Just another ordinary day at Carrington with a late start of 3pm.I got there early with Lewis and son Michael to watch a little of the reserves and was joined by Wonderwall plus Svensational, King Kev and their wives.( sorry I am really bad at remembering names).Pure quality and it was like a ManCityFans.net day out as joining a little later was Johnny Crossan and his wife.
Although the coaches were out on time there was little sign of the players apart from Wayne Bridge who continued his work outs with a physio playing head tennis.They eventually all came out but missing were Bellers and Richards.Bellers finished early yesterday but hopefully will be ok at least for the bench tomorrow but no news on Micah.Ireland we already know is out for tomorrow.
The usual moving around the pitch in team shape with plenty of warm up stretches before most of them came across to the watching fans behind the fence.They did some standard warm up stuff before a regular keep ball circle routine whilst Mancini kept a group of defenders with him on the pitch clearly talking about expectations for tomorrow. As ever I can't confirm who they were but this time a few others on here will know the likely set up at the back!
The defenders came over to do warm ups and then they moved over to play 9 or 10 a side on what was about half a pitch. We wandered around to get closer to the action. Not too much to report from this with the only 3 goals scored by RSC ( 2 one a penalty) and Nimley. Shay at the other end was largely untroubled apart from one fuunt bit of action where Tevez was one to one with him and sold at least two dummies leaving Shay bamboozled before he slotted it home. I think the whistle had already gone but Tevez was wetting himself laughing and it was great for us watching. When RSC scored his pen Tevez was stood behind him telling Gunner Neilsen which way to dive. He was wrong!!
It was very noticeable being close to Shay's goal how much shouting he does , barking orders across the back line. Noticeable too how little ( if anything) we heard from Kolo in front of him. It was also noticeable that NDJ was playing within himself. In the keep ball circles he threatened to bite but didn't quite and in the game he only put one player on the deck so he was clearly under orders.
The whole session was just about an hour as they suddenly finished and walked in. Ade,Tevez and RSC stayed a little longer in discussion with Mancini clearly talking about aspects of working together and running off each other.
With any luck we might see a few pictures of events as I am assured hundreds were taken.
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