Swansea (a) Post Match Thread

[cleavers]

Correct me but, has Pellegrini been the most successful City manager ever?

No.

Joe Mercer won a League, an FA Cup, and a Cup Winners Cup, it beats the League, and two League cups.

 

[tommyhair]

Rubbish today again, glad it's over. Can't wait for a clear out,

 

[tommyhair]

Just got back. We i what was needed an a goo mutual appreciation at the end, now on to better things. City!

Been on the piss

 

[tommyhair]

Poor game. Poor performance. Lot of players half arsed.

Players that need to leave: Sterling, Sagna, Clichy, Mangala, Navas.

Agreed

 

[tommyhair]

I can't work out if we were unfit or just not arsed. Either way it's unacceptable.

So glad this season is over

Roll on August (well July now if we have to play a qualifier)

Not arsed I think

 

[hutton who blue]

Thank fuck we are in the champions league. What a breath of relief, joy and sheer elation I am so extatic for this point. Has the import of this game been lost today? That draw with Swansea who appeared mercifully to be not quite at the races when City were there for the taking has ensured our new manager has champions league football to negotiate and the kudos/cash, which is a lot associated with it. And we pipped those sour bastards to it, wonderful. I feel very happy and relieved, that West Ham game mid week was immense.

 

[NPBlue]

No.

Joe Mercer won a League, an FA Cup, and a Cup Winners Cup, it beats the League, and two League cups.

Don't forget the League Cup we won in 1970 as well.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

If they would of left Bob alone,he would of had 3 titles,champions league FA cup, league cup and charity shield under is belt by now

 

[hutton who blue]

If they would of left Bob alone,he would of had 3 titles,champions league FA cup, league cup and charity shield under is belt by now

Onwards blues, onwards and forward. That's always the prospect.

 

[Dribble]

Below are the 2012 - 2013 and the 2015 - 2016 Squads to contrast and compare and imo the squad we have now is superior albeit the spine of of it is 3 years older........... Outside of Tevez and Milner and obviously those who are still here, I'm struggling to see who else would have got in to our current squad from the 2012 - 2013.

2012 - 2013 Squad
1 Joe Hart
2 Micah Richards
3 Maicon
4 Vincent Kompany
5 Pablo Zabaleta
6 Joleon Lescott
7 James Milner
8 Samir Nasri
10 Edin Džeko
11 Scott Sinclair
13 Aleksandar Kolarov
14 Javi García
16 Sergio Agüero
17 Jack Rodwell
18 Gareth Barry
21 David Silva
22 Gaël Clichy
28 Kolo Touré
29 Richard Wright
30 Costel Pantilimon
32 Carlos Tévez
33 Matija Nastasić
36 Denis Suárez
38 Dedryck Boyata
42 Yaya Touré
44 Karim Rekik
47 Harry Bunn
52 Emyr Huws
53 Alex Henshall
54 Kieran Kennedy
55 Albert Rusnák
56 Courtney Meppen-Walter
60 John Guidetti
62 Abdul Razak
63 Eirik Johansen
64 Marcos Lopes
74 George Evans

2015 - 2016 Squad
1 Joe Hart
3 Bacary Sagna
4 Vincent Kompany
5 Pablo Zabaleta
6 Fernando
7 Raheem Sterling
8 Samir Nasri
10 Sergio Agüero
11 Aleksandar Kolarov
13 Wilfredo Caballero
14 Wilfried Bony
15 Jesús Navas
17 Kevin De Bruyne
18 Fabian Delph
20 Eliaquim Mangala
21 David Silva
22 Gaël Clichy
25 Fernandinho
26 Martin Demichelis
29 Richard Wright
30 Nicolás Otamendi
42 Yaya Touré
48 Mathias Bossaerts
49 Denzeil Boadu
51 David Faupala
52 Kean Bryan
53 Tosin Adarabioyo
54 Angus Gunn
56 Ashley Smith-Brown
57 Aaron Nemane
58 Charlie Oliver
59 Bersant Celina
60 Kjetil Haug
61 James Horsfield
62 Brandon Barker
63 Sinan Bytyqi
65 Jorge Intima
67 Sam Tattum
68 Thierry Ambrose
69 José Tasende
71 Marcus Wood
72 Kelechi Iheanacho
73 George Glendon
74 Ellis Plummer
75 Aleix García
76 Manuel García
77 Cameron Humphreys
78 Billy O'Brien

