Everton v City post match

Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Don't know if this is to be taken seriously. KDB put in two passes in the first half that no other player on the pitch could have even thought of, let alone executed. Sterling was looking a threat. Sergio was completely ineffective, right through the match. Second half, not one of City's players can be defended. Not one. Worst performance of the season, overall.

Onwards and upwards, eh? (Couldn't get worse anyway. Could it?)
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The problem with De Bruyne is that sometimes he can go 10 minutes without touching the ball, before executing a sublime pass or a fantastic shot. Fine if he scores, but too often he drifts in and out of games.
Sterling strikes me as one of those players who's okay unless he has time to think, and the uncertainty creeps into his game.
 
Why don't we start a 'Bring back Joe petition' I am sure on here alone we would get 30,000 signing it ? He might then just decide that maybe I have made a major error ?
HarrytheBlue said:
A goal a chance against us. Worst GK I can remember in a City shirt. Seems unable to dive. We did have a GK who won the Golden Gloves 4 years out of 5 (2nd the other year)- a GK with a considerably better international clean sheet record than Neuer !! He got stamped on the head this week and carried on with a bandage on his skull.....
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Burtonblue said:
The lack of leadership at the back is staggering and is the real problem.
Stones looks like a rabbit in the headlights.
Bravo has forgotten what being a goalkeeper is.
Clichy is a one man disaster area.
These are all consequences of a lack of direction in our defence.
If we get VK back we still have a chance of rescuing something from this season, if not we are screwed.
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This, rather than back four play back three, bring Kolarov in instead of Clichy+Stones till we have Kompany. Have both Ferns and Yaya in midfield.
 
Stupidity is doing same thing and expecting different results" said by Einstein demonstrated unfortunately by Pep.

He needs to change or adapt his philosophy to cope with the Premier League but seems too stubborn to do so. You can't win consistently if you can't defend and grind out results especially in this league as anyone can beat anyone on any given day. The days of turning up and steamrolling teams are long gone it takes fight and the ability to adapt. We used to bully teams with a powerful midfield and could grind out those one nil wins. We just don't seem capable of that these days and look lost when things don't go right. We do lack a leader on the field that voice to spur us on. Nobody has stepped up in the absence of Hart and Kompany and it shows.
 
i8rags said:
Facts need to be faced, this team is average at best, they are too old, too unfit and worst of all have a soft underbelly, there is nil fight or spirit on show.
We are shit at corners we are shit at free kicks, we are shit at possession and we are sht at finishing.
We have gone backwards under pep coz he's a stubborn fucker, he believed he could turn this team into the type he wanted. he can't and no fucker could.
If he doesn't change his thought pattern he will leave us for sure, stubbornness will prevail in his and our downfall.
I have never been so bored watching city as this current drivel that's been handed to us, this is the prem and this is our club and both should be treated with the respect they deserve and their not, if this was even a doubt in any fellow blues mind ask yourself this, would you continue with bravo in net because you need to prove yourself right.
personally I'd rather pep said he's shit and I'm going to give this shopping trolley a go, at least I'd believe he had some vision.
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Fans aren't managers because we're irrational, over reactive, and seldom can see the bigger picture. We beat West Ham and everyone is in love with Zaba's rebirth as a CM and crying for the same tactics in the next match. Then we get thumped by Everton and how could the manager not see that the midfield was too old and why couldn't he change shape to combat them? We aren't good at this and we won't be. I am struggling to cope with Bravo as much as many of you and maybe the manager will need to make a call there, but appeals to what a fan would do in this situation are not going to produce much in the way of a sensible approach to anything. It would be overreactive and incoherent. And even then fans label you the tinkerman and go bananas that if the manager would just play a settled XI everything would be different.

Just look at the increase in quality in all of the managers who have left us and all of the players who have left us. Whenever a player is injured, he improves massively in the eyes of our fans. Now, if we just had Joe, Nasri, and Mangala, everything would be different! Forget that we suffered from all of the same problems last season with those players and that plenty of fans had problems with each of those players in different ways.

It's really, really hard to take a long view after a day like today. But we won't get anywhere as a club overreacting to today either. It is not an exaggeration to say that Pep could lose every match for the rest of the season and he'd still be the most successful manager in world football. As fans, we need to back him, even during a tough spell. This season clearly doesn't seem like it's going to produce what we would have wanted but there's nobody I'd rather have turning the squad over. I keep coming back to this point. The core group here essentially quit on everyone's re-favorite, Mancini. Dressing room unrest, absolutely dire performances that everyone conveniently forgets. We sacked him, brought in Pellegrini. The same exact thing happens. Now, we go and get the undisputed best manager in the game and he suffers the same problems with largely the same group. Can we maybe put to rest the idea that the Managers were the problem? If anything, I have a lot more respect for both Roberto and Pellegrini today because I feel like this season is proving that there really wasn't much they could have done.
 
Bluewonder said:
This is an old team which was excellent 3 years ago but looks thoroughly past it now. Give Pep the summer to ship out the dross and let's see how we are next next season.
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Guardiola is the one who needs shipping out, another couple of pastings like today & maybe he'll do the honourable thing Asap
 
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