The Key The Secret - beating Chelsea...

[afro2007]

we should stop malouda and cole from making toughs runs.

 

[MCFCinUSA]

And by others overrated

Yeah, usually ones of the four fingered kind and who also consider balti pies to be haute cuisine.

PSML<br /><br />-- Wed Sep 22, 2010 5:40 am --<br /><br />

this is how we stop chelsea...

----------------------Hart-------------------
-----------------------------------------------
----Zabaleta--Kompany---K. Toure--Bridge----
--------------------------------------------
--------------------De Jong------------------
-----------Y. Toure---------Barry---------------
---------------------Milner--------------------
--------------------------------------------------
--------------A. Johnson------------------
----------------------Tevez-------------------

Subs: Given, Lescott, Richards, Vieira, Silva, Wright-Phillips, Adebayor

they will probably play:

---------------------Cech-------------------
---Ferreira------Alex-----Ivanovic----A. Cole--
---------------------Essien------------------
-------------Ramires--------Mikel------------
------Anelka--------------------Malouda------
---------------------Drogba-------------------

We suffocate the midfield with De Jong and Yaya on Essien
Barry and Milner on Ramires and Mikel
Get A. Johnson to run the left on Ferreira because we ain't gonna get any thing out of A. Cole
Get Zabaleta to give Malouda a few cruching tackles to put him of the game.
Kompany and Kolo know how to keep Drogba quiet, they did it last season.
We have got a top class keeper to save us if needs be.
And if things go wrong we have good options on the bench:
for pace and trickery SWP and Silva
for a goal Adebayor
and for more security Vieira, Richards and Lescott
and Given

Bridge is out injured.

 

[TFC]

Hats off to you th, couldnt have hit the nail more squarely on the head.

Nige, you are a fucking star.

:)

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

This is one of those times when I could say 'I told you so'...but that would be remiss of me!

Losing count how many times De Jong has had Essien in his pocket.

For what it's worth, Barry's best game in a City shirt by a country mile.

Now hear ye...

City 5 Juventus 0

 

[stumpy_mcfc]

This is one of those times when I could say 'I told you so'...but that would be remiss of me!

Losing count how many times De Jong has had Essien in his pocket.

For what it's worth, Barry's best game in a City shirt by a country mile.

Now hear ye...

City 5 Juventus 0

Right to place that bet ...

 

[mancincali]

THE OP was completely right. de jong Motm.

 

[babua_blue]

I am left scratching my head after this match ..I am still confused what our actual formation is in the midfield . silva and milner r supposed to play on wings , de Jong as a denfensive mid , tevez target man fine . Gud . But what abt barry and yaya . i thought yaya is going to be deployed in the hole behind striker . but after watching last two matches , i realize he comes down too deep . so he is actually playing as a CM only .

my doubt is what is yaya's actual position under bobby ? is he an AM who comes too deep to defend or is he a CM who comes forward to attack !! may sound a silly question but I just cant figure this out :)

cheers .. lets paint the world blue .............<br /><br />-- Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:31 pm --<br /><br />any comments ? what is yaya' s/barry 's actual position under Mancini ?

 

[grimsby blue]

Some in the media may call him a "thug", well I say I'm glad he's "our" thug! :p

Seriously though - one of our most consistent, yet by some underrated, players.

seems to have become a hate figure for the press, yes, that was a bad tackle in the world cup. he should have been sent off inho. Thats the only real bad thing hes done. but that was for Holland so i dont give shit, hes been superb for us

 

[Ntini77]

I'm starting to think tolmie is in fact Mancini.

 

[mat]

The last time NDJ didn't start and we lost was 18 months ago. He's clearly not needed as much as people think. Good player but vastly overrated on this forum.

This. There is no successful team on the earth who has a player as one dimesnsional as De Jong.