*** City v Chelsea - Official Match Thread ***

[zabbadabbado]

No wonder Pellegrini has got such a shit record against Maureen his fucking tactics tonight were woeful, not just woeful but I mean FUCKING WOEFUL.

We were comprehensively beaten tonight because our prick off a manager just sat there like a fucking idiot for 94 minutes and watched us overrun in midfield. Chelsea could have scored 6 goals tonight such was their dominance. We used 1 substitute just 1 FUCKING SUBSTITUTE, and even then the senile old twat took the wrong player off, he decided to stick with needs 40 chances to convert 1 goal Dzeko.

Sorry for my rant, but I totally leave the blame this Defeat on Pellegrini,i cant remember such an other incompetent team selection as bad as this ever. Absolutely gutted that were out thought in the dug out. How the fuck did he stick with that midfield for 94 minutes, why the fuck did he persevere with Demichellis who legs were gone and was lucky not to be red carded, why the fuck didn't we bring on Milner or Rodwell and try and change things in the middle off the pitch. He just sat there like a fucking clown.

Pellegrini was Maureens bitch, embarrassing, he gifted them those 3 points, he cost us tonight big time.

I dont mind losing mate,you cant win them all,we all know that.But that tonight was self inflicted by our manager.If he should have changed things at half time,maybe even sooner.His limitations are obvious Maureen although a cunt easily had the measure off him,he had the chance to react and didn't.It was a bit like Bayern Munich,there was no guarantees the result would have been any different.But at least try and change things we should have been mullered tonight.

[budfox]

Poor performance, it happens.

With no Nasti and Aguero I think Chelsea started with quite a psychological advantage. They played well too, wouldn't deny it, and deserved the win.

Not many positives, but we weren't humiliated and just looked out of sorts. Better to come no doubt and our run had to come to an end at some point.

[zabbadabbado]

No wonder Pellegrini has got such a shit record against Maureen his fucking tactics tonight were woeful, not just woeful but I mean FUCKING WOEFUL. We were comprehensively beaten tonight because our prick off a manager just sat there like a fucking idiot for 94 minutes and watched us overrun in midfield. Chelsea could have scored 6 goals tonight such was their dominance. We used 1 substitute just 1 FUCKING SUBSTITUTE, and even then the senile old twat took the wrong player off, he decided to stick with needs 40 chances to convert 1 goal Dzeko. Sorry for my rant, but I totally leave the blame this Defeat on Pellegrini,i cant remember such an other incompetent team selection as bad as this ever. Absolutely gutted that were out thought in the dug out. How the fuck did he stick with that midfield for 94 minutes, why the fuck did he persevere with Demichellis who legs were gone and was lucky not to be red carded, why the fuck didn't we bring on Milner or Rodwell and try and change things in the middle off the pitch. He just sat there like a fucking clown. Pellegrini was Maureens bitch, embarrassing, he gifted them those 3 points, he cost us tonight big time.

Nothing to do with tactics, simply Chelsea had more quality all over the pitch. We are light in midfield - they were strong. We were ineffective up front, they defended well. We were shit at the back and Chelsea could have had 4

Chelsea had 5 in the middle,the rest is very predictable.We were overrun,we should have reverted to 1 up front and stook another pair off legs in the middle

[bigblue]

Too slow in possession; almost looked like City from a year ago at times.

Never won a 2nd ball and the Chelsea midfield were all over us. Demi did an ok job, he just doesn't have the physical attritbutes to step into Fernandinho's shoes.

Finishing was beyond poor, but the slow buildup (especially against a team as organized as Chelsea) really cost us.

Defense was all over the place, but was also the result of a few horrible passes in the wrong area (Negerdo especially who was well off the pace tonight).

[gillie]

We got beat by the better team on the night but some of our players really are not good enough.I'm not going to name names as that would seem churlish after that defeat but Pellers saw the same game we did.We need a stopper in Midfield they had 2 tonight Maureen for all his faults always gets the planning right.Unlike the draws at the swamp and Arsenal he knew we are vulnerable on the break at the back and he got his gameplan spot on and in all fairness we could have lost by 4.I still think we will win the league as we won't be missing all our best players for the rest of the season as we really missed Fred' Serg and Sami in this game.

