pweyhe said:You can see all the evidence of how great a player he is in games like today's. His involvement in both of the first 2 goals was excellent! I even saw Arsenal fans on Twitter talking about how class he is.
I think most fans know how important he is, but some people love to talk about his 'sideways' passing. Well take a look at the second goal.. all the build up he played before the crucial moment was every bit as important as the actual pass he made to set it up. He's moving around working with 3 different players in a small area to open up pockets of space, and suddenly Coutinho is in a defensive position, and we have open space going into the box. It's brilliant!
He also works so hard all over the field. He gets back on defense, and we could never play 2 in midfield without him moving into the center and providing extra options. I don't even know why I'm bothering trying to convince the haters on here, because clearly Pellegrini knows his worth!
MSP said:I'll never understand people getting on his back. Even when it looks like he is shite he is so crucial part of City's football philosophy it's untrue. He gels everything in City football style and his work is more often than not a catalyst for Silva and Yaya to do the final magic.
jollylescott said:After watching the replay it reinforced to me that he had a great game. He was everywhere. All credit to Samir.
He has his ongoing critics on here, but I am sure that Pellers thinks quite differently and values him enormously as a player.
Chippy_boy said:Most frustrating of players for me, and personally I don't think he had a great game. One of his strongest qualities normally is his ability to retain possession and in the first half he gave it away repeatedly.
The thing that drives me bonkers about him is his constant slowing down of play, especially when we are in threatening positions, he seems to favour pirouetting and passing backwards instead of the penetrating forward pass. And he takes too bloody long over it as well. The tippy tappy 5 yard passes "to you Yaya", "no back to you Samir", "no you have it Yaya" bollocks does my head in at times.
That said, he was instrumental in the first 2 goals. I just wish he was a bit more direct and less farting about. We would have scored a 4th or 5th goal I reckon has he not fannied about so much towards the end.
I think overall he's a really good player and I do value him. I just think he could be a sensational player if he was more direct.
Perfect summarisation, quite lazy at times last night. Can do a good job if you want to stop the game dead !Chippy_boy said:Most frustrating of players for me, and personally I don't think he had a great game. One of his strongest qualities normally is his ability to retain possession and in the first half he gave it away repeatedly.
The thing that drives me bonkers about him is his constant slowing down of play, especially when we are in threatening positions, he seems to favour pirouetting and passing backwards instead of the penetrating forward pass. And he takes too bloody long over it as well. The tippy tappy 5 yard passes "to you Yaya", "no back to you Samir", "no you have it Yaya" bollocks does my head in at times.
That said, he was instrumental in the first 2 goals. I just wish he was a bit more direct and less farting about. We would have scored a 4th or 5th goal I reckon has he not fannied about so much towards the end.
I think overall he's a really good player and I do value him. I just think he could be a sensational player if he was more direct.