City v Arsenal Post Match

[oasis-city-greek-fan]

Money could have been spent on Fabregas or Sanchez

I dont care if i get called a rag, Mangala isn't a 35M CB...no way. He isn't as good as Varane, Laporte or Marquinhos. He was also playing in a shit league.

It s obvious that it s a wrong transfer...35m and he was on the bench same story with Dinho ...30something m and he was subtituded by Lampard

I understand players have bad games so that isn't fair really and Dinho is decent. I can get away with him costing that much but Mangala was a bad buy. I said it at the same time and nothing has changed my mind. He is young but CB is a position where if you don't show traits that you can defend early on..there is no way you will get much better later on. How many defenders started out shaky and ended up amazing? Bar the Chelsea performance I haven't seen anything from Mangala that screams 'amazing'. How many performances has Varane given in a RM shirt that has been raved about? Mangala isn't that close to being on that level. Even with Luiz who gets hated on, he is at least good on the ball and he can start attacks. Mangala isn't good defensively or even with the ball at his feet.

I dont know who wanted him, but it was a bad buy. Chambers from Soton would have even been adequete.

Although he is a beast he can t clear high balls...
And you know something...Bonys goalscoring record from corners is near to ZERO

 

[Hung]

Well done Graham Souness. A voice of sense and reason on a rag infested tv station.

Indeed - Souness is no ‘fan’ of ours but at least you get a reasoned balanced view from him.. Ratboy is at last showing his true colours. Once a pig, always a pig and those on here who have praised Ratboy for his Sky performance may now see that he has had his real views suppressed. He needs to fuck off and deal with his property empire in between doing fuck all at home with his pig wife and his pig children and stop infecting our screens.

 

[deano ou812]

Well done Graham Souness. A voice of sense and reason on a rag infested tv station.

This. Rat face saying this season is now or never for City and Souness fucking him right off ha ha

He's probably gloating over arsenal's win as its his only crumb of comfort as the rags are fcuking piss poor,as for now or never,is the league the only trophy we have left to play for,didn't realise we were out of the fa cup and champions league,the w***er showing his true colours...

 

[raymondkl92]

Why play the waste of space Navas, when we could play Barker?

exactly

start playing some players from the youth ffs

Barker is going enough to be getting mins from the bench and even kean bryan can be a decent option in MF

Not going to happen, move on

 

[Number 1 is Colin Bell]

I expected that kind of performance from us due to the lack of fitness of key players and missing two thirds of our creativity.

It has been a frustrating season as we have struggled to get any consistency and fluency in our play due to injuries. It's affected our defence, midfield and attack. I remain confident that once we get Yaya back, a couple of strikers fully fit and Kompany with games under his belt, we will be firing on all cylinders. No other top team would be in our league position if they had suffered injuries to key players like we have. In my opinion, we have done okay, all things considered. We just have to keep fighting and get throufh this difficult patch. Based on the reslience of the team, I am confident they will.

Again a sensible summing up. I too had a bad feeling thinking we would not get more than a draw especially the way Arsenal started.

They caught us at a good time.

 

[jared]

To be a great team - you have to be a complete team in my opinion and we are NOT.

Our wing play and crossing has to be the worst I've ever seen in my life.

We are no threat from corners/set pieces because of that. Our crosses in general stink. Navas on one side and Clichy on the other - OMG that is tough to watch.

Wonders if money on another striker (Bony) was well spent - when our dire need is ANYONE who can give us width....EFFECTIVELY.

Watching our tries to cross the ball makes me physically ill.

Until we fix our wing play (and back 4) - we will not be complete....nor great.

This. Milner or Navas should make way for De Bruyne in this very window.Both are always better players off the bench.

I thought de Bruyne isn't a wing player? He plays best at centre AM

 

[Ray78]

I expected that kind of performance from us due to the lack of fitness of key players and missing two thirds of our creativity.

