Blackburn Vs City Post Match Discussion Thread
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^More good work from Jumanji.
We started very slowly, but that's not always a bad thing on such a warm day. We did seem a bit subdued. I couldn't say if that was pressure, negativity, embarrasment. A few heads were shaken. Silva and Milner were very careless, Kolarov wildly inaccurate, AJ pretty desperate.
Despite all that, it was a very decent first half performance.
We controlled the pitch, shutting them out totally, but still made three or four decent chances. Classic 1st half Mancini performance.
There were determined efforts to win the ball back from just about every individual. It felt like this individual effort blossomed into the nice football we saw in the second half.
We pushed up on the left, got in the area between the fullback and centre half, sprayed it about beautifully from the halfway line.
I think the removal of Aguero worked very much in our favour.
Balotelli was playing something akin to false nine, suddenly their centre halves had no one to mark. Balotelli, Silva, Milner Nasri were buzzing in around the midfielders, who backed off and let us pass it around in front of them, worried about what was happening behind. I was going to say something very profound about their right side, but it escapes me now.
It has to be said, they were pretty horrible from start to finish. I knew we would win from about the 5th minute, when I saw they'd decided not to pressure Yaya. He had endless time and space to spray it around.
Overall an easy game, a decent, controlled performance, three beautiful goals and a clean sheet.
We started very slowly, but that's not always a bad thing on such a warm day. We did seem a bit subdued. I couldn't say if that was pressure, negativity, embarrasment. A few heads were shaken. Silva and Milner were very careless, Kolarov wildly inaccurate, AJ pretty desperate.
Despite all that, it was a very decent first half performance.
We controlled the pitch, shutting them out totally, but still made three or four decent chances. Classic 1st half Mancini performance.
There were determined efforts to win the ball back from just about every individual. It felt like this individual effort blossomed into the nice football we saw in the second half.
We pushed up on the left, got in the area between the fullback and centre half, sprayed it about beautifully from the halfway line.
I think the removal of Aguero worked very much in our favour.
Balotelli was playing something akin to false nine, suddenly their centre halves had no one to mark. Balotelli, Silva, Milner Nasri were buzzing in around the midfielders, who backed off and let us pass it around in front of them, worried about what was happening behind. I was going to say something very profound about their right side, but it escapes me now.
It has to be said, they were pretty horrible from start to finish. I knew we would win from about the 5th minute, when I saw they'd decided not to pressure Yaya. He had endless time and space to spray it around.
Overall an easy game, a decent, controlled performance, three beautiful goals and a clean sheet.
TCIB
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Re: Stats today
Blue Haze
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Re: Stats today
They have Carrick. Why would they need Silva?
TCIB said:
They have Carrick. Why would they need Silva?
rickmcfc
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Re: Stats today
And Darren Fletcher, who is on par with Messi.
Blue Haze said:TCIB said:
They have Carrick. Why would they need Silva?
And Darren Fletcher, who is on par with Messi.
Eccles Blue
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Not had time to go through the whole thread but our support today was marvellous, I have no voice left now and the Mancini song was the loudest of them all!!
At the end did anyone notice how Mancinin made every one of the players come over to the fans and he came himself as well. Not saying he needed to as most of them were making their way anyway but it was good to see the Manager applauding us as well.
All in all, apart from their box office having to email our box office because the barcode had disappeared from my ticket and they weren't going to let me in and the needed confirmation that I had actually bought a ticket, it was a great afternoon.
Very hot though :-)
At the end did anyone notice how Mancinin made every one of the players come over to the fans and he came himself as well. Not saying he needed to as most of them were making their way anyway but it was good to see the Manager applauding us as well.
All in all, apart from their box office having to email our box office because the barcode had disappeared from my ticket and they weren't going to let me in and the needed confirmation that I had actually bought a ticket, it was a great afternoon.
Very hot though :-)
Muzza
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Pissing myself reading the forums at rovertalk!
One belter:
One belter:
TrueBlueSte
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Does anyone have a picture of balotelli celebratin in front of the fans after his goal today? i was in the fifth row and it was amazing so i neeeed to get this picture! any help will be very much appreciated!