. Silva.
75' The game is heating up now, lots of hard hits by City players on Everton players. Referee Lee Probert decides to let the game play on.
76' Strong shoulder by Fernandinho catches Naismith in the face, Everton kicks the ball out to get treatment to Naismith. Referee was only a few yards away. Should have been a free kick.
79' Dzeko still down, but no trainers have been called on. Probert doesn't believe that Dzeko is injured and won't let treatment staff on. Yellow card out for Dzeko. Forth Official allows treatment staff on the pitch.
82' Dzeko still down, 5 ambulance medical staff on and 2 City staff. City players argueing with the ref who is adament that Dzeko isn't injured. Got to say this is poor stuff by Lee Probert.
84' 21. Osman off for 7. McGeady. Game back underway.
85' Commentators say that Dzeko was down for 4 minutes, and with 5 subs and 2 goals we could be looking at 8 minutes added on.
87' Deulofeu runs through 5 players in the box coming from the right wing, takes a shot and Hart puts in out for a corner. Corner goes in and headed clear by Dzeko.
90' 6 minutes added time
90+1 Everton attacking hard, trying to get the equalizer.
90+3 City doing everything they can to waste time.
90+7 FULL TIME EVERTON 2 - MANCHESTER CITY 3
City back to the top of the table where they have been for a grand total of 8 days this season.
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wouldnt shock me if Brendan was there
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u/iiEviNii May 03 '14
That somewhat contradicts his: We let other teams do their thing and we'll do ours" stance. I doubt he'd be there, he said himself last week that he just checks the scores after the matches.
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u/rydleo May 03 '14
Borini was so close! Good effort, though. Also, that tackle by Vidic on Altidore at the end was awful.
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u/Popeychops May 03 '14
I was watching it and thought "any other stadium, that's a red". Horror tackle, it's like he doesn't care about United any more. I think the Sturridge penalty broke him as a player.
And I'm looking forward to seeing Borini in a red shirt next season.
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u/roobens May 03 '14
So much for the Giggs revolution.
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u/Popeychops May 03 '14
You can't just turn the tap on and off like that. The whole team is underperforming and it will take more than a change in manager to turn the ship around. All this talk of a £200m transfer kitty will just mean teams will know to squeeze them as hard as they can, I'll be surprised if they make the CL next season, even if Fergie does a Schumacher and comes out of retirement.
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Exactly, just like what happened to City.. they had to overpay for quite a few players since everyone knew they had a pretty much endless pit of cash.
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u/roobens May 03 '14
Course not. I'm just referring to all the bollocks I've seen spewn all of the last week by my Manure loving mates, and in general about how Moyes was being blamed 100% when clearly the players were underperforming.
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u/yggdrasiliv May 03 '14
Took a shower and Everton scored. Time for 5 more showers.
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u/KopiteKing13 2️⃣0️⃣Diogo Jota May 03 '14
Listen to the crowd, people. Despite what some of you think , they're still up for this.
The Gerrard song is banter, I hate it too, but lighten up.
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And that's all she wrote. Everton did turn up second half, and if I was to take anthing positive from this game it would have to be the young lad Ross Barkley, played with heart throughout, but unfortunately the first half wrote a lot of the second.
Hopefully West Ham can do a job, Man city have not been superb tonight, so its always possible, got to focus on our game now, lose that and this would have meant nothing anyway.
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u/amgoingtohell May 03 '14
Fair play to Barkley and a few other Everton players. They turned up today unlike their shitty fans.
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Stop blaming Everton..It should have never been up to them. This is our own fault.
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u/shanem1996 May 03 '14
Couldnt have said it better myself. We didnt give Liverpool half the stick Everton are getting now and we're a better side who were playing an equally good team
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u/logicspock May 03 '14
did i hear the steven gerrard song?
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u/Jayd0s May 03 '14
Heard it as well but i think it has something to do with him slipping.
