Palace v City post match thread.

[Paladin]

How about 11/11/12, City 2 (Aguero 65, Dzeko 88), Spurs 1 (Caulker 21).

 

[Kenny Clements Perm]

I dont understand why ppl talk about pelle has to go. Its just one game today that we were unlycky. Palace is flying at the mom. Victory against scum next week and we still in it. Cant sack a manager just because we dont win every game. Look scum have spent 150m£ and they just level with us. They not even near chavski. Relax ppl. New faces inn this summer dzeko out, bony in form things will be back at normal next season. There is no solution to sack manager. Who would take a bob where they know they only get two years in the hot seat. No big managers avail. anyway that can do any better. Sitting with a feeling that key players are out of form, and tired. Get the 2nd place this season and prepare good for next season.

Fully get what you're saying, and we've had some savagely back luck: pen today, their goal was offside, we hit the post and their keeper made some lucky saves (Silva first half). However we have only won 2 in 7, and Leicester could have beaten us (they should have had 2

Ya,Ya and Dezko were awful today. I've also got a bad feeling Kun might have one eye on joining Madrid.

Let's turn United over next week; however, if we get beat, convincingly, I'm going to get very worried

 

[david whites spike]

I can understand the defensive changes I really can.zabbas travelling and personal bollocks and MDM's experience blah blah ******* blah but to persist with dzeko and navas is absolute criminal.
Anyone else find theirselves shouting at the players not to pass it them??
Must be me :-(
Worst performance in a city shirt from dzeko tonight.
I'm technically better than him.true story.

 

[cleavers]

Silva, Kompany, Aguero (& Milner when given the chance) apart, the rest just haven't got the guts to stand up and be counted when the opposition get stuck in

Games, this season, against Burnley, Liverpool, Stoke, & Middlesborough are just four examples that spring to mind instantly.

Let's hope we never see Dzeko or Navas in a City shirt again. Both have been absolutely appalling, not just tonight, but all season

I thought Fernandhino was our best player, Dzeko our worst, closely followed by Sagna.

 

[super_city_si]

I can understand the defensive changes I really can.zabbas travelling and personal bollocks and MDM's experience blah blah ******* blah but to persist with dzeko and navas is absolute criminal.
Anyone else find theirselves shouting at the players not to pass it them??
Must be me :-(
Worst performance in a city shirt from dzeko tonight.
I'm technically better than him.true story.

Haha. I said in the match day thread that every time Navas got the ball I had the same feeling I get when we win a corner.

 

[Paul_Powers_Tash]

is there anyone in this entire forum who though having two up front with navas and clichy trying and failing to supply them was the right thing to do.




we should of started with milner and played one up front, and nasri instead of navas.




sack him now and put paddy in charge with brian kidd.

Nasri instead of Navas?? Are you having a laugh. Navas is far from good enough don't get me wrong but when was the last tine Nasri did anything. He's an absolute disgrace and should never have the privilege of pulling on that blue shirt ever again.

When Nasri is the solution I dread to think what the problem is!!

 

[Kenny Clements Perm]

The stats tell the full story. We dominated every one of them apart from the only one that mattered,

The truth is that this season we look like a group of talented players, thrown together and given a football and told to go and work it out, The players are good enough to keep the ball and thus have the lions share of possession, corners etc but against well organised teams we cant make our superior skills and stats count.

For people scratching their heads let me let you into a little secret. Teams win leagues not individuals, and teams are created on the training ground by the manager. Teams play in certain ways that maximise the opportunity at that particular time/situation and minimise the threat. This is done by group habit and not individual choice. Group habits are built, refined and ingrained on the training pitch by a manager with vision who knows what he is doing..

When Mancini took over he upset Tevez, Bellend and co because he made them train and practice without a football. He drilled it into the players where he expected them to be and what he expected them to do in given situations. These drills were designed to inflict the maximum damage on the opposition dependent of the oppositions strengths and weaknesses while minimising the oppositions potential to hurt us. Only when they understood this did he give the players a ball to play with.

This is nothing new or revolutionary but is an absolute per-requisite if you want to win the highest honors in the game.

What we are seeing from Pellegrini is absolutely not this. There is no game plan uniquely devised to maximise the tools/players at the managers disposal considering the strengths and weaknesses of the opposition. There is no preset, co-ordinated patterns of play to create maximum havoc in the opposition defence.

