Well the Visit of Tottenham Hotspur to the Etihad Stadium, Was one hell of a frustrating game indeed.
When you play Spurs you need abit of luck and your team to play to be up for it. Thats how the game started with CITY in complete control for the first 20 mins not creating many goal scoring chances at Spurs goal. But City being City especially this season, you know they`ll find a way to shoot themselves in the foot somehow and undo the good work.
And they did when a Free kick on the right side was crossed in and Caulker the Spurs defender headed unmarked towards Joe Hart in goals and the City Keeper made a rare error and it found it`s way in the net as it was a totally against the run of play. City tried to get regroup and everytime they went forward they had found the Linesmen in the mood to flag them Offside all the time. Then from an attack the ball was in Spurs Penalty area and from our view Gallas caught it and knocked it away with his arm, with Aguero, Yaya Toure and a host of players in Blue shirt appeal along with 45,000 Mancunians screaming for "HANDBALL"
But the ref and lineman didn`t call it, then a few mins later a ball put through for Zabaleta to run on to was Taken out in the penalty area for a CLEAR CUT PEN but as before officials didn`t see anything wrong with it! City fans chanting " You don`t know what your doing!" as decision upon decision went for Spurs as they proceeded to fall to ground way way too easily! And to infuriate the crowd more, Adebayor making his first return to the Etihad stadium since his move FINALLY from us to Tottenham.Was a thorn in the side of the City players and especially fans with his constant going to ground to easily routine.
Now i`m no expert but i don`t see how a 5"11 player can out muscle a 6"4 player!? But a tackle by Pablo (zabaleta) could never bring a tall strong player down so easily. This lead to pablo losing it shouting down at Adebayor while he was on the ground. Then 1 min after Adebayor does some skill to keep the ball in the play from 2 city players. Caught Pablo coming behind him from the corner of his eye and he proceeded to do a dive that Tom Daley would be proud of. More renditions of "The referees a W****r!" & "your worst than Clattenburg!!" Sung loudly by the City faithful.
More falling to ground from the North London diving squad and the hapless ref ONLY TOO happy to blow for fouls. Silva, Tevez, Toure get dirty challenges un punished by the ref & linesmen. Spurs nearly make it 2-0 when Huddlestone puts his shot wide of Harts post.
HALFTIME Came to a chorus of BOOS aimed the officials with CITY 0 SPURS 1.
2ND HALF was just like the 1st more bad decisions by the ref and linemen flagging offside everytime we seemed to get the ball to Tevez or Aguero. Spurs rarely threaten the City goals but did give the defenders a bit of work to do at times. Gareth Bale who was the man to watch as always from Spurs was non-existant all game. CITY made their first change bringing Serbian Matija Nastasic OFF for for Maicon making his HOME DEBUT for though we signed him in September!! This brought the Spurs fans applauding the move as the last time he played against Tottenham was with Inter Milan when Bale ran rings around him.
So first 2 mins he seemed like a duff subsitution then he produced a great fizzing cross across goal with no one to add the finishing touch. and did some great crosses that sadly no one was tall enough to get on to. Then CITY pressure finally paid off when a Silva run knocked onto a Yaya run was and deflected into the path of Sergio Aguero and turned a defender, and from near the spot he won the Premier league title from last season, Cooly sidefooted it to the far post past the dispairing Brad Freidel in goals for 1-1.
This then lead to another change when the Bosnian Hitman EDIN DZEKO entered the fray at the cost of Carlos Tevez. Who alot of thought what was Mancini playing at. City were in control now with the Crowd right behind and not even a dodgy ref and officials could stop us now. Though Zabaleta played a pass to Barry and was elbowed in the nose by Adebayor, who acted like nothing happened. City fans were furious with it. Play carried on and eventually about 4 mins later Oliver decided to go back and book him as he laughed in disbelief that an elbow to someones face was a yellow card offence.
More pressure from City who just couldn`t find a way or create a good chance, a cross by Maicon was headed inches wide by Dzeko. And then..FINALLY Dzeko picks up the ball, runs at the Spurs Defence passes it to the returning David Silva,Who saw a pass no one else sees and chipped it over the top for Dzeko to get onto and Strike it past Freidel and hit the back of the net for a 2-1 City lead in 88th min.
Spurs now decided to speed up taking goal kicks as Freidel has spent 10-15 seconds on EVERY goal kick, now he was taking 3 seconds to kick. So when 5 mins of Injury time was held up, the ref was now giving order to Joe Hart to speed up and stop time wasting when Tottenham did it all game! The ref was really clueless incase you didn`t tell!
Finally after late surge of attack by the North London side for the 5 mins, ref blew to signal FULL TIME! and 3pts to Manchester City and to Stay Unbeaten in the league Still.
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