Secret things the squad have been working on in training

[syedorf]

Doesn't every change of manager come with boasts of improving fitness?

I think they will be doing specific training for who we are facing on a week by week basis.that's how he used to do it

He did say that in an interview, but he also said that that was only a small part, and the vast majority is about getting us to play our game properly. The "our" in that case being Villarreal. He said 90 or 95% is focused on improving their own game and 10% is about the specific opponent.

that's right I got it the wrong way around.

 

[ancoats]

its all about recovery time and getting your fitness levels right

playing and getting your 2nd wind is a big part of a football player if your
fitness levels are right then you should recover quicker in games meaning getting your 2nd wind and playing to the max

its in this
<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_wind" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_wind</a>

 

[yerwot?]

might be something radical, like putting corners where it hurts the opposition. Those to the near post, so rarely successful, so often tried.

 

[Carver]

Does this mean that Milner will find it harder to get into the team because the other players will have caught up to him in terms of fitness?

 

[jimharri]

Corners?

 

[Deepest Blue]

Corners?

Hope so also taking and defending free kicks.

 

[East Level 2]

might be something radical, like putting corners where it hurts the opposition. Those to the near post, so rarely successful, so often tried.

Well if you're on about corners; can we have some practice defending the buggers as well. Oh and defending against high balls in general. We conceded too many headers last season.

 

[BlueMo']

Corners?

Well there is definitely room for improvement.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I have no idea why we haven't been better from set pieces. Even when we have some combination of Dzeko, Toure, Kompany, Lescott, Garcia, Rodwell and Richards in the box, we so rarely score from them.

 

[Challenger1978]

Joleon Lescott was interviewed on Radio 5's Sportsweek by David Davies (possibly a few days old and aired today).

He was asked about Mancini, the changes under Pellegrini, whether he was a squad or regular player etc, but the one thing I found intriguing was that like Kompany he said that the training is of a higher intensity than under Mancini, and that the players were consequently fitter. This ties in with suggestions from pre-season that City are going to try and press the ball to a much greater extent than before.

Will we notice a difference - maybe not because it's all relative. Our opponents will also be fitter. We had the ball for the most part in Premiership games so fitness wasn't so important, but in Europe, particularly against Dortmund and to an extent Real Madrid we were overwhelmed at times.

Its the exact same sort of things said by the players when Hughes took over from Sven. It's the exact same sort of thing said by the players when Mancini took over from Hughes. Now the players are saying the exact same thing under Pellegrini and they'll probably do the same thing under the next manager. Its a nothing comment and i wouldn't read to much in to it.