[Im_Spartacus]

I dont mind losing mate,you cant win them all,we all know that.But that tonight was self inflicted by our manager.If he should have changed things at half time,maybe even sooner.His limitations are obvious Maureen although a cunt easily had the measure off him,he had the chance to react and didn't.It was a bit like Bayern Munich,there was no guarantees the result would have been any different.But at least try and change things we should have been mullered tonight.

No arguments from me that he got it wrong, I just think there is some thing we don't know about Milner as any sane person would have had him on at half time, and I can't believe pellers nor the coaching staff could have missed the lack of protection our midfield two gave the defence.

I'm fairly sure if there was a viable change he would have made it......it's the only way I can rationalise not using Milner.

[PeterParker]

There are some strong rumours on twatter about Ferni. Out 3 weeks.

That means no FA Cup and no Barcelona!

[TheBlueCatsWhiskers]

Can't agree with that mate. Yaya, Silva, Navas are equal to anything Chelsea had on the pitch and showed it in posession, but were exposed at the other hand by having demichelis as a weak link which left our defence in an absolute panic because of the lack of protection. We didn't get decent ball to our forwards, and looked nervy defending, it was just a rough night, no more than that

Silva was totally anonymous. The forwards didn't get a real ball all night. When Silva plays like this he might as well have been sat with me. Hazard and Willian bossed it totally. They hit the woodwork 3 times! You have to agree with that...!

[sheblue]

There are some strong rumours on twatter about Ferni. Out 3 weeks.

That means no FA Cup and no Barcelona!

If that's true we are fucked. We have NO cover for him. Absolutely no cover.

[nottsblue]

Silva was totally anonymous. The forwards didn't get a real ball all night. When Silva plays like this he might as well have been sat with me. Hazard and Willian bossed it totally. They hit the woodwork 3 times! You have to agree with that...!

Hear hear

[TheBlueCatsWhiskers]

Can't agree with that mate. Yaya, Silva, Navas are equal to anything Chelsea had on the pitch and showed it in posession, but were exposed at the other hand by having demichelis as a weak link which left our defence in an absolute panic because of the lack of protection. We didn't get decent ball to our forwards, and looked nervy defending, it was just a rough night, no more than that

And......

Our defence was in a panic - partly because MD is slow but mainly because only Kompany (who had a bit of a mare), mainly because his partner is shit) and Zabaletta can defend. The other 2 are bobbins. We need to recruit here! And I notice Boyata was on the bench FFS

[gillie]

There are some strong rumours on twatter about Ferni. Out 3 weeks.

That means no FA Cup and no Barcelona!

According to the commentators he should be fine in very much a shorter time than that they said about a week.

[TheBlueCatsWhiskers]

We got beat by the better team on the night but some of our players really are not good enough.I'm not going to name names as that would seem churlish after that defeat but Pellers saw the same game we did.We need a stopper in Midfield they had 2 tonight Maureen for all his faults always gets the planning right.Unlike the draws at the swamp and Arsenal he knew we are vulnerable on the break at the back and he got his gameplan spot on and in all fairness we could have lost by 4.I still think we will win the league as we won't be missing all our best players for the rest of the season as we really missed Fred' Serg and Sami in this game.

Well said! Couldn't agree more..

[Im_Spartacus]

Silva was totally anonymous. The forwards didn't get a real ball all night. When Silva plays like this he might as well have been sat with me. Hazard and Willian bossed it totally. They hit the woodwork 3 times! You have to agree with that...!

We just played into their hands by surrendering the space in midfield and letting them crowd is out without doing the same to them when they had possession, which to me is a tactical issue rather than a performance problem. It looked worse because demichelis was leaving the defence isolated, but I think the panic which ensued in our defence through the first 60 minutes was definitely tactical - more so for not plugging that gap by replacing demichelis or reinforcing that area.

Yes, Nastasic is far from good enough, but normally we can count on him getting better protection which doesn't expose his flaws as badly.,....if I know I'm playing a weak link, I protect that weakness (or don't pick him would be better), but for me he and kompany should never have been as exposed as they were on a number of occasions.

Despite everything, all the stats point towards a very even game where ultimately we were undone by poor finishing having created a massive number of chances.

They might have hit the woodwork 3 times, but Silva alone inexcusably missed two glorious chances, and the woodwork is a miss, just the same as silvas misses. I think it looked worse than it actually was in the cold light of day

[ruralblue]

Tweet off! Lets see what the site says tomorrow about Ferdi.

