There's was always going to be a dip in our performance after the way we played midweek.If we continue to put half arsed performances in like today I will be.
It's one thing to try and fail, it's another to use tactics we know are bad. Keeping our star youth striker on the bench to ponder his future while needing a goal is absurd. Right up there with Pellegrini not knowing how many goals we needed in Munich.
He's a good manager overall, but he has these ridiculous moments where logic and reason fly out the window and crazy decisions are made.
We did lose because of poor forward play, but you can't expect midfielders to be good at playing that position. We've made it work in the past, but today, it simply didn't work, and you wonder why Ihenacho wasn't given more of a chance, given how well he played in the last game he started. After all, we were against the bottom club. The Delph substitution was confusing to me too. He's not a game changer, and it's not as if we needed him to help us control the midfield, because we were completely dominant.I don't get why whenever the players miss gilt edged chances the manager takes the flak. The forward play wasn't good enough. We were just a little bit short for whatever reason. Usual convenient easy excuse to blame the coach. The chances arrived thick and fast. Villa were never a threat so why blame the coach. In hindsight he might think he could have made different subs. But at the time they all looked reasonable to me.
We'd have won comfortably had Aguero been fit or Bony stayed on the pitch
Looking at Spurs after playing on a Thur
There was non excuse for fatigue or tiredness , simply there where some bad decisions made from the manager , and some poor finishing , de bruyne sterling and fernando all gainy guilt edge chances! But we are city and we will pick ourselves up and win the next game no doubt! Bad day at the office with bony going off! MCFC!!
Ffs were still top
Perhaps you lot would prefer we were
Chelsea
You honestly think we were set up to win today? It was piss poor from Pellegrini and it had rubbed off on the players before a ball was even kicked (see Kompany before the game). Do you think packing the midfield against Villa (no offence meant) was a brave decision?
Yes we missed chances but fuck me, if the manager showed a bit of confidence in players for example subbing a striker and actually subbing another striker on we may have got something out of it! I've stuck up for Pellegrini but today he really pissed me off and that won't change.