TITLE RACE IS RED HOT 🔥 Manchester City cruise past Brighton [REACTION] | ESPN FC
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- The ESPN FC of Frank Leboeuf, Shaka Hislop and Alejandro Moreno react to Manchester City's 4-0 win over Brighton and discuss the increasingly close Premier League race.
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You know City is in "win the title"-mode when KDB starts scoring headers like he is Van Persie.
These guys are inevitable.
@@donovanjohnson4279 1 0
It was already 4-0
@@lesediramagaga575 His header was the first goal.
@@lesediramagaga575 not the first one, nor the free kick taken wrong place, think that was 1 0 too
That KDB header was COLD
I thought Courtois was in the goal
I think City getting out of UCL pretty much sealed the league title.
With all their concentration on the league I don't see them dropping off.
They will drop off points within 2 games
@@christianwag3015keep playing 😂
They've still got Spurs away to play.
@@hasselettby then the league would have been won... Arsenal have Spurs and Manchester United
As great as Foden has been this season, De Bruyne’s output per minutes played this season is ridiculous and miles ahead of Foden. Going forward, Pep should be looking at playing De Bruyne 60-65 minutes most matches to keep him healthy and fresh. Because a healthy De Bruyne is insanely efficient at generating goals. See below.
De Bruyne: 1,292 minutes played, 6 goals, 14 assists, G/A every 64.6 minutes
Foden: 3,842 minutes played, 24 goals, 10 assists, G/A every 113 minutes
There’s Messi and Ronaldo in their own league, then KDB and then the other world class players so it‘s unfair to compare Foden to KDB. Foden has for example more impressive stats than Vinicius, who‘s a winger.
@xixo4798
ESPN FC have literally compared Foden to De Bruyne in just the past few weeks. And virtually every English media outlet has some type of obsession with shoe horning Foden into the Player of the Year award. So yes, he is actively being compared to De Bruyne.
They can play together finely
Manchester just need to find a perfect number ten who can have unrecognized runs into the box and score tapins and make Haaland be more apart of the build up play
Look at him at Dortmund when he was involve in Build up play
He had crazy goals and some pretty cool dribbling moments
Foden needs to be the guy who plays behind Haaland or receive the ball when Haaland drops deep and does a forward pass to Foden
De Bruyne should play for about 60 to 65 minutes imo if a team is parking the bus with John Stones being the defender in the midfield
But if the situation is bad take De Bruyne off and put in that number 10 who can basically ghost into the box to score those type of goals with Akanji as the advancing midfielder
I think that number 10 could be Mathaus Nunes but he needs to improve on his finishing and his stamina cause he will be covering a lot of the pitch
Since when did football fans quantify someones effectiveness on the pitch by goals and assists? Are we americans now? We are going to spend the whole match looking at any random statistic they put on the screen? Bad enough I have to look at grown men in freezing cold england wearing air force 1s. Now we have to deal with this?
"The English Premier League is a competition in which 20 teams compete but Manchester City wins in the end", Anonymous 2021
19 teams
@@EndreyMusic 20 teams sir
@@platnumj 19 that competes
@@EndreyMusic 20 compete but they only play 19 opponents. You're confusing the games with number of teams. It's 20 teams, so 20 teams compete but they play against 19 other teams since one team can't play against themself.
@@platnumj No I'm saying City in epl doesn't compete vs anyone they just win it while the others compete against each other lol
When KDB is playing like this, bet against the odds at your own peril.
KDB is the last elite footballer left after Messi and Ronaldo. Enjoy it while it lasts.
City are so much more enjoyable to watch when opponents like Brighton and Luton (FA Cup match when Haaland had 5 goals) don’t just camp out on the edge of their own penalty area with 11 players behind the ball. Unfortunately, most clubs (Liverpool being an exception and Villa at home in December) do just that, including Real Madrid in the 2nd leg. Having said that, it’s very clear why City opponents virtually never attempt to play toe to toe with them in open space and instead revert to extreme low blocks. Because they can’t get anywhere near the ball and City’s quality shines through even more in an open space game. For all the criticism Haaland has recently received, it’s very clear that most opponents have attempted to squeeze both him and Alvarez out of the game and reduce matches with City to an 11v9 contest in the defensive third of the pitch. As a neutral, I completely understand why opponents do this against City but it really takes away from seeing both City and Haaland at their very best. Which, of course, is the reason why City’s opponents do precisely what they do.
