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Seems nobody really bothered this weekend but for today's performance I do believe it's worth a thread. So take you pick folks, although I do believe that SS got it very much right today. It was the 2 M's for me today, Milner and Manny, but Milner grabbed it for me with his multi-talented performance again.

Jims the man.

Has to be Jimmy for me too but thought Mangala had an excellent game,close call between them both.

Mr T (total) for me. Easily.
Fantastic debut by Mangala and good game from Komps as well.
And if Yaya would have put in this amount of effort against Bayern, we would have won.

I'm going for Vinnie; I just loved the way he bossed Costa and Co and encouraged us to come back from the goal; but no arguments with Miner, Mangala as choices. Yaya also much better today, though no where near MotM

sheblue wrote:Jims the man.

I am :-)


Have gone Milner too but for his debut the Mangaler is very close.

It just amazes me why Milner doesn't see more game time. Played 4 different positions today, 5 if you class the LB/LM roles, yet he can't seem to get a game.

Beefymcfc wrote:It just amazes me why Milner doesn't see more game time. Played 4 different positions today, 5 if you class the LB/LM roles, yet he can't seem to get a game.

Funny, innit? But when the Count changed and put Jimmy as a LB, the game went in our favour, almost we could have win it all.

Great squad player. Huge.

Milner shading Mangala. By a thread. Both had excellent games. Clearly Milner has done enough to retain his place and maybe Nasri has to now pull his finger out or he faces a spell bench warming

I've gone for Mangala. He was thrown in at the deep end (so he now has first-hand experience of the systematic corruption of referees in this country) and was fucking brilliant. For those making the case for Milner, I thought he was superb and would like to see him as a regular starter given his nous, energy and veratility. It was also nice to see Yaya turn up again.

PeterParker wrote:

Beefymcfc wrote:It just amazes me why Milner doesn't see more game time. Played 4 different positions today, 5 if you class the LB/LM roles, yet he can't seem to get a game.

Funny, innit? But when the Count changed and put Jimmy as a LB, the game went in our favour, almost we could have win it all.

Great squad player. Huge.

But he's more than just a squad player isn't he.It's not just that he can fill in all over the place it's the quality of what he does in the roles.

Douglas Higginbottom wrote:

PeterParker wrote:

Beefymcfc wrote:It just amazes me why Milner doesn't see more game time. Played 4 different positions today, 5 if you class the LB/LM roles, yet he can't seem to get a game.

Funny, innit? But when the Count changed and put Jimmy as a LB, the game went in our favour, almost we could have win it all.

Great squad player. Huge.

But he's more than just a squad player isn't he.It's not just that he can fill in all over the place it's the quality of what he does in the roles.

Exactly that, Mr H.

However, having said that, I voted for Mangala because it was his debut and he was really thrown in at the deep end but performed wonderfully well.

I don't think it's any secret that this summer, if we couldn't have both, I would have preferred us to spend the money on another forward, rather than a centre-back.

However, on today's display, he really looks some player and if he continues in this vein, we could have a veritable colossus dominating our back line for years to come. After the Savic and Nastasic scenarios, it would seem that Mr Pellegrini certainly knows his onions with regard to defenders.

Milner all day and twice on a Sunday. But The Mangler was brilliant, Fernandinho excellent despite being outnumbered and Dzeko looked like he'd been on raw meat and steroids all week - wish he played with that much purpose every week.

Mainly a great team performance against a very good side

Beefymcfc wrote:It just amazes me why Milner doesn't see more game time. Played 4 different positions today, 5 if you class the LB/LM roles, yet he can't seem to get a game.

i am beginning to think he will now. we want to keep him so we want him to feel important enough. he's now started a few big games for us, and has done well.

i also think last season pellegrini and the spaniards were concerned about nasri which had an effect on milner's opportunities.

nasri was coming off a horrible season and they wanted to see if he was worth keeping. our skepticism about him was i believe partially why we flirted...more like courted isco. however, nasri played well, and we may have figured if he's on top of his game, he's still more worth keeping than milner, as good as he is.

now that nasri felt loved by city after his play last season, he signs a new deal.

well, james is now the one who needs to feel loved with his contract running out.

he wants to prove his worth, and i believe our management has set up a situation where we place players in situations where they want to prove their value.

i think milner will get more chances this year, and we will not be worried about nasri off the bench or not at all (like today), if he does not perform, and while our focus may be keeping milner around with a long term deal.

Quite surprised Yaya hasn't picked up at least a couple of votes, he was magnificent, easily twice the player we saw in Munich.

Slim wrote:Quite surprised Yaya hasn't picked up at least a couple of votes, he was magnificent, easily twice the player we saw in Munich.

it was a day we would be lauding almost all of them had we made something productive in the first half, or gotten that pen shout we should've.

We should have won this match, as the performances from about 4 or 5 folks today was really impeccable.

Good signs moving forward. And i loved the Count's characterization of Chelsea as playing like a "small team"...i get that he's a little bitter, but fuck me. It made me laugh a little.

cheers

Milner is in far better form then Nasri and i think he should take hes place , hes better up front in defense he was amazing MOTM

Milner, again.

Maybe now he will FINALLY get that run in the team that his play warrants.

My 2000's post and its an honour to use it to cast my vote for Big Jimmy. He was magnificent yesterday.

Welcome back Jimmy Milner .

Wiltshire ? Go fuck yourselves shite media !