Get real, we have no chance of winning the title. Yes I will be going for the remainder of the season.
We had to go for it following Clattenburg's intervention.
Pellers seems to vary little from the game plan that with the selection he makes - great international footballers - something will turn up. The players will do their jobs, get away with the odd mistake and the hundreds and thousands of chances that come our way will have the odd conversion. It's the Micawber plan. Sometimes it works, most time it doesn't because we cannot cope with highly organised teams who have clearly done the lowdown on us and find it incredibly easier than they anticipated.
Spurs had fully stamped visas and passports to enter our half knowing full well that Carlos wouldn't be troubling them and Danny Cheating Bastard Rose could be a left winger all day!
When it works it's unstoppable, when it works it is a joy to behold. When it doesn't it is the most frustrating thing to suffer for ninety plus minutes.
So go for it. Without Yaya Toure.
Let our one defensive midfielder, Fernando, stop the breakaways, let Fernandinho buzz around in the centre & at both ends & see if we can get something from the game.
Pellegrini has nothing. His whole plan is hoping people sych as Yaya, Silva, Aguero rescue him. That's why he plays them half fit, out of form, knackered, anything. Early season it was DeBruyne. Even if he was blowing out of his arse, get him on the pitch whenever possible. Same with Kompany.
He's got nothing.
Who gives a fuck we have pep next season :)
We needed an extra attacking option to stretch them. It worked. If Fernandinho and Otter had done their jobs properly we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Season was a right off as soon as the Pep rumours surfaced, I did warn you all but got shouted down as normal. Chickens coming home to roost.
We streched Spurs because we upped the tempo & people such as Silva, woke up. Kelechi added more goal threat. Just needed to maintain the balance of the team, by making the hard decision.
It was not purely coincidence that we took off our def centre mid & Spurs put on fresh legs & ran through it. It was just thier manager seeing the obvious potential flaw in the plan.
It's not.
We were better today, but still quite a way off our potential. And we wont play well until Pellegrini drops Toure who is a massive drain on the team (that is my view and a minority one). I think ou problems are two fold: injuries and playing a player who has gone and is so far off the pace it's shocking.
These factors will get worse as the season progresses and we'll take big morale hits at Chelsea and Wembley. I am convinced we will lose at Wembley because Pellegrini is committed to playing Toure and he is so easy to bypass. It doesn't matter where Pellegrini plays him he cannot contribute (excepting the odd moments of magic)
If Utd, Southampton West Ham put a run together they will get 4th.We'll win a few home games, but will be very vulnerable away
Did you watch United v Sunderland?
They were rubbish. You should have had at least a point against Spurs having conceded a penalty that never was.
I accept Yaya seems off the pace these days and arguably at fault for losing possession for the second goal however he can still bring moments of class
As I say I think you'll easily be top 4 having now a 6 point cushion and only 6 points off the top you are still in with a shout for the title.
So we will have to agree to differ.
I think you're being too negative.
Me too! I don't think we will win the title because I cannot see us adopting a game plan that maximises the points, home or away. I will still turn up, cheer the team on and hope we see some scintillating football before the season closes. And, hopefully, deliver a CL place to Pep next season.
Get real, we have no chance of winning the title. Yes I will be going for the remainder of the season.
Except that wasn't the case yesterday, we comfortably contained them playing a more cautious, pragmatic game until Clattenburg intervened.
No chance? How do you work that out?
Yes, and to come away with the three points, something would turn up. We shouldn't be settling to 'contain' teams at home. We should be dominating them like we used to. Press them in their half, don't give them free passage into our half (Rose must have thought he was in the Sahara Desert yesterday) and make sure their defence and goalkeeper are worked!
No chance? How do you work that out?
Like I said, they ran through it because Fernandinho was ball watching.
No, they ran through Yaya, & Fernandinho wasn't able to run accross 20 yards quickly enough to rescue the situation.
Fernando would have already been there of course because that's where he plays.