Nah, they are still robotic, scripted and boring.
Its very effective, give them that, but not something i enjoy.
city are boring af
Someone said effective and i agree with that but not enjoyable for sure
Include Arsenal at the Etihad in that.
@@et34t34fdf Nah they don’t play only for you. City never park bus and they play beautiful football even opponent fear to press em when city in possession specially when its title decider matches. Rise above hate sir
I don't like seeing city play, effective but not enjoyable
KDB’s header was ruthless and put away with authority.💪💙🦈💙🦈
KDB HAS JUST PUT HIS GAME INTO SECOND GEAR 🔥🔥🔥🐐
I don't think these guys like cityzen but we don't care
No one wants us to win
@@MrJean-lc8mlYess i want Arsenal to win 😅😅😅
@@SELSKIEFFbut reality wants City to win
@@Triple_X_X no Arsenal havn't won it for 20 years so i go for them mate
Then why cry like a cry baby
City won 4 0 with total domination and these biased pundits talk about incorrect foul by referee 😅😅😅
This is so insane...when Arsenal slapped them 5-0 these same people clapped for Arsenal, now City beat them 4-0 and they choose to focus on Brighton not on City ....
Good point. And Arsenal got a light pen awarded. But they also beat Brighton 3-0 not 5-0 as that was Chelsea scoreline
it's the agenda. Arsenal 3 goal was a foul by Gabriel but one is talking about it.
Arsenal don't have 115 charges on its head
- Arsenal Owners conspired S.League
- Arsenal not conspired Cheats
- City Owners collapsed S.League
- City are considered Cheats?🤣
@@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeingsbecause of etihad money lol
Pep about to win his 6th tittle in 7 years and PL fans have the audacity to call other leagues '"farmers leagues" even more embarrassing when you realize there are 7 other Teams in the PL that have the same resources as Man City which isnt the case for PSG and Bayern Competitors
Please….enlighten us all…what other leagues do you profess are not farmers league? Educate us.
You just explain why Bundesliga and Ligue one are farmer league 😂
Every league is a farmers league then.
Nonsense. Arsenal will walk away with the title on current form, City will slip up under the pressure. Arsenal are the best team in Europe.
I believe the year City beat Liverpool by 1 point, Bayern beat #2 Dortmund 10-0 in two games combined. the games between City and Liverpool were epic, gorgeous, football.
Pep is making a mockery out of the "tOuGhEsT leAgUe iN tHe wOrLd"
GOAT by miles 🐐😂
I mean the league is still contested with 5 games left to go so it definitely shows how competitive the prem is, but Pep is on another level.
Pep made EPL one team league. As long as he stays with MC they will win it just about every year. There is no stopping this team with Pep in charge...
@@davismorgan7955it is still a farmer league
@@Anon-Man. no stopping oil money
@@davismorgan7955How is it competitive when bookmakers give 78 percent chance to City? Lol
"a team that many thought might be the slip up for Manchester City"... who thought this??? literally no one thought this lol
What?? Didn't you see arsenal fans praying for a slip up 😂
Arsenal fans did 😂
@@fredmaverick4790Like city fans did against chelsea?
@@samanthatuomeyCity fans thought Arsenal will slip up against chelsea .
the media thought it, getting paid to think wrong.
Come on Liverpool. You can do it. You can beat Everton
Come on Arsenal. You can beat Aston Villa.
Mancity are winning the league. Arsenal will definitely bottle it to spurs.
🤣how is it bottling if its not in their hands or are you just being a sheep and following media narrative ?
@@sylvesterdzimiri3266They've already bottled. You were top at Christmas 🍼
@@sylvesterdzimiri3266 Thank you 😂 People dont even know what to say again....Both Teams are fighting for something, how does that means Bottling😅 everyone just wants to talk.
@@NigelLobeimagine bottling the league with half a season to go...what morons some people are seemingly
@sylvesterdzimiri32delusional66
Surely the De Bruyne headed goal has to be in the running for goal of the season. What a fabulous piece of football.
As an Arsenal fan, this is really exciting, what a goal from de Bruyne. Fight Gooners fight until the last whistle
Re: two of the four goals City scored: How often have we seen freekicks being scored because a team didn't put a player on the ground in their wall? I can't remember many, if at all. And how often have we seen goals being scored because teams try to play out from the back when they clearly shouldn't have?
