Match Thread Vs Manchester Citeh

I had not noticed it before when people said Dempsey did not look interested, today he couldn't give a f&&k, could not keep hold of the ball and just let them run through, Kyle Walkers confidence is shot to pieces.

Ade was superb hold up play and work rate Dempsey was kept on to mark Yaya u can see that he hardly got foward cause he had to mark that mountain no Nasri Lought hes not Messi they had Silva back who ran the show Aguero YaYa Kompany not exactly crap but we showed them to respect simple as we was too defensive.SANDRO was awsome too

Christ we are missing Dembele, movement,strength and killer passes, lets hope his back for the Arsenal game

so djezko world class now lol
we had attacking players but avb wanted to park the bus again.

AVB under alot of pressure. If & it's a big IF he loses next weekend to us making that 4 losses on the bounce. what are the thoughts .. acceptable?

Loughtonlegend wrote:so djezko world class now lol
we had attacking players but avb wanted to park the bus again.

AVB under alot of pressure. If & it's a big IF he loses next weekend to us making that 4 losses on the bounce. what are the thoughts .. acceptable?

No of course not Lought , none of us like to lose but they're a fully fit Man City, whilst we're missing a few of our best players like Kaboul, Benny , Dembele who are all decent players on the ball. Dissapointed with our play on the ball as you are but I'm just trying to throw in some realism too.

Also throw in the fact that we played on Thursday and they played Tuesday.

Rating v Man C
Friedel - 6 - Decent performance, made a couple of decent saves. Not anything he could do about either of the City goals really.

Walker - 5 - Not as bad as he has been recently, but he just doesn't link up with Lennon well at all.
Gallas - 5 - Not a great performance, didn't have the intelligence to cover for his lack of pace.
Caulker 7 - A good performance from the young lad. He did very well coming across to cover for Vertonghen numerous times.
Vertonghen - 5 - Is not a Left back by nature. Then again most natural left backs would suffer facing Silva and Tevez.

lennon - 5 - Didn't really run at anyone which he always seems to like doing. Worked his socks off defensively though.
Huddlestone - 5 - Let his man past him on a number of occasions. Doesn't do as well when he is closed down and not allowed time on the ball.
Sandro - 8 - Devastating. Dominated Yaya Toure at times which is not an easy thing to do.
Bale - 4 - Did nothing. In fact he did worse than nothing. The few times he did get the ball he shot at goal. Bar the one shot on goal he did get which was a bizarre combination of multiple defensive errors by City players.

Dempsey - 5 - Got involved at times in the first half, but faded in the second.

Adebayor - 8 - managed to create and hold the ball up on multiple occasions when nobody was helping him. Also because he manages to irritate defenders to the point which they do stupid things.


AVB - Justified starting eleven, but not helped by the failure of his wingers to turn up. Playing on the counter without them is difficult. Slightly odd substitutions.

BBc site quotes GET INVOLVED
James Presland on Twitter: "Does AVB have any idea what he's doing? How does he expect to stay in the job if the team plays like that?"

Robbie Savage, BBC Radio 5 live
"Why Spurs played such a high line at the back is bizarre
Greg Matthews on Twitter: "You deserved that Spurs. You cannot try and defend for 70mins and expect to win. Negative football."

same old story 2 steps forward then 3 steps back, were going nowhere. west ham have leap frogged us i think now.

ye west ham beat newcastle away

wtf avb problem with the way we play.
its stupid how defensive we play

i think levy hung him out to dry not getting the players he wants.

vis wrote:Lought are you starting to question AVB's management ?

I am. Avb is useless !!

bring back Big Mart !!!!!!!

i've not liked the ginger since day one.

I am reserving judgement until we can put out this team

Lloris
Walker Kaboul Verts Benny
Lennon Sandro Bale
Dembele
Defoe
Ade

Only then I think it fair to judge

by then it will be too late....

I'm with Dave on this one. Let's wait until he has his full compliment of players to choose from.

so lets sack the manager after10 games lol

lucky there was not fourums around in the 60s
sir bill wouldnt of last 5 minutes

Ten games that he should of never had,