Right, time to update the list. He technically played deeper today but the general premise that he shouldn't play with David (unless maybe as a lone DM) still stands. Dropped points are bolded. Close/nervy wins or wins where one of the two of them was subbed off/moved into a different position before we scored have got asterisks.Games that the two of them have started together as advanced midfielders in the past 2 seasons:
Hoffenheim and the 2-0 win against United were both shaky until one of them was either subbed off or moved to a different position. Everton was 1-0 until the final minute when Jesus scored.
- Liverpool 3-0 City
- City 1-2 Lyon
- Hoffenheim 1-2 City
- Tottenham 1-0 City
- City 2-3 United
- Wolves 1-1 City
- West Ham 0-4 City
- Everton 0-2 City
- United 0-2 City
- Norwich 3-2 City
- City 4-1 Burnley
- Wigan 1-0 City
Right, time to update the list. He technically played deeper today but the general premise that he shouldn't play with David (unless maybe as a lone DM) still stands. Dropped points are bolded. Close/nervy wins or wins where one of the two of them was subbed off/moved into a different position before we scored have got asterisks.
Out of 14 games - 7 losses, 1 draw, and 3 shaky wins. That just leaves the 4-0 win at West Ham (in which, if you'll remember, we actually gave up loads of chances), the 4-1 win against Burnley in the FA Cup, and the 2-0 win against Zagreb last week.
- Liverpool 3-0 City
- City 1-2 Lyon
- Hoffenheim 1-2 City*
- Tottenham 1-0 City
- City 2-3 United
- Wolves 1-1 City
- West Ham 0-4 City
- Everton 0-2 City*
- United 0-2 City*
- Norwich 3-2 City
- City 4-1 Burnley
- Wigan 1-0 City
- City 2-0 Zagreb
- City 0-2 Wolves
Well evidence enough not to play them together again, the way football is done on laptops nowadays it is an odd thing for them not to have noticed.Right, time to update the list. He technically played deeper today but the general premise that he shouldn't play with David (unless maybe as a lone DM) still stands. Dropped points are bolded. Close/nervy wins or wins where one of the two of them was subbed off/moved into a different position before we scored have got asterisks.
Out of 14 games - 7 losses, 1 draw, and 3 shaky wins. That just leaves the 4-0 win at West Ham (in which, if you'll remember, we actually gave up loads of chances), the 4-1 win against Burnley in the FA Cup, and the 2-0 win against Zagreb last week.
- Liverpool 3-0 City
- City 1-2 Lyon
- Hoffenheim 1-2 City*
- Tottenham 1-0 City
- City 2-3 United
- Wolves 1-1 City
- West Ham 0-4 City
- Everton 0-2 City*
- United 0-2 City*
- Norwich 3-2 City
- City 4-1 Burnley
- Wigan 1-0 City
- City 2-0 Zagreb
- City 0-2 Wolves
Well evidence enough not to play them together again, the way football is done on laptops nowadays it is an odd thing for them not to have noticed.
Yeah that's the really peculiar thing.Purely looking at the team sheet, you'd assume that the logic of him and Rodri starting together is to help cover a makeshift defence. Then the game starts, and you realise that the defence basically spent the entire game exposed (not that they didn't bring a lot of it on themselves).
Right, time to update the list. He technically played deeper today but the general premise that he shouldn't play with David (unless maybe as a lone DM) still stands. Dropped points are bolded. Close/nervy wins or wins where one of the two of them was subbed off/moved into a different position before we scored have got asterisks.
Out of 14 games - 7 losses, 1 draw, and 3 shaky wins. That just leaves the 4-0 win at West Ham (in which, if you'll remember, we actually gave up loads of chances), the 4-1 win against Burnley in the FA Cup, and the 2-0 win against Zagreb last week.
- Liverpool 3-0 City
- City 1-2 Lyon
- Hoffenheim 1-2 City*
- Tottenham 1-0 City
- City 2-3 United
- Wolves 1-1 City
- West Ham 0-4 City
- Everton 0-2 City*
- United 0-2 City*
- Norwich 3-2 City
- City 4-1 Burnley
- Wigan 1-0 City
- City 2-0 Zagreb
- City 0-2 Wolves
Loads of other problems in that Palace match tbf... Stones at DM (!), Walker disasterclass at RB, Delph at LB, Jesus out of form, Nico playing poorly. Gundo has had loads of poor performances but that match isn't one that I would really single out as an example of him being a problem.Spot on - most of ur poor performances have been with him in the side. Gundogan also started the 3-2 loss against palace (he scored our first) -- like someone else said, it aint David Silva's fault -