City Vs West Brom Post Match Discussion Thread

[Bill]

It was a somewhat flat performance but with 8 changes it was perhaps expected.To me the real shame is rodwell apart none of the fringe players seized their opportunity. We don't half need to boost that squad in the summer. We would never have to rely on all these players at once in a prem game that mattered but if we did wed be in lumber.
Another point from last night is the crowd. Over 10,000 season card/members stayed away.yes they include them in "the crowd" but truth is we could very nearly have played that game at Maine road.
I bet every one of them will be at Wembley.

I was one of the no shows, no babysitter :-(
not all staying away for no reason

and yes will be at wembley

Absolutely, I'm sure with work shifts etc that will happen but ten thousand ?. Terrible really.

 

[tonea2003]

It was a somewhat flat performance but with 8 changes it was perhaps expected.To me the real shame is rodwell apart none of the fringe players seized their opportunity. We don't half need to boost that squad in the summer. We would never have to rely on all these players at once in a prem game that mattered but if we did wed be in lumber.
Another point from last night is the crowd. Over 10,000 season card/members stayed away.yes they include them in "the crowd" but truth is we could very nearly have played that game at Maine road.
I bet every one of them will be at Wembley.

I was one of the no shows, no babysitter :-(
not all staying away for no reason

and yes will be at wembley

Absolutely, I'm sure with work shifts etc that will happen but ten thousand ?. Terrible really.

I do agree actually, there is a proportion of can't be arsed in the season ticket fraternity

 

[TGR]

Overall a poor performance regardless of the 3 points.
I counted 7 shots on goal by WBA in the first 30 minutes and they also had good chances in the second half and crashed one against the bar.
Yet again we managed to take control of the game score once, miss a bunch of absolute sitters then have to survive the charge of the Alamo for the last 25 minutes and it pisses me off! Why can't we just try and go out to put a game to bed or at the very least score a second goal to ease the pressure instead of sitting back? Once again 11 men back on corners - at home against a mid-table side - Mancini & Platt need to fuck that idea off ASAP. Put Tevez or Nasri up on the half way and at least we have a chance of an exit ball instead of it immediately coming straight back into the box.
Kolorov & Maicon were nothing short of embarrasing and simply not up to it.
Garcia - not for me. Rodwell did OK - certainly not MOTM and strikes me as a 'Tom Cleverley' type of player.
Yep 3 points but far from convincing and overall dissapointing.

 

[moon]

Played mostly a 2 nd team and won
Not great but job done

 

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[@BluePhil8]

I didn't expect anything last night with Lescott, Kolarov, Garcia and Dzeko starting.

I was actually pleasantly surprised and don't think we played badly at all. In fact, i thought it was an improvement over our performances against Wigan, Tottenham and Swansea.

Richards was great, Kolo was good, Lescott dealt with their areal threat quite well. Kolarov was ok going forward.

Garcia and Rodwell anchored the midfield well.

Milner and Nasri were decent. Tevez was excellent again and Dzeko got a goal.

When we were on top in the first half i wish we had scored a few more goals, but El Apache hit the bar and Milner post so on another day we could have been 2 or 3 up at half time.

Onwards and upwards now, let’s win the F.A cup and then look towards a summer of re-building.

 

[taconinja]

Rodwell still dont impress? im sure you are the only one tho thinks that.

If he's going to bomb that far forward then he needs to score some of the bucketload of chances he was gifted because him doing that exposed acres of space West Brom took advantage of once they figured it out. Was he aggressive? Yeah and that's nice when he doesn't do a silly sliding challenge like he did tonight. Most top opposition would have let him clip them and gotten him a yellow card or possibly a red card instead of obligingly jumping out of the way. I like his enthusiasm. I like his willingness but he should be advanced enough to take advantage of the scoring opportunities he had.

He's barely played all season due to injury, I can forgive him for a little rust. Our spanish magician wastes several golden opportunities a month and we look past it.

I get what you're saying and he has to pick his spots as a b2b midfielder, but this feels a bit harsh in his first significant time with the first team since his return from (another) injury.

It's not intended that harshly, so if it comes across that way you have my apologies. I think he has tremendous potential. (Apologies for the upcoming words in all-caps but it's not meant as anything other than emphasis) IF he's going to play that far forward, he HAS to score those chances because when he or Yaya does so, it basically creates a central midfield of one. I don't care who that is, it won't work. People complain about Garcia, but it's simply impossible for what is effectively a central midfield of one to police effectively in either a wingback formation or our standard formation with fullbacks pushing forward as well. I don't mind him missing chances although I don't think he would exempt himself from criticism for missing all of them either.

The only thing I do mind are his sliding challenges. Those will get us murdered in the Champions League.