Original Dub wrote:I dunno mate, to be honest, I thought we started a lot of the games at home reasonably brightly, but ten mins in reverted to defensive football...
Maybe its just a plan that is finally being put into proper practice, but I can't figure out Mancini's tactics so I'm not going to try to because everytime I think I have an idea, it gets turned upside down!
Lets see how we do against Sunderland and then the next home game and we'll see exactly how he operates, because I'm hopeful this was a turning point and his plan/style is now being enforced, while the "settling in" period is definitely over.
But I'll give you one "reason to be cautious" and not get too excited:
This is Manchester City.
MaineRoadMemories wrote:Goals Scored
0 - 15........................6
16 - 30.......................6
31 - 45.......................12
46 - 60.......................11
61 - 75.......................8
76 - 90.......................9
Goals Conceded
0 - 15........................5
16 - 30.......................4
31 - 45.......................7
46 - 60.......................5
61 - 75.......................6
76 - 90.......................8
We are at our most dangerous coming towards half time and just after half time.
MaineRoadMemories wrote:Goals Scored
0 - 15........................6
16 - 30.......................6
31 - 45.......................12
46 - 60.......................11
61 - 75.......................8
76 - 90.......................9
Goals Conceded
0 - 15........................5
16 - 30.......................4
31 - 45.......................7
46 - 60.......................5
61 - 75.......................6
76 - 90.......................8
We are at our most dangerous coming towards half time and just after half time.
Ted Hughes » 02 Mar 2010 12:46
Original Dub wrote:
DoomMerchant wrote:
Grob wrote:
To be fair, games like Chelsea away are pretty much isolated fixtures. They have a better team and squad than us, they are on their home patch, they rarely drop points at Stamford Bridge.
Yes, they outplayed us for long periods but they outplay everyone at home so an irrelevent point. Yes we were fortunate that they didnt have Cech and they decided to have men sent off.
But, considering it was Chelsea we performed as well defensivly as ive seen anyone do for a while, we looked threatening on the break and we took our chances.
We wont do much better than that at Stamford Bridge for a while.
Reading the last few pages of this topic makes me wonder if all some of you want to do is make smart comments or nitpick other posters incessantly because they thought we were 'brilliant' on saturday.
yr clearly trying to pick a fight. i hope you get what's coming to you.
cheers
P.S. for the record, we blew donkey nuts for the first 40 mins on Saturday, and only a Vassellian goal from Tevez brought us back from the brink. Everyone knows that i think, right? If we approach Arse or Villa or Spurs the same way in the first 40 mins we could be cooked in those matches. A Chelsea fan would surely see that as their worst match of the season i think.
Also, were Wigan world-beaters when they tonked them 3-1 earlier in the season? just sayin.
cheers again
No mate, some people don't see it like that AT ALL. I got called silly and "illinformed" for saying the same thing you did. My support was questioned and there was genuine disbelief that some of us thought we were poor first half and excellent second half.
The ability to say what you see seems to have left some folk at the moment and they look completely blinkered as a result.
I just wish we didn't have this big international break because I'm dying to find out which city will take on Sunderland. If its the first half, we could definitely lose that game because they are now in a relegation fight. If its the second half city, it doesn't matter who we play.
Imo the 2nd half of the Chelsea game was proof that we can do it & I agree; playing like that we could do the same to most teams inc Arsenal away. We have to find a way of playing against teams that won't allow us to counter attack if we're to get 4th place though.
Some teams, even if they're at home, will just sit back & those tactics won't have the same effect until we get a goal in front. If we can solve that problem of nicking the 1st goal without cocking up at the back & then produce that kind of counter attacking we'll be in for a happy end to the season.
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