Socrates wrote:I'm glad that wasn't his first match for us, he'd be being witch hunted and burned at the stake!
At the very least !!
In a perverse way, perhaps it was no bad thing he had a bad game this early in his time with City. We've all seen how good he was in the Chelsea game and this match might just have been a reality check for him, confirming there are no easy fixtures in the Premier League, irrespective of the opposition.
Every player makes mistakes but, at the end of the day, we got all three points and if this makes him roll his sleeves up and be more determined that it won't happen again, then City can only benefit.
He's a different proposition to some of our other recent centre-back acquisitions, so we should just cut the guy some slack and let him settle in (think of DeMichelis).