Our play was very predictable and painful to watch to play. Zero interplay in between the lines in the half spaces, no triangles, little clever buildup. Just huffing and puffing around the place and launching hopeless crosses into the ball for Lukaku.
That aint gonna cut it against a super technical team like City. We need to realize right now we don't have a lot of players with world class technique and ball skills in our strongest teams. We needed to have a more direct approach today and reduced the amount of passing out from the back against an opponent like City. We needed to take advantage of our superior physicality.
We also didn't press them from the back anywhere near as we should have. They did to us and killed us in that department.