City v Arsenal Post Match

[deano ou812]

Wenger "the target was to put it right and to win a big game away in the league which we've not done this season"..well they have broken their duck wouldn't surprise me to see them go back to their old ways as in bottling it after this huge achievement for them...

 

[citymad]

Wenger "the target was to put it right and to win a big game away in the league which we've not done this season"..well they have broken their duck wouldn't surprise me to see them go back to their old ways as in bottling it after this huge achievement for them...

Arsenal have underachieved with the quality of their squad. They should be challenging for the title.

 

[Sergi0 Na5r1]

This Yaya that (almost) everyone says we're misssing - is he same Yaya that's a lazy **** who won't track back to help in defence and is only interested in his birthday cake?

It's obviously not Yaya but as others have mentioned, it's Fernando. He's unable to push forward and his marking is recently off too. It's no coincidence that Fernandinho and Yaya make the best combination. They both cover for each other.

 

[Victoria-bahs]

This Yaya that (almost) everyone says we're misssing - is he same Yaya that's a lazy **** who won't track back to help in defence and is only interested in his birthday cake?

It's obviously not Yaya but as others have mentioned, it's Fernando. He's unable to push forward and his marking is recently off too. It's no coincidence that Fernandinho and Yaya make the best combination. They both cover for each other.

No one is blameless.BUT Kompany was so bad today he need to look at himself ,screaming like an idiot at the ref. it was him that gave the 100% pen away.. its his job to be on the ball for the free kick.. yes fernado looking to see how tall the grass is.. does not help ..but sorting out the defence for the free kick
is HIS job..

 

[mancity1]

This Yaya that (almost) everyone says we're misssing - is he same Yaya that's a lazy **** who won't track back to help in defence and is only interested in his birthday cake?

It's obviously not Yaya but as others have mentioned, it's Fernando. He's unable to push forward and his marking is recently off too. It's no coincidence that Fernandinho and Yaya make the best combination. They both cover for each other.

No one is blameless.BUT Kompany was so bad today he need to look at himself ,screaming like an idiot at the ref. it was him that gave the 100% pen away.. its his job to be on the ball for the free kick.. yes fernado looking to see how tall the grass is.. does not help ..but sorting out the defence for the free kick
is HIS job..

Most if not all our players have been pretty piss poor of late and if that was to continue it was obvious any side including Arsenal could take advantage of it.

They will have to step up a few gears otherwise we will soon be looking at a number of sides from below us closing in fast.

 

[Marvin]

This Yaya that (almost) everyone says we're misssing - is he same Yaya that's a lazy **** who won't track back to help in defence and is only interested in his birthday cake?

It's obviously not Yaya but as others have mentioned, it's Fernando. He's unable to push forward and his marking is recently off too. It's no coincidence that Fernandinho and Yaya make the best combination. They both cover for each other.

No one is blameless.BUT Kompany was so bad today he need to look at himself ,screaming like an idiot at the ref. it was him that gave the 100% pen away.. its his job to be on the ball for the free kick.. yes fernado looking to see how tall the grass is.. does not help ..but sorting out the defence for the free kick
is HIS job..

Fernando did what he is good at really well. But he'll never pick a pass like Yaya and Nasri. Should have started Lampard and Jovetic today.

 

[BillyShears]

Eurgh, where to begin. Even all these hours later it still tastes like shit.

I think Pellegrini got his team selection wrong. Should've been either MD and Mangala or Vinny and Mangala. Playing a not match fit Vinny and Martin meant the aggressive defending we need to build from wasn't there. Not to mention Arsenal's pace and how exposed we looked when they ran at us because neither centre half fancied themselves in a race.

Going forward we struggled in two key areas. Firstly neither Fernandinho nor Fernando have the range of passing Yaya has. Specifically his ability to fire a pass into Silva and Kun early. The space was there today, particularly in the first half, but every time either of them found it there simply wasn't anyone in midfield with the ability to ping that pass in. The second problem was Milner. One of his worst showings in a big game. Normally for me he's a big game player but today he was woeful. Looked like the James Milner we've seen often in and England shirt. Meant that our left hand side was simply a no man's land.

Navas IMO is getting way too much stick. He was as dangerous as he always is and on another day would've at least got one assist. His limitations aren't going to go away simply because we want them to. But he's a squad player and you get what you get for 15 million pounds. What was worrying again was that there was nobody out there when he picked the ball up. Neither Fernandinho nor Fernando were doing the job Toure does in acting as an extra man so Nava and Zaba could overload Arsenal.

Don't know what to say about set pieces. Both defending and attacking. Simply not good enough. The lack of leadership on display was alarming and the lack of quality in the deliveries was bordering on amateurish.

Anyway we'll beat Chelsea now. It's written. We're at our most dangerous when we're chastened like this. Arsenal were the better side and deserved the win today but we'll come back stronger for it I believe. We've done it before.

Fucking ACON can do one too.

 

[Victoria-bahs]

I agee.. and its not jus today ..its been all season.. we have not moved out of 3rd gear... we are not going to win the League this year but protecting 2nd is a must..
looking foreward.. i Think Milner,navas, and zabba,,Fernando, replacements should be found..but we must qualify for the top 4 while replacing them, and thats the tricky bit... Yes it could have been a bad day.. and arsenal had a plan.. but we looked lost today.. the leadership was not there from our senior pros.. sloppy passes not just one or two.. but one after the other again and agan!!! Now is the time for Pelli to earn his wages.. because every team we play will do the same tactic as arsenal.

It's obviously not Yaya but as others have mentioned, it's Fernando. He's unable to push forward and his marking is recently off too. It's no coincidence that Fernandinho and Yaya make the best combination. They both cover for each other.

No one is blameless.BUT Kompany was so bad today he need to look at himself ,screaming like an idiot at the ref. it was him that gave the 100% pen away.. its his job to be on the ball for the free kick.. yes fernado looking to see how tall the grass is.. does not help ..but sorting out the defence for the free kick
is HIS job..

Most if not all our players have been pretty piss poor of late and if that was to continue it was obvious any side including Arsenal could take advantage of it.

They will have to step up a few gears otherwise we will soon be looking at a number of sides from below us closing in fast.

 

[TCIB]

"we are not going to win the league this year".

Yeah that's the spirit :-/

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Disappointed, we didn't play badly, but arsenal were the better side in nearly every position, and they defended superbly, and got every ounce of luck going.

We need to sort our home form out though, its not good enough to win the league at the moment, and even if we win every other home game, it might prove still not good enough.

We did play badly though and there's no point in kidding ourselves otherwise. Almost everything we did was executed badly. Poor passes when under no pressure, corners, crosses, daft fouls, not winning tackles or headers, general defending. Give Arsenal credit as they did well but we were spineless.