Micah Richards

[Chippy_boy]

Why did he make navas look poor tonight ?? I think iv read a comment stating this?

His problem - IMHO - is that he does not have a great footballing brain, ie a natural sense of awareness, where to position himself and where to run to. You see this often when he is defending, with him being out of position and getting the wrong side of players. Going forward, he has little quality, rarely beats a man, rarely puts a decent cross in (someone had a wager a couple of seasons back that Micah would not make a single successful cross all season, and I am not sure if he won or lost the bet), rarely hits the target with shots or headers.

On the positive side, he has great pace and enormous strength and defending he can therefore often get himself out of trouble. He also has boundless enthusiam and is always trying to get forward and trying to score. But in a way, this is also the problem. Navas is an incredibly skillful and tricky player with blinding pace. Given half a chance he will usually beat his man and get a quality cross in, or win a corner. Something we saw a lot of in the 2nd half. In the first half, Micah was constantly bombing forward where Navas wanted to be. We ended up with Navas having to cut inside all the time. At one point he gave up and decided to play on the left! And when Micah had the ball going forward (rather than Navas), nothing came of it.

To be fair, Zabba is not completely different, there are similarities. Historically, he was pretty inept going forward too, and in fact until a couple of seasons ago, I would have preferred Richards. But Zabba has improved SO much and now gets into much better positions, makes much better and well timed runs and puts quality crosses in. He is far the better of the two today.

Add to this Micahs shocking injury record - something I think is an unavoidable consequence of his weight and overly muscular physique - and I'm afraid I have doubts whether he has a long term future at City. He may be a fans' favourite, but not sure Pellegrini will see him in that light?

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

For me his ability is fine as a back up to Zabaleta but we cant keep carrying players who spend half a season or more on the treatment table.

 

[shevtheblue]

What has happened to his forward runs? in the league winning season he was as good as anyone in the league at them, now his runs are aimless and offer nothing.

 

[Salford_Blue]

What has happened to his forward runs? in the league winning season he was as good as anyone in the league at them, now his runs are aimless and offer nothing.

Please tell me that comment is not based on his 65 minutes after being out for a few months.

Make me understand that you have an ounce of common.

 

[eversince 76]

Richards looked rusty again. I don't want to judge him now after so many injuries, but he needs to play a streak of games and up his performance to convince me we should keep him at the club. I really hope he does pick up.<br /><br />-- Thu Jan 16, 2014 9:45 am --<br /><br />

Why did he make navas look poor tonight ?? I think iv read a comment stating this?

His problem - IMHO - is that he does not have a great footballing brain, ie a natural sense of awareness, where to position himself and where to run to. You see this often when he is defending, with him being out of position and getting the wrong side of players. Going forward, he has little quality, rarely beats a man, rarely puts a decent cross in (someone had a wager a couple of seasons back that Micah would not make a single successful cross all season, and I am not sure if he won or lost the bet), rarely hits the target with shots or headers.

On the positive side, he has great pace and enormous strength and defending he can therefore often get himself out of trouble. He also has boundless enthusiam and is always trying to get forward and trying to score. But in a way, this is also the problem. Navas is an incredibly skillful and tricky player with blinding pace. Given half a chance he will usually beat his man and get a quality cross in, or win a corner. Something we saw a lot of in the 2nd half. In the first half, Micah was constantly bombing forward where Navas wanted to be. We ended up with Navas having to cut inside all the time. At one point he gave up and decided to play on the left! And when Micah had the ball going forward (rather than Navas), nothing came of it.

To be fair, Zabba is not completely different, there are similarities. Historically, he was pretty inept going forward too, and in fact until a couple of seasons ago, I would have preferred Richards. But Zabba has improved SO much and now gets into much better positions, makes much better and well timed runs and puts quality crosses in. He is far the better of the two today.

Add to this Micahs shocking injury record - something I think is an unavoidable consequence of his weight and overly muscular physique - and I'm afraid I have doubts whether he has a long term future at City. He may be a fans' favourite, but not sure Pellegrini will see him in that light?

Perfect summary.

 

[Fat Chance]

If true another injury to Richards . Lets face he wasn't bad tonight . But you can tell he looks very rusty .

Rusty i agree with but some on here are saying he had a car crash of a game !!
I think your way off the mark- you just can't wait to get into his ribs can you .
Wat exactly did he do wrong or was it wat he didn't do - he was part of a team that won 5-0 FFS !!!!
I think MP shud have taken him off after an hour max, let the lad take it one step at a time.
I personally dont think he did too bad, wasnt the best player on show but he wasnt shite like some on here are trying to make out,he just looked a bit leggy after an hour or so which i think is understandable.
Why did he make navas look poor tonight ?? I think iv read a comment stating this?
The other week it was lescott making boyata look bad - SCAPEGOATS comes to mind for lescott and Micah if you ask me.
Really hope he's not injured tho.

