Prestwich_Blue said:When I posted last week that I didn't think he had the ability to take us that final step, I thought I'd get slaughtered but to my surprise I didn't. I think we can all see it clearly now. That was naive, inept, brainless, whatever, tonight.
We shouldn't have been starting Navas at all for that game but, having done so, he should have been running at Maicon and not Cole. Everyone round me was saying it yet he stayed on the right where Ashley Cole had him for breakfast. Kolarov should definitely have started to give us the extra width that Clichy doesn't, even when he has a good game. We just play at half speed with no sense of urgency or desire.
Marvin said:Poor passing has got nothing to do with the way we were set up
We uncharacteristically gave the ball away continually for the first half an hour before we started to get on top of them.
Roma did not do anything which I haven't seen many English clubs do to us, and we don't change tactics against them.
It's just easy criticism
Mancini used to get this as well. He can't manage in Europe blah blah blah.
Pellegrini has a good record in European competition anyway
Mister Appointment said:Prestwich_Blue said:When I posted last week that I didn't think he had the ability to take us that final step, I thought I'd get slaughtered but to my surprise I didn't. I think we can all see it clearly now. That was naive, inept, brainless, whatever, tonight.
We shouldn't have been starting Navas at all for that game but, having done so, he should have been running at Maicon and not Cole. Everyone round me was saying it yet he stayed on the right where Ashley Cole had him for breakfast. Kolarov should definitely have started to give us the extra width that Clichy doesn't, even when he has a good game. We just play at half speed with no sense of urgency or desire.
You think a guy who took two infinitely shitter teams than ours further in the CL than Mancini ever got us, the reigning P L trophy holding manager can't take us to the next level?
Haha. Ok.
If those teams were infinitely shitter thsn us then why aren't we doing better in the CL against decent opposition? The truth is (and you know this) that managers have their level. And for some, that means getting an outwardly average team at a club with little money to perform miracles. But for some reason they can't do it at a bigger team with theoretically better players.Mister Appointment said:Prestwich_Blue said:When I posted last week that I didn't think he had the ability to take us that final step, I thought I'd get slaughtered but to my surprise I didn't. I think we can all see it clearly now. That was naive, inept, brainless, whatever, tonight.
We shouldn't have been starting Navas at all for that game but, having done so, he should have been running at Maicon and not Cole. Everyone round me was saying it yet he stayed on the right where Ashley Cole had him for breakfast. Kolarov should definitely have started to give us the extra width that Clichy doesn't, even when he has a good game. We just play at half speed with no sense of urgency or desire.
You think a guy who took two infinitely shitter teams than ours further in the CL than Mancini ever got us, the reigning P L trophy holding manager can't take us to the next level?
Haha. Ok.
Fame Monster said:Can't believe we're taking so long to sack him. I would have sacked him four months into his job, when we got raped by Bayern at home last year as a result of him making the same fundamental errors that he made tonight. I'd probably fuck Khaldoon off as well because I hold him responsible for letting it go on for so long. We need a half-decent manager, overseen by some ruthless Vincent Tan motherfucker as director of football and then we can talk about the Champions League.