Haven't had a chance to read the whole thread, but I don't agree with those that say the first half was poor, I thought we looked better going forward than against Watford, and but for one attack, the defence looked fine to me, keeping the same defence will pay dividends, both for the defence, and the keeper.
Yes we did resort to the football played side to side under MP, but in most circumstances we won playing that sort of game. I thought Sterling was excellent first half, his movement was very good, and while he missed the header, I thought he did pretty much all he could to get on the end of and direct it. I thought Yaya's header was much poorer, as he was running straight at the ball, and should at least have found the target. Overall though we were the better side first half, and then we built on it in the second, albeit after a poor opening 5 minutes, and went on to be completely dominant, with very few chances for arsenal, and plenty of good football from City.
I thought Kolarov in particular in the second half was excellent, dominating with his heading away, and getting good direction and distance on almost everyone, defensively since going back to 4, we have looked far stronger, especially since we have stopped defending so ridiculously high up the pitch, that we get caught. Fernando in front of the defence, once again showed what a decent squad player he is (though his haters will never agree).
The attacking was also far better than its been of late, and probably deserved better reward.
Lets hope we can now go on a decent run, even if we are nowhere near the finished article yet, we can still get results, even against the better sides.
Probably the most pleasing thing was having gone behind early yet again, we didn't collapse, we kept trying to play, and got our reward, because the defence wasn't so flaky, and easily got at, and if we can hold off arsenal, it begs the question why on earth were we so fragile against Leicester ?
