Player Topic: Eliaquim Mangala (2015/16)

[Stretfordian_Blue]

I thought the second if anyones fault was more the fault of Otamendi, way too slow coming out to close Morata.

 

[Nightmare Walking]

I thought generally the defence and the 2 central midfielders were really good tonight. It was the manager and the much vaunted attackers which were the problem. Can't fault Mangala this season at all and he can hold hid head up tonight.

 

[Silva_Spell]

Sorry but that's utter shit. The first ball is perfect and there is fuck all you can do about it, there will always be a tiny area over you where you cannot quite reach yet the attacker can get the slightest of touch. As for the second, it had literally nothing to do with him. He's covering the ball but it hits Kolarov, Otamendi over covers when it's not his ball, leaving a small gap on the right side of the middle that the guy exposes to score a great goal.

Wasn't Otamendi's fault because the only reason he 'over covered' was because it bounced off Kolarov's back, who was unlucky.
The only person at fault was Mangala for being out of position and forcing Otamendi to cover.
It was a good strike but at this level that's a mistake.

 

[Gundogan's Moustache]

Wasn't Otamendi's fault because the only reason he 'over covered' was because it bounced off Kolarov's back, who was unlucky.
The only person at fault was Mangala for being out of position and forcing Otamendi to cover.
It was a good strike but at this level that's a mistake.

Otamendi was already to far over before the ball hit Kolarov which gave Morata the space to finish

 

[BigOscar]

Wasn't Otamendi's fault because the only reason he 'over covered' was because it bounced off Kolarov's back, who was unlucky.
The only person at fault was Mangala for being out of position and forcing Otamendi to cover.
It was a good strike but at this level that's a mistake.

You're utterly wrong. Mangala is supposed to be where he was as the ball is down the left and he's the LCB, he was covering the ball fine if it went over Kolarov and into the channel. Otamendi is the RCB so has no business covering that ball at all. You seem very keen to make this his fault and are ignoring what actually happened

 

[Silva_Spell]

You're utterly wrong. Mangala is supposed to be where he was as the ball is down the left and he's the LCB, he was covering the ball fine if it went over Kolarov and into the channel. Otamendi is the RCB so has no business covering that ball at all. You seem very keen to make this his fault and are ignoring what actually happened

No, he wasn't. He was in front of Kolarov

 

[BigOscar]

No, he wasn't. He was in front of Kolarov

No hes isn't he's just inside of him exactly where he should be.

 

[Silva_Spell]

No hes isn't he's just inside of him exactly where he should be.

He's yards from where he should be

 

[BigOscar]

Sorry mate, but your eyes must be playing tricks on you if you think Mangala is the one at fault there. You're just plain wrong

 

[BlueTG]

Otamendi looks like he has the acceleration of Gareth Barry there.