It has been a frustrating season as we have struggled to get any consistency and fluency in our play due to injuries. It's affected our defence, midfield and attack. I remain confident that once we get Yaya back, a couple of strikers fully fit and Kompany with games under his belt, we will be firing on all cylinders. No other top team would be in our league position if they had suffered injuries to key players like we have. In my opinion, we have done okay, all things considered. We just have to keep fighting and get throufh this difficult patch. Based on the reslience of the team, I am confident they will.

That was the reason why Manuel Pellegrini got December's manager of the month award. The game against Arsenal was one game too far.

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

We can't put any gloss on this: it was a very poor performance indeed and we have simply to shut up, take it on the chin and be ready for the odious Wenger to gloat. Fortunately we have home cup tie against championship opposition next week and this has to be used to get those players returning from injury match sharp for the looming game with Chelsea. I have been worried about the game with Arsenal all week, because Sergio, Edin and Vinnie were all returning from injury Vinnie hasn't played since December 6, Sergio got 20 minutes last week for the first time since December 6 as well and Edin has been out since November 8, with one short return at QPR which lasted long enough to see him injured again. Added to this are the absences of Nasri (yet another calf injury!) and Ya YA. Arsenal are not the best team in the world, but they are good enough to take on a weakened team including 3 players with half an hours football between them in the last 14 matches! But taking on Arsenal without a single striker could never even be considered.

Up front Kun had no explosive pace to take advantage of the cumbersome Arsenal central defensive pair and we had no aerial threat at all, Silva had no-one to play those delightful balls down the channels to and, not surprisingly we didn't have a single shot at goal in the first half. We had a lot of possession but lacked penetration. At the back we were poor and, at times, shambolic. Vinnie was slow and clumsy and the penalty was a direct result of this. Whether this contributed to Martin's uncertainty no-one knows, but his distribution was poor in the extreme. The low point of our defensive performance was the second goal. Think of Everton's equaliser and shout "snap!" Three Arsenal players managed to get goal side of our back line, none of them marked by any sky blue shirt as our lads seemed to look at each other to see who was going to defend and leave a free header for Giroud. Vinnie and Martin seemed to have split to let Arsenal through! That was just bad play and cannot be put down to lack of match fitness. We,ve looked poor at defending two goal leads often theis season: today we couldn't defend a 0-0 or a 0-1, and only briefly, at the start of the second half, did we look as though we MIGHT stand a chance of getting back into the game. I don't think it's fair to criticise the manager's selection - it's exactly the team I would have picked - but it is the case that this is not a game we were equipped to play at this time. It is simply to be hoped that we don't pay too high a price for it.

 

[IWasHere]

To be a great team - you have to be a complete team in my opinion and we are NOT.

Our wing play and crossing has to be the worst I've ever seen in my life.

We are no threat from corners/set pieces because of that. Our crosses in general stink. Navas on one side and Clichy on the other - OMG that is tough to watch.

Wonders if money on another striker (Bony) was well spent - when our dire need is ANYONE who can give us width....EFFECTIVELY.

Watching our tries to cross the ball makes me physically ill.

Until we fix our wing play (and back 4) - we will not be complete....nor great.

This. Milner or Navas should make way for De Bruyne in this very window.Both are always better players off the bench.

I thought de Bruyne isn't a wing player? He plays best at centre AM

F*** due bruyne. Chelsea reject...we should get draxler he's tonnes better

 

[dave_blue12]

I expected that kind of performance from us due to the lack of fitness of key players and missing two thirds of our creativity.

It has been a frustrating season as we have struggled to get any consistency and fluency in our play due to injuries. It's affected our defence, midfield and attack. I remain confident that once we get Yaya back, a couple of strikers fully fit and Kompany with games under his belt, we will be firing on all cylinders. No other top team would be in our league position if they had suffered injuries to key players like we have. In my opinion, we have done okay, all things considered. We just have to keep fighting and get throufh this difficult patch. Based on the reslience of the team, I am confident they will.

My feelings exactly. We could well lose to Chelsea but my hope is that we will come strong on the home straight and reel them in