I can't quite believe the people moaning about Silva not playing.
The Europa game against Timisoara is a great example of why he isn't ready to start yet. I was baffled after reading that matchday thread at how well everyone thought he had played. All i saw was a half fit man making bad decision after bad decision with the ball, and that was in a game where he was under little pressure, which was played at a training game pace.
He isn't sharp enough to start yet, and Mancini obviously knows this from seeing him day in day out in training. He probably won't start hitting the ground til around November time, which is normal for a player who missed a chunk of pre-season because of a World Cup where he got very little playing time.
Today we were unlucky. We created some decent enough openings. We should have had a penalty and their goal came from a bad mistake by us. We're not always going to steamroll teams at home just because we have the better squad/starting 11. I'm as gutted as the next man, but it's football, it happens.
We're not going to win the league this season, so we need to be in the mix for 3rd/4th, and we probably will be for most of the season.
Spurs drew with West Brom and lost to Wigan last time out. Liverpool were lucky to beat West Brom, Newcastle beat Villa 6-0, Everton have made a very poor start. Only really arsenal and Chelsea have started well. United haven't done badly, although they've had some pretty straight forward games. It's a long season. We'll be alright.