Post Match Thread: City vs Spurs

Marvin said:
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
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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.
 
Gladstonian Liberal said:
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.
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Marvin being too negative? Never!
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
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.
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I hope I am proved wrong, but I see nothing in our play that suggests we are going to reel off have a dozen wins in a row. That is what it is going to take to give us a chance.

Like you I will go on supporting them and hoping things improve for the remainder of the season.
 
Rolee said:
Except that wasn't the case yesterday, we comfortably contained them playing a more cautious, pragmatic game until Clattenburg intervened.
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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!
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
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!
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In the circumstances I think it was the right way to approach it. The plan was working, they weren't troubling us and we were upping the ante as the game wore on. We were on top when Clattenburg intervened.
 
stonerblue said:
No chance? How do you work that out?
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Simply because I don't see us dominating like past seasons. We have been to easy to play against at times, and not been ruthless enough going forward. We don't seem to be able to play to a high tempo for 90 minutes and we have a manager who doesn't seem to bother about trying to look for the weaknesses in the opposition. He just believes we have better players and that will suffice. I am afraid you still have to come up with more than one tactic to be successful.
 
Neville Kneville said:
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.
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They didn't run through Yaya, they dispossessed Yaya.

Fernandinho shouldn't have needed to run across 20 yards, he should've been central. What was he doing that far over to one side?
 
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