He had a somewhat catastrophic 20 minutes which was compounded by the two goals. Otherwise I'd describe the remaining 70 minutes as pretty average.Gaylord du Bois said:Are you saying his over all performance was poor or just the two errors? I've not had a chance to watch the game yet so it's a genuine question.Bluewonder said:Sorry, that's complete rubbish. It was very poor defending from Mangala for both goals.Stoned Rose said:He wasn't just 'a bit unfortunate', he was dropped right in the shit on both goals by poor defensive covering from those who should know better. A huge mountain of shit was falling on top of him and he tried his best in split second circumstances to deal with it.
His body shape was fine. Had he not been so unlucky and it'd had gone out off his head for a corner not a single pundit or poster would've criticised his body shape. Very snidey and sloppy punditry from Chuckleface.
Using MOTD to support your point is barrel scraping of epic proportions imho mate. This the same MOTD who mentioned absolutely nothing about how excellent he was in his debut against the league leaders? Sounded more like an opportunity to undermine the lad's confidence in much the same way they tried with MDM last season.
For the first his body positioning was totally wrong, there's no way he should've been facing his own goal.
The second he was ball watching and had no idea where the Hull forward was, before sticking out a clumsy and unnecessary leg.
Of course there were other contributing errors, such as Clichy getting skinned, but Mangala's individual defending was very poor.
Deepest Blue said:Anyone who saw him play for Porto would know that he has moments of rashness in him but he has all the ability to be a dominant CB when he matures.
It didn't cost anything in the end and I'm sure the staff will work through the errors with him so in a perverse way I'm sort of glad he made them.
coleridge said:de niro said:ManCityX said:That's just because MDM is used to the league. MDM took 3-4 months before he came into top form
Absolutely. So we use mangala carefully till ready.
Of course. But he needs to learn from his mistakes whilst playing alongside the best centre half in the world. He's not going to learn much more from the bench, is he? However, MDM will fill in as appropriate. Lucky us, eh?
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:Did he in fact have a bad game? Or just a nightmare ten minutes? I haven't seen any of this match yet, and I'd really like a balanced, fair assessment of his performance over the whole ninety minutes from someone.
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:Well, that's concise.
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:Did he in fact have a bad game? Or just a nightmare ten minutes? I haven't seen any of this match yet, and I'd really like a balanced, fair assessment of his performance over the whole ninety minutes from someone.