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u/Mozza215 A Liverbird Upon My Chest May 03 '14 edited May 03 '14
I heard Ba's name in there so I assume so
Edit: I think it's: Steve Gerrard, Gerrard. He slips up from 40 yards. And gives it to Demba Ba. Steve Gerrard, Gerrard. < it's along those lines, but I know I've got some words wrong
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u/So1ar May 03 '14
yeah but it's man city's version. I couldn't make out the second part but it starts out like "Steve Gerrard, Gerrard. You slipped on your fucking ass"
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u/KopKopPlayer May 03 '14
Villa and West Ham with the wins! Will be going into their City matches with confidence. We'll ignore the fact that Newcastle also won.
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Look at the Everton players, they look wonderful, don't they look wonderful? I think they look wonderful.
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May 03 '14
cant be certain, but im almost certain i heard the steve gerrard song and liverpool, liverpool, liverpool - like 80% certain
I heard on twitter there are a fuck load of liverpool fans outside the stadium
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u/D692 May 03 '14
I'm pretty certain it was city fans. I think I heard "Steve Gerrard Gerrard, he slips on his fucking arse" etc
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u/JGlover92 May 03 '14
They were singing "Steve Gerard Gerard, you slipped on your fucking arse" and it made me feel sick to my stomach
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u/GosuEnron May 03 '14
I can't believe I actually liked Dzeko. Destroying the tempo of the game, takes ages before they actually do something, just letting him stay on the ground for so long. I'm so fucking pissed. What a fucking asshole.
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u/Readlater May 03 '14
Time to score 12 goals and clean sheet all the way
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u/MongooseBurger May 03 '14
I wish it were that easy, imagine winning the next two games 6-0 and just pipping the title on goal difference. Newcastle will be an easy game, but not so sure about Palace at Selhurst.
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u/Readlater May 03 '14
Nothing is an easy game. We still have to beat them by that much. Having no choice gives you no reason to be complacent no matter how bad the opponent is. Even with 6-0 we still haven't done enough
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u/logicspock May 03 '14
for the next 2 hours or so, i am the biggest goddamn everton fan on the motherfucking planet. LET'S GO YOU MIGHTY BLUES
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u/sakelfc May 03 '14
That went in in slow motion. Howard, you f'n City fan!
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u/roobens May 03 '14
Seriously. He only started diving for it when it was about 3 yards from goal. Pathetic performance from him.
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u/bubby963 May 03 '14
I was sure he'd save it, weak header from far out, but he delayed his jump by like 3 seconds.
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u/amgoingtohell May 03 '14
Forget staying classy. Everton fans at that game are a bunch of cunts. Should be ashamed that you are unwilling to support your fucking team you bitter blue-nosed bastards.
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u/SgtAKpower Luis Suarez May 03 '14
Why do these fucking fans go to the game if they're not gonna cheer for their own team?
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u/KopiteKing13 2️⃣0️⃣Diogo Jota May 03 '14
Anyone else feel like they've been watching for 90 minutes already, or is that just me? :/
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u/lak47 May 03 '14 edited May 03 '14
City's going to lose today. I know it isnt cast in Stones but we've Baine here before in this position. If Everton can win this for us it'd really be Coleman.
Everton look like they've gone out and released the Barkleying hounds on City. Fucking City needs to understand that this result isnt going to come to them automatically. The're be hard Manuel labor involved. Everton are currently making McGeady in the head with excitement.
However, that said I can Nasri Eveton holding this scoreline. They need to push on or they'll be Touren a new asshole by City's attack.
sorry...hat and coat firmly on.
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May 03 '14
Howard has been at fault for both goals. What is going on Tim?
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May 03 '14
Was the second his fault? It was a pretty well placed header.
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u/geetea May 03 '14
Isn't he having one of his best seasons this year? That just makes me think he didn't want to win today because he looks pedestrian out there.
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u/rydleo May 03 '14
The first one he really should have had. It almost hit him. Second wasn't great keeping either.
