The Foggy Blue wrote:
The one thing I can criticise though is Mancini's poor choice of midfield (again!). Three defensive midfielders just encourages opponents to move up the pitch (their own defence has plenty of time to play it out etc) but more importantly, his selction policy is keeping Ireland (our most creative midfeilder) out of the team.
CityFanFromRome wrote:The Foggy Blue wrote:
The one thing I can criticise though is Mancini's poor choice of midfield (again!). Three defensive midfielders just encourages opponents to move up the pitch (their own defence has plenty of time to play it out etc) but more importantly, his selction policy is keeping Ireland (our most creative midfeilder) out of the team.
While I agree on this at home against Portsmouth and Bolton, I think exactly because Stoke away is one of the worst games in the league, the midfield selection wasn't too awful. After all, Mancini was brought in principally because we conceded too many goals, and until our back line will have found some consistency, the better way to avoid that is to protect them with the midfield.
As for Ireland, if he were on last season's form I would agree with you, but even when he played he hardly set the world on fire. Sure, there is always the possibility that he might find that killer pass or something, but in his current form, he's not the one I'd rely upon to change a game, at the moment.
feedthegreek wrote:last night was a great point imo.
not pretty but an hard fought match we got something out of.
3 times now we have played stoke and not been beaten, pretty good record for me.
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