It's mind boggling that teams think they're "playing it safe" by putting a draft excluder on the wall when stats show there's a fairly low chance of a team scoring a freekick that way. Is it because they'd look stupid if an opponent rolls the ball under their wall? Well, how stupid do they look trying to play the ball out of the back and conceding a goal?
Brighton were tryna play like city from back they clearly shouldn't try to play like city they should play for how they play
whuch is , errm, like citeh lol
Another team bends over for City, once again.
City will win EPL for sure. Too bad Arsenal sliiped a couple times this month.
😂Yeah gonna win the league
@@amenbest9641 too bad Loverpool also did slip like 3 to 4 times since March which is good for City.
Man City are everything Liverpool wish they could be.
Knowing how to win games at the tail end of the season.
Taking the emotions away and making it clearly about business.
And just having the players that know how and when to close off a season.
What Arsenal can do, City can do better!
Yet, they have a better Goal difference 😂😅
They couldn't beat Chelsea in league play though.
Chelsea haven't beaten Man City in last 9 meetings lol@@terryallen4655
@@olarewajuiyanu8263They also have a tag of bottle jobs on their head
@@olarewajuiyanu8263 They haven't taken the epl as serious as the other teams that are more motivated but now City is out of the ucl so they're getting up from the couch and are gonna cruise in another epl title
Why are they criticizing Brighton for playing how they play…it’s what Brighton do, they play with risk, they also are safe from relegation and aren’t gonna finish in the top 4 or top 6 plus no one expects them to beat Man City anyway so what’s the downside to playing your game the way you want? You get beat 4-0 by City? Who cares? It’s what City do…the upside is if you can play the way you play against City and get a result, it means you can do it against any other team…didnt work out today but Brighton literally have nothing to lose
maybe because better managers at least try to adapt their tactics when they're playing the better teams in the division de zerbi coming across like a btech bielsa
@@commonknowledge73 its the only way to get better at what he wants
@@commonknowledge73 again why adapt this late into the season with nothing to play for. I’m sure if DeZerbi was a point away from winning the premier league, he’d try to get a draw against city and not take as much risk but with nothing to lose, why not just play your game. It’d be stupid not to in my mind. If he went like: “guys were playing Man City so we’re gonna park the bus even though we’re sat 10th in the table with no chance of going down or winning the title or getting in the champions league” The players would roll their eyes
It wasn't a free kick, but the defending for free kick is dreadful. Brighton could have gotten a penalty for consolation.
The “penalty” from Rodri wasn’t a penalty. The contact was outside of the box.
City will win the title
Hopefully not
@@drty8765-ef1fdHopefully yes
@@drty8765-ef1fd😂😂
@@drty8765-ef1fdthey will.. in their hand
The problem for Brighton was City was almost playing with 3 number 10’s there were no natural predictable wingers, the movement of Bernardo and kovacic was too sick
Lol I told you ally England is blue and Will always be pep the y
Man City are the most enjoyable team to watch. Always Free flowing, attack attack and attack. 👌
Shaka with good points, especially about Ederson's accurate long ball kicks. And Franck spot on about De Zerbi's tactics, which never change and he's getting found out this his 2nd season in charge cause other clubs and managers have adjusted and figured out how to beat his style. Title race is over, it's ice cold as opposed to white hot. Ref and Var favourite boys- Man City, have already won.
Amazing fact…..this was KDBs first headed goal in the PL ever!……incredible
City are experts in the final stretch of the tournament. The depth of their squad and the rotations that Guardiola goes throughout the year allows the players to reach May and June with players full of energies while other teams are already exhausted by the 60th minute.
I don’t see City dropping any points, they will definitely win the Premier and they will definitely win the FA Cup Final as well.
0:04 don't bet your money and listen to ESPN at the same time. That's how accurate these guys are.
WHAT IF my auntie had cojones, 4-0, Man City march on. Before you say anything I'm not a city fan.
Those who are saying city are boring in the comments are delusional.
FODEN AND RODRI 💪💙 NEED TO KEEP PLAYING WELL!! BALLON DOR LEVEL PLAYER'S ...
Foden is not close to Ballon D'or. You ppl are delusional. One decent year and all of a sudden he is at that level. You ppl are hilarious 😁😁😁😁😁😁.
