No, today’s game was probably decided after 15 minutes, with our defenders conceding possession and space too easily.
However, I’ve never been a great fan of either Silva or De Bruyne, mainly because I consider them both to be peripheral players, who are great when things are going well, but equally capable of disappearing when we need assertive leadership (this is where we miss Kompany, and Tevez, or even Gareth Barry)
It’s easy to blame Bravo or Kolarov, but even at half time, I thought that an early goal might spread panic in the Leicester defence. Instead, we got pass, pass pass, when it was crying out for somebody to take responsibility, and put their foot through the ball.
Despite our undoubted ability, City lack desire, attitude, and maybe a bit of devil, which ultimately is how you win the league.
No muscle in the team, no Barry, Tevez, Yaya, Kompany, Zaba, De Jong, Bellamy, ffs even Joe Hart and Lescott had strength. We now are weak, leaderless, this at present could be the worst defence I`ve ever seen considering how much possession we usually have
I largely agree, but as I've said in Silva's performance thread, he runs games for Spain, and has been made captain recently, now that's in a pretty decent side, but here as you say, when its not going well, he is peripheral.No, today’s game was probably decided after 15 minutes, with our defenders conceding possession and space too easily.
However, I’ve never been a great fan of either Silva or De Bruyne, mainly because I consider them both to be peripheral players, who are great when things are going well, but equally capable of disappearing when we need assertive leadership (this is where we miss Kompany, and Tevez, or even Gareth Barry)
It’s easy to blame Bravo or Kolarov, but even at half time, I thought that an early goal might spread panic in the Leicester defence. Instead, we got pass, pass pass, when it was crying out for somebody to take responsibility, and put their foot through the ball.
Despite our undoubted ability, City lack desire, attitude, and maybe a bit of devil, which ultimately is how you win the league.
His DadZaba????
Must've been his twin playing today...
You've got the wrong end of the stick mate I think you'll find I was agreeing with paul powers tash who was far from happy . So it seems you are also not a 'mild mannered janitor' as your profile suggests.So fucking tell me captain apologist , you happy whith that fucking dog crap breakfast performance ? Or you gonna tell us everything's all right ?
I wonder if a team, at any stage in the history of professional football, has scored 4 goals with 22% possession? Seriously that is majorly fucked up. Flip it around, we had 78% and how many clear chances did we create? These stats point to a criminal dereliction of duty by both defence and attack.
Zaba????
Must've been his twin playing today...
I'm not in the mood for an argument, the Fernando booking wasn't a foul to me either, but I didn't think they were the same 'fouls', and in game I didn't notice the foul on Kelechi.
Like I said I'd rather reflect on the performance of players, team, and management, and on no level was it anywhere near good enough.
Watford will have watched that, and will rightly think they can get something on Wednesday night, and if we don't learn very quickly they will, not to mention the 2 games after that, we could go into the Christmas period in a bit of a mess, in fact its already a bit of a mess for me.