City v Everton Post Match Thread

[Daz_Blue]

Why is Jovetic being ignored ....is he injured , not even on the bench today.

 

[Anonymous]

Why is Jovetic being ignored ....is he injured , not even on the bench today.

Injured.

 

[stony]

Plenty of schadenfreude to be had at GrandOldTeam for those in need of their weekly fix of laughing at others.
They are blaming the ref.

They've obviously forgotten the blatant hand ball pen that wasn't given at Goodison last season when it was 1-0 and in the season before that as well

They were all crying about our players being cynical and then crowing about Naismith injuring Kolarov.
Odious hypocritical fucking turds.

 

[rick773]

Loved everything about silva today, played well,
delighted he managed not to get sent off somehow , negredo was great but silva took it for me .

I'm an idiot , therefore am wrong all the time,
but I don't think I've ever been as wrong about someone as I was about nasri. attitude , skill, "heart" , everything else I think I was entirely wrong about, I'm ok with that though.

Good to see kolarov playing closer to his ability as well.

 

[mscenterh750]

Everything was right and good today, 3 big points and big performance was that.

Consistency now please and a good away thumping for some fucker!.

 

[ancoats]

3 points

but the thing for me was milner back in the side he works like a horse and move's in to help the midfield and silva

a plus today for the manager

 

[Gabriel]

Was rather surprised how Everton faded as a threat, as at half-time one couldn't have predicted such a toothless performance. For forty minutes it was an even contest with us just shading it, but after the interval we stamped our authority on the game and won comfortably by the end.

 

[kupest]

3 points

but the thing for me was milner back in the side he works like a horse and move's in to help the midfield and silva

a plus today for the manager

Exactly ! No one even remembers Baines on the pitch. Milner did a lovely job covering him and totally owned him.

 

[moomba]

Not our best performance but it'll do. Silva and Negredo excellent, Kolarov too.

 

[Blueband Brother]

Much needed 3 points. Very good performance particularly in the 2nd half and by the 80th minute, it was a bit of ole time with Nasri, Yaya and Silva expressing themselves.

Negredo has shown that he should be in the starting line up as the main number 9 and what he brings to the table is invaluable in terms of his honesty.

Silva and Negredo, from what I have seen so far for City and for Spain seems to have a good understanding and is certainly good to have Silva back in the team.

Kompany's injury was a downer and I hope he recovers quickly enough but it seem like his ligaments and tissues have been weakened by scare tissue hence the relapses. Hopefully this is not the case and he can finally sort it out once and for all because we certainly the captain.

Hart was somewhat reprieved by the quickness of the equalizing goal but altogether, under great pressure, he had a solid match.

I still think a 433 formation is what the team needs for the future because we are always exposed and outnumbered with Fernandinho and Yaya in the middle. We need another midfielder in there.

Kolarov was very impressive today. He is a fighter and has fought his way into the team.

Good match from City and the 3 points, ultimately, is what was important. But the performance, and especially the movement of the attacking players lead by Negredo is a big positive.

 

[sh249]

Been saying this for 3 years. Best in the league off the ball. Don't know why he and SIlva hasn't worked too well in the past. Coz he moves like no other.

It has. They played together throughout the first half of 2011/12 - together with two strikers - as we handed out hammerings left, right and centre. We're nearly always better with the two of them in the team.

The idea that they don't play well together was really just something that took hold as our performances tailed off from January into March/April 2012 (they also played together every game (I think) in the final 6 games that we won).

id like to see us play a 4231 with...

--------Aguero (Negredo)--------
Nasri-----Silva-----Navas (Milner)

I'm still not sold on Navas as a regular, if we were to play like that, I'd rather:
---Aguero (Negredo)----
Nasri-----Jovetic-----Silva

That said, I still think the 4-2-2-2 can work well (both home and away), provided we play it relatively narrowly:
----Aguero--Negredo------
Nasri-----------------Silva
------Fern-----Toure---------

Having both Silva and Nasri in those areas means we'd often end up with 4 players in central positions, and would very rarely be overrun in midfield

 

[SkyBlueUSA]

Kolarov has won the LB starting job at the moment. It seems to me that the regular playing time has improved his defense.

