The Italian Job wrote:ross.mcfc wrote:I've said this before but under Hughes, Mancini and Pellers the manner of the defeats tend to be the same.
The spine of the team goes missing.
We reguarly drop points to teams who are simply hungrier than ours. As a fan I find that criminal.
We lose game against sides (take Villa and Cardiff this season) which should have been done and dusted by half time and are unable to cope with the game going against us. Take Liverpool on Sunday and reverse it. We go 2 up and then it is 2-2. Would we have scored again? Would we fuck.
What if Nasri scored the tap-in? Everything rosy, because we came back after going down? Strong winning mentality, character & all that? Bullshit.
I don't think the last 15-20 minutes were the problem. It was the 70 odd before.
i agree with that.It is an attitude thing.Regular match goers will pick up on it.Even when we have trounced teams at home the first 45 minutes are usually performed on idle,like we are going through the motions,we hardly break sweat.Second half we crank up the performance and score a shit load.We are sometimes unrecognizable to the side that did fuck all for the first 45 minutes.
Teams that get in to our face from the off reap the rewards.
Liverpool didn't beat us,we beat our selves.Their game plan was simple,fast out the starting blocks,high tempo,whilst we just strolled around the pitch looking shell shocked we were lucky to go in at half time still in the game.Why the fuck were we not prepared for that ?,surely we knew what to expect ?why the fuck didn't the manager pack the midfield let the scouse cunts come at us for 45 minutes let them tire them selves out then make changes.Why can he not be pragmatic games.
This season we should have won the league,again.We are the best side,again.Our attitude is shit,we are arrogant.The best managers in the games have mostly been on the whole cunts Ferguson ,Mourinho.Our side needed a cunt as a manager to get the best out off them.There is no way Pellegrini is going to get the best out off this squad,he is to laid back,Mr nice guy.He is going to have to rip this side apart.