City v Arsenal Post Match

[FanchesterCity]

I can't see any variation in our play.

We never invite teams onto us in order get THEM on the break these days. If we're not in our comfort mode of stroking the ball around in their half we are found wanting.

Navas is supposedly a pocket rocket. Yet he rarely knocks it past a left back and gets around him, and we rarely use his speed on the break either.
I think I can recall just once today when he did manage to use some speed on the break, but got the edge of the box and stopped, one assumes waiting for the cavalry.

We've not had an aerial threat for ages, Dzeko included, and yet there's still high balls going into the box. Aguero's not a miracle worker.

I suppose it's just after a loss, so the negative outlook's foremost in my mind, but all the same, I don't feel we've really made much improvement down the right since Johnson went, and we're worse down the left that when we had Bellamy. That seems to be forcing so much down the middle, and there's a limit to what any team can do down the middle when teams defend with 9+ men behind the ball.

 

[Ducado]

Not long in it's all a bit depressing really

But from what I have seen of us recently we seem to relish the underdog role, it's City we never do it the easy way :-(

 

[Lancet Fluke]

We were poor today all over the pitch. If we bothered to sort our corners out we might have a better chance of getting something when we are poor because we always seem to to get 10+ corners.

 

[Sunnysideupp]

Two preventable goals , very soft , we have now conceded 6 goals in our last 3 home games , MP needs to sort this out quickly . Vinny and Aguero were miles off the pace , and i cant think of one player who played to his capabilities. Navas must have made 30 crosses and not one to a blue shirt , and also 15 corners cleared by red shirts , we need to make more of our wide positions.
Congrats to the tarquins , they actually showed some bottle today , just a shame they only do it for one game a season , but they should retain their 4th place trophy , thought Cazorla was superb today , upstaged merlin , and not many do that.
Need to play the first team against Boro , get some match fitness into kun,vinny and dzeko , knock a few goals in , and keep a clean sheet.

Not one corner was cleared by red shirts tonight..

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Two preventable goals , very soft , we have now conceded 6 goals in our last 3 home games , MP needs to sort this out quickly . Vinny and Aguero were miles off the pace , and i cant think of one player who played to his capabilities. Navas must have made 30 crosses and not one to a blue shirt , and also 15 corners cleared by red shirts , we need to make more of our wide positions.
Congrats to the tarquins , they actually showed some bottle today , just a shame they only do it for one game a season , but they should retain their 4th place trophy , thought Cazorla was superb today , upstaged merlin , and not many do that.
Need to play the first team against Boro , get some match fitness into kun,vinny and dzeko , knock a few goals in , and keep a clean sheet.

Not one corner was cleared by red shirts tonight..

Yellow shirts?

 

[deano ou812]

Two preventable goals , very soft , we have now conceded 6 goals in our last 3 home games , MP needs to sort this out quickly . Vinny and Aguero were miles off the pace , and i cant think of one player who played to his capabilities. Navas must have made 30 crosses and not one to a blue shirt , and also 15 corners cleared by red shirts , we need to make more of our wide positions.
Congrats to the tarquins , they actually showed some bottle today , just a shame they only do it for one game a season , but they should retain their 4th place trophy , thought Cazorla was superb today , upstaged merlin , and not many do that.
Need to play the first team against Boro , get some match fitness into kun,vinny and dzeko , knock a few goals in , and keep a clean sheet.

Don't think chopping and changing the defence has helped have we played more than 3 or 4 games with the same back line,although injuries have been partly to blame....

 

[Marvin]

I can't see any variation in our play.

We never invite teams onto us in order get THEM on the break these days. If we're not in our comfort mode of stroking the ball around in their half we are found wanting.

Navas is supposedly a pocket rocket. Yet he rarely knocks it past a left back and gets around him, and we rarely use his speed on the break either.
I think I can recall just once today when he did manage to use some speed on the break, but got the edge of the box and stopped, one assumes waiting for the cavalry.

We've not had an aerial threat for ages, Dzeko included, and yet there's still high balls going into the box. Aguero's not a miracle worker.

I suppose it's just after a loss, so the negative outlook's foremost in my mind, but all the same, I don't feel we've really made much improvement down the right since Johnson went, and we're worse down the left that when we had Bellamy. That seems to be forcing so much down the middle, and there's a limit to what any team can do down the middle when teams defend with 9+ men behind the ball.

Navas was our only threat to their defence

Missed Yaya and Nasri, and Aguero was well below par. The only thing good about today was that Aguero got 90 mins under his belt

Arsenal defended well.

 

[FanchesterCity]

I was at the game and 10 mins before Arsenal got the penalty I said to my mate "Arsenal are going to get a penalty here". Zab, Kompany and MDM had been at it for the first 20 mins with their silly body checks, pushes and miss timed tackles. I can only think it stemmed from Kompany running round like a headless lunatic from kick off, he has done this before can only think is the frustration of being out injured.

The squad cannot keep carrying shit like Fernando, Fernandinho, Milner and Jovetic they are an absolute disgrace so far out of their depth, we get away with them if say Toure, Silva or Aguero are having a blinder but they were completely shown up today.

Milner's generally been a stalwart for us. Not a good game today, but out of their depth? far from it.
Jovetic today made a tangibly positive impact I'd say.
Are they world beaters? probably not, but to call them shit is way wide of the mark.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Two preventable goals , very soft , we have now conceded 6 goals in our last 3 home games , MP needs to sort this out quickly . Vinny and Aguero were miles off the pace , and i cant think of one player who played to his capabilities. Navas must have made 30 crosses and not one to a blue shirt , and also 15 corners cleared by red shirts , we need to make more of our wide positions.
Congrats to the tarquins , they actually showed some bottle today , just a shame they only do it for one game a season , but they should retain their 4th place trophy , thought Cazorla was superb today , upstaged merlin , and not many do that.
Need to play the first team against Boro , get some match fitness into kun,vinny and dzeko , knock a few goals in , and keep a clean sheet.

Not one corner was cleared by red shirts tonight..

Really ? Defo getting the engineer out to my telly , suspected something when the ref came out in a pink shirt.

 

[richards30]

we win at chelsea and this defeat is meaningless. we go again.

Cant see it bill unfortunately.