The Derby Post Match Thread

[Neville Kneville]

Unfortunately Marv,these two big players were so sorely missed on Sunday,but we need to somehow find somewhere,players of their ilk.Not easy,to say the least.

It's not possible to have players of that calibre who sit on the bench, even Barca & Bayern Munich don't have that.

When all our players are fit, if we were to actually play a balanced team rather than leaving a Yaya shaped hole in midfield, we would have Yaya plus 2 in midfield & 3 places available to accomodate, Aguero, Silva, DeBruyne, Sterling, Nasri, Navas, Bony, Iheanacho, with a whole bunch of kids all coming through wanting a chance.

Even when we play a weak midfield with Yaya plus 1, we are leaving out 4 top attacking players. We add Benzema or Lewendowski to that list & we're dropping a top player for every single game, & it ain't going to be Aguero.

Our problem is, that our best striker, the Premier League's best striker, spends half his career in the treatment room & our main creator has an ongoing ankle problem. So long as that is the case, we have this situation, where we have to rely on players who are willing to be dropped as soon as those two are fully fit. You can now add DeBruyne to that, he is pretty much undroppable.

So obviously they won't be as good & we have to adapt.

This is another reason why it's important to find out which kids are capable of doing a job. They don't mind being benched when the time comes.

 

[Father Paul]

Performance not great but a vital point come the end of season reckoning hopefully. You can't adequately replace Aquero and Silva so they will be missed.
The main problem at present is YAYA and how to fit him in. Not really working as part of a two or a three at the moment and the option of the bench may have to be considered.Keep the faith.

 

[imtangledupinblue]

Who do you play bones for oakie ?

 

[oakiecokie]

Who do you play bones for oakie ?

Played for 30+ for my local George & Dragon,but decided to have a change 3 years ago and now play for The Rifleman.Are you local ??

 

[imtangledupinblue]

Oakie you'll know Pete Hallsworth then.

 

[Blue Feather]

Fine with a point before the game, fine with a point after the game. Excellent defensive performance generally and if we could have made better choices with our final ball this could have been a classic away performance. Unfortunately the usual quality was lacking from KDB and Raheem couldn't get a run on them. If only he could have finished when he came inside......Still, a point will do nicely and if it is in our interests to do the same elsewhere it is good to know that we are more than capable of producing a disciplined and controlled display

 

[warpig]

I can't understand why people aren't Satisfied with a point when we had Sergio and silva out and bony up top. we could still be playing now and he wouldn't have scored. it put us back to the top of the table which is what it's all about.

 

[RichardDunneOwnGoal]

I can't understand why people aren't Satisfied with a point when we had Sergio and silva out and bony up top. we could still be playing now and he wouldn't have scored. it put us back to the top of the table which is what it's all about.

I actually thought it was refreshing to see a change of tact and pragmatism from Manuel, didn't know he had it in him.

Next big headache is what to do with Yaya, especially for those big games and CL fixtures.

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

I can't understand why people aren't Satisfied with a point when we had Sergio and silva out and bony up top. we could still be playing now and he wouldn't have scored. it put us back to the top of the table which is what it's all about.

100% agree with this. City City top of the League!!!

Another tough fixture gone, and another game nearer for Sergio and David to return!!

 

[Ducado]

I can't understand why people aren't Satisfied with a point when we had Sergio and silva out and bony up top. we could still be playing now and he wouldn't have scored. it put us back to the top of the table which is what it's all about.

Pragmatism won the day, it's always good to beat them but it's much better to be in front of them