Fernando has turned it around

[GeekinGav]

What do all them players have in common? They're all playing in sides that are on the whole performing well this season and they've all managed to stay injury free for the most part meaning they're sharp.

Fernando has shown he is capable, it's coaxing it out of him regularly that's the issue. Don't think any of the 3 you mentioned are any better than him or would have fared better in our squad this season all things considered.

I'd say Kante and Dier have been rocks and linchpins for Leicester and Spurs respectively. Fernando hasn't. Granted he's been playing in a slow, inconsistant team. most of the games i see, he has been ineffective, slow, doesnt make a tackle, lets players run past him and jogs back when we are in trouble. I have to say that has to be someone better out there as a proper defensive midielder.

 

[Rolee]

I'd say Kante and Dier have been rocks and linchpins for Leicester and Spurs respectively. Fernando hasn't. Granted he's been playing in a slow, inconsistant team. most of the games i see, he has been ineffective, slow, doesnt make a tackle, lets players run past him and jogs back when we are in trouble. I have to say that has to be someone better out there as a proper defensive midielder.

Probably is Gav, the thing that gets me is that he's never played a proper defensive midfield role at City because Pellegrini doesn't utilise this role in his approach.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Fernando is Mr average from average town but he has put the miles in in the last 10 days so deserves a bit of slack for last night. It's not his fault the management team chose to leave the midfield weak as fuck for the season.

 

[chaddblue]

He was one of our better players last night, which doesn't say a lot, but he was

 

[GeekinGav]

Probably is Gav, the thing that gets me is that he's never played a proper defensive midfield role at City because Pellegrini doesn't utilise this role in his approach.

agree. thats why we have so many defensive poblems, teams can virtually walk through the midfield and pressure our defence. And we are meant to play counter attack, but your need a solid defensive unit to spring those counter attacks, so we cant do it. Its so frustrating that the old man cant see it and doesn't bother fixing it.

 

[jay_mcfc]

He's had a very good couple of weeks. The only chance we have of salvaging this season is if we can play Fern, Fern and Yaya as a midfield trio in the rest of our games.

I was thinking today about MP's insistence on playing a midfield two for most of the season. I reckon Mancini would have been happy with this squad with Fernando = De Jong, Fernandinho = Barry and Yaya being Yaya. Mancini's preferred 4-2-3-1 with this group of players might just have been perfect.

 

[Blackcrowes]

He was one of our better players last night, which doesn't say a lot, but he was

I agree - I specifically watched him last night. He was the standout player on a very poor night for the blues. He has played really well in the last couple of weeks. I am not sure he will survive the cull for next year unless they keep him as a squad player.

 

[bluetev]

Yep and the only time they are good in a midfield two are when they play together in one. Really strange.

You mean the couple of games when they looked good in that formation, coincidentally when fernandinho was alongside as a "right midfielder?"
Try looking at the videos of the League cup final when city didn't have the ball, and where fernandinho was positioned, might give you a hint why that supposedly midfield two worked well.

 

[Hungarian blue]

Alongside Yaya my man of the match today. He was great.

 

[jaiguruKun]

I'd rather have him at centre back than demiliability