View From A Blue

It’s hard to know where to begin. How much praise should be directed towards Wigan for their enterprising, tactically-perfect and purposeful display and how much of the post-match emotion should be anger at City’s pathetically spineless performance? The winners deserve all the plaudits that are being sent in their direction but from a City perspective, [...]

Hart – Despite the ease with which Wigan moved the ball and the constant threat they seemed to pose, Hart was barely called into action. His distribution, as it has been too often this season, was wayward – 6 Zabaleta – One of the few to show some passion but even he had a difficult [...]

Scott Sinclair is the only memeber of the first team squad unavailable for selection as Roberto Mancini prepares for this FA Cup final. Costel Pantilimon is likely to be picked in goal even though he admitted recently that he will look to leave in the summer, while the back four should see Pablo Zabaleta, Vincent [...]

Three points, a clean sheet and no injuries; this was just the type of encounter Roberto Mancini would have desired before the FA Cup final at the weekend. While that competition offers the Blues the last chance of claiming silverware this season, this was still an entertaining affair, far removed from the soporific nature that [...]

Hart – Excellent handling for the most part when shots were fired in but he missed one cross, flapping unsuccessfully, only to be saved by defenders behind him – 6 Richards – He looked woefully unfit when he returned recently but this was a much better, stronger, more complete performance. Sharp to the tackle, powerful [...]