Strong bench.

Their 4 forward players are awesome. We need to keep our shape.

Wow Kiwior

Jesus lucky not to get a yellow there

Under a bit of pressure here

Ake to Reyna wtf

Look a bit disjointed.

City seems to see this as a must win. Draw not good enough. Good mindset.

Kiwior is our achilles heel

We're going to get a booking next glaring foul.

The players should instinctively realise that.

Few of those players look lost out there atm

Slowly getting into it? Need a goal to transform our confidence.

Kiwior keeps giving the ball away. He needs to calm down a bit.

Kovacix the weakest link for them. How do we get a proper foothold though??

Jesus is doing my head in.

A couple of promising moments. If City take too many liberties we'll punish them.

We’re sort of trying to break on them, or maybe we’re just being forced to launch from a defensive position, but no pace to do it effectively.

The messing with the goalkicks is stupid. Could end up with a centreback being booked.

What the *%^@ is the playing out with Raya, every time he goes onto he left he just fluffs it. The indecision is killing us, just move it quickly, this baiting *%^@ is not working at all.

Raya looking shakey..............

Half time, 0-0. We've shown good defensive discipline but we need to cut out the stupid mistakes before one costs us a goal.
Still everything to play for.

I've got to say Pep has got his tactics working pretty well. We're hemmed in our own half. They overload up front, one on one up front. Can't get a good look up the pitch as they are closing anyone who can deliver well down when they get the ball. I'd like us to be more decisive in their 18 yard box and take a shot. Especially those who have a decent shot from distance lie Rice, Ødegaard and Saka.

City have suffocated us and put us under tremendous pressure every time we have the ball. We've done well considering.

How to get a foothold in the game, though?

Looks like we’re giving them too much respect because the fear is if we go at them with an aggressive press they are capable of playing through it.

But remember City’s second half record v the top 5 this season, they do tail off in games.

Looks like a clear plan for us to keep it tight, don’t lose the game early on, catch them in transitions -of which there won’t be many- feels like we need that extra pace for those counters - depends how fit Martinelli is but you can see him making a difference.

Yes, when we get it we’re struggling to get out, but despite the pressure they’ve put us under we’ve restricted them to 1 shot from a set piece. They respect us enough not to go 100mph at us in case we break on them with quality.

I'd like to see Martinelli on for Jesus.

We don't look likely to score from a build up, but against the run of play.

Is Tomiyasu fit to play?
He will give better service going forward.

Either very good or very bad depending on how we adjust but if it stays a draw late, City will go for it with even more determination. We will only be 2 points from Liverpool, but City will have to overcome 3. Possibly needing 2 games from Liverpool to drop points if Liverpool don't lose another game. And the Reds have the easier schedule, slightly, but the easier.

I can't fault the City fans to think the ref is giving us too many chances and not booking. Although I can see he's trying to let the players play.

We have done the lions share of the bad fouls, it will take manslaughter for City to get a booking

ASAP

Ødegaard wants us to press them more as a unit and the players are too scared.

Game is getting away from us.

Need to change it Mikel

Trossard and martinelli

Taylor is surprisingly very tolerarant. No cards yet.

I would take Saka off.

Nice subs.