Hazy2 wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:Douglas Higginbottom wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:Bluedj wrote:It's an absolutely NO brainer...........
More to the point, who shoulder play in defensive/ Right side midfield after a class performance by James Milner...... Hope the Count pays attention........also thought JL did well with a negative defence........Dedrick, sorry mate ur just not good enough........Micah, why were you more Advanced than Navas for most of the match?
Any MP take note of good indvidual perferomance in a relatively lack lust performance
PS Silva CLASS!! yet again when he came on :-)
MOM: MILNER by a mile
MOTM by a country mile was Lescott, both defensively & on the ball. Milner was dogshit 1st half & his hoof over the bar, with the keeper stranded should lead to a fine. Excellent when he moved centrally.
Re the thread: If Panti & JL turn in performances like that, then they don't get given a chance, when the blokes currently in situ are dropping clangers every week; what is the point in any player bothering in this competition at all ?
They were asked to produce & they did so, miles better than the current favourites.
There MUST be rewards for this or we'll just have a repeat of the Mancini situation where players don't respect the manager.
I don't think I would go as far as to say Lescott was that good on the ball. But much better overall than the player who has been in his place of late. From a man management point of view Pellegrini has a job on if he leaves Joe and Nasti out but he should and they should accept it.
He would have a much much bigger man management job on his hands if he doesn't play Costel and Lescott.Not just those 2 but wouldn't others in the team be wondering?
That's what I mean; no players would believe him.
Check a recording of the game & how many passes Lescott got off, with no midfield to pass to & hardly any movement ahead, whilst being closed down by Newcastle players. If he was Spanish, people would be sucking his dick now.
He did a decent job, against ab average forward line, he was close to a disaster after a minute or so with the ball refusing to stop rolling under both feet. He is a good defender if kept in his slot, reads danger, I think Boyata was also good on the night, tough 60 mins from Shola he needs games to see if he has it. I think Hart hart has to be dropped or you send a very bad message to him and in turn Panti.
If that's purely a 'decent' job, then fair enough, but therefore nobody competing for his place has ever played better than 'decent' in their City careers, either defensively or in possession of the ball with little or no help. Not even close.
Apart from one great performance from Vinny I thought last night's showing from Lescott was the best cb display of the season both defensively & creatively. By a huge distance imo actually & in fact better than 95% of the games Kompany plays. Compared to Nastasic, he was better in every aspect of football. Nastasic is not better at passing a football than Lescott was last night & is nowhere near that level defensively
I think Dedryk unfortunately has a weakness in the air which is not compensated for by anything he does on the ground & will handicap him forever as a cb. It is a common fault though imo. The same goes for Nastasic, Savic, Rekik. Not sure about Demichelis in that area either.
I wonder if Jason Denayer from the U18s (who looks a better prospect than all of them) will also be found out in that area. He looks like something very very special, but in the Prem at cb, you have to win most headers. He could learn to play anywhere else if that is the case though tbf inc Garcia's spot. Class act.
