Mancini at a loss to explain performance

[Mark (Blue Army)]

Roberto Mancini admitted the Blues got what they deserved at Wolves – nothing!

The clearly surprised manager was non-plussed as to why his side faded so quickly after making such a bright start at Molineux.

City lost valuable ground on their main rivals for a top four slot with a second defeat in succession but the way they surrendered these three points was, according to the manager, chalk and cheese to how the first batch were lost.

“Last week we played fantastic football with ten men for ninety minutes, today I am sorry for our supporters,” he declared after Wolves won only their second Barclays Premier League match of the season.

“We played very well for 15 minutes when we had four or five chances to score and then we played badly for the rest of the time. I don’t know why we stopped playing.

"That is not good enough. I will speak
to the players to find out why. We
must know where that performance
came from"

“We have respect for all teams and Wolves deserved the three points because they ran more than us. We played too much long ball. We stopped playing after 15 minutes. Maybe the players thought it was going to be an easy game. Such a thing does not exist in football.

City now face a Europa League trip to Poland before another road journey to WBA next Sunday and then the derby.

Mancini made it clear he will not put up with any more efforts like this one.

“I will watch the game again as soon as I can,” he declared.

“We played really badly and I must know why. I am really disappointed and I have no explanation for this performance.

“We have lost ground (on the leaders) but it is a long season and we must be tough and come back more strongly starting in Poland on Thursday. We can still have a big season but we must play better than this.”

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[Trautmann]

He's right. That has to be the most gutless performance I have seen by a City side. I don't mind losing if we played our best, and I have seen that many times over the years, but this was unacceptable--why are we paying this lot so much?

[svengali]

That's right Bobby it's all the players faults.

Stupid Adebayor taking himself off for Zabaleta and then commanding Jo on to try and cover his fuck up.

Yet another abysmal performance and there's one negative man that most fingers are pointed at and you need to explain it Bobby as today was fucking dog shit.

[Beefymcfc]

That's right Bobby it's all the players faults.

Stupid Adebayor taking himself off for Zabaleta and then commanding Jo on to try and cover his fuck up.

Yet another abysmal performance and there's one negative man that most fingers are pointed at and you need to explain it Bobby as today was fucking dog shit.

Egg............... ahhhhh, fuck it, what the fuck do I know!

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Hmmmm. After the Arse performance there were plenty applauding the team effort and spirit and I do believe Mancini said he was pleased with the team effort and how it showed we belong.I have seen forum threads saying how proud they were at the team's effort and how well that reflected on Mancini and similar things were said at the fans forum on Thursday as well.

That all sounds great and in a way you would think it's ok to say such things to motivate and boost the team's confidence. But not if they then go out in a match we should be expected to win and look like they expect to win without putting the effort in.

My concern is that they thought it was going to be an easy win. Does that mean the manager sent them out badly prepared?

After the Arsenal loss I felt it wasn't a really big deal as it was all about how the team reacted and performed in the following games. Having lost at Wolves the next 2 v WNBA and the scum are massive games. And make no mistake the WBA game will be very hard.

[Beefymcfc]

Hmmmm. After the Arse performance there were plenty applauding the team effort and spirit and I do believe Mancini said he was pleased with the team effort and how it showed we belong.I have seen forum threads saying how proud they were at the team's effort and how well that reflected on Mancini and similar things were said at the fans forum on Thursday as well.

That all sounds great and in a way you would think it's ok to say such things to motivate and boost the team's confidence. But not if they then go out in a match we should be expected to win and look like they expect to win without putting the effort in.

My concern is that they thought it was going to be an easy win. Does that mean the manager sent them out badly prepared?

After the Arsenal loss I felt it wasn't a really big deal as it was all about how the team reacted and performed in the following games. Having lost at Wolves the next 2 v WNBA and the scum are massive games. And make no mistake the WBA game will be very hard.

Mate, the team reacted, the management didn't.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Hmmmm. After the Arse performance there were plenty applauding the team effort and spirit and I do believe Mancini said he was pleased with the team effort and how it showed we belong.I have seen forum threads saying how proud they were at the team's effort and how well that reflected on Mancini and similar things were said at the fans forum on Thursday as well.

That all sounds great and in a way you would think it's ok to say such things to motivate and boost the team's confidence. But not if they then go out in a match we should be expected to win and look like they expect to win without putting the effort in.

My concern is that they thought it was going to be an easy win. Does that mean the manager sent them out badly prepared?

After the Arsenal loss I felt it wasn't a really big deal as it was all about how the team reacted and performed in the following games. Having lost at Wolves the next 2 v WNBA and the scum are massive games. And make no mistake the WBA game will be very hard.

Mate, the team reacted, the management didn't.

I don't think you can say that for sure.There are 2 ways to look at it I suppose. First that Mancini kept urging the team to go for Arsenal and maintain attacking tactics and the team gave it a go. If I follow that logic then Mancini has to take the blame for today in not sending the team out with the right approach and attitude or at least not ensuring they maintained it after scoring.

