A Mancini criticism this season

[Anonymous]

were top of the league in god knows how many years, top goal scorers, league cup semi final, beat united by six, never played better, we were relegated not that long ago really, no one should be complaining. ;)

dont worry.....

 

[franksinatra]

Its not a case of being a happy clapper just that as others have pointed out Mancini sees the players on a regular basis through training, testing and knows which players he prefers to play.

Those decisions have got us to the top of the league and a cup semi final, so im going to have fiath in him rather than your wild hunches.

Your points about Dzeko and Milner are even less relevant as Balotelli, Dzekos replacement has been scoring for fun and Gareth Barry has been in the form of his life, with Yaya chipping in with a number of goals over the last couple of months.

Every manager has there recognised first team and play them regularly, but yes on occasions rests them. Its the nature of football and a practise all the top managers employ.

 

[BlueAnorak]

The season over already? Thought it finished in May

True, but make no mistake if we continue to play like we played today the season will be over by the end of Jan.

 

[didactic]

Yep it was one game. But he should have made the Dzeko change MUCH earlier. The WBA centre halves were winning everything in the air. After Dzeko came on they didn't. Far too short a time period to win it though.

Which leads me onto my only criticism of Roberto. He ALWAYS makes substitutions far too late. This is City - luck is not our bag - if you don't sort out a problem pronto it will continue too not work no matter how often you wave your arms at players.

Ill take your word for it since you have all those league titles in your cabinet and all those years of experience behind you with the awards that went with it.






















Oh wait that is Roberto not you.

 

[Damocles]

I can understand the op to a degree, as I have felt Dzeko is your stereotypical confidence player and dropping him when he was bang on form has not helped. He did himself no favours at Bayern when he came off, although we are lead to believe that's all water under the bridge.

However, that said, and the lead may now just be goal difference, but being unbeaten at home in 2011, top of the pile going into 2012, having an FA Cup in the bag, our first foray into the Champs League behind us, the Europe League to look forward to, the Carling Cup Semi Final to look forward to, an explosive tie against those bastards in the FA Cup to look forward to and the real chance of actually winning the league an I'm not sure I could deny Mancini a ride on my wife and the very meagre contents of my bank account, let alone question the wisdom of dropping Dzeko.

Exactly, this season has been brilliant. Mancini has been brilliant. But he and the team can still have done things wrong. If you can't say them on a discussion forum then what's the point in having one?

Would you have made this thread if we won 6-0?

This is why the thread is so pathetic.

 

[Grand Master Ram Rod]

I can understand the op to a degree, as I have felt Dzeko is your stereotypical confidence player and dropping him when he was bang on form has not helped. He did himself no favours at Bayern when he came off, although we are lead to believe that's all water under the bridge.

However, that said, and the lead may now just be goal difference, but being unbeaten at home in 2011, top of the pile going into 2012, having an FA Cup in the bag, our first foray into the Champs League behind us, the Europe League to look forward to, the Carling Cup Semi Final to look forward to, an explosive tie against those bastards in the FA Cup to look forward to and the real chance of actually winning the league an I'm not sure I could deny Mancini a ride on my wife and the very meagre contents of my bank account, let alone question the wisdom of dropping Dzeko.

Exactly, this season has been brilliant. Mancini has been brilliant. But he and the team can still have done things wrong. If you can't say them on a discussion forum then what's the point in having one?

Would you have made this thread if we won 6-0?

This is why the thread is so pathetic.

If Milner was as bad as he was today then yes.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Hey I'm a Roberto fan.
I'm just pointing out what happens in the Prem to CITY if you wait too long to make a change. City are not lucky on the pitch (though I confess in light of relatively recent events we are lucky off it).

 

[franksinatra]

Yep it was one game. But he should have made the Dzeko change MUCH earlier. The WBA centre halves were winning everything in the air. After Dzeko came on they didn't. Far too short a time period to win it though.

Which leads me onto my only criticism of Roberto. He ALWAYS makes substitutions far too late. This is City - luck is not our bag - if you don't sort out a problem pronto it will continue too not work no matter how often you wave your arms at players.

Mate I think you will find that as a team we try to concentrate ourt football on the ground so beating the West Brom defenders in the air is not a key point of our game plan. Secondly Mancini regularly makes changes early on if he thinks the game is not going to plan. To say otherwise is ridiculaous has Johnson has been dragged off in the first half.

The side played well, dominated,the tactics were working its just that we couldnt get the breakthrough

 

[glen quagmire]

Threads like this are fantastic. It shows that the creators were no where to be found before hrh took over.

They are also catastrophically innacurate.

 

[Feed-The-Goat]

The season over already? Thought it finished in May

True, but make no mistake if we continue to play like we played today the season will be over by the end of Jan.

Could you see us performing like that week in week out for the rest of the season tho?

Yeah not the best of games, but i put it down to a minor blip, or too much Xmas turkey ;)