Stoke Vs City Post Match Discussion Thread

[BobKowalski]

Sack the clowns who thought it was a good idea to get rid of barry. Absolutely fucking clueless.

You are clueless if you think Barry would help in a midfield 3. He'd be totally bypassed. I watched the whole of the Chelsea Everton game, and at times Barry was very ragged indeed.

Sorry can't agree. Barry was excellent today. Great game though. First neutral game that had me going. Thought Ross Barkley was excellent as well.

 

[LoveCity]

Barry would have made no difference in today's game since we kept a clean sheet and his role is mostly a defensive one. His contribution going forward has always been pretty limited. He might have helped against Cardiff, but he struggles against high intensity, high pressing teams. Actually, opponents like Chelsea (as they were today) and United have suited Barry a lot more than opponents like Southampton and Everton who are always snapping at your heels. It's no coincidence we seem to play well against United and Chelsea who haven't pressed us very hard, it's the mid to lower table teams who seem to be applying pressing tactics a lot more and we can't seem to handle them.

 

[Marvin]

We might look back on the Hull win, and the draw at Stoke as games which were important as we got results when we played a bad game and in the case of the Stoke game were really up against it.

We've got a lot of players coming back & Hart's performance will get the critics off his back so there are positives

It's a results business.7 points from 4 is not a disaster. And performances should improve. It's very much a learning curve at the moment

I really think Pellegrini made a mistake to make so many changes so soon. There was nothing radically wrong apart from morale

 

[MCC]

Sack the clowns who thought it was a good idea to get rid of barry. Absolutely fucking clueless.

You are clueless if you think Barry would help in a midfield 3. He'd be totally bypassed. I watched the whole of the Chelsea Everton game, and at times Barry was very ragged indeed.

Clueless.

 

[Anonymous]

No creativity

Yep. We create fuck all for our strikers, people were banging on about Negredo being the missing piece of the jigsaw and how many he'll score but he's gonna have the same problem Dzeko had, fuck all support.

Most City fans still don't realize this fact. They keep blaming the strikers, but they don't ask themselves why City creates only like 2 real chances in the entire half, while the other tops teams create chances every 5 minutes.

We looked dreadful up front today ... so much so that the Stoke keeper could have nipped to nearby Alton Towers for an hour or two and still not conceded a goal upon his return !

It's just as well that Stoke couldn't finish or we'd have been well and truly spanked again , we look totally disjointed as a team , and in all honesty look no better individually ...... only Joe Hart was really noticeable today , and some should be downright ashamed to pick up their wages after yet another dismal non performance on our travels.

Pellegrini holds his head in his hands , and has that 'haunted' look about him already ..... if these players are as desperate to impress him as we keep hearing , then they have a funny way of showing it !

(signed - 'disgruntled of East Didsbury'!)

 

[Blankomania]

Same old problems keep coming up again and again. We play to narrow sometimes, struggle to win without kompany, struggle at tough away grounds, left side is vunerable, struggle to create when silva doesn't play. I hope pellegrini can fix these i really do...

 

[flb]

Yep. We create fuck all for our strikers, people were banging on about Negredo being the missing piece of the jigsaw and how many he'll score but he's gonna have the same problem Dzeko had, fuck all support.

Most City fans still don't realize this fact. They keep blaming the strikers, but they don't ask themselves why City creates only like 2 real chances in the entire half, while the other tops teams create chances every 5 minutes.

We looked dreadful up front today ... so much so that the Stoke keeper could have nipped to nearby Alton Towers for an hour or two and still not conceded a goal upon his return !

It's just as well that Stoke couldn't finish or we'd have been well spanked again , we look totally disjointed as a team , and look no better individually ...... only Joe Hart was really noticeable today , and some should be downright ashamed to pick up their wages after yet another dismal non performance on our travels.

Pellegrini holds his head in his hands , and has that 'haunted' look about him already ..... if these players are as desperate to impress him as we keep hearing , then they have a funny way of showing it !

He benches his all singing and dancing 30 million pound defensive midfielder that he signed to save him for the mid week CL game aswell- another baffling decision, in fact he doesn't seem to fancy any of the players he spunked nigh on 100 million pound on. Yaya is safe though - regardless of how shit he plays.

 

[Berkovic_blue]

Sack the clowns who thought it was a good idea to get rid of barry. Absolutely fucking clueless.

We couldn't break stoke down and you believe it's because we don't have garreth Barry ? My word

Bet you used to slag Mancini off for bringing NDJ on to get control of the midfield too.

 

[flb]

Yep. We create fuck all for our strikers, people were banging on about Negredo being the missing piece of the jigsaw and how many he'll score but he's gonna have the same problem Dzeko had, fuck all support.

Most City fans still don't realize this fact. They keep blaming the strikers, but they don't ask themselves why City creates only like 2 real chances in the entire half, while the other tops teams create chances every 5 minutes.

We looked dreadful up front today ... so much so that the Stoke keeper could have nipped to nearby Alton Towers for an hour or two and still not conceded a goal upon his return !

It's just as well that Stoke couldn't finish or we'd have been well spanked again , we look totally disjointed as a team , and look no better individually ...... only Joe Hart was really noticeable today , and some should be downright ashamed to pick up their wages after yet another dismal non performance on our travels.

Pellegrini holds his head in his hands , and has that 'haunted' look about him already ..... if these players are as desperate to impress him as we keep hearing , then they have a funny way of showing it !

He benches his all singing and dancing 30 million pound defensive midfielder that he signed to save him for the mid week CL game aswell- another baffling decision, in fact he doesn't seem to fancy any of the players he spunked nigh on 100 million pound on. Yaya is safe though - regardless of how shit he plays.

 

[Citizen in Pakistan]

It was after a v long time that we didn't really posted a goal scoring threat during the whole game,a point gained surely