OR yes it was just the players who wouldnt lie down v the Arse and it was just down to the players slackening off today after scoring.Come to think of it neither reflects veryw ell on Mancini.

Anyway I am getting the prayer mat out for a couple of weeks as we need results in the next 2 prem games and that will be very tough.

[Beefymcfc]

Hmmmm. After the Arse performance there were plenty applauding the team effort and spirit and I do believe Mancini said he was pleased with the team effort and how it showed we belong.I have seen forum threads saying how proud they were at the team's effort and how well that reflected on Mancini and similar things were said at the fans forum on Thursday as well.

That all sounds great and in a way you would think it's ok to say such things to motivate and boost the team's confidence. But not if they then go out in a match we should be expected to win and look like they expect to win without putting the effort in.

My concern is that they thought it was going to be an easy win. Does that mean the manager sent them out badly prepared?

After the Arsenal loss I felt it wasn't a really big deal as it was all about how the team reacted and performed in the following games. Having lost at Wolves the next 2 v WNBA and the scum are massive games. And make no mistake the WBA game will be very hard.

Mate, the team reacted, the management didn't.

I don't think you can say that for sure.There are 2 ways to look at it I suppose. First that Mancini kept urging the team to go for Arsenal and maintain attacking tactics and the team gave it a go. If I follow that logic then Mancini has to take the blame for today in not sending the team out with the right approach and attitude or at least not ensuring they maintained it after scoring.

OR yes it was just the players who wouldnt lie down v the Arse and it was just down to the players slackening off today after scoring.Come to think of it neither reflects veryw ell on Mancini.

Anyway I am getting the prayer mat out for a couple of weeks as we need results in the next 2 prem games and that will be very tough.

I honestly thought that they had been ordered to protect the 1-0 lead and it was quite obvious by he way we acted upon going ahead. We were the dogs gonads up until the goal, after that, we were not the same team.

[getdressedmctavish]

City being city it means we'll do the rags. It will be more interesting to see how we do v Brom having beaten the Rags. I said earlier in the season neither Mancini nor Twatt will be able to motivate the team against the roughs away from home and we saw it again. Nothing to do with tactics, they had better spirit and really wanted it.Which is why you need to play 4-5-1 until the team has gelled. Away from home be hard to beat. What disappointed me was that on every board in the week people rightly pointed out that the Wolves threat would come from the left. An idiot knows Micah is an arrogant coont yet it looked as if no one had promised him a total fecking bollockin unless he got stuck in and negated that threat. So he trots around a mile from the winger and there is never any attempt to double mark. Ya ya was fecking invisible with regard to that. I mean what is the point of having all these African body builders in the team if they cant make a tackle count?Just like v Blackpool were getting done by gutsy little Scotties and Irishmen. Next weel it'll be Scoles running amok.How many times has Doug told us the spirit in training is great then we see a supine performance?Its because not enough emphasis is being put on the aggressive saide of the game. Away from home the premier league is a battle.Lose the battle and you get done.

[shortagain]

Think the time has come to accept that YaYa is a force of old & we have paid a lot of money for someone who'se heart is no longer in the game. We badly missed NDJ today as did Toure as he normally does his work for him. Mancini must rest him and try and get him fully fit before letting him play again. Mario did OK as did Manu, but our defence seems to have lost it's form as a complete unit, from being one of the meanest, we are now leaking goals like a sieve.

If the players are available & fit, at WBA we must start with Hart, Boeteng, Kolo, Kompany, Kolorov, Milner, NDJ, Barry, Silva, Mario & Manu, keep Tevez back to make sure he is 100% for the filth.

Many more performancies like today & Roberto won't be worrying about our partying players, he will be back home in Italy

[Im_Spartacus]

Think the time has come to accept that YaYa is a force of old & we have paid a lot of money for someone who'se heart is no longer in the game.

Thats rather harsh for someone who has been playing in England for a whole 3 months, and looked like the world class player we were all hoping for during the first 6/8 weeks of that.

Form/class and all that. Unfortunately the same saying won't work for Barry who has been shit for over a year now, so by my reckoning, he is due an extended spell watching David Silva play football.

[Buffalo Soldier]

Well I feel slightly better that at least he knows it was an unacceptable performance. Used to drive me mad when Sven was in charge and we played wank and he said he thought we did well.

Having said that, as others have mentioned I still feel he needs to explain the baffling substitution of ade.

Anything less than a win against WBA is unacceptable. Follow that up with a win against the scum and it will go some way toward forgetting this limp dicked performance.

[Chopper]

Fuckin Hell Lads.

We are top 4. Back to back losses are not acceptable but Im not reaching for the ax just yet. Lets see where we are come Christmas.

Keep The Faith.