Villa Vs City Post Match Thread

Dubai Blue said:
That's pretty much how I saw it too. But Bluemoon wouldn't be Bluemoon without 90+ pages of vitriol after we've failed to win a game.
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I think we all know that we were unlucky , but that doesn't detract from the fact that our play for around 55 minutes was pedestrian, similar to Norwich at home. Yaya was strolling around as if he was training, Fernandinho wasn't much better.

Then there is Pellers, why did we not bring our only recognised striker on until the 82 minute. Yaya should have been off at half time is performance was so cr*p.

We have one of the best teams on the planet yet we are struggling to beat average to poor teams, the manager needs to get the team up for the games from the first minute not the 60th.
 
sir baconface said:
You can usually tell from the first 3 or 4 minutes what sort of game it's going to be.
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It is odd but you are right lol! Some games we just seem lethargic and not at the races and we could play all night and not score.We seem to settle into a strange slow motion pass pass pass game as well like Norwich at home,which falls straight into the opposition's hands. We need someone to take the game by the scruff of the neck on days like this and Tevez was great at doing that,leading by his non stop workrate and harassing of the defenders.Silva is another one who scurries about and looks for the killer pass all the time.Some games it seems we play within ourselves and don't wake up until we go a goal behind.The positive i take out of yesterday is we used to lose games like that 1-0.
 
Pablo ZZZ Peroni said:
Or you could twist the presentation of the figures and say we're unbeaten in the last 5 league games yet lost 2 in the 5 league games before that. Improvement :)

Or we could look at the big picture and say since the Spurs and West Ham defeats we have gone on an unbeaten run in all competions of 9 games with 7 wins and 2 draws. Improvement:)
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You could. Stats can be used anyway you like. The number of clean sheets we have had with Kolorov in the team would indicate he is a top notch defender.
 
Considering we'd played on the Tuesday night, against one of the better sides in Europe and given everything, it wasn't that bad. If anything I thought Pellegrini should have changed a few more players to add more energy into the team.

On the other side, we've just gone through a period without Aguero/Silva. In that time we've got through to the quarter final of the League Cup (something United/Spurs/Arsenal/Chelsea couldn't do), we've qualified for the last 16 of the UCL and we're top of the league! We're going to add those two into the Christmas run, as well as Nasri, Clichy and a fully fit Delph!
 
Manchester33 said:
Considering we'd played on the Tuesday night, against one of the better sides in Europe and given everything, it wasn't that bad. If anything I thought Pellegrini should have changed a few more players to add more energy into the team.

On the other side, we've just gone through a period without Aguero/Silva. In that time we've got through to the quarter final of the League Cup (something United/Spurs/Arsenal/Chelsea couldn't do), we've qualified for the last 16 of the UCL and we're top of the league! We're going to add those two into the Christmas run, as well as Nasri, Clichy and a fully fit Delph!
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i feel better already
 
I think the reason why so many people are disappointed is due to Pelle's tactics.

For the 1st time in a very long time against Sevilla, he'd picked the right lineup and set us up how we'd expect the tempo of the game to go and the 3 midfielders of the 2 ferns and Toure was needed and worked. Flashforward to Sunday and we've reverted to a formation not ideal for a game where we were required to actually go and breakdown Villa, even before the game started I could see how it was going to pan out.

The subs tactically were awful, although another decent performance from Navas, who should have started instead of Fernando.

People accepting the result as we're still level with Arsenal, seem to miss the point that Spurs have been decent this season and we missed a really good chance to open a buffer.
 
sir baconface said:
You can usually tell from the first 3 or 4 minutes what sort of game it's going to be.
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Its bang on that.
Its actually annoying how right it is.
I said yesterday after 10 minutes this was going to be a tough game and we would struggle to win.
How many variables are there in 80 minutes yet we know as fans from the start how it will play out. We constantly have games like this in us where so many of them just don’t turn up. Yaya being central to what we do is a problem as if he’s having a cant be arsed day then we struggle.
You’ve got to trust Kelechi though, useless having no striker for 80mins.
 
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