Noise i see a few arguments u and Pudge have and do i always like Edin i could see why some of fans are complaining about him special in Mancini era and start of Peller's , he had problems with accept fully English way run and fight and i could see that and even like that he was still good, but today complete CF .Trap ball well , Won 70-80 % headers , bring in Yaya, Silva ,Nasri ,Jojo , Kolarov in play by drop deep having two sometimes three players on him , help defense great at there set piece .Maybe should score first chance , but it was a hard ball to reach then redeem himself with brilliant back-heal and if Nasri square him the ball with firs chance at the and of the first half no doubt he would score . Hes going up from middle last season and this is one of the best games i see him play .noise said:Wolfsburg Dzeko today. Too bad that header whizzed by the crossbar, would have been like a cherry on top.
City well set for title defence
Sergio Agüero, David Silva, Vincent Kompany, Aleksandar Kolarov and Samir Nasri have all signed new contracts to commit themselves to Manchester City and ensure the nucleus of the team is there to stay. Edin Dzeko should be next, according to Manuel Pellegrini, and this was a performance that demonstrated why the champions see him as a considerable part of their plans.
One thing that has not come out until now: Dzeko was the first player Pellegrini rang when he took the City job last summer. Roberto Mancini had wanted City to sign Edinson Cavani and Pellegrini was asked whether he wanted the club to pursue the deal. He abandoned it immediately, telling the people above him that he thought Dzeko was the more effective striker, with a proven record in the Premier League.
At times Dzeko has had to linger on the edges more than he would have liked and last season, in a particularly listless display at home to Stoke City, it was reaching the point that he was starting to grate on the crowd’s nerves. Yet Dzeko played a key point in their title run-in and he continued where he left off against Newcastle. “For me, Edin was the best player of the game,” Pellegrini said. “He won a lot of aerial duels, he’s a very good team player. It’s not strange for me to see him play like that. He finished last season playing very well. He has grown. I’m very happy for him – and that’s why he’s renewing his contract. He has a very important duty in our team. I don’t think it’s 100% finished but, yes, he will renew his contract. He’s a very important player for us.”
Dzeko’s contribution to David Silva’s goal was the game’s outstanding moment and a clear sign the Bosnian is playing with confidence. His problem sometimes is that he can drift in and out of matches but with Dzeko looking this impressive, Agüero still devastating even when not fully fit, Stevan Jovetic bright and Álvaro Negredo to come back from injury, City certainly have the firepower to sustain a strong defence of the title. Daniel Taylor
Vienna_70 said:Edin had a great game. Put himself about and led the line superbly.
As others have said, if that backheel was executed by shrek or one of the other media darlings, Sty would be wanking themselves stupid for months.
He is a big old unit and he helps us out defensively at set pieces.
And remember, were it not for his goals, we wouldn't have won the title last season.
oakiecokie said:Vienna_70 said:Edin had a great game. Put himself about and led the line superbly.
As others have said, if that backheel was executed by shrek or one of the other media darlings, Sty would be wanking themselves stupid for months.
He is a big old unit and he helps us out defensively at set pieces.
And remember, were it not for his goals, we wouldn't have won the title last season.
For fucks sake why do people keep using this shit analogy when it cant be proven.
It's pretty obvious that he was instrumental in the 2nd part of the season. Just his snide time wasting against Everton may have made the difference.oakiecokie said:Vienna_70 said:Edin had a great game. Put himself about and led the line superbly.
As others have said, if that backheel was executed by shrek or one of the other media darlings, Sty would be wanking themselves stupid for months.
He is a big old unit and he helps us out defensively at set pieces.
And remember, were it not for his goals, we wouldn't have won the title last season.
For fucks sake why do people keep using this shit analogy when it cant be proven.
blue banks said:He showed a turn of pace yesterday that I didn't realise he had tbh. Excellent.
bluealf said:oakiecokie said:Vienna_70 said:Edin had a great game. Put himself about and led the line superbly.
As others have said, if that backheel was executed by shrek or one of the other media darlings, Sty would be wanking themselves stupid for months.
He is a big old unit and he helps us out defensively at set pieces.
And remember, were it not for his goals, we wouldn't have won the title last season.
For fucks sake why do people keep using this shit analogy when it cant be proven.
Well he scored them and we won the title that is the proof you seek, of course somebody else playing may well have scored the same amount of goals but that didn't happen, so Dzekos late season form pushed us over the line.
Of course we could ask about all the shit analogies said about Dzeko being useless, when it is pretty much proven he isn't useless at all.
Puppet Master Silva said:bluealf said:oakiecokie said:For fucks sake why do people keep using this shit analogy when it cant be proven.
Well he scored them and we won the title that is the proof you seek, of course somebody else playing may well have scored the same amount of goals but that didn't happen, so Dzekos late season form pushed us over the line.
Of course we could ask about all the shit analogies said about Dzeko being useless, when it is pretty much proven he isn't useless at all.
And without Negredo's form over the first half of the season we wouldn't have won the league.
noise said:It's pretty obvious that he was instrumental in the 2nd part of the season. Just his snide time wasting against Everton may have made the difference.oakiecokie said:Vienna_70 said:Edin had a great game. Put himself about and led the line superbly.
As others have said, if that backheel was executed by shrek or one of the other media darlings, Sty would be wanking themselves stupid for months.
He is a big old unit and he helps us out defensively at set pieces.
And remember, were it not for his goals, we wouldn't have won the title last season.
For fucks sake why do people keep using this shit analogy when it cant be proven.
As far as I know it's only when we talk about Dzeko that the old, "any other player could have done it" deriding takes place.Matty said:noise said:It's pretty obvious that he was instrumental in the 2nd part of the season. Just his snide time wasting against Everton may have made the difference.oakiecokie said:For fucks sake why do people keep using this shit analogy when it cant be proven.
I think the issue here is we're talking in hypotheticals as if they are facts. It's clear that Edin Dzeko's goals helped us a long way towards winning the title last season, however so did the actions of many different players throughout the season. Negredo's goals, Yaya's goals, Kompany's defending, Kolarov's crossing, in short everyone who played made a contribution so you could, arguably, pick anyone who wore a City shirt last season and claim, "we wouldn't have won the title last season" if it wasn't for them, as who knows what would have happened if they hadn't been on the pitch and someone else had been. The probable here is that, were Dzeko to have been unavailable for the last 6 months of the season then someone would have played in his place, we'd have still had 11 men on the pitch. How on earth are we supposed to know, A - Who that "someone" would have been and B - What contribution they would have made to our title push? It's impossible to assess as it's a purely hypothetical situation with no way of categorically proving anything. The only thing we can be sure of, the only thing that is a fact, is that the contribution Dzeko put in helped us win the league. Would we have won the league without him, but with someone else? Absolutely impossible to know.