Stoke away post match thread

[Bluewonder]

He's an utter idiot.

 

[Marvin]

Hart - can't really fault him
Kolarov - shite, useless going forwards, wasteful & at fault for first goal
Otamendi - best of a bad bunch at the back, made a few goal saving tackles. Least he looked interested in trying.
Demichelis - the worst. just truly horrible & looked like he couldn't be arsed. Not helped by high line though.
Sagna - poor. lost the ball a lot, not as bad as kolarov/demichelis though.
Fernandinho - poor for him. No idea why he was taken off though.
Fernando - poor. Got ran past consistently & offered little offensively.
Sterling - poor. Just offered nothing today.
Silva - poor. Normally runs the show but barely got involved.
KdB - shite first half, truly awful. Better second half. One of the few who looked bothered though so gains many points for that.
Bony - poor. Shite service to him but still no movement.

Kelechi - no service, ran around a bit but offered nothing. No better than Bony.
Delph - only player that looked bothered other than KdB/Otamendi. Didn't play well though.
Navas - no comments really, didn't have much time to do anything. Thrown into a lost situation.

Pellegrini - poor selection, poor tactics. Didn't show any passion.

Overall shambles. That's now 3 teams (Spurs/L'pool/Stoke) who were struggling for goals have torn us to pieces like it's nothing. If Pellegrini can't fix such blatant problems then he's going to be in trouble.

Kolarov had more shots on goal than any other City player. How can you say he's useless going forward. He was our best attacking player

 

[kippaxblue76]

Can anybody hand on heart say we have played to our potential at all this season?

The injury situation is getting ridiculous, what if anything are we doing about it?

We have shite pretty much all season apart from a few glimpses, gone fucking backwards.

 

[Meatbag]

Piss poor performance all round.

 

[Champions2012!]

Like the Liverpool game there's not one positive I can take from that game.

Unless it costed pellegrini his job

 

[Marvin]

our players man for man are better than stoke , the conditions were a great leveller , simple fact is Stoke wanted it more

And we had Demichelis and they didn't. We'd have won that game with Kompany. We made it easy for them

 

[PaulMoulden'sRecord]

our players man for man are better than stoke , the conditions were a great leveller , simple fact is Stoke wanted it more

Conditions same for both teams. Bojan and co hardly played long ball they outplayed and outskilled us. Thank god it was windy or it could have been 5 or 6.

 

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

with MDM looking like he couldn't outrun a tortoise, why did we think it a good idea to have our usual high line offside trap...it got shredded in the first half. A very worrying performance, the third one in about 6 weeks.
This is usually the time of the year that we start to move into top gear but we look a long way from going on a title winning run, our away form is collapsing. Things must be awry behind the scenes, it just doesn't add up

 

[LittleEgg]

our players man for man are better than stoke , the conditions were a great leveller , simple fact is Stoke wanted it more

Despite the conditions the stoke lads were not only wanting it more as you say, but also show boating many many times over.

That goes beyond just wanting it more. I honestly believe the this system of play has sucked the creativity and drive from this city side. Its totally insipid.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Such a fucking inconsistent team. One weak could look like world beater, next lose to pub team.

Players are not blameless as we've been inconsistent for years but manager doesn't look like he has a single idea how to fix this shit.

Too much money spent on this crap, when you look at PSG, they're miles ahead.

PSG look great in that ultra competitive Ligue 1 , give me a break