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cptaidan88 said:
An offside goal, a great free kick and an individual error from Kompany/Nastasic cost us three goals in a game we completely dominated. How are any of those things Pellegrinis fault? We played well today, it was just an unfortunate result.
We dominated possession but were sloppy at the back and terrible in the final third; that's not playing well but unfortunate, it's getting what we deserved through too many poor things - team selection, tactics, substitutions were all poor from the coach and as I said being sloppy at the back and poor in their box was poor from the team. Yes we had lots of the ball in the middle third of the pitch and loads of aimless crosses that created lots of quarter-chances. That's not good enough to win away games. You have to be ruthless an clinical!

We were worse at Cardiff and Stoke - poor heading from Stoke saw us escape with a point; but it's not good. We'll lose 10 games at this rate.
 
It is very worrying even after the hundreds of millions spent we still consistently struggle on our travels, you have to question the mentality of the players.
 
Caveman said:
cptaidan88 said:
An offside goal, a great free kick and an individual error from Kompany/Nastasic cost us three goals in a game we completely dominated. How are any of those things Pellegrinis fault? We played well today, it was just an unfortunate result.
We dominated possession but were sloppy at the back and terrible in the final third; that's not playing well but unfortunate, it's getting what we deserved through too many poor things - team selection, tactics, substitutions were all poor from the coach and as I said being sloppy at the back and poor in their box was poor from the team. Yes we had lots of the ball in the middle third of the pitch and loads of aimless crosses that created lots of quarter-chances. That's not good enough to win away games. You have to be ruthless an clinical!

We were worse at Cardiff and Stoke - poor heading from Stoke saw us escape with a point; but it's not good. We'll lose 10 games at this rate.

We played well. We deserved to win but lost. This sometime happens. We are playing better and better.
 
greasedupdeafguy said:
It is very worrying even after the hundreds of millions spent we still consistently struggle on our travels, you have to question the mentality of the players.

I wrote this after the Cardiff match. It must be as infuriating for Pellegrini as it was for Mancini. The performance was better today than the two previous but Villa I thought were poor and yet again we have not won the game.

The defence were under very little pressure yet we have conceded three.

The performance of the team should not fluctuate so differently from home games to away games. Is it the players are not mentally strong enough away from home or can they not motivate themselves in the same way as home matches?
 
greasedupdeafguy said:
It is very worrying even after the hundreds of millions spent we still consistently struggle on our travels, you have to question the mentality of the players.

Exactly. We struggled to win under Mancini and we're struggling to win under Pellegrini. How many more managers are we going to have to struggle under to think maybe it's the players?

Twice we were ahead today. Against a side that will be fighting to stay up, without two of their best players. They struggle to score three on a good day with both Benteke and Agbonlahor. If things aren't going your way tough fucking titties, no ones going to give us this title on a bloody plate. They need to strap on some bollocks and quickly.
 
adrianr said:
greasedupdeafguy said:
It is very worrying even after the hundreds of millions spent we still consistently struggle on our travels, you have to question the mentality of the players.

Exactly. We struggled to win under Mancini and we're struggling to win under Pellegrini. How many more managers are we going to have to struggle under to think maybe it's the players?

Twice we were ahead today. Against a side that will be fighting to stay up, without two of their best players. They struggle to score three on a good day with both Benteke and Agbonlahor. If things aren't going your way tough fucking titties, no ones going to give us this title on a bloody plate. They need to strap on some bollocks and quickly.

^^THIS^^
 
Next two away matches in the league Chelsea and WHU. Both will provide a huge test for Pellegrini and its not hard to imagine we wont have an away win after 5 away games.

Wouldnt imagine we wont have one after Cardiff, Stoke, Villa.
 
Oh Pellegrini,
Why can't we win away?
Oh Pellegrini,
Why are we shit away?
Oh Pellegrini,
Why can't you get us three pooints?
 

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