forevercity said:
GStar said:
FC used to be a really good poster too, i'd always read what he had to say.
watching mancini's football week in week out is getting to me. big time. bluemoon is the only place that loves the guy.
He must have been doing somethign right;
A. To get the Inter job
B. To win three titles (or were they given to him be default due to match fixing?)
I'm with you that the way we set up against the "bigger teams" or should i say the attitude we have towards these games is shite. We need a philosophy that we can adopt across the board. Do Chelsea/Barca/Utd/Inter/Real change setup so much depending on opponent? I don't think they do.
I've noticed under Hughes managers were openly talking about their fear of us attacking them on the break, we had "such speed" and "such talent" that managers we're more botherd about stopping us than playing to their own strengths.
We're now pedestrian like in attack and we don't even keep the ball and pull our opponents around the pitch as we did the first few games of the season.
The balance and setup is currently not right, Milner doesn't work out wide, Silva is most effective in the centre, Yaya should sit deeper imo.
But i want to give Mancini more time, Kolarov is just coming back as is Balotelli. He's running out of excuses as to why this temporary setup is continually being wheeled out each week. I guess being fourth its obviously not a disaster, but then again, we're cherry picking some of the world's best players... we should be turning teams over not making them look good each week.