Still bloody annoyed by yesterday's performance. You can take results like that if you see the lads working hard and giving it everything, pummelling the opposition and just being unlucky but yesterday.....there was none of that. The first 90 seconds just sum it up and set the tone. Ya Ya bottles out of a 50/50 in midfield, their guy wants it more, Kolarov gets himself out of position (a sad portent of the utter guff to come from him yesterday lunchtime) and we are 1 down, all because of slackness and jogging around in midfield, unmitigated sloppiness all round.
So having got cold cold at the start of the 1st half you'd think we'd come out 2nd half and be on our toes...oh no, that would be too sensible. MDM starts off misplacing 2/3 passes of no more than 5 yard length in the first 60 seconds, Silva gets knocked off the ball too easily (this has been happening far too often since he came back at Stoke), Zabba loses out in a challenge he'd have won blindfolded 2 seasons ago, some other City player puts in a pathetic sliding tackle that wouldn't have knocked my 85 year old mum out of her stride and the guy is away...dismal defending all round.
I can't recall us going behind at home in the last 5/6 seasons more than we have this season, always in the first half as well. Jesus, as if that sloppy goal we lost within 55 seconds at West Ham less than 2 weeks previously didn't give us a wake up call about starting focussed and we go and do it again. Not good.
There have been warning signs for months about the way we are playing...scraping past Norwich at home, Watford away, Stoke away, Sunderland away etc etc....we really need to buck up our ideas big time for the run in and some players need to start producing more.
