Stoke Vs City Post Match Discussion Thread

[BoyBlue_1985]

Sooner we realize Milner is waste of space the better. He is workhorse with no skill whatsoever and offers nothing in offense, how did he get on field when we needed to score goal. The same for England, every time he plays and, God forbid, Barry England loses all little of pace and fluidity it had

Let the shit storm begin, cause I was negative about crap player that is loved for having no talent but 3 lungs

thank fuck you have posted this... thought i was the only one thinking this

Yaya has been terrible for around 9 months. I cant remember the last time he had a good game yet Milner who plays now and again is the problem

 

[citytill1die84]

Apparently the Mancini song was being called out by the fans-is this true?

If it is I would not be suprised.

If so that's an utter fucking disgrace Mancini never won at Stoke in fact we never played well against Stoke with him either.

No not a disgrace as we would have won last year but for two blatant handballs that let Crouch score.

I am all behind Pellegrini but bringing up
Mancini's record when he made us winners is a complete joke.

Why is it a joke? He never won a league game at Stoke Pellegrini doesn't win and having him as manager is a mistake why? I like Mancini and respect everything he did BUT HE'S NOT FUCKING HERE ANY MORE GET OVER IT. Rant over :)

 

[Marvin]

Well well well..sat on bus and the majority yes the majority are now saying what we have just witnessed was utter garbage that was and there is zero difference to last season..

Fuck this holistic shit..the club have majorly fucked up..

Come on shears lets be hearing your..its a good point bollocks..sorry but its anything but that..

It was poor, but then look at the team we had out and the players missing due to injury / internationals / Europe

 

[herrock]

Hart, our best player today
Zabba, steady but quality of crossing was poor
Kolarov, overhit passes too much
Nastasic, decent game
Garcia, headless chicken
Yaya and Rodwell, struggled to hold stoke midfield
Nasri, just like last season
Jovetic, had our best chances but couldn't get on the ball.
milner, helped zabba with Etherington but didn't offer anything going forward
Negredo, no service but a handful for stoke defense

very worrying that we aren't holding the ball as we used to, yaya is not looking so imposing this season and Garcia is all over the place at centre half. It looks like champions league is the number one priority this season and we just have to hope that the team are just struggling to adapt to a new style of play.

 

[NQCitizen]

Not surprised by the flapping and whining. We were poor today, no doubt about that, but really with the injuries we have, and a CL game in midweek, plus the rags next weekend. The point and clean sheet will do.

Absolutely no need to panic or make rash judgements about the players or the manager. We will get much better.

If panicking is unacceptable I vote blind italicised optimism should be too Billy.

 

[Blue Elmo]

Wholesale changes was never going to help. If you want a team to gel and you want to cement your tactics, you need to be fairly consistent with who plays. The only hope I can take from it is that we still have Kompany, Silva etc. to come back. But when we aren't even troubling Stoke, that's an issue. I know we are still bedding in I suppose, but I'd still expect more from the team. I hope we pick up because form like this isn't going to bring us anything come the end of the year. Pellegrini needs to sort his best team out and quickly.

 

[cookster]

442 is very boring.

Yep, majority of top teams in Europe play 1 up top. We need some tempo and energy in the midfield it's like wheelchair soccer at times.

 

[SkyBlueUSA]

Maybe Real Madrid was right about Pellegrini.

About saying that it was only due to Mourinho's availability as to why they chose to replace him?

It's true Perez had a hard on for Jose. The positives, is Joe Hart looked pretty good, the rest of the team was meh. It's the managers job to at least get some sort of organization out of the team. Looked way too discombobulated out there.

 

[pudge]

FFS. What on god's earth is it with your calling Billy out bollocks? Give it a fucking rest, it's so dull.

It's very apt

No it's not. Billy didn't sack Bob, Sheikh Mansour and Khaldoon did. Just discuss the fucking game.

It was a reference to the game...

 

[NQCitizen]

Hart, our best player today
Zabba, steady but quality of crossing was poor
Kolarov, overhit passes too much
Nastasic, decent game
Garcia, headless chicken
Yaya and Rodwell, struggled to hold stoke midfield
Nasri, just like last season
Jovetic, had our best chances but couldn't get on the ball.
milner, helped zabba with Etherington but didn't offer anything going forward
Negredo, no service but a handful for stoke defense

very worrying that we aren't holding the ball as we used to, yaya is not looking so imposing this season and Garcia is all over the place at centre half. It looks like champions league is the number one priority this season and we just have to hope that the team are just struggling to adapt to a new style of play.

0-0. Bloody Garcia. One error all game.