CITY at Rags Thread

[gavin]

Poor indeed going forward but relatively decent at the back at least. It's disappointing but suits us more than the scum.

[Swiss]

I'd have gone with Vinny and Mangala. Unusual for Pelle to go for a more defensive option of the two Ferns. Navas pace will worry them off the bench though if necessary.

I'm still not keen on Mangala, he's got a mistake in him every match

[bry the guy]

Happy to get a clean sheet.

[KunDB]

Otamendi played a stormer today.

[Swiss]

It's still that central mid that's causing us problems.

And why on earth aren't we dictating matches!

It's ok having the Ferns in the team, but not with a languid yaya too

I thought Bony was quite decent in the first half... as a Midfielder!

[KunDB]

If we played for 90 days Bony still would not score, worrying.

[bry the guy]

Both teams made very few chances so cant blame Bony for that.

[Kilkenny Blue]

Bereft of any flair or ideas, de Bruyne marked out of it.  Worst I've seen Kolorov play in ages

[goat]

tonys african lovechild did more in 8 minutes than yaya and bony all day

[Kilkenny Blue]

aye, was hoping he'd be brought on at half time

[Swiss]

There wasn't much support from midfield for Bony

When is Delph supposed to be fit? be interesting to see what he can bring to the table

[Neil Mcnab]

Decent draw.
Toure should have been binned off in the summer.

[bry the guy]

That was our first 0-0 in1 3235689070 games.

[zacc]

they see as two points lost whereas City gain a point and at the top still

[bluebrendan]

Well that was turgid stuff. On the plus side we didn't lose and we looked more solid defensively, on the minus side our passing was abysmal, I gave up counting how often de Bruyne gave the ball away but at least he was due a poor game after his recent efforts. I'm not sure what Toure's excuse was, we took his defensive duties away and he still looked knackered after 45 minutes.

[Rowley Birkin QC]

With the injuries and all, I'll take a point - although I couldn't help thinking if we'd just found a bit more guile and some better passing we would have caused them a lot of problems. The rags defend well, and they're workman like in midfield - but they don't have much more to offer.

I wouldn't be too hard on Bony. I lost count of the number of times he went to compete for a difficult 50/50 ball punted up to him and Yaya was just standing watching... 20 yards away. Can't do much against a good defence if you don't get the close support.

[silvablue]

In most big games we concede midfield, even today when the two ferns played.

The reason is simple, you cannot carry passengers and that is what Yaya is.

[bry the guy]

I felt we just dint turn up it was just crap.

[nimrod]

They dont lose many at home so without Dave & Kun Im happy with a point

Its amazing people go on about how our squad is stuffed with world class players but a couple of injuries and our squad looks thin

The sheik is gonna have to splash big time again if we want to be big time

[clevblue]

I think Yaya has personal issues, this game comes after his complaints in the French press, it happened before after his birthday complaints. He'll probably get his head straight and start playing well again (off and on)

It may sound daft but I don't think its wide of the mark.

Silva and Serge would've buried the Rags yesterday, think of that, Van Gaal