Re: Cardiff Vs City Post Match Discussion Thread
so your suggestion is to ignore it, do nothing and hope it improvesBillyShears said:bobmcfc said:Cobwebcat said:Preseason is meant to show our problems. It did. We repeated them again.
Either change the system or the centre backs ... we did neither, again.
By the time we have learnt this high risk system or signed a CB that is fast enough to play it, we will be so far behind it won't matter.
Really disappointed in Pelle because if even I can see it, and I'm no tactical genius I can tell you, what's he looking at?
Very very surprised we aren't going after a top defender. Vinny is excellent but he has been picking up a few injuries and suspensions over the last 12 months. In many ways injuries cost us the league last year. I'm especially surprised that with our two best CBs out they have just been content to make do with Garcia and lescott when we all knew their shortcomings
Can either of you two explain how the system was at fault for Zaba's individual errors from corners ?
People are mixing lots of things up in this and the Pellegrini thread. We lost yesterday because of individual errors from one player. Nothing more and nothing less. Yes Garcia and Lescott were put under pressure at times, and yes Hart had to make a smart save in the first half. But ultimately, we conceded very poor goals due to the aforementioned players' errors. And it's hardly a shock, Zaba as good as he is, is prone to the odd very poor performance due to poor positioning or decision making.
If you want to discuss why we looked so similar to last season, I'll try and put forward a theory. There's no question that due to the makeshift nature of our centre halves, our fullbacks weren't pushed anywhere near as far forward as they were against Newcastle. This coupled with Cardiff's overly defensive formation and the fantastic job that Medel and the Icelandic guy did in creating a shield in front of their back 4 and closing down the spaces we generally like to play in, meant that Navas, Silva, Dzeko, and Aguero, really needed to come up with something between the four of them. It wasn't an ideal situation, and it clearly went tits up because much like last season, the attacking players in particular made all the same decision making errors in terms of pass/dribble/shoot that they would do away from home last season. These things will be coached out of them.
We will be far better away from home as the players come to learn what is expected of them - just as we improved steadily over Mancini's first 8/9 months in charge. The next step we need to take is one from a formidable attacking behemoth at home, to a formidable attacking behemoth home and away. It will come.