City Vs AjaxPost Game Discussion Thread

[inchy14]

Think we scored most goals from corners last season, could be wrong but pretty sure. Also using zonal and no men on the posts has led to the best defence over the last 2 seasons. Individual players are making little mistakes and that's what's costing us IMO.

 

[Claytop]

The other thing that hacked me off with us was that Ajax have scored two clinically executed corners against us. The ball is placed perfectly for De Jong to run onto. Yet when we take a corner all the players are static around the middle of the 6 yard box and you never know where the ball will end up.

Do we ever practice taking or defending corners?

With mancini being italian, you have to presume its all about shape / defence. he had a hard on preseason about the 3 at the back bollocks, ever since then we have looked shocking at the back

-- Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:40 am --

Strange game, Ajax dominated us in the 1st half and parts of the 2nd yet we should have won by at least 2 goals had the officiating been up to scratch..

One other thing, Yaya man of he match? How? Apart from his goal which was a cracker don't get me wrong I thought he was one of the poorest out there, couldn't seem to keep the ball anywhere near his feet :/

must have been watching different games mate

Must have been.. Their passing and movement was far superior and we were chasing shadows for most of it I thought..

 

[LoveCity]

Were ShowSec absent today? Was able to stand up for a big majority of the match in 107 without being hassled and 109 weren't harassed either today. I saw the normal City stewards who just let everyone be.

 

[xzbit04]

"‏@aguerosergiokun
We made mistakes and paid them dearly. We deserved a win. Great attitude in our team. No comments on refs..."

 

[Cheadle Blue]

The other thing that hacked me off with us was that Ajax have scored two clinically executed corners against us. The ball is placed perfectly for De Jong to run onto. Yet when we take a corner all the players are static around the middle of the 6 yard box and you never know where the ball will end up.

Do we ever practice taking or defending corners?

With mancini being italian, you have to presume its all about shape / defence. he had a hard on preseason about the 3 at the back bollocks, ever since then we have looked shocking at the back

-- Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:40 am --

Strange game, Ajax dominated us in the 1st half and parts of the 2nd yet we should have won by at least 2 goals had the officiating been up to scratch..

One other thing, Yaya man of he match? How? Apart from his goal which was a cracker don't get me wrong I thought he was one of the poorest out there, couldn't seem to keep the ball anywhere near his feet :/

must have been watching different games mate

Must have been.. Their passing and movement was far superior and we were chasing shadows for most of it I thought..

Their passing was, but dominated us? do me favour....

 

[SamCity123]

I'm fully expecting us to forget about the CL now, play the weakest team we can, try and keep our modesty...Mancini has said post-match that it is imposibal, and I'd agree.

Expecting to win the league, but Mancini stays for me, unless we finish below Liverpool.

 

[Wrighty Wrexham]

Feel like the referee as cheated us but i cant blame him for the shocking defending from a corner yet again.When are we going to learn from are basic mistakes its shocking and Mancini and is coaching staff need to sort it out.Another moan is why everybody says we miss Dejong we dont he wasnt a regular last season.Javi Garcia needs to start earning is money coz he looks like a non league player at this moment.

Agree with all this!

 

[remoh]

Anyone else notice how dangerous we became when, in desperation, we started throwing long balls up?
While I have no faith in the long-ball game, at least it adds pace to our attack which gives our strikers a better chance.
If we could play more directly more often, (cut out the slow build-up) we'd do better.
(Excuse me if this has been covered earlier - I haven't read the whole thread.)

Honestly I think that's something the manager wants to address. He's tried to get a deep-lying passer who can set our forwards off on runs for the past two years. Should have dropped a fucking mint for De Rossi.

Or pulled out all the stops to get Stephen Ireland back.

 

[bluedan]

There were 4 danish players for Ajax tonight. 6 of the officials are Danes.

Bottled it

 

[Marvin]

The other thing that hacked me off with us was that Ajax have scored two clinically executed corners against us. The ball is placed perfectly for De Jong to run onto. Yet when we take a corner all the players are static around the middle of the 6 yard box and you never know where the ball will end up.

Do we ever practice taking or defending corners?

With mancini being italian, you have to presume its all about shape / defence. he had a hard on preseason about the 3 at the back bollocks, ever since then we have looked shocking at the back

-- Wed Nov 07, 2012 12:40 am --

Strange game, Ajax dominated us in the 1st half and parts of the 2nd yet we should have won by at least 2 goals had the officiating been up to scratch..

One other thing, Yaya man of he match? How? Apart from his goal which was a cracker don't get me wrong I thought he was one of the poorest out there, couldn't seem to keep the ball anywhere near his feet :/

must have been watching different games mate

Must have been.. Their passing and movement was far superior and we were chasing shadows for most of it I thought..

Absolute rubbish. Ajax couldn't keep hold of the ball for more than a minute even though we had 2/3 forwards on the pitch.

City were below par considering how poor they were. If that was a Premiership game, we would have come back and knocked 5 or 6 past them. The Champions League seems to mess with our players heads and they don't do the normal things.