 

[sh249]

Been saying this for 3 years. Best in the league off the ball. Don't know why he and SIlva hasn't worked too well in the past. Coz he moves like no other.

It has. They played together throughout the first half of 2011/12 - together with two strikers - as we handed out hammerings left, right and centre. We're nearly always better with the two of them in the team.

The idea that they don't play well together was really just something that took hold as our performances tailed off from January into March/April 2012 (they also played together every game (I think) in the final 6 games that we won).

id like to see us play a 4231 with...

--------Aguero (Negredo)--------
Nasri-----Silva-----Navas (Milner)

I'm still not sold on Navas as a regular, if we were to play like that, I'd rather:
---Aguero (Negredo)----
Nasri-----Jovetic-----Silva

That said, I still think the 4-2-2-2 can work well (both home and away), provided we play it relatively narrowly:
----Aguero--Negredo------
Nasri-----------------Silva
------Fern-----Toure---------

Having both Silva and Nasri in those areas means we'd often end up with 4 players in central positions, and would very rarely be overrun in midfield

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Good performance and a much needed morale boosting victory.
Negatives - Fernandinho, another shocking performance. At the moment he looks off the pace and making to many errors.

 

[NanaToure42]

I'm an idiot , therefore am wrong all the time,
but I don't think I've ever been as wrong about someone as I was about nasri. attitude , skill, "heart" , everything else I think I was entirely wrong about, I'm ok with that though.

dont be so hard on yourself, you're not the only one that was wrong about him. Ever since Mancini called him out/said he wanted to punch him, Nasri has been better and better each match. I think he just got a bit apathetic the beginning of last year, but now-a-days the guy is focused and dedicated.

 

[Sky Blue]

Good performance and a much needed morale boosting victory.
Negatives - Fernandinho, another shocking performance. At the moment he looks off the pace and making to many errors.

Quick edit I see. I clocked your garbage though.

 

[citymad]

Some excellent opinions on the game. Good performance but more than that it was the attitude from the players I was most pleased about. The first 15 mins and going one nil down I was fearing the worst. the players responded brilliantly. Tactically we got away with 442 today but against the likes of Spurs, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea I hope Pellers considers putting an extra man in midfield.
Impressed with Kolarov today, some excellent crosses. Forwards need to respect his quality of delivery and work harder to get on the end of them.

On a side note being a lunch time game disappointed to see so many empty seats at the end. The team deserved a standing ovation after what happened on Wednesday.

 

[MC ID]

Just all over a decent performance and a deserved victory.

My only wish is that more of our players would get onto the end of those Kolarov crosses,

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Very happy with that performance. Much better and it is clear that Negredo has to start more matches at the expense of Dzeko.


Couldn't really fault anyone today. Thought they all played well with Silva being my man of match.

Kolorov has been very good since he came back in and was again today.

Good result for Pellegrini, much needed and well deserved.

Now to work on the away form.

 

[NorCalBlue]

It has. They played together throughout the first half of 2011/12 - together with two strikers - as we handed out hammerings left, right and centre. We're nearly always better with the two of them in the team.

The idea that they don't play well together was really just something that took hold as our performances tailed off from January into March/April 2012 (they also played together every game (I think) in the final 6 games that we won).

id like to see us play a 4231 with...

--------Aguero (Negredo)--------
Nasri-----Silva-----Navas (Milner)

I'm still not sold on Navas as a regular, if we were to play like that, I'd rather:
---Aguero (Negredo)----
Nasri-----Jovetic-----Silva

That said, I still think the 4-2-2-2 can work well (both home and away), provided we play it relatively narrowly:
----Aguero--Negredo------
Nasri-----------------Silva
------Fern-----Toure---------

Having both Silva and Nasri in those areas means we'd often end up with 4 players in central positions, and would very rarely be overrun in midfield

And it would open up the wings for the fullbacks to overlap. Hope Pellegrini's reading this.