Garcia vs Demi

[nottsblue]

Forgive me, but if we are talking about which of the above mentioned players should play in midfield for City, the answer is neither.

[Wonderwall]

I don't see demichelis at the corner situation as any kind of problem at all, as it wasn't one.

Had it been a problem, then I would be saying "yes, it was a problem" but it actually wasn't.

What was a problem, was 4 or 5 players running away from our players, which happened quite often.

So I mentioned it.

I am not disagreeing the point that you make regarding the chelsea players work rate and movement and our tactics to try and counter this were poor.

I dont see how you dont think Demichelis would have been a threat at set pieces? Are you saying it was a good decision to leave him on the half way line?

I'm saying it was done for a reason which we don't know. It could equally have been because they know Mourinho will have been watching our corners, so had a man detailed for Demichelis. If I watch a video, it wouldn't surprise me if Demichelis suddely appears at a corner kick after pretending he was going to stay at the halfway line. It may well be yet another clever piece of set piece play by Pellegrini.

Either way, it's not something I'm worried about. They saw something which made them do it. I'll trust them on it.

that explanation could be used for anything, If Demichelis went up, the likelihood is one of Terry/Cahill would have marked him as he is a big aerial threat, but he didn't so it left them free to take another one of our threats.... the more threats we have the more chance we have of scoring, we weren't exactly using the short corner tactic.

Or I could be right & perhaps he did that & they didn't pick him up, either way it could quite easliy be something they worked on or it could be for another reason that Demichelis was there. The point I'm making is, that you don't know why they decided to do it & there could be a perfectly good plan behind it, other than the obvious one.

I didn't mention by the way, that the criticism of Demichelis for their 4v1 situation is totally wrong. If not for him, they would have had a clean run at our defence. Negredo passed the ball straight to their player with most of our team wrong side of the ball & Demichelis made a great sliding challenge to win the ball; it was from that challenge the ball went to a Chelsea player, not because of a mistake by him.

It was one of several instances where he may have saved a goal by delaying their move.

Are you a spin doctor, Demechelis dives and manages to make contact with the ball but all he does is knock it to a Chelsea player leaving us 4 on 1 and you think it was him that saved a certain goal? I know you are going to the N'th degree to try and prove your points but this is just silly. If you weren't trying so hard to prove a point and this was another player, you would have slaughtered them for it.

[Ted Hughes]

I would be livid if he dived into a tackle like that & didn't need to, like he does often at centre back. This was absolute desperation, a great interception & the rest is just very very unfair.

And it was Negredo who dropped us in it, not Demichelis.

[Wonderwall]

I would be livid if he dived into a tackle like that & didn't need to, like he does often at centre back. This was absolute desperation, a great interception & the rest is just very very unfair.

And it was Negredo who dropped us in it, not Demichelis.

none of them covered themselves in glory, Nastasic did well, as Did Hart and poss Vinny for his 90 yd sprint

[dazby]

Demi pleases. Our issue in the last game was scoring goals, not conceding. Demi was very good.