Dubaimancityfan wrote:I could not understand why Martin did not have any part to play last night after his MOTM performance against Scunthrope and on the strength of his overall performance this season.
Mancini made mistakes last night and one of them was bringing on Ireland who has been mediocre this season and I am running out of patience with him. Again last night he was ineffective and added nothing to the team. I thought that was the perfect timing for Petrov to come on and as he has proved this season he can play anywhere (left, right, attacking midfielder) so he could have easily filled the Ireland position and moved to the right when SWP was subbed.
DH mentioned in his post that our midfield was our most ineffective last night especially in going forward and creating chances and Petrov could have been the remedy for that.
I also thought it was a mistake bringing on Ade as the guy hasn't played for 4 weeks at least and he looked rusty and it showed when he got that great chance with the free header which he met with the worst directed header I have seen for a long long time. Again, here it should have been Petrov coming on.
Petrov is without a doubt still our best crosser and our best corner taker and that was missed last night.
Alioune DVToure wrote:I'd have gone with Petrov over Zabaleta and pushed Bellamy right up front with Tevez floating behind. I also would've put Onuoha in over Boyata, but the kid did well to be fair to him. The game's gone now so let's have a good crack at the FA Cup, which would be a better prize in any case.
Dubaimancityfan wrote:Alioune DVToure wrote:I'd have gone with Petrov over Zabaleta and pushed Bellamy right up front with Tevez floating behind. I also would've put Onuoha in over Boyata, but the kid did well to be fair to him. The game's gone now so let's have a good crack at the FA Cup, which would be a better prize in any case.
That would have been a good move and i agree about Ned coming on for Boyata in the last 15 minutes as was done in the 1st leg. To be fair to Boyata he did well but looked tired towards the end and you cannot expect a 19 year old lad with limited experience to stay focused for 90 minutes on such a big ocassion. Ned would have brought some stability to our defence as he is so level headed and composed.
LookMumI'mOnMCF.net wrote:Got to agree on this one. Pretty much the best player at the club and he doesn't get a look in. The players who came on off the bench were non existent.
CityFanFromRome wrote:LookMumI'mOnMCF.net wrote:Got to agree on this one. Pretty much the best player at the club and he doesn't get a look in. The players who came on off the bench were non existent.
And so would have been PEtrov after the first tackle. I'm sorry, he's done great this season but a semifinal derby is not the kind of game for him, I fear.
LookMumI'mOnMCF.net wrote:CityFanFromRome wrote:LookMumI'mOnMCF.net wrote:Got to agree on this one. Pretty much the best player at the club and he doesn't get a look in. The players who came on off the bench were non existent.
And so would have been PEtrov after the first tackle. I'm sorry, he's done great this season but a semifinal derby is not the kind of game for him, I fear.
It wasn't the kind of game for most of them out there, I don't really follow your point sorry.
horlock2000 wrote:Petrov would have been useless last night as it would have meant tackling... Something fairies like him cant do
CityFanFromRome wrote:LookMumI'mOnMCF.net wrote:CityFanFromRome wrote:LookMumI'mOnMCF.net wrote:Got to agree on this one. Pretty much the best player at the club and he doesn't get a look in. The players who came on off the bench were non existent.
And so would have been PEtrov after the first tackle. I'm sorry, he's done great this season but a semifinal derby is not the kind of game for him, I fear.
It wasn't the kind of game for most of them out there, I don't really follow your point sorry.
Maybe this will explain my point better then:horlock2000 wrote:Petrov would have been useless last night as it would have meant tackling... Something fairies like him cant do
Dubaimancityfan wrote:CityFanFromRome wrote:LookMumI'mOnMCF.net wrote:CityFanFromRome wrote:LookMumI'mOnMCF.net wrote:Got to agree on this one. Pretty much the best player at the club and he doesn't get a look in. The players who came on off the bench were non existent.
And so would have been PEtrov after the first tackle. I'm sorry, he's done great this season but a semifinal derby is not the kind of game for him, I fear.
It wasn't the kind of game for most of them out there, I don't really follow your point sorry.
Maybe this will explain my point better then:horlock2000 wrote:Petrov would have been useless last night as it would have meant tackling... Something fairies like him cant do
So, remind me please, how many tackles did Ireland put in and how many balls he won ??
Dubaimancityfan wrote:So, remind me please, how many tackles did Ireland put in and how many balls he won ??
Dubaimancityfan wrote:I am surprised by the tone of some of the replies which bring down the whole effectivness of a player to the fact of whether he goes into or shies away from tackles. OK, I agree Petrov is not the greatest in this department. But he so much more to offer as I mentioned in my original post and I cannot understand how anyone would begrudge him playing at least 15 minutes when we were 2-0 down and looking for avenues to come back into the match.
I don't think that anyone can rightly claim that Petrov has not played well this season and so to just say this was not his sort of game doesn't really make much sense.
And to CFFR, no I didn't say that he should have come on after Ireland was already on. I said he should have come on instead of Stevie.
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