 

[vmsuhail]

I've read a few pages and I have to agree. It didn't seem all that bad apart from the appalling finishing. Aguero and Nacho were both guilty of being greedy when in sight of goal messing up some good opportunities. I was so pissed off with Kelechi that I wanted him subbed at half-time. 18 attempts to their 5 and we could only find the back of the net once - bloody hell!

Navas tried a long range shot instead of passing to KDB who had run around 60 yards to reach there. Just poor selection of shots/psses in the final third. But the effort was there.

 

[citymad]

Thank you West Ham. We've certainly had some luck this season.

 

[warringtonblue]

Yesterdays game epitomised Pellegrini's reign at city. Wrong formation, failure to realise or react when things weren't going as planned. A half hearted performance by some that left us hanging on in a game we should have comprehensively won

 

[mosssideblue]

Probably as revenge for the apple of your eye Pellegrini?

Even though he's gone and we've just narrowly avoided relegation from the Champions League, you still see no wrong with how he's handled the resources available to him and will defend him until the bitter end. Says more about you than Manuel tbh...

Revenge, Grow up.
You have it wrong on so many points. What exactly does it say about me then?

 

[mosssideblue]

Like many you hopelessly overrate the squad that has been available for most of this year. Some used to be great but are now on a rapid decline whether due to age, injuries or both. The key players to me have been Hart, Kompany, Zabba, Silva, Toure and Aguero. Four of them are not a patch on what they were with Zabba and Toure possibly on their way out and Kompany's career in the balance. Will Silva ever reach the same heights again? Add to that the absence of Nasri and the seeming inability to buy players (other than KDB) who are better than those who have left. Oh and by the way, a proper world class player, Carlos Tevez, was never even remotely replaced. I could go on. This is a far weaker squad that needs substantial improvement.

Spot on, but the Pell haters will not see it that way.

 

[Bluekiwi]

Navas tried a long range shot instead of passing to KDB who had run around 60 yards to reach there. Just poor selection of shots/psses in the final third. But the effort was there.

Yes, that annoyed me as well, just another example of poor selections. And yes the effort was there. Even though I was pissed off with Kelechi's cock-ups in front of goal he did put in a lot of effort to get the ball and chased back a lot.
End of the day we finished above United and I'll just have to be satisfied with that and the Capital One Cup in this poor season.

 

[inbetween]

We did just enough... Thank christ this season is over. Can't wait for the Pep arrival videos. Manuel was a nice man and gave us some moments so we can only thank him for it. It was however the right time and we needed someone new to inject a fresh outlook on the whole club not just the team.

Considering the season and the goading of United, to finish above them only thanks to a +18 goal difference and behind Leicester by 15 points sums up our entire season.

 

[eversince 76]

Yesterdays game epitomised Pellegrini's reign at city. Wrong formation, failure to realise or react when things weren't going as planned. A half hearted performance by some that left us hanging on in a game we should have comprehensively won

You epitomise the group of fans that no matter what you blame Pellegrini.

Wrong formation? What would have been the right one that confirming to you would have easily won this game?
Why did he need changing tit when we were creating loads more than Swansea and could've been out of sight at half time? What would you have changed and why?
And remember Swansea only got back in the game by a total deflection. Their first attempt on goal.

A half hearted performance by some I agree. Maybe you should blame them?

 

[FantasyIreland]

Thank you West Ham. We've certainly had some luck this season.

Indeed,both good and bad.

 

[cibaman]

One of those games that looks different in retrospect to watching it live. They barely threatened, Hart had very little to do, the defence looked solid. It just didn't seem that way at the time. Some very sloppy play, Nasri should have been introduced 10 mins earlier.

At least it will have provided a useful video for Pep to study.