The very fact that despite the enormous size and strength of the team it takes us over 300 attempts before we score from a corner demonstrates as vividly as anything else that the manager has no plan beyond picking a different group of good players each game and asking them to go and do their best.

People say we have been found out and teams know how to play against us. The truth is the manager has been found out.

You stole my name!

I was Paul Power's Moustache, but I got kicked off because I was accused of 'being a rag'

Good name

 

[Eaglechief]

The stats tell the full story. We dominated every one of them apart from the only one that mattered,

The truth is that this season we look like a group of talented players, thrown together and given a football and told to go and work it out, The players are good enough to keep the ball and thus have the lions share of possession, corners etc but against well organised teams we cant make our superior skills and stats count.

For people scratching their heads let me let you into a little secret. Teams win leagues not individuals, and teams are created on the training ground by the manager. Teams play in certain ways that maximise the opportunity at that particular time/situation and minimise the threat. This is done by group habit and not individual choice. Group habits are built, refined and ingrained on the training pitch by a manager with vision who knows what he is doing..

When Mancini took over he upset Tevez, Bellend and co because he made them train and practice without a football. He drilled it into the players where he expected them to be and what he expected them to do in given situations. These drills were designed to inflict the maximum damage on the opposition dependent of the oppositions strengths and weaknesses while minimising the oppositions potential to hurt us. Only when they understood this did he give the players a ball to play with.

This is nothing new or revolutionary but is an absolute per-requisite if you want to win the highest honors in the game.

What we are seeing from Pellegrini is absolutely not this. There is no game plan uniquely devised to maximise the tools/players at the managers disposal considering the strengths and weaknesses of the opposition. There is no preset, co-ordinated patterns of play to create maximum havoc in the opposition defence.

The very fact that despite the enormous size and strength of the team it takes us over 300 attempts before we score from a corner demonstrates as vividly as anything else that the manager has no plan beyond picking a different group of good players each game and asking them to go and do their best.

People say we have been found out and teams know how to play against us. The truth is the manager has been found out.

Well put sir! The best reply tonight on this forum.

 

[citytill1die84]

We played well and on another day we'd have won. I'm gutted we lost but what I can take from it is that at least most of them tried.

Palace defended like their lives depended on it.

We had shots that were deflected just wide or superbly saved by Speroni.

Aguero post at 0-0 an inch more to the right it hits post and goes into the net.

Palace Offside twice for 1st Goal.

Hart (IMO) at fault for 2nd goal.

Clear handball and penalty not given.

4 minutes injury time, Speroni wasted that alone 2nd half, 3 goals, 6 subs and Palace fans had the ball for over a min.

Overall a very frustrating night but I take the positvies in that we played well and were very unlucky.

 

[brewboy]

The stats tell the full story. We dominated every one of them apart from the only one that mattered,

The truth is that this season we look like a group of talented players, thrown together and given a football and told to go and work it out, The players are good enough to keep the ball and thus have the lions share of possession, corners etc but against well organised teams we cant make our superior skills and stats count.

For people scratching their heads let me let you into a little secret. Teams win leagues not individuals, and teams are created on the training ground by the manager. Teams play in certain ways that maximise the opportunity at that particular time/situation and minimise the threat. This is done by group habit and not individual choice. Group habits are built, refined and ingrained on the training pitch by a manager with vision who knows what he is doing..

When Mancini took over he upset Tevez, Bellend and co because he made them train and practice without a football. He drilled it into the players where he expected them to be and what he expected them to do in given situations. These drills were designed to inflict the maximum damage on the opposition dependent of the oppositions strengths and weaknesses while minimising the oppositions potential to hurt us. Only when they understood this did he give the players a ball to play with.

This is nothing new or revolutionary but is an absolute per-requisite if you want to win the highest honors in the game.

What we are seeing from Pellegrini is absolutely not this. There is no game plan uniquely devised to maximise the tools/players at the managers disposal considering the strengths and weaknesses of the opposition. There is no preset, co-ordinated patterns of play to create maximum havoc in the opposition defence.

The very fact that despite the enormous size and strength of the team it takes us over 300 attempts before we score from a corner demonstrates as vividly as anything else that the manager has no plan beyond picking a different group of good players each game and asking them to go and do their best.

People say we have been found out and teams know how to play against us. The truth is the manager has been found out.

Well put sir! The best reply tonight on this forum.