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Wigan Vs City Post Match Discussion thread
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arsenalrob
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Anyway at least Mancini is not as bad as Guardiola and Mourinho.
baldybouncer
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City Raider said:meaningless games - remember them?
Don't remind me! But they're a thing of the past now. Nail biting stuff and I love it.
Harder then I thought...
Figueroa reserved a red card..
Did you see his challenge on Nasri"s ankle? At that moment I thought Nasri"s season is over... That tackle was a yellow at minimum, but still got away with it.
And when Caldwell blocked Dzeko"s header by his hand... That was a clear penalty.
Must say that some other decisions were going in our favor.
Ooh, and De Jong had a really bad game. His form is questionable
Figueroa reserved a red card..
Did you see his challenge on Nasri"s ankle? At that moment I thought Nasri"s season is over... That tackle was a yellow at minimum, but still got away with it.
And when Caldwell blocked Dzeko"s header by his hand... That was a clear penalty.
Must say that some other decisions were going in our favor.
Ooh, and De Jong had a really bad game. His form is questionable
I agree completely. Nobody cares at the end of the season.ethan23 said:bollocks to this imaginary card, we're not here to be liked were here to win trophies. I couldnt care less what people think about us, most hate us anyway. Great result but we need to step it up next week
I actually don't care if anyone waves a card. It's win at all costs and I'd want someone from the opposition sent off if I was a manager/player, it's natural to want it.
This is how you win titles.
Keep a clean sheet and everything else will take care of itself.
Wigan are fighting for their premiership status so it was never going to be easy.
The two shots on target is the thing that impresses me and we can do that against Spurs as well.
Keeping clean sheets will be the name of the game from here on in and the side amongst the top three that does that will land the title.
You have to be confident we can do that.
Keep a clean sheet and everything else will take care of itself.
Wigan are fighting for their premiership status so it was never going to be easy.
The two shots on target is the thing that impresses me and we can do that against Spurs as well.
Keeping clean sheets will be the name of the game from here on in and the side amongst the top three that does that will land the title.
You have to be confident we can do that.
This post probably isn't worth the flaming it will get but fuck it, maybe some of you can have a reasonable discussion about it rather than getting on the ultra defensive and calling me a rag :p
Don't care about that crap about winning the league ugly, I wanted to see something that would give me some confidence going into the Spurs game off the back of what has been our worst part of the season. I didn't see it. I saw another useless Nasri, a still tired Silva (though it was a superb set piece and still managed a through ball for Aguero that he arguably should have done more with), some good chances created and not finished. One set piece goal separated the top of the league with the bottom. When we played them earlier in the season we created some lovely chances that Aguero finished with clinical precision. Tonight we needed a wonder header from Dzeko (superb to see him back on the score sheet again) to clinch it. Needed Hart to keep us in it AGAIN! How many good chances are we going to give teams?
Let no-one ever question how important Yaya is to us. Milner, god love him, was dead on his feet. We really needed that composure Yaya brings to the middle. And god damn even if Lescott did start the season better than Kompany, I'm now completely convinced it was only due to some weird effect of Kompany having to do more work than one man should. You could crash Bluemoon waxing lyrical about how important that man is to our team. Thankfully as people have said it's one more game without him and a vital 3 points.
Pluses: Savic looked a lot better. Far less rash. Still a bit iffy with some of his positioning but far more confident. Could probably make more of those bursting runs out to release the ball because unless Yaya is there it seems difficult to move it forward. Dzeko looked well up for it, made a much better outlet and some good turns showing lots of strength to hold people off. Great partner for Aguero, and crucial to get him in the goals again at this stage of the season. Hart once again (almost doesn't need mentioning now, the guy is just, well, insane). And despite the scoreline we did actually make a few good chances. We're still umming and arring about finishing them but it's better to see no chances created at all. Oh and that Aguero dribble, was wishing that one to go in just so you could watch it on the highlight reel over and over and over again, but sometimes that boy just needs to use his ion cannon foot and fucking hoof it. It basically won us the Liverpool game.
We really need to tighten it up. Still hoofing forward too much, still too many headed clearances to opposing players, still getting caught up field and giving away chances.
People will think I'm just moaning, but if you can't spot the deficiencies when you're winning you'll have no idea what to do when the results suddenly don't go your way. I wish I could be more upbeat about it, but we're still lacking all the possession and crispness of passing that was decimating teams at the beginning of the season. We had some awesome awesome interchanges at the beginning of the match that didn't come to anything but you could look past it being the start of the match. We needed 3 points tonight, but we also needed confidence going into playing Tottenham on Saturday. If anyone can honestly say they feel better about it after that I'l be amazed. How do we still have so many tired legs? I know even the best teams don't play at 100% for the entire season and we have some crucial people missing, but it was Wigan FFS. Sometimes you just need to go out and give someone a good whipping to get everyone back on track.
