City v Everton Post Match Thread

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

You can tell we won. Just look at number of pages when we lose.
Anyway I thought, overall decent performance. Some great attacking football early 2nd half,
which would be even better when we get clinical in our finishing.

 

[Ducado]

Just got in, I enjoyed that they gave us a game

 

[blue b4 the moon]

A good bounce back from the Munich game.

We looked better at the back when Nasti came on as Lescott was having a mare against Lukaku.

Great passing and play going forward but a bit slow in the middle Yaya and Fern don't have the combined ground coverage to control a game for 90 mins.

Kun could have had three and Negredo must start over Dzeko every time.

Ref and linesman at the SS end were poor.

Let's get the away form sorted over these next 4 games and we can look forward to a good season.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

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.

Fernandinho was excellent, sweeping up in front of the back four.

 

[avoidconfusion]

Fantastic way to bounce back from that defeat against Bayern.

Anyone got any stats handy how often we actually BEAT Everton?

 

[NQCitizen]

Silva was very good today, but I'd say having him on the left is a waste. We essentially leave our entire left flank under the protection of solely Kolarov.

Luckily Aguero covered for Silva's roaming well but it left him in a poor position as we attacked.

A good result today but I honestly can't see it as more than papering over the cracks in 4-4-2. The second goal was fortunate as the ref missed the altercation that distracted the everton defence that allowed us to score and the third was a needlessly conceded penalty.

 

[mancity1]

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.

Fernandinho was excellent, sweeping up in front of the back four.

I thought he was solid.

Not sure how you can say he was shocking.

Kompany looked like he was carrying an injury into the game.

Very unsure of himself in the first 15 minutes when Everton had their best spell.

We deserved the win and it could have been 4 or 5 -1.

 

[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.

Fernandinho was excellent, sweeping up in front of the back four.

I thought he was solid.

Not sure how you can say he was shocking.

Kompany looked like he was carrying an injury into the game.

Very unsure of himself in the first 15 minutes when Everton had their best spell.

We deserved the win and it could have been 4 or 5 -1.

BlueMatt is fucking clueless. Best ignored really.

 

[Newtoncc]

Me too. 3 great points.
The defence was very weak today, including Vinny.
Zaba diving (!???) I never thought I would ever live to see that.
Great games by Silva, Negredo, Milner, Kolarov and the last 10 min of Nasri.
Decent performances by Aguero and Yaya.
Is Nasty's elbow made of iron?

Please, lets call it fairly. Aguero was poor. Shades of Dzeko all game.

Well if he scores two goals everytime he is poor let him be atrocious every game.

Agreed not many strikers would have scored our second goal, he is a class act and scored 2 goals in the last 2 home league games, if that's bad roll on when he plays well.

 

[mancity1]

Fantastic way to bounce back from that defeat against Bayern.

Anyone got any stats handy how often we actually BEAT Everton?

11 WINS 17 LOSSES 5 DRAWS in the premiership I think it is now.

 

[Skashion]

Excellent response to the Munich debacle. Good well-rounded team performance and we were easily worth a two-goal margin. Just hope Kompany's injury isn't too severe.

 

[blue ranger]

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.

Fernandinho was excellent, sweeping up in front of the back four.

Seriously - I think he is one of the main reasons the formation is struggling. He gets in good positions but is too lighweight. Thought McCarthy for Everton was much more effective in similar role. Give me NDJ or Barry any day of the week at this moment in time. He may adapt - hope he does.

 

[Skashion]

Fantastic way to bounce back from that defeat against Bayern.

Anyone got any stats handy how often we actually BEAT Everton?

11 WINS 17 LOSSES 5 DRAWS in the premiership I think it is now.

That's not as bad as I thought it was. I thought they were an ever bigger bogey team than that.

Oh, and it's always good to beat Everton. Very easy club to dislike, especially their bitter reaction over Lescott. We paid £25m, why the booing? We never booed Shaun Wright Philips. If it's because they thought he was leaving for a lesser club, well you were proved wrong then you thick twats. Don't boo him because he saw the writing on the wall before you did.

 

[Marvin]

Good game from City. Several good performances

Aguero could and should have had more

Thought Everton were poor, particularly Lukaku whose control was not as good as it should be

 

[citymad]

Anyone else feel emotionally drained ? I didn't sleep well last night thinking about todays game. I need a kip big time.

 

[Sky Blue]

Anyone else feel emotionally drained ? I didn't sleep well last night thinking about todays game. I need a kip big time.

You're a right soft arse but yeah they do fucking drain you. I never slept on Wednesday night ;)

 

[mancity1]

Anyone else feel emotionally drained ? I didn't sleep well last night thinking about todays game. I need a kip big time.

Was up all night but I had to do a fair bit of work in preparation for my client visitations today so it took my mind off the game a bit.

Must admit although he didn't start the game well when VK came off I was concerned.

When they scored first I thought here we go again.

To equalise within a minute was critical.

 

[Marvin]

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.

Fernandinho was excellent, sweeping up in front of the back four.

Seriously - I think he is one of the main reasons the formation is struggling. He gets in good positions but is too lighweight. Thought McCarthy for Everton was much more effective in similar role. Give me NDJ or Barry any day of the week at this moment in time. He may adapt - hope he does.

he had a really good game today. Thought he'd struggle to play today after the game in midweek

 

[Lucky Toma]

Considering how thoroughly demoralising Wednesday's deconstruction was.
Considering it was Everton.
Considering how we lost Kompany and were disrupted by head injuries to Kolorov and Zaba.

Then that was as good as we could have hoped for today.

But let's not kid ourselves, the problems are still there.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

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.

Fernandinho was excellent, sweeping up in front of the back four.

Seriously - I think he is one of the main reasons the formation is struggling. He gets in good positions but is too lighweight. Thought McCarthy for Everton was much more effective in similar role. Give me NDJ or Barry any day of the week at this moment in time. He may adapt - hope he does.

Not how I saw it at all. Our midfield totally dominated theirs, just like in the derby. His job was just to sit and sweep up behind yaya and he did it very well in both those games. I don't think that's actually his natural position, but he's learning to do it pretty well.

He was an important cog in today's win and the derby.