It's unrealistic to expect a newly formed team without the depth of utd and Arsenal to compete on 3 frontsForeverCity said:right.
mancini as seen by today can put an attacking team out and get a result like that. the thing what has wound people up the most is that we can do that but yet we don't do that against teams like chelsea who are just as good as us and are fighting for the same thing. i have also credited mancini for sorting out are defence which is now really good minus our left back which is clearly a weak link. but generally it is good. clearly and rightfully mancini has sorted the defence first but now he needs to learn which he is clearly showing he is is to go out and go for the win and attack. alot of people including me are on the fence about mancini and how he manages and plays matches. and i still am on the fence but he is learning and he will learn how the english game works. we have had a tough couple of weeks with injuries and alot of games which i can understand. mancini has to learn to take risks and i think thats his biggest let down. mancini is a fustrating manager and it's because of the resources we have to attack and knowing he can produce these types of performances. mancini is a great manager and we will have to wait till liverpool to see what happens there. you just don't know which mancini you will see at matches.
sorry if this seems jumbled up as i was thinking of stuff as i was typing.
please add anything iv'e missed.
we have the whole package when it comes to the defending and attacking, but the only thing is we don't see the attacking as much as we should.
this is just my opinion and also feel free to correct me as i might of missed things. :)
Had we beaten Kiev, as we should have done, we'd have been playing against Liverpool on Monday, then in Europe on Thursday and then at Wembley on Sunday. We were doing that for 20 games between Jan 1st and the Chelsea game, and it took its toll.
All the top teams in England have been struggling in recent weeks, and it's not a coincidence