Manuel Pellegrini (cont)

[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.

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.

The full 90 is on sky tonight so I'm looking forward to it. Got to say I was gutted when that Chelsea goal went in but it proves that they are not going to cruise to this title. They will drop points.

It's been such a tough season in lots of ways. We have just not been able to settle as a unit with all these players dropping out, coming back not match fit ad infinitum. I really hope we can finally do that.

We will get back to our best. Good players and good managers don't become bad overnight. Hopefully this is it.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Much needed and credit to the players and manager after a shaky and disjointed first half.
One 45 mins does not a summer make - but let's hope that's a springboard in this winter of discontent.

 

[blueparrot]

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.

I thought it and I think you said it Hull reminded me of the Sunderland game last year, I just had a feeling we'd use that salvaged point as a spur. With a week and a half off to get Toure and Bony into the squad I've a feeling we'll kick on. Whether Chelsea stumble I don't know but there are signs they can drop points. and I've just got a funny feeling Liverpool away to Chelsea might be significant with a chance for the dippers to get some revenge for last year.

 

[Bluewonder]

Good from Pelle today as the reversion to the double-pivot with Silva providing the link to the attack won us the game today. Just hope he sticks with it rather than returning to 4-4-2.

 

[Marvin]

Scoring 4 away at Stoke on the back of a really bad run of results is a massive result for Pellegrini and MCFC

Silva looked brilliant tonight.

Looking forward to seeing Bony and Yaya SIlva, Nasri and Navas together. Should be devastating but then we should have smashed Hull. We need to rebuild confidence. Great start tonight. I feared the worst going into this game.

Credit to Pellegrini and the team. Deserved some stick I think after the Hull game, but they've bounced back tonight.

Really glad we didn't have to stew on another bad result for 10 days

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Looks like he worked the toe into a few arses at half time, not before time either.

 

[davymcfc]

Great result tonight but we cannot hide behind the fact that under Pellegrini we have obvious defensive frailties. This will not change under his leadership. He gets away with it when we are out scoring the opposition but you have to say that he is under scrutiny especially with the increased possibility of a trophyless season.

 

[onceabluealways]

Another good display by Milner - will be interesting with Yaya and Bony available next game . My bet Milner is dropped, when he is playing better than Fernando and fernandinho. I expect back to usual with Yaya alongside F or F, why not play Milner with yaya, he has the engine and can tackle and get forward specially ay home.

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

It's clear Kun carries this team at the moment. The performance before and after his goal speaks volumes, although we conceded. Pelle probably used Kun's disallowed goal as the motivation for the 2nd half, and with that against us we played some good football for once. Shows why Jose is successful breeding that mentality, how Simeone has done the same at Atleti and how it could well have worked for us tonight. You need those injustices, little niggles about the opposition when you're a big club to get everyone riled and up for it every game, you could tell on Saturday compared to the 2nd half tonight that for one game we were motivated and the other we didn't believe in a reason to go the extra mile. It might sound unprofessional, but in reality we all have days where we are absolutely on it, and others where we just try to do a good job on autopilot. The latter has to stop.

 

[Bluep*ss]

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 and Mangala put in good performances as well.

Sorry I do not agree that Hart "put in a good performance". Mangala was just about the best of the defence - I'd give him a 6 - rest of defence 5 each.
Ferny1 -5 Ferny2 - 6. Milner , Nasri , Silva and Aguero all 9.