KippaxCitizen said:
But could you not see the difference last night to numerous other games where we've just allowed teams to walk through our midfield and get a shot at our goal?
Idiot statement 101 on Bluemoon. "We just let them walk through our midfield". No we didn't. Players don't just stand aside and say "off you go lads, we're not going to make a challenge".
How can you not be far more content with the way we were closing down any attacking opportunities last night compared to home games against Hull or Palace in the league (as just two examples)?
More content ? Are you having a fucking laugh mate or what. I'm deliriously happy and have been since we smashed the rags into oblivion.
How can you think that people with the view that was a problem in other games is something to get on your tits?
What I said gets on my tits, is the repetitive nature of certain narratives on the forum. Like your rubbish about City allowing teams to "walk through" midfield. Or the rubbish that the high line is never going to work. Or the rubbish that Dzeko and Negredo can't play together. Or the rubbish that you can't play Yaya in a two man midfield. All those things are proving to be rubbish.
Christ you mention Mancini every fifth page on the forum and you have Mancini undertones to posts on every third page, that gets on my tits!
Getting on other people's tits doesn't particularly bother me. Just as other people expressing that I'm getting on their tits doesn't particularly bother me.
Defensively, compared to many other games were like chalk and cheese to last night. From front to back we were actually defending properly for one of the very few times it's happened all season.
Yet it's amazing that without defending properly we've not lost in 15 competitive matches, during which time we've gone to the European champions and beaten them.
Last night is how i want us to play, that hasn't been seen a great deal all season, and not at all away from home yet in the Prem.
I'm sure that considering last night is one of the performances of the season and arguably one of the greatest performances i've ever seen from a City side, we can all agree we'd love to be able to play like last night every week. I'm afraid however outside of computer games, it's nigh on impossible to play at your maximum every week.
It's not about us scoring 6, it was the way we shut all doors at almost all opportunities. It is as important as the excellent movement and quick tempo passing when we've previously been at our best in other games.
Basically what you're saying is that last night was better than other time's this season. I know, because last night was as I said, one of the best performances of my lifetime from a City team.
However that takes nothing away from the way we've performed pretty consistently since the debacle at Villa. The individual mistakes have gradually been cut out and our performances and results have improved ten fold.
So on that basis I've little problem in saying it gets on my tits when I have to read "yeah but our defending, and the high line, and Garcia, and Yaya in a two man midfield, and did we mention how shit West Ham were" after such a stunning victory.
