zuricity wrote:The Analysis is good.
Also Teves and Bellamy reacted a little late. A quicker reaction might have prevented the cross.
I put this all down to the team being tired at the end of the game and losing concentration.
However, Given could not have been tired and this is where he needs to step up his role and get the defence awake and organised, most important at this late stage of the game. Also, He should have come for the cross, absolutely no excuse for staying on his line. Even if he missed the ball, it may well have been sufficient to put rooney out of his stride.
The Cross could be described as sublime, it was a dream cross and I think more luck than great skill. I say this because Giggs was not too good with his crossing at all during the game.
As for Zab and Ireland , it is inexcusable that an attacker is allowed to get a free jump. I can understand that a defender can be outjumped, however somebody should be right in front of Rooney to prevent him jumping into the ball without encroaching on the defender.
I've watched the goal in slow mo many times and there were just several things about the goal. No one person can be blamed i believe, there was a combination of events that lead to the goal.
Agree with all of this.
Fantastic analysis.
We'll get there. We'll learn from this. You have to at least give the Rags credit for changing up and executing a very good play. Look at the amount of time their players have had together vs the time the squad we had have played together.
Overall, plenty of blame to go around for City. Lots of moving parts not moving in the right way.
As some pointed out here and in the zonal marking thread - for the zonal marking to work, there has to be a lot of understanding and comunication between all players. Some can't switch to man while others stay in zone or some try to push out for an offside trap (perhaps why DeJong and others were behind the play) while others stay close to goal to mark players. We need to work on it and it'll come.
Rags made a good play, it was a great cross (lucky or not) and it fell onto the head of a great player. FUCK! Sucks it happened, especially so late, but lets learn from it and get better.
No need to keep asigning blame, we'll get there, lets move forward.
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