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In some ways, I'd rate Watford as the best side we played against this season and, so when I was asked for a prediction an hour or two before kick off, it was Man City to win, but Watford to give them a really tough game - I went for 1-0. Therefore, I can hardly call what happened predictable - for a side to turn on the style against decent opposition is rare in a Cup Final.
Man City are a great football team with a strange aversion to the latter stages of the Champions League - I hope UEFA throw the back at them if they are guilty of reported financial irregularities because they're good enough to have to resort to that sort of thing.
Can’t understand what all the fuss is about.
The best team in England hit top form, against one of the lesser lights from the same division, whose players didn’t really turn up for the big occasion.
All this “buying success” is just nonsense.
That’s been happening in football for yrs, and it ain’t gonna stop anytime soon.
If some folk are not happy with that, then just give up following the game.
You're talking nonsense.
The league and cup double happened more frequently in the Nineties (four times) than in any other decade.
It's only happened twice in the last ten years and three times in the last twenty years.
If it was a simple as the richest club wins the double, it would have happened a lot more frequently over the years than it has.
Meanwhile, the domestic treble has never been done before.
I don't know what the exact odds were and it would depend on what bookmaker you used, but I'm sure you could have got something like 40/1 or 50/1 on 6-0 for a 1/5 shot if you shopped around. For instance, AC Milan are 1/5 at home to Frosinone today. 6-0 is 45/1 with BetVictor.
Wrong thread.
Come on now, you're being silly.....
Manchester City managing to overcome Watford in convincing fashion wasn't a shock, but neither was a 6-0 scoreline 'painfully predictable'.
Personally, like most people it seems, I expected City to win 2-0 or 3-1 or something like that, although a 1-0 victory similar to their semi-final victory over Brighton or their recent win against Leicester wouldn't have surprised me. 6-0 did surprise me, though.
I'm sorry for you that you didn't enjoy the game. I thought it was excellent entertainment. Man City are a joy to watch when they're in full flow and their work-rate is astonishing.
Could be to do with how often a 6-0 result happens during these games, it may only be one goal, but the chances of getting to five far outweigh getting to 6 as it rarely happens. I suppose that if a team got to five with 15 minutes left then the odds on them getting to 6 would be evens at best.