So much for a BIG team. Playing for a draw at home. MASSIVE! BIG my azz.
MOTM : Fletch, work his socks off. Closely followed by Vidic, Rio and Berba.
Team played very well. Very gutted not to get all 3 points especially that stunning display in 2nd half. Anyway, expected for a draw. Judas32 scared to fight with seniors and cari pasal with Rafael. On the bright side, Essien did a Balotelli. Red carded at the end. Good job Sheep. Keep em on coming.
Welcome back Micheal Carrick. If Evra and Rafael weren't niggling with injuries, we could have Obertan and Hernandez just now. Oh well, 4 points aren't a lot. We'll get them.
This post has been edited by boxsystem: Nov 11 2010, 06:05 AM
Rafael has a dead leg and will miss Villa Park. Evra has ankle injury and will only be assessed today(UK time).
Guess, it's going to be Brown and O'Shea/Fabio on Saturday then. We have an another midweek match against Gers right? I can see both of Rafael and Evra going to be rested for that match.
This post has been edited by boxsystem: Nov 11 2010, 06:58 AM
2 TACKLES? He ain't defensive midfielder material. I guess he's just a Scholes.
There's no Roy Keane yet in the team. Darnit.
Where got lah Keano replacement. Maybe, the closest we have is Fletcher. Then again, it's hard to replace Keano. Same for Becks, Ruud and Ronaldo.
But we will manage as we have done it through the years. Lets just wait for Carrick to get his full confidence and Ando to follow suit. They might just replicate their majestic performances against Roma(Carrick) and against both Fabregas and Gerrard(Ando).
Fairly even first half but we bossed it in the second. City were there for the taking. They sat back and invited us to come at them. Our own careless passing prevented us from getting a goal as much as their defensive work.
First Gareth Bale, now Carlos Tevez and David Silva. The players who everyone rants and raves about are impressively neutralised by our defence. They make it look easy too.
Go on, Rafael! If ever there’s a way to endear yourself to the fans it’s squaring up to a despised opponent. Only 20-years-old and skinny as owt, Rafael stood his ground against that disgusting little troll thing.
Our full-backs are part of our great attacking threat, with Rafael and Patrice Evra up there as the best fullback combination in Europe. Disappointing to see both of them forced out of the game through injury. No disrespect to Wes or O’Shea, but you have to wonder what our first choice fullbacks could have added in those final 5 minutes.
Welcome back Michael Carrick! He was composed on the ball, confident and started to look like that player who helped bring the title back in 2007. Fabio Capello will have been wondering why he put that useless oaf Barry in his team this summer when comparing their performances this evening.
Nemanja Vidic is a brick wall. Every ball in the air was his, his timing for tackling was perfect, and I can’t remember a single occasion when a City player got the better of him. Rightly man of the match.
You have to wonder what Mancini has spent his money on. In the second half they only had one thing in mind: not losing. At home and in a derby, that is a disgrace. They parked the bus, showed no imagination up front and couldn’t give us a game. Remember the derby days of years gone by, with dross like Sinclair, Vassell and Jon f***in’ Macken scoring against us? Yeh, we’d go on and win the league or a trophy, but at least City fans could hold their head up high after derby day. Where can they get any pride from performances like that? Another source of embarrassment.
You have the admire the work rate of Darren Fletcher. With time running out, Toure and Tevez on two separate occasions threatened to break, but Fletch ran harder and nicked the ball off them. He hasn’t had his greatest season so far but you can’t underestimate the effect that extra effort he puts in adds to our team, and our results.
Blue tinted specs? Are you f***ing serious you small time knob eds?
If Ferguson wants to be a truthful man, he can’t say our main objective was to win the game if he is going to replace Dimitar Berbatov, who had played so well outside their box all game, with Javier Hernandez. Play the two together, go for the gamble, and win the game. We wanted to win tonight and certainly worked harder at it at City (not hard though is it?) but they were there for the taking tonight.
just read about Blackpoo thatl made 10 changes to their squad before facing Villa..Now if they were against ManUtd and did that surely will cause some media outburst against us and Holloway getting fined like Mick McCarthy back then..just because it was Villa then this case basically evaporated..just shows the double standards they have
It's always like this. Whenever we claimed that we are being discriminated, it will fall on deaf ears.
If it weren't for dubious handball and that offside goal, 4th on a trot will be ours.
This post has been edited by boxsystem: Nov 11 2010, 10:07 PM
well at that time i didnt find him that impressive compared to now... again its my personal opinion...
Added on November 12, 2010, 5:03 pm
hmm maybe that's why... good explanation
was really impressed with his goal vs wolves... and ya he always do well vs big teams...
Well, what can you do if you are spoilt with choices? We had Rooney-Ronaldo, then Rooney-Ronaldo-Tevez and Rooney-Ronaldo-Tevez-Berba. Now we're having Nani to step up and play consistently.
Park has been brilliant even in his PSV days. When you come to a bigger club, of course you won't be playing the 'STAR' card anymore. Plus, there are more talents than what they had for PSV. It's no surprise, really.
Nov 11 2010, 06:00 AM
On the bright side, Essien did a Balotelli. Red carded at the end. Good job Sheep. Keep em on coming.
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