Blue Since 76 wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:Hats off to the Count.
Throws him in vs the supposed champions & he is immaculate. Now he knows he can play vs any other team. I wouldn't have taken the gamble but he backed his judgement & now we have a major force next to Vinny & we have PACE.
Fernando in front of those two !
Nastasic got thrown in at a very deep end and looked pretty good...
Mangala was very impressive though and I like the way he played on the front foot - he was making some tackles in the centre circle. Wish he'd played against Stoke
Nastasic was fucking garbage imo.
It's just that people on here were determined to see a good performance in him & loathe to criticise Mancini at the time so the pair of them got away with it. He was dogshit v Aston Villa in the League Cup & rewarded by Mancini with a place at the Bernabau; one of the worst managerial decisions in history apart from Boyata vs Arsenal & Kolo Toure vs Bayern Munich.
In those days, all the stuff which people now see as utter weakling shite by Nastasic, were seen as understandable or not his fault.
But not by me. The way he let Benzema turn & then avoided the ball was fucking atrocious.
Mangala is clearly on another level & would be even if he had cost us 4 goals. He is just 'better' it's obvious within 30 seconds of watching him.
We have got something here.