City Vs Wolves Post Match Discussion Thread

[The game 161]

^ same thing that teams have done in the champions league.

 

[Kippaxblue5]

You can find my pics and comments on the Wolves game here
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.rtfract.com/citoct11b.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.rtfract.com/citoct11b.htm</a>
cannot remember such poor refereeing for a long time!

 

[ryan147]

Hi,

I am a 15 year old football fan and I write about the games I go to on my blog. Yesterday I went to Man City v Wolves and I thought you might be interested in my report and pictures from the game.

<a class="postlink" href="http://ryan147.com/2011/10/30/manchester-city-3-1-wolves-premiership/#more-8257" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://ryan147.com/2011/10/30/mancheste ... #more-8257</a>

Cheers,
Ryan

 

[SebastianBlue]

Wolves had a game plan, and it will be the same game plan that many teams will have when they play us, it's quite simple just park the bus, we did well to break through, onwards and upwards

Mancini as devised tactics to breakdown varieties of that plan and we are becoming deft in doing so.

If you ponder that "parking" tactic, it really is a frighteningly flawed strategy. You are obviously going to employ it if you are aware your opponent has vastly superior quality to you. But, it is predicated upon a Russian Roulette style plan, in which you hope you make no defensive mistakes, are not on the wrong end of a bad bounce or deflection, or have just as much (if not more) overall match fitness as your opponent. If any of these hopes prove false, and you concede, it's likely over. You now have to attack and the other team will likely pick you apart--which you feared in the first place--and be able to defend easily, whereas if you had played openly from the beginning they would have had the same fear of going down a goal as you did.

I am not saying I don't understand why clubs play this way from their perspective, it is just a semi-suicidal way of facing your frailties, especially if game theory is applied (I am an economist so it is one of my habits).

 

[slick]

Hi,

I am a 15 year old football fan and I write about the games I go to on my blog. Yesterday I went to Man City v Wolves and I thought you might be interested in my report and pictures from the game.

<a class="postlink" href="http://ryan147.com/2011/10/30/manchester-city-3-1-wolves-premiership/#more-8257" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://ryan147.com/2011/10/30/mancheste ... #more-8257</a>

Cheers,
Ryan

Fantastic work and a great read Ryan, glad to see you enjoyed your day at Eastlands.
The blog is quite impressive for a 15 yr old, keep up the good work.

 

[shikariblue]

Re: hart costs City again

I think the time has come to drop Hart

this is the third time hart has pushed the ball back into play costing us goals!

he needs to correct this flaw in his game we cannot keep giving away soft goals and today it has cost us the club captain for three games and that will unsettle the defence

Hart is not half as good as he thinks he is and is a big time charlie
another weaver in the making if we are not careful

I know people on here will not like this post but it needs to be said imho

I couldn't agree more. I've been banging on about this since Bayern. Hart didn't parry, he spills. Another howler from Hart, following his spills against Bayern and Villareal. When will he learn to parry (i.e. turn the ball around the post for a corner) instead of spilling (i.e. presenting opposing forwards with a sitter)? It's schoolboy stuff...or don't they teach that in goalkeeping school anymore? Come back Shay Given, we need you now.

Women.

A lot don't know about football.

You are one.

 

[Sparkys-Army]

Didn't catch the game as i was at work but i checked my football live every 1 minute! Anyway... Who got the captain arm band when Kompany got sent off as De jong wasn't used and i was sure he was vice captain whilst Kolo was banned.

 

[joe hart's gloves]

Didn't catch the game as i was at work but i checked my football live every 1 minute! Anyway... Who got the captain arm band when Kompany got sent off as De jong wasn't used and i was sure he was vice captain whilst Kolo was banned.

Gareth Barry.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Hi,

I am a 15 year old football fan and I write about the games I go to on my blog. Yesterday I went to Man City v Wolves and I thought you might be interested in my report and pictures from the game.

<a class="postlink" href="http://ryan147.com/2011/10/30/manchester-city-3-1-wolves-premiership/#more-8257" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://ryan147.com/2011/10/30/mancheste ... #more-8257</a>

Cheers,
Ryan

Nice one Ryan, excellently written and pulled together, and an awful lot better than much of the drivel written in the press about us. Good luck to Chesterfield this season

 

[Pam]

Wolves had a game plan, and it will be the same game plan that many teams will have when they play us, it's quite simple just park the bus, we did well to break through, onwards and upwards

I think this is why we've scored more goals away from home this season. Teams have to come at us and we kill them on the break. But at home, we're having to grind it out against the likes of Everton and Wolves. And the OP is right, there is plenty bloody more where that came from. At least we're breaking them down, though, (eventually) even if we have to wait until the second half.