Comments on: MAN CITY 1 – 2 CSKA Moscow – MY THOUGHTS

By: eireblue

eireblue — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 19:36:05 +0000

Time for 4-5-1 using both fers and milner for solidity.vital we start to win consecutively if only 1-0s as it really is only a confidence issue..guarantee 3 wins on the trot and all will be brighter!!!

By: Glenn Kavanagh

Glenn Kavanagh — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:55:48 +0000

Its all being said before I don’t know why our defensive midfielder is playing in the oppositions half. Its all very very strange. Nasris “tackle” was pure thuggery. The players behavior towards the ref after the game was brutal. Not acceptable at any level – a poor ref that he was the players need look no further than themselves. V.k made himself look like a plastic gentleman (again) I don’t like him or anyone crying like a big girl – its very bad form!!! So while we must take this nasty sting (another one) I will console myself safe in the knowledge that this team is our first generation. There’ll be others’ are we going to start crying now??? No way – the next ten years are going to be awesome. All that talk about plastic club.. Emptyhad…buy success blah blah blah will be rembered for being nothing but bluster. So cheer up & get the hamlet’s out. Blue moon always rising!!!!!

By: Mathew Ridyard

Mathew Ridyard — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:12:57 +0000

My impression from early on in this game, was that the Moscow Manager came with a detailed breakdown of his opposition and a VERY specific game plan.

Whereas Pelligrini, just trotted out the same team he did on the weekend against UTD.

In both matches he brought the RIGHT people on, but critically brought the WRONG people off: for UTD read Milner, against CSKA read Fernando.

However, the problem runs deeper than that. We were as insipid in UCL matches with Mancini as we are now with Pelligrini.

So who is to blame: The club? The Manager? The players?

I think it might be the manager IMHO

Dieter Hamman said before the UCL campaign started, that if City persisted with a 2 man midfield with Yaya and Fernandinho/Fernando. They would get nowhere.

I think that the key is in having a manager strong enough to say, get rid of their best player. Mata/Mourinho for example.

Or, at least, recognise where YAYA should play. Is there a City fan that thinks that “defensive midfielder” is Yaya’s position?

I would MUCH prefer him to Jovetic or Dzeko alongside/just behind Aguero

By: Siamack

Siamack — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 19:19:54 +0000

You are absolutely right and I agree with you. He needs to do something. They do not pay him big bucks to field a team and wear a suit during the game. They pay him to sort out issues [which includes formations and other things as you rightfully mentioned above] like this one.

Doing nothing, insisting on all is okay, we do as we always do and we do not know why we do not perform well can only bury us more.

By: Blue Bullet

Blue Bullet — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 19:05:45 +0000

I think the formation is only half the problem at the moment (if not less), however solving half of the problem is better than not solving it at all.