Manuel Pellegrini (cont)

[Sergi0 Na5r1]

I think tonight showed we just lacked desire in the weekend's Hull game.

Something Manuel said today must have brought out the best in our team.

You can't go from 1-1 to 4-1 in a couple of days without some serious talk from the manager. Definitely not on a dark, cold night at the Britannia. Aguero, Nasri, Silva, Milner were all excellent today. Hart put in a great performance as well.

Ill put Mangala in the first category too. he was the best defender out there

I'll put Zabaleta especially and Kompany too in the second category. I assume you mean the exact opposite of great

Ok great is exaggeration, but I thought Hart did well after the first 30-35 min. There were moments where it looked like Zaba and Kolarov had lost their minds and Hart was able to save those risky mistakes.

 

[J_Bow]

Whatever he said at half time worked wonders. We were a team transformed, and looked back to our best. Full credit to him.

His man management and motivating skills clearly up to the task.

 

[bitsmith]

Honestly, I'd play Sagna from now, Zab just doesn't deserve place in team with such form, he is awful.

 

[deano ou812]

Whatever he said at half time worked wonders. We were a team transformed, and looked back to our best. Full credit to him.

probably put on a marlon Brando accent and told them they have 45 mins to sort things or they will wake with a horses head beside them in the morning....

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Whatever he said at half time worked wonders. We were a team transformed, and looked back to our best. Full credit to him.

His man management and motivating skills clearly up to the task.

The transformation happened just before half time when we created two good chances (one chalked off).

 

[waspish]

Honestly, I'd play Sagna from now, Zab just doesn't deserve place in team with such form, he is awful.

You didn't watch the game then?

Zab did just fine stopped more crosses coming in than the from the other side plus he was up against a fast skilful player and no goals were scored from that side it's called defending where occasionally a player does get the best of you..

 

[PragueBlue]

Whatever he said at half time worked wonders. We were a team transformed, and looked back to our best. Full credit to him.

Shame he didn't say it before kick off or against other teams recently.

Perhaps it was more a case of the players working it out for themselves a bit as we started improving towards the end of the first half.

Anyway we won and that's all that really counts. Toure back for the Newcastle game and hopefully we'll go from strength to strength. This last few weeks of poor form has cost us though and it's hard to see Chelsea losing the 3 games that we'd need them to. The win has kept us in it. Shames about the late Chelsea goal though.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Labelling the manager some kind of Churchillian genius after that is as daft and knee jerk as labelling him a clown after Hull. He takes the decisions, rolls with the punches and you hope that he gets more right than wrong. Tonight we got a bit of the rub of the green and the goals went in and that's more less that. With goals comes confidence, "trust", as he calls it, and hopefully we build from here.

I only listened to the commentary so can't give a proper analysis but the title race is still open and we need to take that confidence forward and get back to our proper form as our returners bed back in.

 

[Ric]

Whatever he said at half time worked wonders. We were a team transformed, and looked back to our best. Full credit to him.

Shame he didn't say it before kick off or against other teams recently.

Perhaps it was more a case of the players working it out for themselves a bit as we started improving a bit towards the end of the first half.

That's a bit unfair, you can't have it both ways. You can't blame the manager when we don't perform, but only credit the players when we do. Has to be collective responsibility. Both manager and players deserved criticism on Saturday, but both are due credit after the second half tonight.

 

[BillyShears]

Labelling the manager some kind of Churchillian genius after that is as daft and knee jerk as labelling him a clown after Hull. He takes the decisions, rolls with the punches and you hope that he gets more right than wrong. Tonight we got a bit of the rub of the green and the goals went in and that's more less that. With goals comes confidence, "trust", as he calls it, and hopefully we build from here.

I only listened to the commentary so can't give a proper analysis but the title race is still open and we need to take that confidence forward and get back to our proper form as our returners bed back in.

I watched 90 minutes. For me we were excellent, especially and obviously in the 2nd half. But even the first half, after a shaky start it was obvious that we meant business and weren't going to let up.

I'm happy for the players and the manager. Been a shitty run all things considered. Kun needed the goals, Nasri needed the performance, same with Silva. The manager needed them to play with the right intensity and the right attitude. Everything was there tonight.

It's frustrating as fuck to consider how abject we looked against Hull. You can argue the toss out of tactics all month long but when the players play with that attitude nobody gets away with points against us.