Man City vs Reading - Post Match Discussion

The cookie monster said:
Didsbury Dave said:
Rammy Blue said:
Similar thoughts although I'm not keen on Sergio dropping deep as it took him until near the end of the game before he had his first attempt on goal.

Agreed about Yaya, sick of him trying these stupid passes that just smack of laziness.

Bob left Rekik on for 20 mins too long, I know you're not a big fan of it but we should have gone 3 at the back far earlier - I'd have brought Jimmy on the right and moved Zab to the left.

Crazy playing 2 defensive midfielders and 4 at the back against a team with 10 behind the ball.

TBH until his goal, Barry was utterly woeful and gave away the ball more than I've ever seen him.

Nasty was great, was impressed at how dominant in the air he was against a bruiser of a forward.

Oh, and never a foul for the goal.
Yeah, that was a game for 3 at the back as a change but we had nobody in the squad with the ability to play wing back and cross the ball. Did you notice the formation change at half time? 442 with Barry wide left. It didn't work. Bad change , and it was no game for edin either. Zab is a real problem in these 10 behind the ball games. For all his defensive ability he can't cross or get to the line.
Theres still no change with your crusade against zab is there
Fucking sad!

agree very silly, millions of pounds worth of forward players on the park and to even bother mentioning that the right back is a problem, thought he was ok anyway scoring for 2-2 v united and making the 3rd v newcastle,
 
Bollocks it may be but that's my opinion, as I really am grateful for what we have today and what we have won over the last 3 seasons. An ambling Yaya, is better than watching Brannan, Whitley, Wiekens, Cooke et al struggle their bollocks off at Macc. I wish I had my season ticket still rather than the 15 years of dross I had it for. Don't doubt me as a fan because I've only 60 posts, I started going in 82, season ticket holder for 15 years until 7 years ago and my godfather is Glyn Pardoe.
 
We couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo for most of the game.
The defender against Barry at the end didn't even try to jump at the end and backed up half a pace as Barry jumped. Glad to see the ref spotted it. Still I've seen them disallowed.
We're playing poorly and winning. It's about the best that can be said.
Tempo - No where near enough.
Movement - Next to none till Dzelo came on.
Width - None till Milner came on.
Our strikers are poor. Aguero is a pale shadow of last year and Tevez is simply useless.Powder puff shots all round.
Dzeko did well when he came on. Two headers that just went over and lots of movement.

We need tempo, movement width and much, much better striking.
 
I didn't enjoy it one bit. Too frustrating at 0-0

We played well up to a point but Tevez had another off day, whilst Aguero kept coming deep to collect the ball. He did very well with some great runs and dribbles but his final crosses were poor.

We missed Nasri, and the natural width of a Clichy or Kolarov. That's all that was missing. We played almost the entire game in front of their massed defence
 
Brian McDermott can choke on my valiant chode.

Thought Dean got their 'penalty' call spot on, possibly kind on our goal too, although Barry got up their first.

Don't think pace would have helped us too much today, Reading were sat so deep and compact that there was no space for pace to exploit.

Under difficult conditions, against a team camped on the edge of their own box, i'll take the last gasp 1-0. The team selection was strange though; Lescott over Rekik surely - (not taking anything away from him but it was a completely needless risk both to the team and his confidence)? Neither Aguero nor Tevez seemed to be our striker, there was no focal point in attack.
 
Found it funny that ShowSec were even more aggressive than usual in trying to get 109 to sit down today in the week the club publicly backed safe standing and two weeks after the entire stadium stood unharassed in the derby (don't remember many people getting crushed or injured from standing...). BTW who were the two coppers looking for in 109?
 
Cannot believe some people calling Zab man..

Disgraceful comments. He is the one player who can have a bad game and will get no criticism from me. He bleeds for this club.

We were below par today. Nothing more nothing less.

History will only ever say 3 pts.<br /><br />-- Sat Dec 22, 2012 8:59 pm --<br /><br />The only problem today and the only problem when we don't perform well...


Tempo..Tempo...Tempo...
 
I've had a bad back for 2 days. I yelped like fuck when the goal went in!

When I saw the line-up I had a feeling it was going to be a tough game. Delighted with the win.
 

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