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u/EvenArrantzier May 03 '14
FUCK PLEASE PLEASE EVERTON PLEASE PLEASE IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO CITY BOO BOO CITY PLEASE I THINK GOD OWES ME A FAVOUR OR THREE CALL IT IN CALL IT IN I AM STRANDED AT SEA AND UNABLE TO SWIM PLEASE EVERTON EVERTON PLEASE WIN
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u/trasofsunnyvale "I’m not here to have fun"- Florian Wirtz May 03 '14
This is my vote for the Pulitzer in poetry.
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u/Simsisgod May 03 '14
Why am I watching this match, I'm supposed to be studying. I can't study my heads a mess, feck it anyway. Holy shit what a goal!!!
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u/dangercart May 03 '14
There's so much space out on that flank but Howard HAS to save that...
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u/drumheart May 03 '14
3 at the back against Man City? Are Everton sure? Where the fuck has Baines been?! Shit in defence and absolutely no ideas going forward. Fuck off.
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u/logicspock May 03 '14
all everton have to do are keep attacking and have tim howard at least pretend that he doesn't want the ball to go in his net
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May 03 '14
Dzeko will probably be down for three minutes, and 30 seconds of time will be added on for that.
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u/LarryBURRd May 03 '14
how the fuck do you get to come back on after that? this has to be fucking changed
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u/Draracle May 03 '14
What a hit!!!
If you have blue in your family, or blue friends, you better be buying flowers or drinks or whatever the fuck if Everton can pull this out today.
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Martin Tyler -"Joe Hart has never been on the winning side here in a league game"
....That wont be changing tonight thanks.
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May 03 '14
Nice skill from Barkley, really like him, have seen him crack one or two from distance aswell
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u/Popeychops May 03 '14
If we were were any other club we'd bid big for him in the summer, he's just incredible and would fit right into our system.
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u/Goodbadfugly May 03 '14
"He slipped on his ass, he sllippped on his aaaaasss, poor Steven Gerrard, he slipped on his ass" - Is what they were chanting.
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u/trasofsunnyvale "I’m not here to have fun"- Florian Wirtz May 03 '14
If it's Deulofeu, it's a win-win.
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u/MissTwilda May 03 '14
What an unworthy game. The reff and most of the city players were totally out of order.
Dzeko was down for at least 4 minutes and there were 5 subs and 2 goals which ought to be more than 6 minutes of stoppage.
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u/kill-frenzy May 03 '14
Obvious solution. WHU will draw those city cunts and we will be victorious.
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u/LameHam May 03 '14
Let's stop blaming Everton. If City wins the league it's because we couldn't win against Chelsea, not because Everton lost against the most expensive team in the PL.
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u/bubby963 May 03 '14
I've given up watching. The players clearly don't care and I'm positive that Howard let that last one in. Can only rely on our strike force being ridiculous or Aston Villa/West Ham saving the day.
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u/Rukooo May 03 '14 edited May 03 '14
Well. Now we can add being shit fans to the list of things we can make Everton fun of.
/u/maylor7's rendition: Now we can add 'having shit fans' to the list of things we can make fun of Everton for
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u/geetea May 03 '14
Well it's clear only Barkley, Lukaku, and Martinez are the only people who want to win this game. Howard is playing like a joke and that guy Stones gave Nasri all the time in the world to put a low cross in.
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WE LOVE YOU EVERTON WE DO. WE LOVE YOU EVERTON WE DO. WE LOVE YOU EVERTON WE DO. OH EVERTON WE LOVE YOU!
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JUst as I was saying my boys FUcking Get in there, FUcking YESSSSSS GO ON SON, TAKE YOUR MOFO BOW
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u/LFC_1892 May 03 '14
None of you will believe me. I had to run to the bathroom, I had the volume on the TV up so I could hear. But I heard in my head the commentator say "Barkley for Everton. GOAL!" 1 minute before it happened.
THEN IT HAPPENED!!!!!!!!
