Cityfan said:
Only able to see it on TV as I was working but for those who slag of Dzeko one thing I would say is that he kept on showing the whole game and never gave up although he was playing poorly. Many players just hide when they are playign poorly, From the TV it looked a bit as if Nasri did that.
Right, this is what he did ALL THE TIME at Arsenal. I said he would do it here. He had an insane debut which gets the fans off your back for a while, and when I've bought up him being poor since (pretty much every minute he's been on the bloody pitch), everyone just covers their ears and throws his assist stats at me. And now people are starting to cotton on. Being the last person to hit the ball before the next player puts it into the net IS NOT ENOUGH. Nasri is a fair weather player. When you're dicking the opposition he'll look fantastic, score nice goals, get good assists. When it's not going your way he's done almost nothing to show he's got the balls to step up and make himself counted.
And you can all **** off if you think you can just quote this post and say "We win and still people find something to moan about", well there's no point moaning when we lose because everyone is sodding doing it!! :P
Dzeko strikes me as the sort of player as you say that even when it's not going his way, he's going to try and turn it around. He had a mare tonight but spent the majority of the game wondering around on his own sobbing "Kun, kun, come back kun".
Now I've got that off my chest, that was amazing. The game was rubbish, we were rubbish, we're still not as good as we think we are and frankly I'm downright scared about us coming up against Real Madrid or Barcelona, but winning in the dying seconds of a game is a luxury we're ill afforded as City fans, and by god does it feel good. Neville got it spot on, there is no better way to win a game. This could well be one of those eureka moments where the team realises we can go after teams in the dying minutes and win. Like those lot have literally been winning titles off the back off for fucking years.
The match was a mixture of poor form and just bad luck. I' amazed with the way things were going we even managed to get an own goal, because it seemed that every touch, every pass, every rebound was *just* going somewhere we didn't want it to go. We were so close to fashioning some great chances that were just a little too long, a little too hard, a little too this or that.
Oh and James Milner, you star. You absolute star.
