Manchester City - tactical discussion

What baffled me was the Kolarov sub why not take Sagna off and play Navas as a right back? Kolarov's more a goal threat.
Instead it looked like Otamendi went to left back and Fernandinho to centre back.

I agree that Kolorov should have stayed on. I think he only hit one cross in all game abd it caused panic
I also thought that rather than subbing Sterling, when we were chasing the game in the last 20, we should have gone 3 at the back and pushed Sterling central and Kolorov wide
 
so what did go wrong today tactically

They had the extra man in midfield when they counter attacked us.

Noble was outstanding for them.

We lost the game in the first half when we were slow and laboured, constantly giving the ball away, combined with poor finishing.

On another day Yaya would have bagged a hatrick, and Kun a couple.

Also Aguero was awful worst game in a City shirt for me, and it's obvious he isn't fully fit.

Bony just doesn't look like a City player, I think we've bought a pup there.

Strange substitutions from our manager as well. We lost all our shape with the Sterling substitution, and unless Kolerov was injured his substitution with 7 minutes to go was strange as well.

Despite what the stats say West Ham had done their homework on us, worked hard, defended like Trojans, time wasted and slowed the game down when they could, now if only we had adopted those tactics when leading Juventus on Tuesday night.

Like I stated earlier in this thread our manager isn't good enough, he's naieve and the sooner he's gone the better, and he's the underlying problem. We have the best squad in the League with probably the 5th best manager it really is that simple imo.
 
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