Was it all one way traffic? Sounded that way in the 1st half, but in the 2nd we edged it?fathellensbellend said:regardless of the influx of new players, bonding etc, i cannot help but feel mancini again yesterday served up more of his anti football and without the brilliance of joe hart his negativity would once again have been exposed.
to my mind thats 7 games out of 8 against top sides under mancini tenure where we have barely mustered a shot. everton home and away last season, liverpool at home, arsenal away, utd at home. and now spurs at home and away. (the exception chelsea away)
in a sport that is results driven, it's just such a turn off, you work all week, spend a small fortune on tickets and travel and the manager cannot even be arsed to commit any players forward.
i suppose in the context of the league a 0-0 at spurs is a bloody good result, but the method and the style just doesn't appeal to me one bit.
i expect to get shot down in flames, but it's a forum and it's my view, and i want to see city trying to win games, not stifle the life out of them, and that has become a regular trend under mancini against the top sides.
Think you expected too much. Kolarov twisted his ankle in the 1st half, and Silva and tevez only managed 35 mins football in the last pre-season game. The team that finished was quite similar to the team we had last season, but they fought a lot harder. Moomba summed it up well. Good result, but 3 months in we'd be expecting a better performance
Remember too that Spurs are a very good team at home. As good as we will face. And they have a Champions League game coming up and have the same team.
I expected a thrashing so I'm quite happy now. I think your expectation of what was possible and how you rate Spurs determines how you feel about yesterday<br /><br />-- Sun Aug 15, 2010 11:45 am --<br /><br />
Chelsea got badly beaten up at WHL last seasonPetetheblu said:I'm not a massive fan of negative football, but if that's what it takes then fair do's and yesterday it was obvious the Arry wouldn't let us settle and would choose to hit us at a hundred mile per hour, so Bobby got it right yesterday.
Although watching Chelsea on telly I noticed that they tend to get at least three players in the box for each attack and I did find myself wishing that Bobby would take one or two chains off our forwards and midfielders and give the oppositions defenders something to worry about.
And I remember our horror show there last season when we went there with an attacking line-up and got thrashed
Have you seen the media reaction to our draw? Imagine what it would have been had we lost. Getting a good start was vital.