Comments on: CSKA Moscow 2 – 2 MAN CITY – MY THOUGHTS

By: bluebelgian

bluebelgian — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:08:55 +0000

The thing I don’t understand about the city players is the fact that they are all internationals and expierenced but that none of them takes the iniative,the lead to organize the team and if necessairy too summon or even reprimand the other players;Nobody scolds or fires up the others.
They just take things for granted!

By: kedon

kedon — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 00:07:43 +0000

It was more than killing off the game in my opinion .We looked tired in the end and yaya toure was beaten far to easily and not willing to track his man once beaten.Not saying its his fault but we need someone who has energy to burn in his roll.I looked at isco vs real liverpool today and he was all over the pitch even when he lost the ball or was beaten he never gave up .

By: pjdemers

pjdemers — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 22:41:48 +0000

I don’t think the issue is about tactics. I think the issue is more of collective mental block. Look at the collective body language when City play in the EPL and when the play in the UCL. It is literally night and day (under both Mancini and now MP). I don’t know why but the swagger and “over my dead body” attitude City often display domestically always goes missing the minute this team steps onto a UCL playing field. Against Bayern, City played like frightened rabbits. In the second half against CSKA Moscow, City fell into the classic trap of being caught in two minds about whether to kill the game off or to protect a 2-0 lead. That to me suggest players collectively feeling pressure and lacking self-belief. There isn’t a player in the squad who doesn’t know about the Typical City DNA in the social fabric of the club. Combine that with the obsession of the club Hierarchy with the UCL and that becomes a huge mental block to hurdle. Pellegrini has a proven track record in this competition with both Malaga and Real Madrid. He knows how to get less talented players to punch above their weight and he knows how massage big name egos. He has 3 games to get 9 points. A hard but achievable goal. If he pulls it off I’d wager it will have as much if not more to do with man-management skills than it does with tactical game plans.

By: Glenn Kavanagh

Glenn Kavanagh — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 21:05:29 +0000

I wasnt surprised with what happened, our “form” in the c.l is a joke I was sick to my guts watching it’ v.k is the boss man on the pitch is he unable to “gee up” the lads to keep everyone focused? The midfield/defence were appalling. My god ‘ mangala & Fernando were shocking… As for the 42, the manager will lose his job with him “playing”. That chap Is a total wa****r who has no interest in the club/fans.I doubt very much if the big big boss wants Thursday night ball, hard looking game coming up the wkend. Manuel’s head is defenetly on the block. Good news with Roma getting smashed hopefully they’ll fall apart (2). Totally fed up.

By: SamRhys

SamRhys — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 20:33:47 +0000

The fact is, he just doesn’t learn. The amount of times he has played 2 up front in Europe and has failed completely. Ok the first half was fine. But it was so obvious he needed to bring Dino on earlier. Instead he brought on Navas.. I honestly think Mancini would have done a better job this year in the CL.