Brighton try to play like us it’s very identical from the back but only one team can play from the back with precise perfection
If city win a 5th title in a row they should rename the prem the Man City premier league
That's the problem with De zerbi. A good coach should be tactically versatile. Use different approach especially when the opposition is better than you. This can hinder his chances signing for a bigger club. His team conceed alot of goals playing that style of game.
Boring after every City game it is the same analysis of how the ref helped City. Do better ESPN
CITY IS IN THAT MOOD AGAIN😂
Funny how you guys barley mentioned about referee decision against barca (psg)😂 ESPN really hates Barcelona 😂😂
City is playing good football but you all only say they are not at they best but they have gone 30games without a lost,
Come on,, this city is far from arsenal with all they achieve last year and they are still there.
Give them respect
Refs, 115 charges, FA everything in City's pockets.
Only one word ,city has won and that was the plan of the day,
Anyone was busy thinking city will drop today,,it not easy as anyone thinks..
One game at a time and we move
If you don’t watch Brighton every week, I get this perspective. But half the team were kids-we’re down 10 key 1st team players, most with season ending injuries. It was Valentine Barcos prem debut and he gave up goal 3 and 4 but it was necessity and its how these players improve over time.
Van persie goal and Kevin debruyne goal which one is better… Header
ESPN by far the most bias set of pundits around.
Agreed
Agreed
They speak what the majority want to hear. Irrespective of it being right or wrong.
I just dont like how every week they change their predictions 😂 "City are favourites" .. then City lose or draw on the weekend.. oohhhh nevermind "Arsenal is my pick now" 😂
Man City was unplayable yesterday, they were on top of the game, no matter what the referee decision was they would have won it.
Brighton made it easy for Man City…stroll in the park
Agreed. Blaming the refs is laughable. DeZerbi is way more responsible with that game plan. You can't expect to beat City using City's game plan. Maybe last year when they had MacAllister/Caicedo/Colwill.
@@rsplines12exactly. Playing City at their own game, with lesser players, is never going to work
Exactly they can play city at. Their own game tryna play from defense is crazy 😊😂😂😂😂😂
That Foden slip free kick was stupid.
Why is it that city gets the questionable calls in favor of them and no one bats an eye. But when it happens to any other fanbase, they call it out.
That's what being one of the best in Football gets you
Madrid and Barca get them 😂
Don't forget when Pedro was clearly fouled but the ref did not give Brighton a penalty.
Referee's been weird, it come to a point where i cant differentiate what is a pen or not.. I think brighton should have a pen.. VAR makes everybody a part time referee, its worse than ever.. Horrendous.
“No one bats an eye.” Everyone is crying about it, what are you talking about?
When was the last time that a ref/VAR gave City a bad call that wasn't correct? It's strange how they seem to get every call for them, even the wrong ones...
Against Spurs back in December??
Clutching desperately. There’s been plenty. You just choose to ignore them because that won’t allow you to push your bias narrative/excuses.
It’s fine though. Whatever makes you feel better 👍🏽
@@sidbob1215 Ok, give an example or two from 2024.
Oh dearie... can Forest try to bully City 😂
When you can't handle the kings of Europe just settle for the mighty Brighton.
Title race? It is over ESPN.
Man City has a good chance of winning the league even though I think Arsenal and Liverpool still have a chance. Brighton were disappointing. I think De Zerbi is a very good manager but not in the class of Pep, Klopp, Ancelotti etc
Lfc have no chance.
One thing for sure, City going to have a game in hand.
I needed that 5th goal badly. I am a fan of goals for my pocket
Didn’t see the game. Didn’t care. There’s no red hot title race. Unfortunately city will win this thing
Man city have two games at hand also. I’m a neutral but I don’t see city losing two games.
😂so why are you commenting
I dont understand, it seems as if these guys are angry at briton because city won
If u play like Man City against Man City u are in big Trouble
The Man City hate here is insane.
It was a kyle walker cross franque labeef
Goals change games. Ref decision can chsngame. Never a free kick in million years.
CITIZENS KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK !!! KEVIN DYBRUNE BALLER 👑✔...
City slap a team that plays open football = opposition is naive. City scrape past a team that plays 10 behind the ball = city are boring... 🤷♂️
Facts.
The media narrative is embarrassing
Oh Steve
Point is Brighton made some pretty poor decisions and against the wrong team....
