My friend Ollie and I both play for Barnet FC Academy U11. On the field we are both teammates, but I am a Man City fan and he is a Stoke fan so we decided to give two different perspectives on the Man City v Stoke game yesterday.
The Man City Perspective.
From a Man City fan’s point of view, I think that we were all over the place. The first two goals were really poor defending. But in the second half Stoke bossed us around and in truth I think that we should have lost at least 5-0 with Joe Hart making some great saves to keep City in it and the score respectable. We only had TWO shots on target that looked like they could have given us a point. Jack Butland barely had to do anything but he still looks like he could push Joe Hart as England No1 (I know Ollie certainly thinks so!).
Man City should be top of the table but they are dropping easy points on the road so the title race is wide open. In fairness to Stoke they were outstanding and they fully deserved to win that game.
The Stoke Point of View:
From a Stoke City fan’s point of view, Mark Hughes changed the team formation to a 4-3-3 and it worked perfectly. The front players of Shaqiri, Arnautovic and Bojan were brilliant and with great technical ability they gave the Man City defence so many problems. So I agree with Toby that it could have been 5-0.
Man City did have some injuries and without Aguero, Kompany and Toure are not quite the same team, but I still expected them to be much better, regardless of how well Stoke played. I find it odd to say it was possibly Stoke’s easiest game of the season so far, and Jack Butland’s quietest game!!!
Stoke are really starting to hit form and have now had six clean sheets in the last eight games, and are in the semi final of the Capital Cup – so being a Stoke fan is good right now!!! I would love Stoke to play Man City in the Capital Cup final and dream Stoke play as good as they did today…..but get a few more goals. 🙂
Below is the link to the highlights of the game:
http://hoofoot.com/?match=Stoke_city_2_-_0_Manchester_City_2015_12_05
Beast of Sport aka The Boss 
Awesome blog entry Toby and Ollie on the Stoke v Man City game. I enjoyed reading your different points of view. Well done to you both.
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