Blue Mooner said:Sorry disagree with most people on here what I saw was a committed performance tonight and I thought we played well. But for atrocious refereeing decisions we would have got the result our play deserved.
Palace did absolutely nothing but managed to score from an offside and a free kick. Not an awful lot you can do about that.
League is over I think but time to battle for second and beat the rags next week.
Blue Mooner said:Sorry disagree with most people on here what I saw was a committed performance tonight and I thought we played well. But for atrocious refereeing decisions we would have got the result our play deserved.
Palace did absolutely nothing but managed to score from an offside and a free kick. Not an awful lot you can do about that.
League is over I think but time to battle for second and beat the rags next week.
Hamann Pineapple said:Just read a stat saying we haven't won a Premier League game when losing at half-time for 20 years !
Gray said:Big Dave I'm with you.Big Dave Watson said:Allow me to cross the line then.........we will lose, nailed on.sir baconface said:Doom and gloom, fair enough, but anyone saying we'll lose to the red shite next Sunday is crossing a line.
BigJoe#1 said:As I posted in the match day thread.
Manuel Pellegrini is the problem in my opinion.
Ha has unnecessarily chopped and changed the starting eleven. I know here have been occasions where injuries and availability have dictated this but in the main he has not been able to field a settled side. Along with this he plays strange and unorthodox tactics.
He should select the way he wants to play and field a consistent team (preferably without Navas) and stick with it
This IS his fault and I think I am done with him, time for him to go IMO.
Bodicoteblue said:I would be surprised now if Pellegrini is still with us next season.
He came to us with the "nearly man" reputation - he did well with smaller clubs , he nearly won the league with RM , but really he hadn't won anything of note , and now we can see why. Yes , he won the title in his first year , but he inherited a stable , settled side , based on sound defence ( much like Wenger did at arsenal, and when he changed things in his own image , they won one FA cup in nine years- and we can't see that scenario repeated with City),and there were some very influential external influences on the outcome.
He's an old school romantic, a man who thinks trophies can still be won playing stylish , attacking football, while the pragmatists , Mourinho being the prime example, have learned how to win - at all costs , if you like (an attitude sneered at by many but undoubtedly effective) by changing and adapting styles and formations, but most of all , by playing his players in their best , most effective positions, whilst at the same time , installing a sense of self-confidence , and a will to dominate other teams because you know that you are better than they are. Yes , in two games against Chelsea we were the better side , but go and have a look at the league table!
I fear that the Turtle also has this attitude , and even Wenger to an extent seems to have made a startling change.
I support City and I support the manager, but the sheikh and his team must now surely see that we will not achieve their aims as things stand.
We need to appoint a manager of the younger , modern generation , a man who can accept when mistakes are made and make the corrections needed .
This is the problem as I see it though. Our players gave a committed performance, and we still struggled to come up with any clear cut chances. We made a few towards the end when we were throwing the kitchen sink at them, but for most of the match, we didn't create any clear goalscoring chances. Combine that with the fact that our defence almost always gives away an easy chance for the opposition (or today, a dodgy decision or two) and you've got a big problem. We're not creating decent chances and we haven't been creating chances regularly (maybe we used them all up in that West Brom game).Blue Mooner said:Sorry disagree with most people on here what I saw was a committed performance tonight and I thought we played well. But for atrocious refereeing decisions we would have got the result our play deserved.