Stoke Vs City Post Match thread

[Hamann Pineapple]

Great 2nd half from Nasri, I'd give him MOTM

 

[Sergi0 Na5r1]

Snap out of it whiners.

We have not closed the gap tonight on Campaignsea, but our team put in an excellent performance and Nasri and Aguero looked back to their best. Whole team looked inspired in the 2nd half.

And we have Bony and Yaya back next game.

Just sort out our defensive woes over the next 10 days and we'll get right back in.

 

[uwe rosler 28]

We looked dangerous all night milner, mangala fantastic nasri played in bits fernandinho the same and what has happened to silva worst player in a city shirt tonight and I can't believe I'm saying that!

 

[jimharri]

Source ?

Pellegrini's post-match comments.

Thanks

 

[oakiecokie]

We looked dangerous all night milner, mangala fantastic nasri played in bits fernandinho the same and what has happened to silva worst player in a city shirt tonight and I can't believe I'm saying that!

I didn`t see the game but you`re the first one to comment on how poor Silva was.Everyone else has been positive about him.

 

[yatesy94]

Proud of the lads tonight, should've been 5-1 bar an unfortunate flailing of the arm by Sergio just before HT but never mind! Same again v Newcastle at home please...managed to get a ticket for that one :)

 

[noblelord]

Snap out of it whiners.

We have not closed the gap tonight on Campaignsea, but our team put in an excellent performance and Nasri and Aguero looked back to their best. Whole team looked inspired in the 2nd half.

And we have Bony and Yaya back next game.

Just sort out our defensive woes over the next 10 days and we'll get right back in.

Yes. We have no influence on how Chelsea play we can only influence how we play. We had a great win today and need to win all our remaining matches. Come on City.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

What people are failing to understand is this - we are totally reliant on Chelsea dropping lots of points. Their winner today was devastating, because even if we win every game they still have to lose 3 games. Where are they going to drop points? I just can't see it.

Assuming we only drop 5 more til the end of the season, that means they will have to drop 12 points. There is fucking no chance of that happening as they are not gung-ho like Liverpool were last season. They are cautious and will grind out points.

I HATE having to rely on wankers like Everton to pull out a result and then they fuck it up in the last minute. At least when it's City you know we've got the quality to win.

Sometimes we have to take the bigger picture into account. We may not win the league this season and if we don't then we hold up our hands and say well done to Chelsea. They are nothing if not resilient. We do not have a right to win league titles. We have dropped 12 points at home this season already, ten and seven more than we did in our title winning seasons. For me that is the reason we won't win it this year but at least we have a bit of hope still after tonight.

Tonight's win was absolutely vital for us though, make no mistake about that. Had we lost tonight we would have been two points in front of the rags with a load of other sides breathing down our necks. We would have been entering our sixth game against Newcastle without a win with Liverpool to follow. I was looking at a team on Saturday who looked nervous, lacking in ideas and frankly who maybe did not have the hunger that I would expect. Tonight has at least restored our rightful position with a nice gap in second and had reassured me that this group of players has got hunger. the CL money next season is huge and we must ensure we are top 3. That is target number one. If in 5/6 weeks we are still in with a sniff then who knows. If we can beat Newcastle with the same flair then we go into the. Barca game with some hope. Before tonight we had none for me.

We are not without problems. Hart almost gifted them two goals, Kompany is nowhere near his best, Fernandinho is sloppy in his passing at times and Zabaleta is looking like a player who may be coming to the end of his stint as nailed on right back. He has been below par all season and needs dropping now for a few games. Pellegrini has some big decisions to make.

Good win tonight and more importantly kun and silva looked back to their best.

City fans will always still have that hope of another title, despite chelsea have a big points lead. We've done it before and we could do it again. With yaya and bony, I'm sure we will see much more fight to retain the title, but hoping chelsea to drop a 7 point lead is asking a bit much. We've got some very tough away fixtures too. I'll be much more confident if we get to the last 6 games and were only 5 points behind. I can see chelsea bottling it seeing as they've got a very hard last 6 games. But until, we can try claw it back.

Like you said, we can't win the league every year. This chelsea team is nothing special, they've been lucky we've had a poor injury record to our key players, I can't think of one injury they've had. City and United will be above them next season, theyre running out of players to sell on for mega prices and I can only seeing us and United strengthening and becoming to strong for them.

 

[SiMCFC]

We looked dangerous all night milner, mangala fantastic nasri played in bits fernandinho the same and what has happened to silva worst player in a city shirt tonight and I can't believe I'm saying that!

Wha? Silva was what? Christ on a bike

 

[pudge]

We looked dangerous all night milner, mangala fantastic nasri played in bits fernandinho the same and what has happened to silva worst player in a city shirt tonight and I can't believe I'm saying that!

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