Inter Milan vs CITY

[Ted Hughes]

Carlos - calm down son. stop getting shirty.
we were missing 5 important people yesterday. tevez, boateng, kolarov and silva, and most importantly the manager.
we were never gonna beat inter without bob, then the "look at me" wanker of a ref has to go OTT in a friendly, and we got taught a lesson.
now then, as you seem to find it so spectacular about my second and 3rd string comments, i'll explain...

bridge - 2nd string
richards - 2nd string
kompany in midfield??? - 3rd string
zaba in midfield?? - 3rd string
SWP - 2nd string
Vieira - 3rd string
jo - 3rd string
cunningham - 3rd string
boyata - 3rd string

now playing all these players (in the positions some played in) against the european champs was just asking for a twatting, and thats what we got. But at the same time it also showed that the result didn't matter to the management. so yeah, i'd have loved to say we beat inter in a meaningless game, but we didn't. not the end of the world. i'm just excited to see everyone in action next week against dortmund. (in another meaningless game.)
now i suggest you take yer missus to bed, take all your frustation out on her, and look forward to seeing silva & co rape the spuds.

Mate......I was wound up....I was wound up because I did not see ANYTHING during this tour that made me think "yes....that area of the field looks like a working unit....this player links up well with that player...the defence looks good, ect ect"

I know that we are missing players but the reality is we will lose some of those players through injury or suspension this year and we need to have plan B..........if those players out there are plan B, then going on that, and prior performances, it doesnt bode well does it?

Friendlies for me are all about Fitness,trying out young and upcoming new player's and different formation's that may be applied during the upcoming season.

I do not agree and never will that the result and performance do not matter - Kompany showed that a winning mentality is a must and I liked his attitude last night...he obviously doesnt agree with some of you lot on here that it doesnt matter.


and yes....just had a beauty of a shag....but Im still pissed off slightly.

xxx

i hope you are not blaming City on your performance there ;)

seriously though and you might think im splitting hairs, it WAS good to see Kompany getting stuck in and you are right, but somehow i still fee that result particularly and performance are not the same as attitude. Kompany's attitude was spot on in his reaction, but then as DoomMerchant mentioned the crowd got the sense the ref was anti-city and for me i saw that our players after the sending off were thinking, this is stacked against us and it a fucking friendly. So it affected our performance completely in the end.. what was supposed to be a test of the two teams readiness turned into a joke. if i had been one of our players i would have instigated to walk off and get the organisers to pull the ref and restart the game. In the end that game served nothing for Milan and very little for City. So what looked like the right attitude from Vincent turned into a whats the fucking point and the individual and collective performance then just reflected that. If they had all haired round as 10 men and got stuck in DeJong style it would have just been more bookings and sendings off, the italians playing their part to the full no doubt.
It was a friendly and then it got turned into a non game.

as for the rest of the games you are right nothing much has stood out to write home about.

Mancini spent half of last season having those very same players poncing around in Roman war formations to be a defensive unit. When we went to 10 men I would have at least expected them to be competent at it. Obviously that work has gone straight through their ears & they've just become a school bus queue again. We need to get some kind of a unit together & get working again rather than running a football version of the 'X' Factor to see who gets in the squad.

[mr_nool]

Carlos - calm down son. stop getting shirty.
we were missing 5 important people yesterday. tevez, boateng, kolarov and silva, and most importantly the manager.
we were never gonna beat inter without bob, then the "look at me" wanker of a ref has to go OTT in a friendly, and we got taught a lesson.
now then, as you seem to find it so spectacular about my second and 3rd string comments, i'll explain...

bridge - 2nd string
richards - 2nd string
kompany in midfield??? - 3rd string
zaba in midfield?? - 3rd string
SWP - 2nd string
Vieira - 3rd string
jo - 3rd string
cunningham - 3rd string
boyata - 3rd string

now playing all these players (in the positions some played in) against the european champs was just asking for a twatting, and thats what we got. But at the same time it also showed that the result didn't matter to the management. so yeah, i'd have loved to say we beat inter in a meaningless game, but we didn't. not the end of the world. i'm just excited to see everyone in action next week against dortmund. (in another meaningless game.)
now i suggest you take yer missus to bed, take all your frustation out on her, and look forward to seeing silva & co rape the spuds.

Mate......I was wound up....I was wound up because I did not see ANYTHING during this tour that made me think "yes....that area of the field looks like a working unit....this player links up well with that player...the defence looks good, ect ect"

I know that we are missing players but the reality is we will lose some of those players through injury or suspension this year and we need to have plan B..........if those players out there are plan B, then going on that, and prior performances, it doesnt bode well does it?

Friendlies for me are all about Fitness,trying out young and upcoming new player's and different formation's that may be applied during the upcoming season.

