It's probably fair to question what we're going to do to start to play with these teams, rather than survive them. I agree with the thought process that it isn't imperative to beat these squads, draws are good, safe results and if you take care of business against everyone else the math will work out, but at some point we'll have to do more than try to nick one against one of these teams, and we've really struggled to do so. We thought we might have had a bit of a coming out party amongst the top sides with our win versus Liverpool, but man that one really turned out to be not as special as it seemed.
that said, I'm very much bewildered by people accusing City of negative football, particularly in last night's match. We played two strikers, albeit one of them Jo, and had the game absolutely taken to us. Balotelli wouldn't have made a lick of difference last night, to be honest, as he's going to be reliant upon service he was never going to get. Silva obviously would have helped, maybe Kolarov, but games against these top sides really make me worry about our midfield and whether it's an optimal setup to produce results. Aside from Milner, I find it hard to find fault with any particular player, but taken as a unit they do not seem to work well off each other, I fear the players themselves may all be too one dimensional.
