Blueband Brother said:
A lot of lousy knee jerk reactions in the thread and it seems to be regular reaction after a disappointing match- rage then pick a player to lynch to vent your frustrations be it, lescott, yaya, garcia, dzeko, any easy target.
It is obvious to Mancini and to many that wants to see but apparently not to the manager that yaya, sitting too deep in any away match is essentially playing with 10 men because he does not have the energy to chase around to win tackles and does not find the space to penetrate a packed away midfield with his surging runs.
He should be an attacking midfielder or supporting striker in this kind of games and that is when he will show his real qualities as the best player in the squad and have a real impact.
The manager have to grasp this really fast.
YAYA and Barry sucks last season, YAYA and Fer sucks in previous two games, YAYA and Rodwell sucks bigtime this match. I believe it is time to realize if you have a player always walks on the pitch, you are not going to have a dominant middle field.
We have been the YAYA team for the last 4 years, we are good when he is good, we make our tatics around a guy that is going downward fast. GOD HELP US