Mr Ed (The Stables) said:JoeMercer'sWay said:If you offered Blues the results we've had I think many would take it, the performances haven't been great but we still nearly stole another win today.
United got lucky at Southampton but lost at Everton, they may be ahead for now but they've had 3 bankers since Everton, we've already disposed of 2 of our hardest away games and haven't lost either.
This season more than ever seems to be saying to the top teams "must win your home games and try and steal away wins if you can but getting draws is the requirement", I think going away from home is getting harder and harder for all the top teams.
Totally agree with you.
primemutton said:slightly worrying though , 4 games in and no particularly good performances. i do agree though we were a tad unlucky not to win.
m20.benny said:we should never be happy with a draw.
Its not good enough, but I did see some positive signs. Fulham away in a few weeks will be a good test.sam-caddick said:Just read we have won only 5 in 15 away games.
Wow, that is not good enough for a champions team!
A man who understands the game.markbmcfc said:Not sure why the Barry for Tevez sub is so hard to understand?
He wanted Yaya further forward, so had to sacrifice a forward player. Mario goes back for corners and is decent at getting a clearance in, so he needed to stay on. We needed to maintain the width so Nasri and at that point Sinclair had to stay on. Yaya had to go in the hole, where Tevez was. Tevez isn't a wide player whereas Nasri can play there, so he took Tevez off.
The Yaya further forward sub has paid of plenty of times so it can't be criticised.
Personally i'd have swapped Silva for Nasri at the same time, but it shouldn't be hard to understand the Barry Tevez sub. You have to maintain shape and the "took a striker off and a def midfielder on at 1-1" argument is very naive.