btajim - mcfc wrote:
Nonsense. City's forward three of Stirling, Sane and Jesus were immense and are only going to get better considering how young they all are. We got it spot on and simply punished every single mistake you made.
I was thinking about whether I should reply to this given your vicious outbursts before.
Enjoyed reading your posts for years Jim so trying to put a balanced response out of respect.
I thought Man City were very good going forward, tonnes of movement, at pace and there were plenty of options every time you had the ball.
However I agree with DL that we were inept - Yaya toure seemingly had a force field around him as no-one even tried to go near (he may well have been so good to make the space if they did but they literally didn't try). Some of our players pressed and some didn't meaning you just passed around a lack of team approach. Finally we gave you the ball in our half. Repeatedly.
The way you played we would have lost had we even played well. We didn't - there was no consistent structure and tactic.
With regard to be front three - Sane and Jesus were class in what they did. I personally felt Sterling did some good stuff but resorted to some cheap behaviours like walking back as slowly as possible for the restart after each goal (ref practically dragged him back to the man city half) and whinging at multiple decisions.
I wish you well for the rest of the season - on the plus side it's the best man city side I've seen going forward. I would however say the were more tactical trips, whinging at the ref than I've seen from a man city side before.
Final point. My personal view is that when a player goes down injured play should continue unless (1) it's a head injury or (2) the referee stops play as he or his linesman have seen something serious. Sterling stayed down twice with man city calling for the ball to go out of play followed by up and sprinting a minute or two later.
To end on a positive note - Jesus and Sane were class and I would love us to have players half that electric