You still at it Pete the coach, i described how Micah is willing to stand still and simply watch a teamate under pressure just a week or so ago to ya, last night he did it three times to teamates, if your eyesights not impaired you'd have noticed Navas and Ferdin look at him as if to ask 'what you playin at' so strong was thier body langauge..it was'nt by chance they pulled such faces whilst Micah was stood ...still....looking at them with an opponent at 12 o clock , one at 9 o clock, them pinned onto the by-line and Micah stood at 5 o clock as if enquiring who's round it was...got fuck all to do with fitness or first game back, he's an athlete playing football, nice kid i'm sure but nevertheless a lucky one given how many $'s he's pulled in off the back of his limited prowess.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

If true another injury to Richards . Lets face he wasn't bad tonight . But you can tell he looks very rusty .

Rusty i agree with but some on here are saying he had a car crash of a game !!
I think your way off the mark- you just can't wait to get into his ribs can you .
Wat exactly did he do wrong or was it wat he didn't do - he was part of a team that won 5-0 FFS !!!!
I think MP shud have taken him off after an hour max, let the lad take it one step at a time.
I personally dont think he did too bad, wasnt the best player on show but he wasnt shite like some on here are trying to make out,he just looked a bit leggy after an hour or so which i think is understandable.
Why did he make navas look poor tonight ?? I think iv read a comment stating this?
The other week it was lescott making boyata look bad - SCAPEGOATS comes to mind for lescott and Micah if you ask me.
Really hope he's not injured tho.

You still at it Pete the coach, i described how Micah is willing to stand still and simply watch a teamate under pressure just a week or so ago to ya, last night he did it three times to teamates, if your eyesights not impaired you'd have noticed Navas and Ferdin look at him as if to ask 'what you playin at' so strong was thier body langauge..it was'nt by chance they pulled such faces whilst Micah was stood ...still....looking at them with an opponent at 12 o clock , one at 9 o clock, them pinned onto the by-line and Micah stood at 5 o clock as if enquiring who's round it was...got fuck all to do with fitness or first game back, he's an athlete playing football, nice kid i'm sure but nevertheless a lucky one given how many $'s he's pulled in off the back of his limited prowess.

And yet the athlete (far too many people obsessed with his muscles) has been given new contracts by nearly every manager we have had since his first game and Mancini said he had it all to be one of the best defenders in world football, but hey what do managers who win things know

 

[BlueRockape]

FFS some of the comments. Great to see him back first game looked tired before going off , Pab is brill but won't last for ever MR one of our own

 

[davymcfc]

I thought he did really well considering it was his first game back from injury.

 

[Fat Chance]

Rusty i agree with but some on here are saying he had a car crash of a game !!
I think your way off the mark- you just can't wait to get into his ribs can you .
Wat exactly did he do wrong or was it wat he didn't do - he was part of a team that won 5-0 FFS !!!!
I think MP shud have taken him off after an hour max, let the lad take it one step at a time.
I personally dont think he did too bad, wasnt the best player on show but he wasnt shite like some on here are trying to make out,he just looked a bit leggy after an hour or so which i think is understandable.
Why did he make navas look poor tonight ?? I think iv read a comment stating this?
The other week it was lescott making boyata look bad - SCAPEGOATS comes to mind for lescott and Micah if you ask me.
Really hope he's not injured tho.

You still at it Pete the coach, i described how Micah is willing to stand still and simply watch a teamate under pressure just a week or so ago to ya, last night he did it three times to teamates, if your eyesights not impaired you'd have noticed Navas and Ferdin look at him as if to ask 'what you playin at' so strong was thier body langauge..it was'nt by chance they pulled such faces whilst Micah was stood ...still....looking at them with an opponent at 12 o clock , one at 9 o clock, them pinned onto the by-line and Micah stood at 5 o clock as if enquiring who's round it was...got fuck all to do with fitness or first game back, he's an athlete playing football, nice kid i'm sure but nevertheless a lucky one given how many $'s he's pulled in off the back of his limited prowess.

And yet the athlete (far too many people obsessed with his muscles) has been given new contracts by nearly every manager we have had since his first game and Mancini said he had it all to be one of the best defenders in world football, but hey what do managers who win things know

Mancini also said he was made of glass..and was one of the managers who clearly dropped this world international puma from his team.

Funny that Glass comment from Mancini...he was asked about strength and given the parrotts around the internet who copy-cat what Hansen once said (Micah and his strength) then he's gone down in folklore to be the strongboy, can't do an emergency stop mind...not that strong, oh no yoko oh no. You know what they say....dont be getting your strengths and your powers arse over tit