Villa Vs City Post Match Thread

Cheadle_hulmeBlue said:
i really dont understand it, i get people might be annoyed, but some of the thing posted have been just pure hatred almost. We dont win one game and its a complete melt down
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There is no need for the abuse after that game but there are things worth debating after every game, win, lose or draw. Both of the extreme posts are just as bad as each other for me. The ranting end and the clappy end of the spectrum.

Some people will go OTT and never post after a win but others will just come on and their contribution is stop flapping and wipe your fannies or "we will walk the league" based on nothing other than the poster wanting us to.

Overall we are in a solid position in every competition we are in but our away form is declining and a draw at a four points all season villa is a disappointment. I dont think anyone would deny that.
 
Marvin said:
I don't get why whenever the players miss gilt edged chances the manager takes the flak. The forward play wasn't good enough. We were just a little bit short for whatever reason. Usual convenient easy excuse to blame the coach. The chances arrived thick and fast. Villa were never a threat so why blame the coach. In hindsight he might think he could have made different subs. But at the time they all looked reasonable to me.

We'd have won comfortably had Aguero been fit or Bony stayed on the pitch
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If villa were never a threat than why play a defensive formation that stifled our attacking options like you clearly observed.
 
Marvin said:
I don't get why whenever the players miss gilt edged chances the manager takes the flak. The forward play wasn't good enough. We were just a little bit short for whatever reason. Usual convenient easy excuse to blame the coach. The chances arrived thick and fast. Villa were never a threat so why blame the coach. In hindsight he might think he could have made different subs. But at the time they all looked reasonable to me.

We'd have won comfortably had Aguero been fit or Bony stayed on the pitch
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Players more to blame for me especially first half. Some games we take ages to get going. First half was very poor today.
 
Flap central tonight. Poor first half from Pellers & the team, however to say Villa rode their luck is an understatement. When the goalie saves a point blank header with his face you know it's not your night - could & should have been 4/5 nil. If we had started the game with the urgency we had second half then we'd have won it by half time. Positives, last season we'd have lost that 1-0 to an offside injury time Scott Sinclair mis hit shot.
 
Big Yaya Wilko 12 said:
SWP, he's been tactically out thought over the last 2 seasons, by the likes of Pardew, Allardyce and Van Gaal.

Today he's set up exactly the same against bottom of the league Aston Villa as he did against a dangerous Sevilla.

We looked lethargic and slow after 5 minutes and anyone with any ounce of sense could see the kind of performance that was coming today from those first five minutes.

I've supported City since before I can even remember, no matter how frustrating they can be, I'll still support them.

And I stand by my rights to moan about the team when they haven't been good enough. And today we weren't good enough partially because Pellegrini got the tactics, formation and, especially, his subs wrong!
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Very measured response. Not the worst result though considering arsenal's result. I think we'd have lost that game last season and we never looked like doing today. Plus the defense, especially the ot were superb. :-)
 
Big Yaya Wilko 12 said:
SWP, he's been tactically out thought over the last 2 seasons, by the likes of Pardew, Allardyce and Van Gaal.

Today he's set up exactly the same against bottom of the league Aston Villa as he did against a dangerous Sevilla.

We looked lethargic and slow after 5 minutes and anyone with any ounce of sense could see the kind of performance that was coming today from those first five minutes.

I've supported City since before I can even remember, no matter how frustrating they can be, I'll still support them.

And I stand by my rights to moan about the team when they haven't been good enough. And today we weren't good enough partially because Pellegrini got the tactics, formation and, especially, his subs wrong!
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Very measured response. Not the worst result though considering arsenal's result. I think we'd have lost that game last season and we never looked like doing today. Plus the defense, especially the ot were superb. :-)
 
For me the jury's still out on Pellers but to criticise for bringing Navas on is daft- he was our best player by far.
Also with the Delph substitution we had our strongest attacking period of the game after that and with a bit of luck should have won it!
 
