The concerning thing regarding the team today was that most posters appeared to be happy with the starting line up with the exception of Yaya, the mitigating factor was that at least he was playing in a forward position. As such i don't believe Pelle deserves stick for the line up, however it was clear early on that it just wasn't happening for Yaya and he should have been pulled at half time.
What baffled me is that he then took off Fernando to accomodate Nacho, there is no doubt the young kid was the right decision to come on but Yaya had to come off at that point, fuck me we all know that we can no longer la him in a midfield 2 but to try and do this against Spurs was madness verging on neglect. You can put your house on it that Yaya will start in the CL and the final against the dippers and no doubt at the end of the month we will all be bemoaning the decision.
I said in the match thread that Spurs were the better team and i stand by that, i know they got the luck today with the penalty but when i look at both teams I can only see us finishing behind them come May. They looked a lot more composed and organised and in the end they ground out the result they needed.
I would be surprised if we finish top 3 at the moment and i never thought i would be writing that back in September.
I think you and blueincy need glasses, sarcasm was obvious.I must be missing something.... Your post that was followed by the lightning bolt said the following:
You all say you want application. Sterling works his bollocks off. "He's shit!"
Emphasis on "He's shit!"
If you are saying the opposite, that Sterling is just fine, then I agree with you..... either I need glasses or you need to re-phrase the original post...
hate to ask this because it has probably been discussed to death, so i apologise in advance.
But is there any chance at all Pep Guardiola wont come if we dont qualify for the CL?
The concerning thing regarding the team today was that most posters appeared to be happy with the starting line up with the exception of Yaya, the mitigating factor was that at least he was playing in a forward position. As such i don't believe Pelle deserves stick for the line up, however it was clear early on that it just wasn't happening for Yaya and he should have been pulled at half time.
What baffled me is that he then took off Fernando to accomodate Nacho, there is no doubt the young kid was the right decision to come on but Yaya had to come off at that point, fuck me we all know that we can no longer la him in a midfield 2 but to try and do this against Spurs was madness verging on neglect. You can put your house on it that Yaya will start in the CL and the final against the dippers and no doubt at the end of the month we will all be bemoaning the decision.
I said in the match thread that Spurs were the better team and i stand by that, i know they got the luck today with the penalty but when i look at both teams I can only see us finishing behind them come May. They looked a lot more composed and organised and in the end they ground out the result they needed.
I would be surprised if we finish top 3 at the moment and i never thought i would be writing that back in September.
That's OK! Appreciate it's just opinion and other people have their own.Totally disagree. We dominated the second half. Toure was at the heart of everything offensively we did.
Seems you've made your mind up, I'm not his Dad or his mate. So I'll leave you to it.
And that game in hand will be played at Klanfield just three days after we play them at Wembley. Great game to have in hand isn't it? All sorts of Tom, Dick and Harry teams win there but we've not managed it for 13 seasons.
It's always the same. We start playing when we go a goal down.Deserved at least a point , can someone tell me why we changed to a team of urgency and passion , when we had a harsh penalty awarded against us ? Why don't we play from the 1st minute. with urgency and passion ? Is it just a general lack of hunger for a team which has seen it and done it all .Not even going to discuss Clattenturd , he robbed us at their cess pit of a ground with two blatant offsides and did the same today with the joke penalty. Vinny was a positive , thought we reduced the Spuds to a couple of half chances , Joe did not have a lot to do , to be fair. Onward and upward , our injury and fixture schedule means we will have to play a few EDS lads at Chelski , and then concentrate on going as far as we can in the Champs league .
Laughable that some people are calling out Sterling. Aguero was the worst city player on the pitch today. His touch was awful, decision making worse. Several occasions where sterling had acres of space in front of him, yet aguero never passes to him. All season it's been that way. But let's hang the manager and young sterling. Seems the route most are going these days. Sterling played as well as he could have with the support he was getting. Not to say he played great, but he is being deployed to support the spine of the team. It's quite obvious he doesn't have a license to do what he wants...
We sat back and absorbed pressure on the first half, which is what half the forum was asking for all week, yet we curse the team for being boring and slow. Looked like a page out of Mancini's book all half. If he was in the dugout, people would be focusing on the sad sad reality that the worst penalty I've ever seen has gone against us and it changed the complexion of the game.
100% better performance than last week. Hats to Arsenal for keeping us 6 pts in it.
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No mate......deal is signed and he's coming....no get out clause........I'm VERY happy to say CL or no CL...he's our manager next season!; )
My point exactly
I was amazed he took Fernando off instead of Toure. I said to the people next to me, we'll be wide open on the break now, and that's exactly how it turned out. Stupid costly decision. Toure was offering nothing goig forward and at least Fernando is defensively strong.I must have watched a different game. Today was better than the last few weeks. They created nothing until the ref decided to cheat with the penalty. Then I thought our manager panicked. He should never have taken Fernando off. Overall we looked a lot more solid and it took a dodgy penalty and hitting us on the break that cost us.
I was gutted after Dippers and Leicester but not so much today. Another loss granted but I feel cheated by the ref rather than the players effort. I can't even bring myself to criticise our manager and I really want to.