If Mourinho had been daft enough to start with Dzeko and Kun, he certainly wouldn't have waited until the 60th minute to do something about it when it was plain to see that it wasn't working.
But forget this match, it is totally idiotic of Pellegrini to continue playing 2 up front against tough opposition and make no mistake West Ham at Upton Park fit that category this year. It's like we want to waste an entire half before we try to get going. Talk about handicapping yourself.
Edin should be Kun's replacement not his strike partner. And Aguero will get injured which will give Edin plenty of opportunity as was shown last year.
As soon as Jovetic came on wide left we were a different team. Much more fluid. But as I said it is Pellegrini's failing that he is to blind to see what everyone else can.
We have some world class talent at our disposal and in my opinion it is being wasted by the manager, who is not world class, merely goodish.
Now people will come on here and say he won the double last year. Yes he did, but we beat a one man team and a Chelsea whose manager for his own reasons didn't want to win it. We had easily the best squad and we were a Gerrard slip away from not winning it.
This year we are still Chelsea's equals but it doesn't look like it at the moment. As someone has said Pellegrini's not going to get sacked now but I would hope the club are investigating our options. It would be a shame to waste the next few years.
But forget this match, it is totally idiotic of Pellegrini to continue playing 2 up front against tough opposition and make no mistake West Ham at Upton Park fit that category this year. It's like we want to waste an entire half before we try to get going. Talk about handicapping yourself.
Edin should be Kun's replacement not his strike partner. And Aguero will get injured which will give Edin plenty of opportunity as was shown last year.
As soon as Jovetic came on wide left we were a different team. Much more fluid. But as I said it is Pellegrini's failing that he is to blind to see what everyone else can.
We have some world class talent at our disposal and in my opinion it is being wasted by the manager, who is not world class, merely goodish.
Now people will come on here and say he won the double last year. Yes he did, but we beat a one man team and a Chelsea whose manager for his own reasons didn't want to win it. We had easily the best squad and we were a Gerrard slip away from not winning it.
This year we are still Chelsea's equals but it doesn't look like it at the moment. As someone has said Pellegrini's not going to get sacked now but I would hope the club are investigating our options. It would be a shame to waste the next few years.