David Silva

[Dribble]

Silva and Yaya are the two best City players I've seen. Quite why some of our fans have seemingly written him off and/or place him behind KDB in the starting line up pecking order is beyond me.

If Silva had been at Barca instead of with us, imo I think he'd have been rightly lauded as one of the world's best players and rated up there with Iniesta and Xavi. I was too young to fully appreciate Colin Bell, but from what I can remember and from recent footage I've seen, Yaya and Silva were on another level. Whatever, Bell was from another era so comparisons will always be difficult to make, but its been an absolute pleasure to have witnessed David Silva up close for so many years.

Absolute City legend.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

For the first 20 minutes, Croatia played too deep, and Silva looked the best player in the world.

Different story in the second half. Croatia pressed narrow, and Silva became marginalised, struggling to impose himself.

 

[Gabriel]

Yet with the same players at City his form fluctuated. Ankle was a problem

Silva's ankle was a problem, granted, but he was not playing with the same calibre of players. For all their prospective talent, Sterling and Iheanacho surrender possession all too easily and move far less off the ball, while Fernando/Delph/Sagna cannot pass as accurately. We only came close to playing prolonged one-touch football when we had Silva/Nasri/Toure/Aguero/Tevez in the team. When any one component was removed our football changed, and not for the better, unfortunately.

 

[shemnel]

looked very good first half but dropped off when the pace upped in the 2nd half, drifted a bit out of the game sadly

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Excellent first half and was still good second half. His form dropped a lot less than the rest of the Spanish team - but that was due to the pressing and higher line the opposition played after half time.

 

[Proelia]

rubbish second half when he didnt have an eternity on the ball

 

[Bluwhit]

That didn't look good. Fingers crossed

 

[malg]

For someone with his passing ability he is a long way off KdB's dead ball delivery accuracy.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Not really in it today,struggling to make any influence,looks to be having one of his half hearted type games,he's not alone mind.

 

[CrownPointBlue]

Spain have been awful so far tonight.

Nolito........I certainly hope not. Championship player.