I agree with you saying he set the team up as he would normally do.perhaps he should have been less gung ho and concentrated on matching stokes solidity and commitment during the early part of a game at a tricky away ground, and in difficult conditions.He is certainly not above criticism in that regard.i said to others at the game yesterday that even if he had planned to play the same way against stoke on the friday, a look at the weather conditions on the day of the match should have forced him to alter the teams approach, and i was annoyed he went gung ho with three fancy dan players behind Bony at stoke.
I do however feel that the relentless run of injuries and fixtures is going to affect our performances,and there isn,t that much a manager can do about that.
if the players were ,actually feeling sluggish due to fatigue yesterday it may have been too much to expect a high energy performance in those circumstances...take a look around the premier league this season mate,we are not alone in balancing the demands of european football with ever increasing injury worries.
That is why Leicester are top,good luck to them,but if they win the league, and its possible,dont expect them to be playing their particular brand of high energy football twice a week next season. In the modern game,thats just not possible.And we have to be careful, as fans , at this stage of the season,not to over react after a defeat and increase the pressure on our young talented players and whip up the media frenzy for the manager to be replaced,thereby inviting instability once again at City, we have seen how that bring a club to its knees.
If Pep is on his way,all well and good..but until then it would be madness to kick out Pelle and go down the route of a temp manager until the end of the season.
This season will go to the wire, no team will run away with it( altho we looked handily placed to do so when kompany silva sergio and silva were all fit) we have to battle thru the lean times, and i accept battle we did not yesterday,but we are still handily placed in three competitions as we approach the turn of the year....not bad at all City.