OTF

That's it now.

Disappointing, we looked really comfortable for the first minute.

I'm surprised to see the same line up. I thought with there being a shortened turn around for this game he might have made a few changes.

Hope there's some more than competent fitness and conditioning professionals who can help ensure that the players are fresh and ready for the trip to Liverpool on Saturday.

Good result for us. Great result for enthusing the squad, particularly after having gone behind to a patently obvious offside 'goal'. If we'd seen this teamwork and desire through the season....

Indeed, as much as it's great to see, it's so frustrating.

Good game for Townsend, a lot of running, effort was there.

Kompany is having a shocker.

Linesman of the year at it again.

They'd be able to keep each other onside (in their application of the rules).

Come on you cock wombles, steady the ship! PS - Aguero you cheating princess. PPS - Mitro.

Good to see at least one linesman knows the rules.

Vernon we've never doubted you, not once.

He even checked back to see if it was called offside.

Well that's fucking bullshit.

If you take Man Cities best 30 odd players with you it ought to do the trick.

We need something from this game. It would be a tactical and attitudinal master stroke if we were to get what we need.

I'm think in the minority here, but I think Steven has the potential to be one of the best midfielders in Europe. I am being very speculative here but there's not many players with his range of arm gestures and the vision and execution to turn average passes into defence-splitting passes. However he's clearly a bit of a fragile character, and he definitely hasn't covered himself in glory since coming here.

At the Fuck Palace everyone scores.

You could mount an argument that Saivet was a better buy; he can't continually turn the ball over if he's not playing. Defensively their contributions are similar.

I honestly can't imagine anyone will offer him a contract, there's just no logical reason for it. He looks absolutely finished.

If nothing else Townsend can really hit a ball. Great pace on that considering the position of the ball when he connected.

Got to feel for Darlow. He's come in in the worst possible circumstances and has done pretty well, but he's operating behind comfortably the worst defense in the league protected by the laziest midfield in the league. On that one he would have saved it were it not for Lascelles deflection.

How much did we pay for Shelvey? Daylight robbery.

Taylor you've honestly got to laugh. Showed the level of commitment you'd expect in a training match.