Said to Jack Rodwell with fifteen minutes to go "I'm going to go get a pie, I'm having meat and potato would you like one" #boring james milner!

[zabbadabbado]

Silva was totally anonymous. The forwards didn't get a real ball all night. When Silva plays like this he might as well have been sat with me. Hazard and Willian bossed it totally. They hit the woodwork 3 times! You have to agree with that...!

We just played into their hands by surrendering the space in midfield and letting them crowd is out without doing the same to them when they had possession, which to me is a tactical issue rather than a performance problem. It looked worse because demichelis was leaving the defence isolated, but I think the panic which ensued in our defence through the first 60 minutes was definitely tactical - more so for not plugging that gap by replacing demichelis or reinforcing that area.

Yes, Nastasic is far from good enough, but normally we can count on him getting better protection which doesn't expose his flaws as badly.,....if I know I'm playing a weak link, I protect that weakness (or don't pick him would be better), but for me he and kompany should never have been as exposed as they were on a number of occasions.

Despite everything, all the stats point towards a very even game where ultimately we were undone by poor finishing having created a massive number of chances.

They might have hit the woodwork 3 times, but Silva alone inexcusably missed two glorious chances, and the woodwork is a miss, just the same as silvas misses. I think it looked worse than it actually was in the cold light of day

Pretty much how i saw it,good post.

[TheBlueCatsWhiskers]

We just played into their hands by surrendering the space in midfield and letting them crowd is out without doing the same to them when they had possession, which to me is a tactical issue rather than a performance problem. It looked worse because demichelis was leaving the defence isolated, but I think the panic which ensued in our defence through the first 60 minutes was definitely tactical - more so for not plugging that gap by replacing demichelis or reinforcing that area. Yes, Nastasic is far from good enough, but normally we can count on him getting better protection which doesn't expose his flaws as badly.,....if I know I'm playing a weak link, I protect that weakness (or don't pick him would be better), but for me he and kompany should never have been as exposed as they were on a number of occasions. Despite everything, all the stats point towards a very even game where ultimately we were undone by poor finishing having created a massive number of chances. They might have hit the woodwork 3 times, but Silva alone inexcusably missed two glorious chances, and the woodwork is a miss, just the same as silvas misses. I think it looked worse than it actually was in the cold light of day

Hitting the woodwork is a miss = I am clutching at straws! We were seriously undone.

[Blue2]

Silva was totally anonymous. The forwards didn't get a real ball all night. When Silva plays like this he might as well have been sat with me. Hazard and Willian bossed it totally. They hit the woodwork 3 times! You have to agree with that...!

We just played into their hands by surrendering the space in midfield and letting them crowd is out without doing the same to them when they had possession, which to me is a tactical issue rather than a performance problem. It looked worse because demichelis was leaving the defence isolated, but I think the panic which ensued in our defence through the first 60 minutes was definitely tactical - more so for not plugging that gap by replacing demichelis or reinforcing that area.

Yes, Nastasic is far from good enough, but normally we can count on him getting better protection which doesn't expose his flaws as badly.,....if I know I'm playing a weak link, I protect that weakness (or don't pick him would be better), but for me he and kompany should never have been as exposed as they were on a number of occasions.

Despite everything, all the stats point towards a very even game where ultimately we were undone by poor finishing having created a massive number of chances.

They might have hit the woodwork 3 times, but Silva alone inexcusably missed two glorious chances, and the woodwork is a miss, just the same as silvas misses. I think it looked worse than it actually was in the cold light of day

Agree, and Dzeko missed a sitter as well- as per usual.

[Im_Spartacus]

Hitting the woodwork is a miss = I am clutching at straws! We were seriously undone.

But it was 1.0

I know what you're saying, but if you don't hit the target, it ain't going in, so yes their chances were close, but Silva should be fucking shot for lack of care as they were gilt edged opportunities he only had to get a half decent contact to.

It looked bad, but Chelsea will also feel very relieved to have got out of that game with a clean sheet

[gillie]

Hitting the woodwork is a miss = I am clutching at straws! We were seriously undone.

But it was 1.0

I know what you're saying, but if you don't hit the target, it ain't going in, so yes their chances were close, but Silva should be fucking shot for lack of care as they were gilt edged opportunities he only had to get a half decent contact to.

It looked bad, but Chelsea will also feel very relieved to have got out of that game with a clean sheet

What I will say in our favour imo their keeper made the more important saves.