I do not agree and never will that the result and performance do not matter - Kompany showed that a winning mentality is a must and I liked his attitude last night...he obviously doesnt agree with some of you lot on here that it doesnt matter.


and yes....just had a beauty of a shag....but Im still pissed off slightly.

xxx

i hope you are not blaming City on your performance there ;)

seriously though and you might think im splitting hairs, it WAS good to see Kompany getting stuck in and you are right, but somehow i still fee that result particularly and performance are not the same as attitude. Kompany's attitude was spot on in his reaction, but then as DoomMerchant mentioned the crowd got the sense the ref was anti-city and for me i saw that our players after the sending off were thinking, this is stacked against us and it a fucking friendly. So it affected our performance completely in the end.. what was supposed to be a test of the two teams readiness turned into a joke. if i had been one of our players i would have instigated to walk off and get the organisers to pull the ref and restart the game. In the end that game served nothing for Milan and very little for City. So what looked like the right attitude from Vincent turned into a whats the fucking point and the individual and collective performance then just reflected that. If they had all haired round as 10 men and got stuck in DeJong style it would have just been more bookings and sendings off, the italians playing their part to the full no doubt.
It was a friendly and then it got turned into a non game.

as for the rest of the games you are right nothing much has stood out to write home about.

Mancini spent half of last season having those very same players poncing around in Roman war formations to be a defensive unit. When we went to 10 men I would have at least expected them to be competent at it. Obviously that work has gone straight through their ears & they've just become a school bus queue again. We need to get some kind of a unit together & get working again rather than running a football version of the 'X' Factor to see who gets in the squad.

[Erwin Rommel]

Dreadful.

On projected form we will end up on 33 points 2nd from bottom and relegated. Seeing as Garrrry makes all decisions on a formula relating moving averages of recent results and formulates a projected finish, then the difference between projected and target is far too great at this stage.
Mancini will be sacked on Monday.

[King Kev]

You can tell it's half term can't you!

[Colin the King]

You can tell it's half term can't you!

Works on two levels given the identity of the gentleman above you ;)

[gillie]

I watched the game and yes the refs red card for PV did not help but there is something seriously wrong with the make up of our team.We cannot string 2 passes together and that is worrying to say the least also we have international players who are uncomfortable recieving the ball on thier weaker foot step forward MR Bridge he has to have the ball played to him on his left foot or he is fucked.Then we have the conundrum of playing players out of thier natural positions i:e Jinky left winger played on the right wing totally foriegn to the way he was taught to play football.I just think the players have not got a clue as to what they are doing and that imo is poor coaching.But before anyone asks pre-season is for ironing out these problems yes thats true but with our coaches will the ironing get done.

[brite blu sky]

I watched the game and yes the refs red card for PV did not help but there is something seriously wrong with the make up of our team.We cannot string 2 passes together and that is worrying to say the least also we have international players who are uncomfortable recieving the ball on thier weaker foot step forward MR Bridge he has to have the ball played to him on his left foot or he is fucked.Then we have the conundrum of playing players out of thier natural positions i:e Jinky left winger played on the right wing totally foriegn to the way he was taught to play football.I just think the players have not got a clue as to what they are doing and that imo is poor coaching.But before anyone asks pre-season is for ironing out these problems yes thats true but with our coaches will the ironing get done.

i dont think our problem is so called players out of position, i dont see that as being in any way part of it. While i dont think it is very wise at all to read into recent games much at all, there is apparently something still there that was causing problems last season. imo it is to do with the midfield not being competitive higher up the pitch. When we can command some space we seem fine and play well, but when we get closed down or the outlets get knobbled then we hit real problems. Last season most of us on here were pretty sure it was the lack of an AM commanding a bit of space. imo it is still the same problem and as yet we haven't seen a set up that has or is going to change that. Yaya looks promisng, and personally i wanted to see him play with Ireland in front of him. Barry did ok with him against Club America with Vinnie supporting, but the Vieira coupling was hopeless. Vieira looks to me to competing more with his own team than the oppo. So with Vieira out and some more capable passers coming in i think we will see something different that will catalyse the whole team, Bridge included. For me it is as simple as that, what is not simple is the players actually doing it, but the extra skill coming in will help it along.
But please Bobby keep PV out of the first team, he is not the future and he cant do a job.

[kinkylola]

I thought we came out of the gates rather well and I think we could have scored 1 or 2 in those opening minutes if a final ball had been better or if a bounce had gone our way. Then Inter came back into the game and controlled possession and then PV got sent off and that was it as a contest really.

Inter have beaten better teams than us, by larger margins, with all the players on the pitch.

No excuse for losing or for a bad performance, but let's keep things in perspective.

Would I have enjoyed a win against Inter? yes definitely.

Am I crushed that we lost? No, not really.

[King Kev]

You can tell it's half term can't you!

Works on two levels given the identity of the gentleman above you ;)

That was the only level I was referring to mate. The kids aren't the problem.

[dazlebluefrog]

i was away this weekend so just been reading some of the threads from the last couple of days ,i didn't realise we played inter last night ,just watched the goals on you tube must say for the 1st goal ,Hart was to blame,is the ball the one used in S A for the W C ?
for the other 2 Given didn't stand a chance after Lescott ,O G and a cracker of a 3rd