super_city_si said:A bit of perspective, i like it. Its getting crazy on here. Before the game there were plenty of calls of a thrashing and how many we'd score. After we lost, people are saying season over and ive even seen some questioning our ability to beat sunderland in the cup.Armaan said:Throw in Nasri too, we basically got beat by Chelseas first team tonight and fair play to them they were very good, but imagine our first team against them with Hazard and two other first 11 players missing, we'd have coasted to a victory.Millwallawayveteran1988 said:They have come at a terrible time. We look nowhere near as good without Aguero and Fernandinho.
citymad said:super_city_si said:A bit of perspective, i like it. Its getting crazy on here. Before the game there were plenty of calls of a thrashing and how many we'd score. After we lost, people are saying season over and ive even seen some questioning our ability to beat sunderland in the cup.Armaan said:Throw in Nasri too, we basically got beat by Chelseas first team tonight and fair play to them they were very good, but imagine our first team against them with Hazard and two other first 11 players missing, we'd have coasted to a victory.
TBF I would place a bet those fans expecting a goal fest were newbies and with not much knowledge of the premier league or football. Proper fans knew what the deal was and personally I was prepared for this result tonight. I'm more concerned about a growing injury list.
Prestwich_Blue said:I'd like Txiki Begiristain to get someone in to have a look at the way we train as it worries me. If it's fine then all well and good and we've just been unlucky but there is a high-correlation between poor conditioning training & injuries.
When Phil Batty was the team doctor, our injury record was superb as I believe he stood up to Mancini over bringing players back too soon. So he got sacked, Mancini brought his own man in and our injury record seemed to get a lot worse.
Jimfv1 said:Prestwich_Blue said:I'd like Txiki Begiristain to get someone in to have a look at the way we train as it worries me. If it's fine then all well and good and we've just been unlucky but there is a high-correlation between poor conditioning training & injuries.
When Phil Batty was the team doctor, our injury record was superb as I believe he stood up to Mancini over bringing players back too soon. So he got sacked, Mancini brought his own man in and our injury record seemed to get a lot worse.
I totally agree, it is something that is easy to fix if indeed there is a problem and for value for money I'm sure paying a team doctor/physio is small time compared to the players wages. Where is Batty now, is he at another club ?
Our biggest issue is losing Fernandinho, this is the one player which we don't have an adequate replacement for. With Aguero our there is a problem but we have a ridiculous amount of quality in our strike force. When Nasri got injured it was a blow but we still had Navas, Milner, Jovetic and Silva or even push Kolarov up the pitch in front of Clichy. Granted Nasri is a loss but we can cope. When we lost Fernandinho his backup Garcia is also injured. The difference Between the two or even with MDM or Rodwell there instead is huge, especially against arguably our biggest rivals in the league.
Admittedly we had a very similar issue when Kompany was injured at the beginning of the season, the backups weren't leaders or organisers of the defence and everyone tried there looked elsewhere for someone to organise them defensively during the game. Even the replacement we bought went out injured before he kicked a ball for us, then both Nastasic and Lescott picked up injuries during this time too, so we never had any consistency and we dropped points.
If we could keep the players fit it would help the coach immensely, maybe a look at the training can benefit the club in both the short and long term.
That'll be down to mourinho's mind games and master tactics......Gillespie said:Champions2012! said:Mr Ed (The Stables) said:Every team gets them simple as.
This. I think we just notice ours more because City is the team we support.
True
All the top teams have been hit by injuries except.......Chelsea