Stoke Vs City Post Match Discussion Thread

[daxman]

Is it just me, or does a combination of Kolarov-Nasri-Garcia tend to coincide with poor performances? Not just coincidence is it?

Yep two of the four defenders who got the cleansheet - it's their fault.

More scapegoating eh.

How hard would it be to say Yaya, Rodwell, Navas and mostly Pellegrini let us down?

How did Yaya let you down?

 

[fredmont]

Weve gone backwards.
Im not into these manager bashing posts. Its not my style. But, i dont think anyone can disagree that after the 4 games we have played, and 90ish million spent, we have improved on last season.
For me it looks like we have regressed.
Hopefully im wrong, and vinny coming back could change all that, but i fail to see how a centre half can change a lethargic, toothless midfield and an attacking line up who seem to be playing like strangers.
Im thinking that possibly kompany can come back, giving the midfield more confidence that they are looked after at the back and will be able to push on a little more. Yaya in particular should be playing as an attacking mid rather than holding.
Its frustrating, because we have arguably the best squad of players in the prem.
We need to absolutely destroy soneone in the next few games to take the pressure off. Next week would be a great time to start!!!

We started going backwards after we won the league. Poor close season signings but more importantly, instead of more of the same, Mancini started f*cking about with the defence, for reasons known only to him and then started slagging the players off for getting confused.

It's history now.Forget Mancini,someone had to replace him and Pelli it is.

Im not talking about mancini!
From the 4 games ive seen this season, we played 1 well (newcastle)
Other than that we have looked poor against poor opposition.
Im not at all interested in hearing "they put 10 men behind the ball" vecause there are teams that had had to put up eith that shit for years and they manage to find a way through.
Im talking about the fact that we look lethargic THIS season so far. Im saying peli, and i accept he needs time to impliment his grand plan successfully, does not look to be an improvement tactically over bobby SO FAR.

OK, the Mancini comment was for the general forum, not you.

Not sure what his tactics are at the mo but maybe they will be more suited to CL. Got to admit though that Mancini's don't shoot , don't cross tactics were ruining my enjoyment of the game. Pelli says his teams attack, not much evidence since Newcastle.

CL or PL ? PL for me.

 

[Chippy_boy]

I really do not know what some of you lot expected???

We were utter gash against Hull and Cardiff, and since then we have lost Silva and had an international break.

Did you really expect us to come back and miraculously play like Barcelona??? Away at Stoke???

I am delighted to didn't get hammered.

Do you not feel that we have gone backwards ???

That was nothing like a title winning side out there today ......

Yes, I do.

I just can't understand why anyone was surprised by today. Our turning up and playing would have been a bigger surprise.

 

[Paul_Powers_Tash]

You've got to be fair and give credit where credit is due. Pellers has already fixed our biggest problem from last season, the amount of chances we miss.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm struggling to come up with three performances in a row last year that were as poor as the last three. I don't rule out the possibility, and I'm all for giving Pelle time to sort things out, but apart from two or three games all season, I don't remember us looking so average against average teams in the Prem. Sure, we had some dodgy results, but in most of them we bossed the game and got hit on the break - the biggest frustration was that we couldn't convert territorial advantage into goals.

I'm at a loss as to why we have looked so average. Anyone who's ever watched Pellegrini's teams play with any regularity (judging by some of the halfwitted comments on the forum I don't think many have) will know we look nothing like his teams do. Lack of tempo, lack of movement off the ball. I'm left scratching my head to be honest. However one thing I'm certain about is that we will improve dramatically.

I think he dropped a couple of bollocks today in trying to rest Navas and Kun for the CL game. Milner was so poor and so anonymous it was frightening.

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

that was nowhere near good enough, a number of players anonymous, didn't quite get what we were trying to achieve with the line-up and it was a very poor performance.

Viktoria Plzen has become a must win game. Pellegrini needs to prove to the players and fans that he has got the nous in Europe and deliver upon it and put confidence into the players who can start to believe he's got something Mancini lacked. I feel that a point proven with a win in the week will lead to a good derby win as I think if we get over that hurdle then everything will start to click and confidence will flow.

Plzen is a huge, huge game and one that Pelle has to win.

 

[cleavers]

Hart now has 4 clean sheets (2 with England)

5 in fact, 3 with City !

 

[Chippy_boy]

We will be lucky to finish top 4 this season playing the way we are.

I disagree. Playing the way we are WE WILL NOT finish in the top 4.

The $64,000 question is, for how long we will play this badly. We are sure to improve or the manager will be sacked. I don't expect him to be sacked, btw.

But will our improvement be too late?

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

I'm struggling to come up with three performances in a row last year that were as poor as the last three. I don't rule out the possibility, and I'm all for giving Pelle time to sort things out, but apart from two or three games all season, I don't remember us looking so average against average teams in the Prem. Sure, we had some dodgy results, but in most of them we bossed the game and got hit on the break - the biggest frustration was that we couldn't convert territorial advantage into goals.

I'm at a loss as to why we have looked so average. Anyone who's ever watched Pellegrini's teams play with any regularity (judging by some of the halfwitted comments on the forum I don't think many have) will know we look nothing like his teams do. Lack of tempo, lack of movement off the ball. I'm left scratching my head to be honest. However one thing I'm certain about is that we will improve dramatically.

I think he dropped a couple of bollocks today in trying to rest Navas and Kun for the CL game. Milner was so poor and so anonymous it was frightening.

Beep beep beep..attention this vehicle is reversing.

 

[Anonymous]

Hart now has 4 clean sheets (2 with England)

5 in fact, 3 with City !

A positive in a sea of misery! :)