Our free flowing play must have been restricted.

Bojinov The Bull

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At the start of the season we were playing fantastic football, the stuff Barcelona would play but because we were conceding goals regularly I think Mancini has now restricted the movement of the team. Early on when we attacked we would have 2 or 3 players making forward runs into the box at once for Silva to thread a ball to which was very successful because it made teams unable to defend it, now players like Aguero who should be in the box getting on the end of these balls are having to come deeper to pick it up and try and make something happen themselves.

Against 15/20 of the teams in this league now they will be putting 10 men behind the ball when the play us and with us being in our rigid positions passing it slowly sideways it is making it too easy for them to defend against us. Mancini needs to take the shackles off again and let the creative players do what they want, we'll have so much more success in front of goal and we cant afford to keep dropping points now. 4-2 is better than 1-0!
 
We're not doing much differently. We've played with high full backs all season, we've played with wide men that drift infield all season, we've played with 2 upfront all season (in general, the only exceptions have been when 1 of our 3 strikers had a knock), we've played a possession game all season, focusing on short passes. It's the opposition that have changed, not us. But fair play to them - they've all scouted us extensively, watched the games where we've struggled and have come up with a game plan to stop us. I'd expect them to do so. It's now down to Mancini to find a solution.
 

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