dazby wrote:Ant did you write that or steal it from somewhere?
brite blu sky wrote:agree with most if not all of this. i would suggest that Mancini has seen the 'problem' of Nige and Barry together and is working on trying to improve things. I would also suggest that the fact we were playing so deep made the problem worse, ie Barry had less space to operate in and it doesn't suit his game. Since we have started to hold a line higher up the pitch he has suddenly got a lot of his game back and was quite instrumental at Chelsea. He has also been trying to get forward more also, both overlapping runs and into the box. i am putting this down to Mancini slowly getting to grips with trying to get the team to play higher up. tbh i cant see him now doing what some of you suggest and leaving De Jong out. I think he will prefer to keep Nige as the protection and insist Barry takes on more playmaker responsibility.
Esky wrote:brite blu sky wrote:agree with most if not all of this. i would suggest that Mancini has seen the 'problem' of Nige and Barry together and is working on trying to improve things. I would also suggest that the fact we were playing so deep made the problem worse, ie Barry had less space to operate in and it doesn't suit his game. Since we have started to hold a line higher up the pitch he has suddenly got a lot of his game back and was quite instrumental at Chelsea. He has also been trying to get forward more also, both overlapping runs and into the box. i am putting this down to Mancini slowly getting to grips with trying to get the team to play higher up. tbh i cant see him now doing what some of you suggest and leaving De Jong out. I think he will prefer to keep Nige as the protection and insist Barry takes on more playmaker responsibility.
Absolutely spot on.
At Chelsea we played both De Jong and Zabaleta with Barry in a slightly more advanced role. All three were very good. Vieira could, in theory, replace one of the former two and we'd still keep the shape.
De Jong's been one of the most consistent players for us this season and I don't think we can leave him out of the side. Pushing Barry further forward looks like it could give us some impetus in the center of the pitch now that Stevie's out of form.
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