AntMcfc wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:He played at cb in the final, because there was NO CHOICE. He got arse raped for 15 mins, but the rags missed the chances. Then the rags didn't get another kick & were, like us in Europe, playing like shit.
Dzeko is superb at defending set pieces & rarely loses a challenge, Yaya Toure is an absolute proven fucking liability. Who was marking Cavani at the near post in Napoli ?
Just because he's big he is expected to be reliable defensively, wheras Silva for instance, because he's small, is aknowledged to be shite at it.
I have been saying this since our first game in the CL; Yaya was fucking shocking then defensively, but in those days, everyone was sucking his dick, so I got loads of argument. He was fucking dreadful in the Ukraine i the Europa, one of the worst performances we've seen from a City mid in years, he ground to a halt, yet we were relying on him doing the same job in Moscow four years later.
He is past it at that job & has been since before we signed him. That's why Barca weren't playing him. They didn't realise his attacking qualities & he wasn't doing the job as a dm.
He's now a playmaker, who does a bit of defending, not the box to box player he was when younger. He has said himself he can't do that anymore. If he was 5 ft 6, he wouldn't have any pressure to do it. It's simply because he's tall. Well the fact that he's huge, means that it's twice as hard for him to drag his body round the pitch, as it is for someone half his size.
Stop making him do this shit. He's past it. Let him play football & balance the fucking team. If he unbalances it; drop him.
But just stop asking him to do stuff he's shit at.
Spot on. Mancini realised this, and played him as the deep lying playmaker in 12/13, and he performed the role to perfection. It's time to revert back.
So with that rational we will stop JHart kicking the ball, Glichy from putting a shirt on MDM from Ever having to run. Fernando was our insurance policy when it breaks down, and to be fair he got a great block in last night. But is slower than Barry and as clumsy as lescot. No disrespect to either x blues and champions and one that has broken leg today.
