K.Reeves right foot
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Morning chaps.
I read this too and was quite pleased [being a Mancini critic] to hear what he had to say. We don't get much feedback from him usually other than stock answers to questions in terrible English along the lines of he is 'important' / 'good player' etc.
It gives us hope for a more expansive team formation in future games when needed with the knowledge the more cautious approach works against the better teams.
Having said that, there has still been the possibility for a more inventive formation with Silva pushed behind Tevez and SWP or Johnson on the wing, Milner in the middle and leaving out Barry or deJong when ok to do so. So I see what he is saying but I still think he's been too cautious in some games that were there for the taking.
Against Newcastle, with their outragous high defensive line Johnson would have had a field day considering as he said, they had been working on him running diagionally across the back line to latch on to through balls as he did against Juve and it worked perfectly. Against Newcastle it was there to be done yet Mancini chose to ignore it. That to me is strange.
Does anyone think Yaya is unfit? From sundays game and some others he looks over weight and very stodgy in his running whereas at Barcelona he was trimmer and more nippy around the pitch. We're 2 months into the season so fitness shouldn't be an issue now at all. The whole team looked knackered on sunday which was worrying and Milner as we now know wasn't well so really shouldn't have been on the pitch and it showed. Yes we got the win but boy was it a poor performance. Balotelli is needed more than ever just to help tevez who surely can't keep this up at his present rate and regardless of the half time bust up [if true] he's not loooking happy on the pitch and his run to RSC after the penalty to me was a direct message to mancini to play another striker [but ffs not RSC!].
I read this too and was quite pleased [being a Mancini critic] to hear what he had to say. We don't get much feedback from him usually other than stock answers to questions in terrible English along the lines of he is 'important' / 'good player' etc.
It gives us hope for a more expansive team formation in future games when needed with the knowledge the more cautious approach works against the better teams.
Having said that, there has still been the possibility for a more inventive formation with Silva pushed behind Tevez and SWP or Johnson on the wing, Milner in the middle and leaving out Barry or deJong when ok to do so. So I see what he is saying but I still think he's been too cautious in some games that were there for the taking.
Against Newcastle, with their outragous high defensive line Johnson would have had a field day considering as he said, they had been working on him running diagionally across the back line to latch on to through balls as he did against Juve and it worked perfectly. Against Newcastle it was there to be done yet Mancini chose to ignore it. That to me is strange.
Does anyone think Yaya is unfit? From sundays game and some others he looks over weight and very stodgy in his running whereas at Barcelona he was trimmer and more nippy around the pitch. We're 2 months into the season so fitness shouldn't be an issue now at all. The whole team looked knackered on sunday which was worrying and Milner as we now know wasn't well so really shouldn't have been on the pitch and it showed. Yes we got the win but boy was it a poor performance. Balotelli is needed more than ever just to help tevez who surely can't keep this up at his present rate and regardless of the half time bust up [if true] he's not loooking happy on the pitch and his run to RSC after the penalty to me was a direct message to mancini to play another striker [but ffs not RSC!].