Last year we played attacking football against United in the league at Old Trafford. We lost in the last minute.
We attacked United in the last 20 minutes of the league game at home to United last season.
We lost in the last minute.
I'd much rather see a performance like that...a solid defensive performance (how many times has that been said about City in the last 2 decades?) and draw then an end to end thriller that we lose in the last minute.
It's not negativity from Mancini, it's learning lessons from last season. We did not lose. We're 4 points ahead of 5th place, and 5 ahead of Spurs and Liverpool who are more realistic champions league place rivals than Geordies. We play Brum on Saturday having not run ourselves ragged only to be demoralisingly beaten at the last. I think we'll put 4 or 5 past them.