Blueknows said:
pretty good few weeks without Kun and Silva ...won 7 drawn 2
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ctid83 said:
Looking at Spurs after playing on a Thhere was non excuse for fatigue or tiredness , simply there where some bad decisions made from the manager , and some poor finishing , de bruyne sterling and fernando all gainy guilt edge chances! But we are city and we will pick ourselves up and win the next game no doubt! Bad day at the office with bony going off! MCFC!!
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what about spurs? they never got out of their own half in the last 20 mins
 
What is evident is if we play with Yaya at the point of a midfield three he needs to be on top of his game for the system to work, personally I can't wait for Dave to make the position his own, if it's at the expense of Yaya then so be it, the three gives us solidity without doubt though .

Bad day at the office
 
kippaxking79 said:
If we continue to put half arsed performances in like today I will be.
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There's was always going to be a dip in our performance after the way we played midweek.
Had enough chances to win but it wasn't to be.
On another day we could have won by 4 or 5.
We've lost these games 1-0 in the past and villa had that new manager bounce.
My toys stay firmly in the pram, we'll be top going into the international break, already qualified to next stage in Champs league and in the quarters of the league cup.
How the fuck some on here have the fuckin nerve to question pellers or the team are either thick, rags or have never been to a game ever.
Roll on Liverpool.
 
Blue Haze said:
It's one thing to try and fail, it's another to use tactics we know are bad. Keeping our star youth striker on the bench to ponder his future while needing a goal is absurd. Right up there with Pellegrini not knowing how many goals we needed in Munich.

He's a good manager overall, but he has these ridiculous moments where logic and reason fly out the window and crazy decisions are made.
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Just because kelechi scored a last min goal against palace, doesn't make him the answer to our attacking failings today. We were poor to man attacking today, and kelechi didn't do anything to change it either, because as a team we weren't good. Anyway, We should of had enough without an 18year old striker. yaya was poor kdb was poor sterling was poor, kolorov was poor, navas and sagna were poor, Fernandinho was unrecognisable.
Bad day
 
Marvin said:
I don't get why whenever the players miss gilt edged chances the manager takes the flak. The forward play wasn't good enough. We were just a little bit short for whatever reason. Usual convenient easy excuse to blame the coach. The chances arrived thick and fast. Villa were never a threat so why blame the coach. In hindsight he might think he could have made different subs. But at the time they all looked reasonable to me.

We'd have won comfortably had Aguero been fit or Bony stayed on the pitch
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We did lose because of poor forward play, but you can't expect midfielders to be good at playing that position. We've made it work in the past, but today, it simply didn't work, and you wonder why Ihenacho wasn't given more of a chance, given how well he played in the last game he started. After all, we were against the bottom club. The Delph substitution was confusing to me too. He's not a game changer, and it's not as if we needed him to help us control the midfield, because we were completely dominant.

Thankfully Spurs did us a favour. It's worth mentioning Villa played pretty well. Typical of us to get them just after their new manager comes in.
 
ctid83 said:
Looking at Spurs after playing on a Thur
There was non excuse for fatigue or tiredness , simply there where some bad decisions made from the manager , and some poor finishing , de bruyne sterling and fernando all gainy guilt edge chances! But we are city and we will pick ourselves up and win the next game no doubt! Bad day at the office with bony going off! MCFC!!
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Yes but then again look at Arsenal after their European efforts.
 
SiMCFC said:
You honestly think we were set up to win today? It was piss poor from Pellegrini and it had rubbed off on the players before a ball was even kicked (see Kompany before the game). Do you think packing the midfield against Villa (no offence meant) was a brave decision?

Yes we missed chances but fuck me, if the manager showed a bit of confidence in players for example subbing a striker and actually subbing another striker on we may have got something out of it! I've stuck up for Pellegrini but today he really pissed me off and that won't change.
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Maybe not you, but pre match a lot of the posts said 3 in midfied, same as Sevilla.
It didn't work and fuck me, it's Manuel's fault for not having hindsight.
 
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