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	<title>Comments on: MAN CITY 2 &#8211; 3 Manchester United &#8211; PLAYER RATINGS</title>
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		<title>By: Citysince77</title>
		<link>http://www.viewfromablue.com/2011/08/08/man-city-2-3-manchester-united-player-ratings/#comment-1674</link>
		<dc:creator>Citysince77</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 06:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let&#039;s face it, none of the players deserve more than the 6.5 you gave them. We are quite new to this kind of start to the season and for all the world we looked like we were. That said, these players gave me the best season I have had as a city fan in 30 odd years by using games like Sunday&#039;s as a springboard for sucess, they will do this season. Keep the faith!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s face it, none of the players deserve more than the 6.5 you gave them. We are quite new to this kind of start to the season and for all the world we looked like we were. That said, these players gave me the best season I have had as a city fan in 30 odd years by using games like Sunday&#8217;s as a springboard for sucess, they will do this season. Keep the faith!</p>
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		<title>By: Bring bellamy back</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bring bellamy back</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Impressed by Dzecko again, hope he continues to start. Think you have been harsh on Lescott and I hope your right about Milner&#039;s place in the pecking order as well as Clichy. I did not think that persuing Nasri would be a good idea with his ego and all but it does look like he may be exactly what we need for a creative partner to go along with Silva.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Impressed by Dzecko again, hope he continues to start. Think you have been harsh on Lescott and I hope your right about Milner&#8217;s place in the pecking order as well as Clichy. I did not think that persuing Nasri would be a good idea with his ego and all but it does look like he may be exactly what we need for a creative partner to go along with Silva.</p>
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		<title>By: stokesy</title>
		<link>http://www.viewfromablue.com/2011/08/08/man-city-2-3-manchester-united-player-ratings/#comment-1668</link>
		<dc:creator>stokesy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Whenever we&#039;re up against a team that puts pressure on the ball, we crumble, and we just can&#039;t seem to put pressure on the opposition when we don&#039;t have the ball, players like Balotelli and Yaya aren&#039;t built for that kind of game and we should be looking at replacements.  Yaya is immense driving forward with the ball at his feet, but when he has a second or two to think and try pick a pass, he&#039;s hopeless.  David Silva is crying out for a playmaker partner next to him as is the rest of the team al la Benarbia/Berkovic, hopefully Nasri can fill that space.  

We need to be looking at Barcelona as a blueprint of how to play football, granted we don&#039;t have the likes of Messi or Iniesta, but it&#039;s not about individuals with Barca, is about playing for the team, and how they act when they don&#039;t have the ball, it&#039;s press, press, press, and when they do have the ball it&#039;s a simple, controlled pass then move to create space, EVERYONE in their team does this, and when they get into the finally third of the pitch, THEN you have the flash of brilliance from the forward line, whenever they have the ball, there always seems a pass on because of the movement of the other players, when they don&#039;t have the ball, they press the opposition into making a mistake, not sitting back and trying to absorb the pressure like we try doing when we go 1 up, that&#039;s how they raped the Rags at Wembley in the Champs league final, and that&#039;s how the play their football, week in week out and that&#039;s how we should be looking to play our football, because to be honest we have enough players to be able to adapt that kind of game, so let&#039;s friggin use it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whenever we&#8217;re up against a team that puts pressure on the ball, we crumble, and we just can&#8217;t seem to put pressure on the opposition when we don&#8217;t have the ball, players like Balotelli and Yaya aren&#8217;t built for that kind of game and we should be looking at replacements.  Yaya is immense driving forward with the ball at his feet, but when he has a second or two to think and try pick a pass, he&#8217;s hopeless.  David Silva is crying out for a playmaker partner next to him as is the rest of the team al la Benarbia/Berkovic, hopefully Nasri can fill that space.  </p>
<p>We need to be looking at Barcelona as a blueprint of how to play football, granted we don&#8217;t have the likes of Messi or Iniesta, but it&#8217;s not about individuals with Barca, is about playing for the team, and how they act when they don&#8217;t have the ball, it&#8217;s press, press, press, and when they do have the ball it&#8217;s a simple, controlled pass then move to create space, EVERYONE in their team does this, and when they get into the finally third of the pitch, THEN you have the flash of brilliance from the forward line, whenever they have the ball, there always seems a pass on because of the movement of the other players, when they don&#8217;t have the ball, they press the opposition into making a mistake, not sitting back and trying to absorb the pressure like we try doing when we go 1 up, that&#8217;s how they raped the Rags at Wembley in the Champs league final, and that&#8217;s how the play their football, week in week out and that&#8217;s how we should be looking to play our football, because to be honest we have enough players to be able to adapt that kind of game, so let&#8217;s friggin use it.</p>
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		<title>By: Siamack</title>
		<link>http://www.viewfromablue.com/2011/08/08/man-city-2-3-manchester-united-player-ratings/#comment-1666</link>
		<dc:creator>Siamack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Kolarov seems more of a liability with every passing game, he should be put behind Clichy and our utility die hard man Zabalata. It is time for this rose bud to blossom and live up to his price tag!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kolarov seems more of a liability with every passing game, he should be put behind Clichy and our utility die hard man Zabalata. It is time for this rose bud to blossom and live up to his price tag!</p>
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		<title>By: Siamack</title>
		<link>http://www.viewfromablue.com/2011/08/08/man-city-2-3-manchester-united-player-ratings/#comment-1665</link>
		<dc:creator>Siamack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The benefit City gets from this loss exceeds far more than the benefit City would have gotten had they won the game. It servers as a wake up call that summer tour is over.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The benefit City gets from this loss exceeds far more than the benefit City would have gotten had they won the game. It servers as a wake up call that summer tour is over.</p>
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