That was a new team missing many players playing away from home.M9 Blue said:so spuds away first game of the season when we parked the bus were we tired then ?Mancio said:very rare good sense here , happy to see some people still can use their brain.
Didsbury Dave said:Blue Mooner said:Have you read the threads about our players on here ? I agree we now have some real quality throughout the team but not sure we are quite yet good enough or moulded as a team to take Chelsea on toe to toe for 90 minutes on their own turf.
Admittedly it would have been better to watch but I'm not sure it would have resulted in a different outcome.
The key when planning for a match like today is to go for the strategy that gives you the best chance of getting some kind of a result and I think Mancini took the right approach. Not pleasingon the eye and was 12 minutes from coming off. It didn't. Sh*t happens, we move on positively to our next game.
" took the right approach" pmsl
We lost a game 2-0 which was there for the taking.
Therefore he took the wrong approach , like with every other big game he's lost for us.
If you can't open your eyes, that's fine, but keep your silly lectures to yourself .
But the shit happends every week, and yes I do read the threads, you can't tell me we are not fucking boring, now and again I would except but its every bloody away game no matter who we play, and yes we do have the players to take the game to the opposition thats why he brought on Balotelli and Johnson on when it was to late,Blue Mooner said:AL65 said:After today I've had enough, we have the players to take the game to the opposition but yet again we try to defend for 90mins not only is it boring it shows a total lack of ambition, we hear all about how we want the top 4 and that's the aim for the season, but with a little bit of ambition the league title was there for the taking, oh I forgot they are tierd.
Have you read the threads about our players on here ? I agree we now have some real quality throughout the team but not sure we are quite yet good enough or moulded as a team to take Chelsea on toe to toe for 90 minutes on their own turf.
Admittedly it would have been better to watch but I'm not sure it would have resulted in a different outcome.
The key when planning for a match like today is to go for the strategy that gives you the best chance of getting some kind of a result and I think Mancini took the right approach. Not pleasingon the eye and was 12 minutes from coming off. It didn't. Sh*t happens, we move on positively to our next game.
BoringCity said:i didnt read this thread but i wanna say. i am finished watching BORING CITY. enough is enough. i hate hart goal kicks. i hate the idiot tactics. if you are gonna have a squad worth more then the gdp of half the worlds, i would expect you to send more then two players past the halfway line. now here, he says, we are away from home at chelsea? okay. i watched your bboring football. where is your point? oh? you lost 2-0? you blame fatigue>? give me 100k a week and i will play 3 matches a day no fatigue. tell hart to pass the ball out. not waste 30 seconds then kick it into terrys lap. how you expect dzeko to head it to a city player when you send no more then 2 players past the half way line? how you expect to play counter attack football when you have barry who plays like a blind donkey, dzeko who moves like an elephant(still only quality city has) and then you send no1 else forward.how you expect to let the likes of torres drogba kalou malouda anelka 15 yards yards from your goal and not expect them to score. i have had enough. mancini you are done. when there is a game as important as this, you DO risk a player like johnson, YOU DO play mario no matter if he got a red, and you DO tell your players to learn to cross the ball to dzeko.
And when we did it against utd at home there were the wrong kind of leaves on the pitch, the dog had eaten platt's tactics sheetanymore than 2sheiks said:Ah,no,we were a bit "rusty" then.Not played enough.M9 Blue said:so spuds away first game of the season when we parked the bus were we tired then ?
Marvin said:That was a new team missing many players playing away from home.M9 Blue said:so spuds away first game of the season when we parked the bus were we tired then ?
What's wrong with parking the bus at Chelsea? We didn't anyway. We tried to break when we won the ball.
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The arrogance of some City fans is unbelievable. Chelsea are Champions an still in my opinion the best team in the Premiership. Spurs are a good team as well. There's nothing wrong with defending well away from home.
City started the game well. As we tired we fell back to defending the penalty area, but I don't think for one minute that our ambitions lay just at defending. We just weren't at our best, and the reasons are obvious and have nothing to do with the manager.
Didsbury Dave said:And when we did it against utd at home there were the wrong kind of leaves on the pitch, the dog had eaten platt's tactics sheetanymore than 2sheiks said:Ah,no,we were a bit "rusty" then.Not played enough.
Not sure where you're coming from, but we are in the top 4 and going to Wembley.FantasyIreland said:Keep those excues coming fella's,anything to keep reality at bay.....