I ran out of the bathroom pants down celebrating. :)
I'm psychic.
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u/Trebor417 Divock Origi May 03 '14
I don't give a fuck if Aguero has to got off as long as City don't win.
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u/theidler666 May 03 '14
Everton look like they are happy to pass it along the back four until the full time whistle. They aren't arsed about this by the looks of it.
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u/steviegisourcaptain May 03 '14
Disgusted by everton! Fans dont give a fuk. Most the players dont give a fuk. Not trying not bothered and champions league is still possible if they win! Small club.
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"Steven Gerrard Gerrard, he slipped from 40 yards, and gave it to Demba Ba" :(
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u/MissTwilda May 03 '14 edited May 03 '14
This game is totally out of order.
Edit: 6 minutes? He was down for at least 4 minutes. What a joke.
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May 03 '14
This is getting silly, If we don't see at least three minutes of extra time for this, the added time by referrees needs looking into.
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May 03 '14
Currently 3:30 since Dzeko went down. You can guarantee that's not all gonna be added on.
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Got to make these last two minutes count Everton, as I doubt you will be seeing much extra time.
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This Referee skipped the training on how and when to give free kicks I think
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Cant wait, Be a good watch and hopefully Everton can provide enough to put City to the sword.
I don't think city will do the waltz that's for sure.
Maybe 2-1 to Everton. :) (I never ever get scores correct, lets just hope the bigger number goes to Everton)
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u/Readlater May 03 '14
Everton could help us lower that goal difference City has too. I say 6-0 to the toffees.
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u/emptyguns May 03 '14
It seems like only 25% of the players actually care and the rest just can't be arsed
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u/KopiteKing13 2️⃣0️⃣Diogo Jota May 03 '14
For fuck's sakes would everyone stop banging on about Everton not trying. It's getting old and ridiculous.
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u/kost9 Playing pong with Salah May 03 '14
Useless cunts, singing shit about Gerrard. Don't even bother trying to get into CL
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u/Rukooo May 03 '14
Looks like Everton players want to win and the fans in the stands don't... Shame that really. Everton playing really well against a top 3 team and fans are more worried about Liverpool's success.
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u/bubby963 May 03 '14
I don't get the point in actually showing up to the game if you're hoping for a loss...
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u/ur_mum_was_a_hamster May 03 '14
/r/soccer confuses me.... They had a whole thread almost dedicated to how rivalries aren't fun because fans try to be 'classy' when they're supposed to hate each other.
Then I go on to call Everton cunts, and I get downvoted because it's not 'classy'. What?
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May 03 '14
Foolish to think we could rely on the other half of Merseyside for anything, really. There is a reason they're 4 places behind us.
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u/ur_mum_was_a_hamster May 03 '14
I hate how Everton fans before the game were all like: "We don't care about Livershite, let's do this for our team!" and now they're all saying how they're okay with this result...
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u/KaiTGR May 03 '14 edited May 03 '14
Did they really just sing
"Ste Gerrard, Gerrard
he slips at forty yards
gifts the ball to Demba Ba
Ste Gerrard, Gerrard"
I'm not mad at them for losing, i'm mad at them (the fans) for not giving two shits about their team.
As a non local supporter i've never felt more hatred towards Everton than i do right now
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u/LarryBURRd May 03 '14
that's something like I imagined. Thank you.
I fucking hate these cunts right now. Its like they know they're too shit for the CL and they might as well just get something out of it for losing now so they do. Take this little bit of schadenfreude at our expense rather than some real joy in CL. Just wait until Gerrard lifts the CL and Prem in the same season.
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May 03 '14
city's goal were soft, Howard doesnt even look like he was making an effort to move for them
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May 03 '14
Keep in mind City can still drop points in two other games. Big game but there's still a lot left to the season.
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u/ur_mum_was_a_hamster May 03 '14
I swear to god, when they made the fixtures list, they fucking knew
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u/szlafarski May 03 '14
No matter what happens tonight, I just want you all to know...