Davs 19
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Jimfv1 said:tiggsywiggsywoo said:samharris said:On its day and full strength our current team/squad can win the CL.
They can indeed but why make it difficult.
As much as I would love us to win the Champions League, I think we need a ball playing holding midfielder (an upgrade on Barry) and also a calm central defender who is also capable of turning defense into attack without just "lumping" the ball forward.
I also think this is one of the situations where we invite other teams to put pressure on our defence because we can't always play the ball out from the back quickly enough all the time. We have done this on occasion, such as Arsenal in the cup last year, (but they had quite a young side out in this game) and we just cannot be incisive enough when changing defence into attack.
I also appreciate the fact that Kompany hasn't started this season as he finished the last one and this is one of the reasons we are conceding goals at the moment, but I'm sure Mancini and the defence as a whole will sort this out. A few 1-0's will be a good start from this weekend onwards.
The main reason we're conceding goals is 2 fold. 3 at the back and no Barry.