The Manager

[grim up north]

Trailing 2-1 with 5 minutes to go and turning it round are what champions are made off

 

[Danielmanc]

Fail to do what? Not qualify from the group? There's no way that will get Roberto the sack this season. If we don't progress to the Round of 16 and win no trophies this season he wont and shouldn't get sacked.

If he does not win anything major this season Mancini is gone mate. The wage City are paying Mancini now the pressure is even more extreme and the league has to be retained.

He wont be gone. The aim is to retain the title but there's a chance we wont do it and if we don't Roberto will address what needs addressing and we'll go for it again the next year.

We wont win trophies every season.

Right !

 

[baildon blue]

Mancini was bit poor with is tatics last night .We gave ronaldo 2 much space why didnt we sort it out.Why wasnt milner playing instead of nasri.If we dont qualify from this group it will be total failure.Mancini got the squad sort it out

 

[Joga Bonito]

Ronaldo makes his own space when you play against him

 

[LoveCity]

Ronaldo makes his own space when you play against him

I think any player can be kept quiet by putting 2 or 3 on him (it has only taken 1 at times to keep Silva quiet, ie. Rodwell against Everton), I've even seen Messi kept quiet by stubborn teams double/tripling up on him. The risk is that it frees space for others to get the ball but in our circumstances last night I think we should have smothered Ronaldo when we were 2-1 up, as in literally had him man marked by two so he would have been lucky to create any space for himself. It might have given Di Maria or someone more space but Ronaldo is always the biggest risk of being the difference maker.

 

[coulsonblue]

Ronaldo makes his own space when you play against him

I think any player can be kept quiet by putting 2 or 3 on him (it has only taken 1 at times to keep Silva quiet, ie. Rodwell against Everton), I've even seen Messi kept quiet by stubborn teams double/tripling up on him. The risk is that it frees space for others to get the ball but in our circumstances last night I think we should have smothered Ronaldo when we were 2-1 up, as in literally had him man marked by two so he would have been lucky to create any space for himself. It might have given Di Maria or someone more space but Ronaldo is always the biggest risk of being the difference maker.

leaving acres for the rest of the team to exploit you.

 

[LoveCity]

Ronaldo makes his own space when you play against him

I think any player can be kept quiet by putting 2 or 3 on him (it has only taken 1 at times to keep Silva quiet, ie. Rodwell against Everton), I've even seen Messi kept quiet by stubborn teams double/tripling up on him. The risk is that it frees space for others to get the ball but in our circumstances last night I think we should have smothered Ronaldo when we were 2-1 up, as in literally had him man marked by two so he would have been lucky to create any space for himself. It might have given Di Maria or someone more space but Ronaldo is always the biggest risk of being the difference maker.

leaving acres for the rest of the team to exploit you.

That's what I said but with 10 behind the ball we still would have had a lot of protection at the back, it's just that the biggest threat would have been smothered.

 

[Malty]

Why not just put a old school man marker on him to follow him around the pitch? that's what Getafe did and it worked well.

 

[sir baconface]

151 goals in 150 games suggests no easy solution.

 

[Blue Heaven]

Ronaldo makes his own space when you play against him

I think any player can be kept quiet by putting 2 or 3 on him (it has only taken 1 at times to keep Silva quiet, ie. Rodwell against Everton), I've even seen Messi kept quiet by stubborn teams double/tripling up on him. The risk is that it frees space for others to get the ball but in our circumstances last night I think we should have smothered Ronaldo when we were 2-1 up, as in literally had him man marked by two so he would have been lucky to create any space for himself. It might have given Di Maria or someone more space but Ronaldo is always the biggest risk of being the difference maker.

I agree with you, but since Mancio didn't move one of the defenders in his five-man backline up to the top of the box, they continued to unleash dangerous shots from that area (see RM's first and second goals). If Marcelo hadn't been just off on his first two shots, the game would have been out-of-reach midway through the second half.