So playing the weakened team against Utd worked out

Corky said:
It would have worked if we had won. In both the Swansea and United games better players were brought on so I don not think the intention was to get knocked out.

The win against Barca still means we are likely to come second, so it was not that important to qualification.
Click to expand...
It was very important. Now we only need to win one more game to assure ourselves of getting out of the group.
 
Eccles Blue said:
You're welcome. :-)

But Managers come and go, players come and go and Eccles Blue will still be supporting MANCHESTER CITY!!!
Click to expand...
Absolutely you will and that's great and I'm glad you're a City fan. But sometimes managers need to be a little more analytical and less sentiment led and look at the bugger picture.

If one of the big guns were injured against a tag team in the least important competition then this place would have had a melt down.
 
cibaman said:
I suspect that the club's opinion of the two domestic cup competitions took something of a battering last season. The Capital One Cup win was ok but in no way made up for what was an otherwise disappointing season. And it had a detrimental impact on our PL form. The FA Cup exit left a sour taste. Apparently it wasnt just the scheduling of the game that led us to field a weakened team. At the time we still had a decent shout of winning the PL, but were told that if we reached the semi final of the FA Cup we would be playing on Tuesday and Thursday in the final week of the season.

My guess is that Pep has been given a very clear mandate to focus on the PL and CL. If we draw United in the FA Cup we'll probably put out a similar team.
Click to expand...

I think you're reading far too much into it. Pep has made it pretty clear with his comments about the fans vs. UEFA that he doesn't care what happened before he arrived, it's a new beginning.

Obviously he will prioritise League and CL above domestic cups but Pep is a serial winner and knows success breeds success, and he's also pretty proud of his 3 trophies a season average I think he'll want the FA Cup. The fact it has it's own weekends helps too.
 
Totally vindicated, of course. Doubly so with United dropping league points. But it was never a contentious decision, it was always a "no brainer".
 
shemnel said:
OP, how can you be sure of something that never happened?? what is the point?

we may have fielded the strongest team at Utd and won and taken confidence and beaten WBA and barca handsomely, we may have done a million other combinations or eventualities.

'told you so'
Click to expand...

Cheap point-scoring is the point.
 
tramazi said:
not according to most people on here... They were calling for his head. I think anyone calling for the managers head should be banned. totally unworkable but would be nice to see. fkin flappers
Click to expand...
I'm in your corner on this, not about banning though, but I was in shock at the venum against Pep from our own fans for playing a young side against their best 11 at their ground and only losing 1-0, that in itself was enough to goad them with. The abusive reaction was uncalled for.
 
Marvin said:
Played two very good games against WBA and Barcelona.

Of course we don't know what would have happened had we played our strongest team at Utd. We might have won, but I'm sure we would not have beaten WBA and Barca. Guardiola made a good call, and events have proved him right.

Mourinho was the one who bottled it, and as a result dropped point at the weekend.
Click to expand...

How can you be? We may have won all three games and in fact scored 5 or 6 against Barca, not missing the umpteen chances we had.

Anyway, it's academic isn't it. We played the weakened side agains the scum; we lost. End of.
 
Eccles Blue said:
You're welcome. :-)

But Managers come and go, players come and go and Eccles Blue will still be supporting MANCHESTER CITY!!!
Click to expand...

Do you think that, unless injured, Aguero should play in every game in every competition in addition to his international commitments?
 
To be honest I think we should have played a full strength side against United and won, rested players against West Brom and only won by a single goal. Then those rested players from saturday would not have played for 6 days before Barca providing us with extra energy and we could have beat them 6-1. Easy making assumptions to suit your argument OP.

Great result on Tuesday lets just be happy and enjoy it. Cannot understand the logic, after such a great performance ans so much to discuss, of starting such a thread.
 
The fact that Pep inspired a weakened team to give it a good go against a full strength rag side has to be a positive. Hopefully down the road we'll all look back and laugh at the rags "desperate" attempt to knock us out in "their" cup final.
 
Ed2607 said:
I'm in your corner on this, not about banning though, but I was in shock at the venum against Pep from our own fans for playing a young side against their best 11 at their ground and only losing 1-0, that in itself was enough to goad them with. The abusive reaction was uncalled for.
Click to expand...

God I'm glad I didn't see that. That would have been the Likkle Cityers, stuck in the mindset that our biggest game of the season is the Manchester derby.

I bet they were going "We should play our strongest team every game" like it's 1978 all over again.
 
I can't fathom the amount of respect City fans are giving them ****s.
 
1.618034 said:
It was absolutely the right decision.

If the rags manager had an ounce of sense, he'd have done the same thing.

But he was/is desperate and we're not. He got his Pyrrhic victory.
Click to expand...


Tend to disagree. I think Moanio knows deep down that top 4 will be a really big ask this season and probably sees the cup as a more realistic chance of some success (even if just a prolonged cup run).

They're still Shite & SCUM
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top