Rocket-footed kolarov said:cleavers said:Well for 10-15 minutes, those on the pitch were constantly asking the bench (Mancini) where they were supposed to be playing, because they didn't appear to have a clue, which suggests to me there was no obvious plan.Craig said:He clearly took one of the centre backs off because they were playing against 2 strikers who can dribble like wingers and were pissing past them at will.So he decied to move our quickest player inside and closer to them on one side and our best tackler inside and closer to them on the other,it worked pretty well to be fair.
If anyone really thinks that having 4 fullbacks, and 1 centre back on the pitch for 20 minutes is a good idea then fair play, but to me it looks like a f**king muddle, and I like Mancini before anyone starts on my case, but today (not for the first time) he baffled me, and clearly he baffled his own players, because they didn't know who was doing what.
But for Aguero's wonder goal, we'd have lost that game, and we still nearly did, but for Hart's one good moment of the game near the end.
I'd file the game close to shambles personally, ranks alongside the game in Amsterdam, but at least we got a point from it.
the fullbacks at CB is one of Mancini's most stupid errors, the other is clichy at RB, the problem is though even when it does n't work he will still do it again, even when a normally reliable player has an absolute stinker like Gael did in Lisbon. I have given up on him now and if it alienates the squad and help gets him the sack then I hope he persists with it. I am tired of Heartthrob Bob now and I just want us to move on with somebody else.
pominoz said:Am i the only one that thinks it was a very good game to watch, and that we did well against a fired up and good Liverpool team?
Some spoilt smackarses on here.
Depleted squad. Love it.stonerblue said:pominoz said:Am i the only one that thinks it was a very good game to watch, and that we did well against a fired up and good Liverpool team?
Some spoilt smackarses on here.
No. I thought it was a cracking game with a couple of high quality goals. Our depleted squad gave as good as they got and we could have nicked it at the end.
All these 'new' fans need to realise we will not win every game. And as the more experienced amongst us know, being a Blue is as much about dealing with a set-back by dusting ourselves down and moving on to the next game.
Bluemoon115 said:Depleted squad. Love it.stonerblue said:pominoz said:Am i the only one that thinks it was a very good game to watch, and that we did well against a fired up and good Liverpool team?
Some spoilt smackarses on here.
No. I thought it was a cracking game with a couple of high quality goals. Our depleted squad gave as good as they got and we could have nicked it at the end.
All these 'new' fans need to realise we will not win every game. And as the more experienced amongst us know, being a Blue is as much about dealing with a set-back by dusting ourselves down and moving on to the next game.
JoeMercer'sWay said:CaliforniaBlue said:For all this talk of "we'd have lost without Aguero's lucky/wonder-goal", don't forget that Gerard's goal was equally lucky/wonderful. They both tried to do something difficult that 9 out of 10 times wouldn't go in. They both went in, so it was a draw.
Yes, they were marginally better on the day, but we were far from shit. This wasn't the clueless Liverpool of early this season (and last) - they put us under pressure, they have several world class players, and they'll give every big team a hard time for the rest of the year.
ah come on, Hart did sod all wrong for Gerrard's, it was just a great, pure, clean hit, not really that lucky.
Reina went complete walkies for Aguero so there was a lot of luck before he even got the shot away.