When did it all start to go wrong?

[blueincy]

When this happend it all started going tits up IMO..
Why was he there that night v Barca?

 

[SuperYaya]

I feel like this implosion was bubbling under the surface all season. Earlier on we were winning, but not in a very convincing way. Sometimes that's a good sign, in this case it wasn't.

I reckon drawing 2-2 to Burnley started it off then losing 2-0 to Arsenal at home was the real tipping point. After that the belief was gone, the results that followed were:

 

[Deleted member 58678]

For me it was the home defeat to Arsenal. From there I think we psychologically hit a wall.

We then lost to Boro and had a load of possession at the Bridge yet barely created any chances.

 

[VOOMER]

The day Mancini was sacked, the defence has gradually gone worse with almost every game all this chopping and changing with players does not work. Mancini was the man who stopped the clock and I for one will never forget that, so you city fans now slagging him off should hang your heads in shame, you all have a very short memory, have you forgotten about going in work on a Monday morning and some rag is giving you shit, well Mancini stopped all that and even fucked off whisky nose.

100% right

 

[Eds]

Returning from a stupid trip to play Hamburg hours before the FA Cup game. Downhill ever since although some may say that defeat was on the cards. Home defeat to Stoke had the alarm bells ringing for me

 

[blueincy]

The day Mancini was sacked, the defence has gradually gone worse with almost every game all this chopping and changing with players does not work. Mancini was the man who stopped the clock and I for one will never forget that, so you city fans now slagging him off should hang your heads in shame, you all have a very short memory, have you forgotten about going in work on a Monday morning and some rag is giving you shit, well Mancini stopped all that and even fucked off whisky nose.

100% right

 

[steviemc]

No real sympathy tbh - a very simple but effective switch once we started to go off the boil after 20 mins on Sunday would have been to simply swap Milner with yaya .
All of a sudden we would have been playing yaya where he can damage the opposition as opposed to damaging our own chances of winning the game by continuing to play him where he is doing at the moment.
He needs to go now - there is no resilience in our team anymore , we used to be hard to beat but now , well the stats dont lie - 4 defeats in 6 , let's hope the last 6 dont mirror the 6 before.
I watched the chelsea v qpr game and cant help but notice that we used to be able to grind a result out like that , keep fighting to the very last whistle and quite often getting our rewards.
That dressing room needs a change now , we need a reaction from the players, it could make all the difference, thinking time over,say tarah and thanks very much to manuel and hand control to Patrick Viera for the remainder of the season - he cant do any worse !!

I'm not convinced Yaya would have been more effective or inspirational had he swapped positions with Milner. When he's on one of his 'can't be arsed' days he usually remains a liability for the complete game. The captain's armband didn't increase his motivation, passion or effort one iota.

 

[Breaker]

When it became apparent the manager had no idea what our starting 11 should be or what tactics best suited the players he picks.

 

[depps]

However, the Pellegrini interview in Munich when he didn't realise that City were only one goal from topping the group, spoke volumes for his lack of preparation

This seriously pissed me off at the time as well, complete amateur hour, but most people just laughed it off as being no big deal. If you aren't getting basic preparation like that right there is something seriously wrong in how you are going about doing your business

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

There's a lot of revisionist opinion regarding the Mancini reign, which was frequently dull and dour.
However, from the first minute of his first game in charge, the same defence, who had previously conceded nine goals against Bolton, Tottenham, and Sunderland suddenly looked a well drilled cohesive unit.

Also, apart from Kolarov or Clichy, and Balotelli or Dzeko, the first eleven virtually picked itself. Adam Johnson was the perfect sub when City were already winning, and in the title winning season, Mancini's decision to replace Tevez with De Jong, (and so grant Yaya the licence to bomb upfield) was inspirational.

I didn't necessarily agree with his tactics, but I understood them.

Under Pellegrini, we chop and change, frequently discarding our best player from the previous weekend. We give the impression that we don't practice set pieces, and even worse we've become stale, slow and predictable.

I haven't a clue what our best team is this season, bur more importantly, I don't think Pellegrini does.