They've basically given City 2 goals in that game and that's something city won't say no to....
This was the one game where Brighton should've just been business like and get it in the City half but they tried to be City against City, crazy 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This Brighton might be the most overhyped team in history.
Whats the point in having var? You telling me a fully grown adult watched joao pedro get taken out in the box and said nah thats not a penalty? What are we doing here?
BROGHTON JUST CAME AGAINST THE MASTERS OF PASSING man city...and they are brighton playing g ther weak team for injuries ..so it was very clear they were loosing before match started
KDB, help from referee and help from Brighton. Referee killed the game with the second goal. All in all easy game for Man City.
Brighton was playing from the back the whole game and made one fatal mistake and those guys spend 90 per cent of the analysis questioning this particular strategy.
City is always the favorite thanks to PGMOL. They have at least 5 points more than they should, while Liverpool has at least 5 points less. PGMOL has crowned City again as the PL champions...with the help of the PL officials.
Absolutely embarrassing
Man city played no body!! seems like these people set this fixture ,just for city to win my honest opinion
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 You've run out of excuses.
City must have also paid Liverpool to lose at Everton then ?? 😭😂
Absolutely 💯
Lol 😆 I didn't know they made haters this stupid 😂
Knob
2 penalties... and NONE was given?? Wow!!
These clowns have zero knowledge of this game.
The title race is blue cold!
No team can beat MC at their own style of play... Brighton's big mistake
Even though Arsenal are in 1st place having played a game more than City, I personally think that this is Manchester City’s title to lose. Because Liverpool have choked big time, the premier league title is now between Manchester City and Arsenal. They’re literally a different team when it comes down to the business end of the season and once again at a time where the title race is heating up they’ve won their last 4 league games. All of those wins they’ve scored at least 4+ goals or more and did more of the same against Brighton and already got the job done in the first half.
Because they have a game in hand, all Manchester City has to do is win the rest of their games and it’s not always as easy as you think it is because they’ll have to play Tottenham away from home and as we all know they always struggle at Tottenham Hotspur stadium and while they broke that hoodoo this year in the FA Cup, they’ve scored just 1 goal there, they’ve never won a premier league game there or even score a goal in the PL in that stadium. Some of these remaining games that they have (Wolves Nottingham Forest Fulham and West Ham) and those are winnable games for them, don’t be surprised if they drop points to one of the mid table or relegation threatened teams. They play Nottingham Forest on Sunday and just a reminder that at Nottingham last season City drew to them 1-1. I expect them to take care of business because some have a feeling that Arsenal will somehow manage to crumble and drop points before the season ends.
they tied brighton last year too at their stadium and this year they got destroyed
@@limerineroblox2326 that was after City clinched the title
The Title isn't red hot, the Title is long gone.
Nobody talks about the amount of times city is favoured by the refs..it's absolutely crazy..
Classic City to score from a deflected free kick that shouldn't have ever been given. They would've won either way but that killed the game.
Let's make it 116.
That is the point. BHA' s favore to MNC
Can you imagine a professional like Shaka and an Arsenal fan talking about "what if"... What if all man city's chances went it
Brighton play like they were champion already
Shaka...don't mention Liverpool for anything. Nothing personal but you jinx teams.
Frank is just happy
when things go against Arsenal
I don't know why anyone would say Brighton could have had any chance to win this game. They were completely dominated less than 30 minutes into the game.
Means spurs with their do or die high defensive line won't beat city as well. Now we can only rely on 4 other teams to do low block and at least get a draw from city.
City would still win but City's 4th goal was a free kick and Brighton should've had a penalty.
Citys 4th how was a freekick?
What do you mean?
Did the referee cause the defender in the wall to turn his back on the spot kick too? Gimme a freakin break! Smh.
3rd goal was suicide football
I wonder why foden didn't perform like this in the champions league against madrid
Real Madrid was too big for him
the pressure is different bro, cant compare brighton to madrid
@jaggerg6744 you're absolutely right bro
@raphzrapheal5381 I know madrid is a bigger team than Brighton, you're right about that but big players rise in big games, that's what big players do
100x bigger pressure, tougher defense etc but he did score that amazing goal in the 1st leg that even Courtois wouldn't have saved and he scored his penalty
Frank The Beef Bla Bla Bla
refereeing incidents r telling on the game . Yes . But espn ws silent abt refereeing / var incidents in el clasico