Martin Demichelis

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He certainly wasn't as dreadful as people are making out but there is absolutely no way you can play a midfield 2 of Yaya and MD against a team like Chelsea. Time and time again the Chelsea midfield got in behind our midfield, leaving the defence completely outnumbered. Also, his laziness for the Chelsea goal was astounding.
 
All these alternatives last night were not fit according to the manager, and on the Rodwell question, he was outclassed and overrun by Watford's midfield 2 weeks ago, and removed at half time for MD (moving out of defence), in doing so we went from 0-2 to 4-2 as a result, so anyone claiming Rodwell (if fit) should have started before MD is on pretty dodgy ground.
 
tonea2003 said:
waspish said:
He had a good game but he does dive in to much for me unlike Fernandinho who reads the game and Knicks the ball wins it
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his diving in is a major flaw for me
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Players that dive in often lack pace, that's why they do it.
 
dasblues said:
Zin 'messiah' Zimmer said:
blue ranger said:
I just don't get it with MDM Tolm and can't see where you are coming from.
The truth is that MDM has been poor since the day we signed him. Always has a mistake in him and his habit of diving in on half way line and leaving the rest of defence exposed is comical at times. The problem we have is that Nastasic has been even worse this season and the truth is kompany has covered for both this season.

Most sane city fans know the best defending partnership we have is kompany and lescott. Unfortunately lescott has never had a run of games. Personally don't think lescott is the answer next season but he is certainly better than the other 2.

Once every city fan heard that team last night their hearts will have sunk. Everyone expected MDM and Yaya to be overrun in midfield. In truth they were. Agree MDM wasn't the worst player, nastasic, negredo etc would be at the top of that list but to say he was our top player is laughable. Navas and Hart out best 2 by some distance.
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Most sane city fans???

Classic

Fundamentally to our team and the system we play is having a ball playing defender who links to midfield, sadly lescott can't pass 5 yards consistently enough to regarded as that player, get use to how MP sets up, he wants players comfortable on the ball which is why the cycle of players such as Richards, lescott, Milner, Barry is coming to an end, oh look, they're all English (alarm bells)

MD was nothing more than a stop gap and he's performed admirably since day one, performing poorly is a ridiculous statement and one which shows up a great deal of people's tactical savvy!!!!
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Exactly this, the whole MDM debate seperates the people who actually watch a game and make their own mind up and people who cant think for themselves so repeat what various pundits have told them ie MDM is a liabilty.

Name one game where he has cost us points/goals directly from his mistakes...

The guy is a stop gap, a warm body at the time when we couldn't get our first choice in during the summer. This will be rectified in time , until then I would rather have him next to Vinny than Nastasic or Lescott, who lets face it looks like he has a hand grenade at his feet if someone passes him the ball....
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I'm more than capable of making up my own mind on players, I don't give a shit what the media says I go off what I see and what I saw from DM was poor. The guy just lacks a brain. He doesn't think of the consequences of his actions. A good defender and midfielder always reads the game and calculates where they should be and when to make a tackle and when to back off.

DM just sees a player with the ball and runs at them like a dog in the park and attempts to tackle them without thinking of what would happen if he misses or gets out paced. It's this which leaves our defenders outnumbered time and time again. I will not put the Chelsea defeat on his shoulders cos it's not his fault Pellegrini is playing him out of position but im so sick of seeing the "lol those who don't rate him don't understand football" comments when he is making errors a 9 year old would get bollocked for.

He's 33 and has vast experience yet still makes schoolboy mistakes. I just hope Fernandinho recovers quicker than expected.
 
Bluebee2 said:
Ray78 said:
Scapegoat number 3.
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He did his job last night, not his fault we got beat, in fact far from it. I thought he did ok.
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I agreed he did a decent job considering midfield isn't his best position.
 
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