They're not good enough to be champions and they've had an awful lot of luck recently but whether it's because of the league in general being relatively poor or them being slightly better than we want to admit, they are currently and will this season comfortably be a top 4 side.Really ?? You should look on our United thread.Over the past few weeks people have been saying they are a good team ... have they fuck as like.How do they keep winning has been the main topic.
I think you're exaggerating it, I don't rate them either, but their results all season should tell you they are well organised under vg, and hard to beat, we could have taken bigger risks, I'm glad for once we didn't.Well my perspective of United is ... they are a piss poor team.
1 shot on target, at home, when you are going for 3 points over your nearest rivals, says everything I need to know about City's performance today.
Clean sheet at The Swamp is a good thing on any visit, anytime.
Take the point, stay top of the league, move on. Van Gaal will be frustrated, because with Yaya playing in the hole and walking around in a thirty yard circle in the middle of the park, he was played around all game, so we were a man down for much of the game. Throw in the fact that Bony was barely a factor, and it is testament to the work done by the 7 defenders (Hart, back 4 and the 2 Ferns). Thought the defensive box was brilliant today. Kompany, Otamendi, Fernando and Fernandinho should all share MOTM today, because they "singlehandedly" shut down United.
Fernandinho is rapidly making a case for POTY, and it is only the fact that th best creative midfielder, best forward and best keeper are all in the same team that stops him being lauded as the best defensive midfielder in the league. He prowls the field like an assassin seeking his prey. However, he needs to get a yellow card soon, so he's available over the Christmas fixtures, especially The Arse!
Like most, I'll take a point away against ANY AND ALL of the Top 6, even though I'd like to snag 3 pts every game!
1) Domination at the Etihad, away draws against top competitors, and the occasional hiccup here and there wins us the League.
2) Get out of the Group in the CL, and get a decent draw in the knock out, and we can beat anyone on the day.
3) Two deep domestic Cup runs, with at least one of them in the cabinet by mid May.
THAT is completely achievable and makes me pinch myself after what I've been through with City for 50 yrs!
That said, next season, we MUST start bringing through some of the EDS and replacing some of the current squad, including a starter or two(?), with the highest quality YOUNG TALENT in the world.
For me, Yaya's head is gone and that was the only thing keeping his legs in the game. When he is up for it, he is world class. When he isn't, he looks like an overweight old man, who is both a step too slow and a petulant moment away from getting the team into trouble. No shame there, because he has been an outstanding talent for a decade. However, the fat lady is gargling and doing her scales, and the constant moaning every time he leaves the country and talks to the media is way beyond old. Break the bank for Pogba in the summer, develop Evans, keep the two Ferns and Delph and that should take care of the engine room for another year.
I only bring up the whole Yaya thing because the game literally passed him by today, and exposed his increasingly obvious weaknesses. Playing him in the 10 hole exposes his lack of desire to hustle back, with him further forward that Bony for long stretches of the game. I can't remember a single surge forward where he got ahead...and stayed ahead...of his man. If he doesn't have that aspect of his game going for him, then what's the point?
Sterling needs a break. Get him in the training ground and get him sorted. Kiddo has been doing extra work with him on his finishing, but he needs to learn how to operate inside the team ethos. Yes, he can be spectacular and can score, but in a grind out, as today turned into, he is lost and ineffective.
Anyway, too much analysis when all I wanted to say is "City, City, Top of the League, City, STILL Top of the League!"
Next!
They are not piss poor they have an inept manager
Not a criticism but I never heard Fernando mentioned was he good or bad ?
1 shot on target, at home, when you are going for 3 points over your nearest rivals, says everything I need to know about City's performance today.
Clean sheet at The Swamp is a good thing on any visit, anytime.
Take the point, stay top of the league, move on. Van Gaal will be frustrated, because with Yaya playing in the hole and walking around in a thirty yard circle in the middle of the park, he was played around all game, so we were a man down for much of the game. Throw in the fact that Bony was barely a factor, and it is testament to the work done by the 7 defenders (Hart, back 4 and the 2 Ferns). Thought the defensive box was brilliant today. Kompany, Otamendi, Fernando and Fernandinho should all share MOTM today, because they "singlehandedly" shut down United.
Fernandinho is rapidly making a case for POTY, and it is only the fact that th best creative midfielder, best forward and best keeper are all in the same team that stops him being lauded as the best defensive midfielder in the league. He prowls the field like an assassin seeking his prey. However, he needs to get a yellow card soon, so he's available over the Christmas fixtures, especially The Arse!
Like most, I'll take a point away against ANY AND ALL of the Top 6, even though I'd like to snag 3 pts every game!
1) Domination at the Etihad, away draws against top competitors, and the occasional hiccup here and there wins us the League.
2) Get out of the Group in the CL, and get a decent draw in the knock out, and we can beat anyone on the day.
3) Two deep domestic Cup runs, with at least one of them in the cabinet by mid May.
THAT is completely achievable and makes me pinch myself after what I've been through with City for 50 yrs!
That said, next season, we MUST start bringing through some of the EDS and replacing some of the current squad, including a starter or two(?), with the highest quality YOUNG TALENT in the world.
For me, Yaya's head is gone and that was the only thing keeping his legs in the game. When he is up for it, he is world class. When he isn't, he looks like an overweight old man, who is both a step too slow and a petulant moment away from getting the team into trouble. No shame there, because he has been an outstanding talent for a decade. However, the fat lady is gargling and doing her scales, and the constant moaning every time he leaves the country and talks to the media is way beyond old. Break the bank for Pogba in the summer, develop Evans, keep the two Ferns and Delph and that should take care of the engine room for another year.
I only bring up the whole Yaya thing because the game literally passed him by today, and exposed his increasingly obvious weaknesses. Playing him in the 10 hole exposes his lack of desire to hustle back, with him further forward that Bony for long stretches of the game. I can't remember a single surge forward where he got ahead...and stayed ahead...of his man. If he doesn't have that aspect of his game going for him, then what's the point?
Sterling needs a break. Get him in the training ground and get him sorted. Kiddo has been doing extra work with him on his finishing, but he needs to learn how to operate inside the team ethos. Yes, he can be spectacular and can score, but in a grind out, as today turned into, he is lost and ineffective.
Anyway, too much analysis when all I wanted to say is "City, City, Top of the League, City, STILL Top of the League!"
Next
I think it's more a case they have a manager that is safety first rather than inept. His tactics to nullify us worked well. His football is dull as fuck though.
Their manager might be a bit of a joke, but he is far from inept, he organises a fairly average squad, to be better than the sum of their parts would suggest.They are not piss poor they have an inept manager