black mamba said:stonerblue said:I must have watched a different match than the one the most journos and bluemooners saw.
I thought City played very well all over the pitch. Barry, MadPabZab, Milner and Vinny were all back to their best. Nastasic had his best game so far and Merlin was everywhere.
It certainly wasn't a clinical attacking performance with beautiful football but all the team worked their socks off getting and retaining the ball. We played some great close passing and remained calm when under pressure, which was'nt very often at all.
We were by far the better side and outplaying the current chumps laegue champions at their place should be seen as a positive result.
You are right in everything you say until that last sentence ..... City probably gave their best performance of the season yesterday , and few of our players were actually poor ... although set pieces might have been much better.
Chelsea , with eleven men , are a tough cookie , and we had far more possession , and the better chances ...... if fact if we'd scored just one goal i doubt if we'd have pulled off a better victory all season !
But , as Mancini rightly pointed out , this was DEFINETELY two points lost ..... when you play well at places such as this , you HAVE win the game , and that would have produced a 'positive' result , instead of just an 'acceptable' one ....
we've now allowed the rags back in , who DID win there !
robbieh said:stonerblue said:I must have watched a different match than the one the most journos and bluemooners saw.
I thought City played very well all over the pitch. Barry, MadPabZab, Milner and Vinny were all back to their best. Nastasic had his best game so far and Merlin was everywhere.
It certainly wasn't a clinical attacking performance with beautiful football but all the team worked their socks off getting and retaining the ball. We played some great close passing and remained calm when under pressure, which was'nt very often at all.
We were by far the better side and outplaying the current chumps laegue champions at their place should be seen as a positive result.
Watched it with a Chelsea fan. He said it was men (us) against boys. I thought we looked very solid and professional. Was expecting them to cause us problems and they didn't.
To me that looked like a team who mean business.
Hung said:Have to agree with the positive views on here. Good performance against a top 4 team on their own ‘middin, who we dominated throughout. We didn’t pick up all three points, but that’s football. Compare Saturday to the Sunderland game away last year. We absolutely slaughtered them and still lost. The message from yesterday is that Chelsea are not a threat and we will prevail over 38 games.
Hung said:Have to agree with the positive views on here. Good performance against a top 4 team on their own ‘middin, who we dominated throughout. We didn’t pick up all three points, but that’s football. Compare Saturday to the Sunderland game away last year. We absolutely slaughtered them and still lost. The message from yesterday is that Chelsea are not a threat and we will prevail over 38 games.
Roll On City said:Claytop said:Why is it that at every corner we may aswell just pass it to their keeper but as soon as they get a corner they look like they could score off any one?
Why was silva taking any when we had Kolarov on?
Kolarov's corners can barely make the near post
BlueMo' said:They were there for the taking.
We need to speed up our attacking play.
Far too pedestrian at times.
de niro said:Roll On City said:Claytop said:Why is it that at every corner we may aswell just pass it to their keeper but as soon as they get a corner they look like they could score off any one?
Why was silva taking any when we had Kolarov on?
Kolarov's corners can barely make the near post
we are shit at corners, either ours or our opponants.
Chippy_boy said:Hung said:Have to agree with the positive views on here. Good performance against a top 4 team on their own ‘middin, who we dominated throughout. We didn’t pick up all three points, but that’s football. Compare Saturday to the Sunderland game away last year. We absolutely slaughtered them and still lost. The message from yesterday is that Chelsea are not a threat and we will prevail over 38 games.
I tend to agree. However, it's worth bearing in mind that you can normally afford to draw or lose about 10 ~ 12 games.
We are 1/3 of the way through and have drawn 5 already. Carry on at that rate and even drawing them (i.e. assuming no defeats), we would fall well short of the title.
It's OK dropping 2 points here and there, but you can't do it too often and we are doing.
The other worrying stat is 2 wins out of 6 on the road. Not exactly brilliant.