Discuss Pellegrini (Pt 2)

[neel]

Pellegrini angered as struggling defence costs City dear in defeat to Villa
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The hairdryer in Manchester was supposed to have been retired. Put away for good.
On Saturday evening at Villa Park, Manuel Pellegrini dusted it down and set it to full blast.
As Manchester City’s players filed towards the team bus, one glance at their faces was enough to give the game away.
Pellegrini’s angst was evident during the game. With Villa struggling to find a way back into the match, 2-1 down in the second-half, Edin Dzeko was dumped on his backside near the manager’s dug-out.

The Bosnia international was taking his time rising from the turf. His manager was gesturing frantically for him to stop feeling sorry for himself and get back in the game.

 

[andyhinch]

Pellegrini angered as struggling defence costs City dear in defeat to Villa
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The hairdryer in Manchester was supposed to have been retired. Put away for good.
On Saturday evening at Villa Park, Manuel Pellegrini dusted it down and set it to full blast.
As Manchester City’s players filed towards the team bus, one glance at their faces was enough to give the game away.
Pellegrini’s angst was evident during the game. With Villa struggling to find a way back into the match, 2-1 down in the second-half, Edin Dzeko was dumped on his backside near the manager’s dug-out.

The Bosnia international was taking his time rising from the turf. His manager was gesturing frantically for him to stop feeling sorry for himself and get back in the game.

But we've gone holistic!!!

 

[Skashion]

Pellegrini angered as struggling defence costs City dear in defeat to Villa
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The hairdryer in Manchester was supposed to have been retired. Put away for good.
On Saturday evening at Villa Park, Manuel Pellegrini dusted it down and set it to full blast.
As Manchester City’s players filed towards the team bus, one glance at their faces was enough to give the game away.
Pellegrini’s angst was evident during the game. With Villa struggling to find a way back into the match, 2-1 down in the second-half, Edin Dzeko was dumped on his backside near the manager’s dug-out.

The Bosnia international was taking his time rising from the turf. His manager was gesturing frantically for him to stop feeling sorry for himself and get back in the game.

Good, hope he did give the defence a bollocking.

 

[MaineBlue88]

I remember one of the Villa stewards saying that and we overheard the chat amongst the other stewards.

'I've overheard some bollockings in there over the years but that has to be in the top 4 or 5, a few of the Man City players came out and looked as if they just had an accident in their pants, he was RUMBLING'.

 

[sh249]

Some advice to MP

Take a look at the performances of Atletico, in particular last nights fantastic job on that white trash.
Look at your fellow South American "chollo" Simeone and see how you can ingrain just some of the togetherness, commitment, purpose, determination and downright will to win into our individuals the way he has inbued the very same qualities into the DNA of Atletico´s players. They play with the passion of the fans, something Simeone understands fully. We would get ripped a new one by Atleti based on yesterdays aberration. It simply can´t go on. Twice we thought the game was won and complacency reared its ugly head. We thought it was game over. We were taught a costly lesson. We could be 15 points adrift before too long at this rate.
I have now returned to the natural default setting of expecting nothing from City as frankly I don´t know WHAT to expect one week to the next. Maybe it´s the sensible attitude to take atm as it takes the pressure off and some of us (yes me!!) might take things a bit more in our stride.
Make no mistake , yesterday was an abomination and anyone who really thinks it was anything less is dodging the issue. The two strikers up top yesterday was a combination hardly anyone on this forum would have sanctioned - it clearly didn´t work so why did he insist on it in the first place? Our pass and move play seems to have been thrown out with the bathwater in favour of a scum type wing play bombardment. This was supposed to compliment and provide a plan B to our normal strategy , not become the blueprint for our style of play. There were gaping gaps between the lines of what appeared to be a 4-2-2-2 formation, spaces fully exploited for 2 of the Villa goals. Why on earth weren´t we defending with 2 banks of four if it was supposed to be a 4-4-2 set up?
Disjointed, lacking purpose and devoid of the ruthlessness required from a squad of such quality which leaves me frankly bemused
I sincerely hope we haven´t picked a dud

Nothing wrong with the tactics whatsoever yesterday. Villa created two chances in open play over 90 minutes - one offside, the other from an aimless long ball, aided by unimaginably bad defensive errors. Other than that they got a cheap free-kick (daft foul, nothing to do with tactics or set-up), and a half chance off a corner. That's it.

Far from being disjointed, our play was very cohesive, certainly for the first 60-70 minutes - far better than we saw in the majority of away games last season.

Defensively we were disjointed for all 3 goals. They picked holes between the lines which were 2 plus two wide in front of the back four leaving them exposed. As I said if you´re going to play 4-4-2 make fookin sure you defend tightly in 2 banks of four - thats it, nothing more.

Third goal had nothing to do with being disjointed. The other two came about from the only two times in the game that Villa got any space whatsoever 'between the lines'. Playing with an extra midfielder, or playing with 'two banks of four', would not stop sides getting into those positions on a couple of occasions every game - on Saturday we got undone once unluckily (bad decision), once due to a stupid foul.

For me, people are being far too quick to say that our away tactics are all wrong and need changing. Of the 6 goals conceded at Cardiff and Villa, none really came about as a result of us being too open - just an element of bad luck, and some terrible individual mistakes.

 

[Jumanji]

I remember one of the Villa stewards saying that and we overheard the chat amongst the other stewards.

'I've overheard some bollockings in there over the years but that has to be in the top 4 or 5, a few of the Man City players came out and looked as if they just had an accident in their pants, he was RUMBLING'.

Why were you in the tunnel...are you a steward or summat?

 

[Rammy Blue]

I remember one of the Villa stewards saying that and we overheard the chat amongst the other stewards.

'I've overheard some bollockings in there over the years but that has to be in the top 4 or 5, a few of the Man City players came out and looked as if they just had an accident in their pants, he was RUMBLING'.

Why were you in the tunnel...are you a steward or summat?

I hope it is true though...

 

[Jumanji]

I remember one of the Villa stewards saying that and we overheard the chat amongst the other stewards.

'I've overheard some bollockings in there over the years but that has to be in the top 4 or 5, a few of the Man City players came out and looked as if they just had an accident in their pants, he was RUMBLING'.

Why were you in the tunnel...are you a steward or summat?

I hope it is true though...

Me too.

Interesting. In the full DM article:

As one observer in the tunnel said: ‘They’ve just been given a rollicking in there [by Pellegrini]. A big one too.’

 

[bernabias home shirt]

I remember one of the Villa stewards saying that and we overheard the chat amongst the other stewards.

'I've overheard some bollockings in there over the years but that has to be in the top 4 or 5, a few of the Man City players came out and looked as if they just had an accident in their pants, he was RUMBLING'.

Good

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

I remember one of the Villa stewards saying that and we overheard the chat amongst the other stewards.

'I've overheard some bollockings in there over the years but that has to be in the top 4 or 5, a few of the Man City players came out and looked as if they just had an accident in their pants, he was RUMBLING'.

Good

With you on this one pal.