Didsbury Dave
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eddiemarin09 said:Noticed a lot of Mancini type occurrences..a lot of the match we would be on the break and when we got to around our opponents 18 yard line we slowed down almost as if we purposely let them run back to set up the bus..almost like we helped them do it
Yep. The game was an exact replica of many games last season. Not enough tempo or positive passing, and everyone waiting for someone else to open the defence. Yaya and nasri were just giving it to each other and in the end we resorted to trying to use the wide areas. Which is fine, as long as you do it well. Zab isn't going to do it, and if he keeps running into navas's space neither is he. Nasri can't overlap and kolorov is far too hit and miss.
What was annoying about this game is that, without silva in the team, yet again we couldn't do what we do best: pass our way through teams.
The biggest reason we lost that game was David Silva's absence. We have no one to make us tick without him and that was badly compounded with fernandinho's absence.
We lost the game for football reasons rather than Fight, bottle, winning mentality, whatever you want to call it.