Comments on: MAN CITY 2 – 2 Sunderland – PLAYER RATINGS

By: Marc L

Marc L — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 18:05:58 +0000

Disagree with that Rodwell should have started.

Rodwell has done absolutely nothing all year. Or last, really, other than in the glorified friendly against Norwich at the very end.

With Garcia you know what you have. Limitations and all, I would take that over Rodwell. And I suspect if there was anything truly useful to be had from him we’d have seen it by now.

As to Milner – shouldn’t have started here. I would have started Navas if healthy or even Jovetic on that side. Milner needs space to operate effectively going forward. Also helps more defensively. He’d be my choice away against tough sides. I’d go with a technically more adept guy against the bus-parking clubs. Which you’d have figured Sunderland to be going in.

Anyway, as PJ says above, all is not lost yet. Before this disaster we needed the red dippers to drop one point relative to however many we drop. Now we need them to drop three. That’s one loss. I suspect they’d have gotten that even with Sturridge and Henderson available.

We just need to nut it up and do our business. Hard to see it happening after that abysmal performance, but we have all seen stranger and more unlikely things happen. And very recently.

By: pjdemers

pjdemers — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 07:45:59 +0000

et’s be careful about over analyzing
There is some wonderful analysis going on here but I think the element we are all forgetting is that this season alone has proven is that there are no dead rubber games. Yes we’ve lost games to teams we should beat, but so have Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, and Everton. It is important to have a tactical game plan but as the saying goes, nothing ever goes to plan and more often than not teams often cancel each other out tactically, and ebb and flow takes over and as we all saw on Sunday,(& Wednesday) luck and nerve can play a bigger part than tactics.

I will be very surprised if the title is decided by the LFC vs Chelsea match as I completely expect teams like Norwich, Palace, and Sunderland to continue to throw a wrench in the works. Which why is City fans and players need to regroup, enjoy the wild ride and wait until after the 11th of May for recriminations and re-assessments…

By: Wernethblue

Wernethblue — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 06:22:04 +0000

Spot on Sahil, my thoughts exactly.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 22:49:54 +0000

Zaba frustrates me sometimes.. No questioning his attitude but he seems to dive in too much unnecessarily and is too slow if you ask me. Well either too slow, or doesn’t recognize when he has a man on..

If it were me in charge this summer I’d get some more pace in the team and some players that can really run at a defender like Aguero does

By: stan bowles

stan bowles — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 21:33:48 +0000

Wouldn’t give any of them higher than a 5 except Dimichelis whilst Milner just had one of those games to forget. Aguero and Negredo will do well to bag a goal each before the end of the season on last night’s evidence.