Foreverinbluedreams wrote:FA cup winners 2006 wrote:Cocacolajojo wrote:you think everyone who takes points of us treats it as a cup final and dont try against the other teams, which is stupid talk. Even though we are probably the best team over the last 3-4 years, other professional players still probably see taking points at old trafford or anfield as a bigger coup than at the etihad.
I watched Sky for the game yesterday, and EVERYONE said that this was a very unusal performance from Arsenal. They upped their game big time for us.
The reason the score was what it was yesterday was exactly what Pellegrini said, we didnt create anything with all the possession we had, we gave arsenal hope and they were able to cling on. We had plenty of opportunities and got into position but the final ball was never there, both clichy and navas had very poor games delivering that final ball and seemed happy just to win corners (which was pointless).
Arsenal sat very deep and let us come at them but there was no heroic defending. At the end of the game, we had aguero, dzeko, jovetic, lampard and silva on the pitch and still created nothing, it happens some games. I thought jovetic got on the ball alot but took up positions you would expect silva to be in. sergio got 90 mins which he needed but was largely a passenger for the game, which is expected but Navas and Clichy killed the game for me, this was a game perfectly suited for kolorov
The organisation and defensive discipline from Arsenal yesterday prevented us from being creative, this is not something you normally associate with Wenger teams.
It was just as much about Arsenal upping their game defensively as it was about our lack of final ball. To pretend otherwise is nonsense.
Exactly, Arsenal played it cute. I think Wenger took on board the criticism he's been getting about trying to play teams off the park that are actually better than them. They got it right. It's not the end of the world for City. Sergio/Kompany will get better with game time. Our fit full squad, is still the best balanced in the league, I believe. Let's see what Bony brings to the table at the end of February. We always seem to dip in mid January until the ACON s over. No need to panic. One game at a time. Just don't lose to Chelsea and make things harder than they need to be.