Don't care about that crap about winning the league ugly, I wanted to see something that would give me some confidence going into the Spurs game off the back of what has been our worst part of the season. I didn't see it. I saw another useless Nasri, a still tired Silva (though it was a superb set piece and still managed a through ball for Aguero that he arguably should have done more with), some good chances created and not finished. One set piece goal separated the top of the league with the bottom. When we played them earlier in the season we created some lovely chances that Aguero finished with clinical precision. Tonight we needed a wonder header from Dzeko (superb to see him back on the score sheet again) to clinch it. Needed Hart to keep us in it AGAIN! How many good chances are we going to give teams?
Let no-one ever question how important Yaya is to us. Milner, god love him, was dead on his feet. We really needed that composure Yaya brings to the middle. And god damn even if Lescott did start the season better than Kompany, I'm now completely convinced it was only due to some weird effect of Kompany having to do more work than one man should. You could crash Bluemoon waxing lyrical about how important that man is to our team. Thankfully as people have said it's one more game without him and a vital 3 points.
Pluses: Savic looked a lot better. Far less rash. Still a bit iffy with some of his positioning but far more confident. Could probably make more of those bursting runs out to release the ball because unless Yaya is there it seems difficult to move it forward. Dzeko looked well up for it, made a much better outlet and some good turns showing lots of strength to hold people off. Great partner for Aguero, and crucial to get him in the goals again at this stage of the season. Hart once again (almost doesn't need mentioning now, the guy is just, well, insane). And despite the scoreline we did actually make a few good chances. We're still umming and arring about finishing them but it's better to see no chances created at all. Oh and that Aguero dribble, was wishing that one to go in just so you could watch it on the highlight reel over and over and over again, but sometimes that boy just needs to use his ion cannon foot and fucking hoof it. It basically won us the Liverpool game.
We really need to tighten it up. Still hoofing forward too much, still too many headed clearances to opposing players, still getting caught up field and giving away chances.
People will think I'm just moaning, but if you can't spot the deficiencies when you're winning you'll have no idea what to do when the results suddenly don't go your way. I wish I could be more upbeat about it, but we're still lacking all the possession and crispness of passing that was decimating teams at the beginning of the season. We had some awesome awesome interchanges at the beginning of the match that didn't come to anything but you could look past it being the start of the match. We needed 3 points tonight, but we also needed confidence going into playing Tottenham on Saturday. If anyone can honestly say they feel better about it after that I'l be amazed. How do we still have so many tired legs? I know even the best teams don't play at 100% for the entire season and we have some crucial people missing, but it was Wigan FFS. Sometimes you just need to go out and give someone a good whipping to get everyone back on track.
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cookster said:marco said:just an idea could we have a moaning section to the forum, ungrateful bastards
What about a subsection for moaning about moaners?
Are you moaning?
Millwallawayveteran1988
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Not great but take the points and run!
Neville is right. Next 6 games are key. If we beat spurs they are 8 behind and almost out of it. If we can win 5 out of our next 6 of which 4 are at home, it will take some performances from united to live with that against 3 teams fighting for 4th, spurs, Stoke and Norwich.
Wish we hadn't pissed that point away at Sunderland.
Neville is right. Next 6 games are key. If we beat spurs they are 8 behind and almost out of it. If we can win 5 out of our next 6 of which 4 are at home, it will take some performances from united to live with that against 3 teams fighting for 4th, spurs, Stoke and Norwich.
Wish we hadn't pissed that point away at Sunderland.
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Pigeonho said:Because I don't agree with what Mancini is doing with his imaginary card. If I didn't believe in it but said 'well done', that would be a lie wouldn't it?Hamann Pineapple said:Pigeonho said:If Taggart did it as much as Mancini has done it lately, there would be threads and threads on it on here. It's a daft thing to do and lacks class. He made up for that class in the interview but it's not something I like to see him do to be honest.
I don't understand why you defend everyone else but your own.
I know my posts aren't popular, but at least they're honest. It's very easy to fall into the category of post things what people want to see, but i'd rather post what I feel to be honest. It's hardly slating Mancini anyway is it? It's just me not agreeing with his waving of an imaginary card like I wouldn't agree if it was any other manager, the difference being those saying 'so what' to Mancini doing it wouldn't agree with anyone else doing it.
Fair enough, I dont like it either. But I can understand as I feel close to him ;)