stony said:
All your whinging in here please
Need a bit of a rant after that one.
I haven't been as disappointed in a City match since Forest in the FA Cup years ago. I thought Mancini got his tactics wrong in the first half and I thought he got his Dzeko for Tevez sub completely wrong. Tevez was fucking diabolical when he came on, outside of a small run 30 seconds after he entered, he walked around the pitch. The reason they scored off that corner was because Tevez watched a man go past him.
I can't believe how often we gave the ball away from unpressured positions. Yaya was poor in this respect, but so was Silva, Hart and Zab. Lescott made mistake after mistake and hasn't looked solid since just before Arsenal away last year. And I love JL, he's one of my favourite playes, but his form is bad. Top PL defenders shouldn't be getting done down the wings in that manner.
We couldn't keep the ball so invited pressure onto ourselves.
On the positive side, Sinclair played well and was an unfortunate victim of Mancini's mistake. Looked energetic and a bright spark. Dzeko continued his good run of form. I've accepted that he's just going to give the ball away often now, so if you look past that he had a good game.
Kompany looked strong. Rodwell did exceptionally well when he came on and I believe that we have a rough diamond in Javi Garcia who could well become one of the best in the world given the right development. I thought Clichy did pretty well too under difficult circumstances.
But mostly I'm consumed with annoyance at how easy we gave the ball away. This has got to fucking stop.
