Some pathetic performances in all 3 Cups and the League this season.Wardie said:The second half performance was a joke. Liverpool considering their lack of preparation completely out played us. The lack of urgency throughout the second half and even more shockingly after their second goal was desperate to watch.
The defence is woeful 6 City players around the ball when Coutinho scored not one closed down.
It was a shambles. No desire and that comes from the manager. We have been off the boil all season and today was the icing on the cake. Bar Roma away we have not been at it.
malg said:Is it still a 2 horse race, or is there now Chelsea, and a 5 horse race for the next 3 slots?
We won it because Newcastle were poor, get with it.kupest said:Big Dave Watson said:I really don't know how anyone can be surprised. The signs were there and the manager confirmed it all with his selection. Take out the Stoke game and we haven't been on it for ages (given a lesson by Arsenal, Mourinho played it safe, Newcastle very poor, Barca lesson.......etc etc). Mistakes by the manager, key players injured or not performing, no bottle, underestimating opponents...........the list is endless. Champions go and win in games like today. Not good enough. I won't say I told you so because I got banned for that last year after this same game, but I just knew this would happen, sorry.
Newcastle very poor? are you fucking high??!!!. The problem arose as soon as we took Dzeko out and went to 4-5-1.
blueinsa said:Ive just walked in as i had to go out with the kids this morning so missed the game.
Really that bad?
Rösler von Stretfordbömber said:Sergi0 Na5r1 said:Can't type too much again because partly lost for words at this shambles. I've defended him before and he has occasionally had good moments.But today even more than the Barca game showed his tactical ineptness.
He got all his tactics wrong from the start, all the other teams have caught on to his early aggressive style but he continues to stick with it. Once again just like the Barca game the ball bounced their half to ours without any of play from our midfield.
In the Roma game we were successful because we started a strong midfield when the other team wanted to attack.
Since then he's not done this very consistently leaving defense wide open to getting attacked down the middle. And then he brings on Nando when we need to score goals? We can't keep blaming all of the players every time, you push out Nasri and Silva wide when we need them to create chances down the middle. What the hell is he thinking!
Some players looked sluggish, but it's up to the manager to give the players a chance to get a good performance in. He needs to go.
Did he bring on Fernando today and I missed this somehow?