Didsbury Dave
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I'm logging on for a few minutes so apologies for any repetition, I haven't read the rest of the board.
I'm hugely encouraged by today's performance. First of all, well played Mark Hughes for dropping Tevez and going 4-3-3/4-5-1. I felt we contained them completely in the first half. It was almost like we had a game plan that they were going to batter us, but they didn't really. If we had hit Ireland a bit more when we broke up their attacks I thought we could have gone in ahead at half time.
Second half I thought we dominated the game. We were already on top when they scored. I'll tell you what...Adebayor cannot mark. He's done that 3 or 4 times this season, let his man get away from him. He did it in the first half and we got away with it.
Then we took the game by the scruff of the neck and dominated. Ireland bossed the midfield, De Jong won everything. Lescott again, looked fantastic. Then, on 60 minutes, the substitution.
I've got to be honest, I thought Hughes was making a big mistake. Barry was awful again, fine, but the sustitution made us go 4-4-2 when Ireland was finding loads of room in "the hole". I was angry. I thought Hughes had fucked up.
But he hadn't. We carried on dominating. Tevez found space in that "hole" and was outstanding. Any Bluemoon regular will know that I have been vociferous in my critisism of Tevez but, my goodness, he was excellent.
And we deservedly went 2-1 up. The game was over, we looked like getting more.
Their equaliser was bad luck. Bagatelle. Yes, we should have cleared our lines but for Liverppol to get a richochet goal like that was damn lucky, especially after they had created virtually nothing all game.
I'm hugely encouraged by that performance. I think we were the better side by some distance and should have won the game. But we now go into a crucial period in our season and, I'll tell you what, I feel confident of some big results.
For large spells of today's game we played our best football of the season. I feel really positive all of a sudden, just when it matters. Well played City. It should have been 3 points of course, but overall it's a big step in the right direction.
I'm hugely encouraged by today's performance. First of all, well played Mark Hughes for dropping Tevez and going 4-3-3/4-5-1. I felt we contained them completely in the first half. It was almost like we had a game plan that they were going to batter us, but they didn't really. If we had hit Ireland a bit more when we broke up their attacks I thought we could have gone in ahead at half time.
Second half I thought we dominated the game. We were already on top when they scored. I'll tell you what...Adebayor cannot mark. He's done that 3 or 4 times this season, let his man get away from him. He did it in the first half and we got away with it.
Then we took the game by the scruff of the neck and dominated. Ireland bossed the midfield, De Jong won everything. Lescott again, looked fantastic. Then, on 60 minutes, the substitution.
I've got to be honest, I thought Hughes was making a big mistake. Barry was awful again, fine, but the sustitution made us go 4-4-2 when Ireland was finding loads of room in "the hole". I was angry. I thought Hughes had fucked up.
But he hadn't. We carried on dominating. Tevez found space in that "hole" and was outstanding. Any Bluemoon regular will know that I have been vociferous in my critisism of Tevez but, my goodness, he was excellent.
And we deservedly went 2-1 up. The game was over, we looked like getting more.
Their equaliser was bad luck. Bagatelle. Yes, we should have cleared our lines but for Liverppol to get a richochet goal like that was damn lucky, especially after they had created virtually nothing all game.
I'm hugely encouraged by that performance. I think we were the better side by some distance and should have won the game. But we now go into a crucial period in our season and, I'll tell you what, I feel confident of some big results.
For large spells of today's game we played our best football of the season. I feel really positive all of a sudden, just when it matters. Well played City. It should have been 3 points of course, but overall it's a big step in the right direction.