Having made it to half time (luckily) he should have been hauled off before the second half. Liability today.
We praised Pellers for getting it right v Seville. But today he got it completely wrong. Can't believe we played 3 holding midfielders in a game where we were going to dominate the ball. We had to start with Sterling, Navas and KDB behind.
Plus the decision to not bring on Kelechi when bony got injured or even after an hour was an absolute shocker.
Overall though ..... showed decent form in last couple of months and hopefully after the break our 2 best players will be back.
KDB looks like he needs a break - hope Belgium give him some rest too.
Hapless draw at the doomed QPRDid it ? Im sure the run up to new year we drew level with chelsea , think it was jan /feb where it went wrong
It's probably the latter for me. If he can't accept a smaller role then it will become a problem.If he was and for me he was no worse than the other two Ferns, then surely it is the manager that is to blame? He should see it and make the change. So either Yaya was on a par with everyone else or Pellegrini hasn't got the bollocks to do anything about it when he isn't playing well.
Have a look through the seville post match thread, there was certainly a few questioning wether we still needed pep and a few hailing pellers as world class.Hang on a second. Can everyone who called him a world class manager be sectioned? Or are you bullshitting and nobody called him world class and just that he got his tactics spot on. A broken clock springs to mind.
pretty good few weeks without Kun and Silva ...won 7 drawn 2We probably should have won and were unlucky not to, but that's football. We've had a tough run of fixtures without our two best players and got though it relatively unscathed. I'd say its been a pretty good week.
Taking this off in another direction, perhaps...
The manager has previously stated it is difficult/can't for Toure to play three games in a week?
What's the truth? It was crying out for him to be subbed within 20 minutes of the start.
Far too much respect shown by the selection in the middle, even then, not starting Toure would have opened up much more options.
Poor first half against a side with something to prove.
Much better second half but still nowhere near our standard.
Villa seem to have the market in time wasting bald keepers.
Nacho should have been on when Bony went off but the maddest part was we were on top 15 mins to go, crowd quiet, villa team looking jadded and we bring on Delph to fire them up again.....
I'm not happy today!!!!!
True. But not reacting soon enough is. We could all see Yaya wasn't up for it by half time. But, onwards.Nacho not coming on was a mistake.
Yaya, KdB and Sterling playing total shite isn't MP's fault.
Considering the circumstances it did appear strange to bring on Delph at that stage of the game but maybe Pellers wanted him to face his demons sooner than later.