Some interesting stats about the way we play

Analysis of opponent? They have 2 legs, feet, arms, 1 head & a willy. If our players, who have the same physical attributes, win their personal battles and move the ball forwards & at pace without touching it 5 times, in the ocd style they have become accustomed to, then we can put our games to bed after 60 minutes & start to play enjoyable to watch football.
So you're suggesting you don't need to bother analysing the opposition? Can't tell if you're just joking or if you actually think that we're so superior to every other team that tactics don't matter if our players perform to their capabilities.
 
Not exactly rocket science, we are playing boring football just standing and passing the ball around in the opposition half doing nothing else with it
 
I do find it interesting that when Manuel came in we were told the team would play a fast, high pressing style when the actual truth is somewhere between slow and ponderous.
 
Reading some of the posts on this thread shows just how far backwards we have gone. Fretting over a trip to leicester or watford. If this is what pellegrini has turned us into then we're really in trouble. Starting with tomorrows game 9 points out of 9 is a must if we have any designs on winning the league. Not sort it out Engineer or do the decent thing and step aside.
 
So you're suggesting you don't need to bother analysing the opposition? Can't tell if you're just joking or if you actually think that we're so superior to every other team that tactics don't matter if our players perform to their capabilities.

Would never suggest City are superior to any team as it's 11 v 11 and i remember being beaten by Halifax Town. I think that was the first time i experienced depression...i suppose it got easier over the next 25 or so
years.
I think if City concentrate on doing their jobs, remember to keep doing it when the going gets tough, concentrate 100% and play to the whistle, keep their eyes on the ball, leave the play acting, cheating, shirt pulling, diving & other stuff to others and get their heads down even when they are being treated unfairly (like on Monday), then they won't need to worry too much about the opposition. That's just me though. I'm old fashioned.
 
Interresting topic.

It surprises me that at this point City can't make more out of counter situations, it's not like speed and passing skill is lacking at the team. If i was the manager of an opposing team playing against city i would however take the danger from a counter in mind, and perhaps let the backs keep back more so that a countering City wouldn't be able to exploit the flanks so easily. I'd count then on the idea that city is less likely to score when putting pressure as my own team has managed to get back, as replay's would kinda reveal simmilarly like these graphs.

On thing ive learned is that a team cannot be a one trick pony, the more weapons you have for various circumstances the better. If you specialise on the counter, opposing teams will try to nullify youre advantage there and force you on youre weaknesses, if youre strenght is in the air simmilarly opposing teams will put up more headstrong players in area's where they expect high balls to arrive. Optimally a team can be dangerous in any situation, they would have quick players for the counter, strong aerial players where it matters, a good long shot around the Attacking midfield, a great dribbler to make the action around the same area, some beast to dominate the opposing 16, a superb passer around the mdifield for when possesion must be retained, and besides all that the quality of having enough players that can move up when needed withought losing too much strenght behind which often involves having rather quick defenders that can pas around too. City however seems to have all that to some degree, and certainly not lacking in abbilety to control a situation you'd think. While i can see where the defense is lacking at times especially at the midfield, i'm left somewhat clueless as to why we have it so hard to convert when having control of the situation. Last game kinda showed it, though the 2 chances 2 goals at our defense was certainly the pinpoint of worry for me, we also had loads of control but we didn't convert that many chances from it, iam kinda at a loss where it's lacking too. If maybe one thing would seem a bit less of a quality here for us then it would be support from the back to the front and vice versa, which would indicate that we play a style that is somewhat further removed from the principle's of total football, with other words our attackers keep to the attack too much and our defenders to the defense too much, but that might be a very superficial analysis, and don't count me as much of an expert on these matters, just my 5 cents feel free to scrutinise.

If KDB had converted his chance or passed to the onrushing Aguero that would have been one fine fast counter attack. It went from defence to putting the ball wide in about 6/7 seconds.
 
No point in sticking to a system of a method of play if you don't have the cattle to implement it well , consistently or in such a way as it maximises the return for effort.

That's only part of the reason we are 10-2-5 so far and been well beaten in four of those five defeats but it highlights MP's and the players weaknesses.

Hopefully we can rectify some of those weaknesses and get a better return in the next 17 games which we will need to stay in the title race.
 
Would never suggest City are superior to any team as it's 11 v 11 and i remember being beaten by Halifax Town. I think that was the first time i experienced depression...i suppose it got easier over the next 25 or so
years.
I think if City concentrate on doing their jobs, remember to keep doing it when the going gets tough, concentrate 100% and play to the whistle, keep their eyes on the ball, leave the play acting, cheating, shirt pulling, diving & other stuff to others and get their heads down even when they are being treated unfairly (like on Monday), then they won't need to worry too much about the opposition. That's just me though. I'm old fashioned.
Well fair enough, and you're probably right that if we managed that we'd probably do alright, however that never realistically happens unfortunately.

Other teams adapt to us (e.g. taking out their strikers & putting fast skillful players in) & it works a treat. We're not good enough to just have a Plan A every game for me, need to adapt to conditions & opposition which we sadly never seem to bother doing.
 

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