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Roman doesn´t want to see his team playing defensive football just to win. Mateo won, but was fired.

Was Roman then? No, he was not.

Matteo was sacked because of an early CL exit & Super Cup humiliation. I bet if we had beaten Juve, he would have in the job for a lot longer.

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We parked the bus against MU (the 0-0), Arsenal a little (the 0-0), Atletico (0-0 again) and the strange Enfield match (2-0).

That's 4 out of of 50.

Would someone be happier if we had gone down 2-0 at Vicente Kalderon ? The Atletico fans ?

In the other matches there were some terrible performences (Basel-Palace-Sunderland-Norwich) and even in some matches that were won we did n't play well. But the reasons were other.

If you go to Atletico and don't play park the bus and still have a chance to stay alive you must have a team like Ajax 1972 ++ (*).
Those who criticise Mourinho on such grounds are therefore either football illiterate or trolls.

(*) one of the world's wonder teams made up from just local talent as well, plus a Jugoslav defender they had

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The title was in our own hands and we simply just bottled it. There is no point giving excuses, we just have to deal with it and move on.

The positive side for next season is that we will have a better side than this season and so the chances of us coming close to winning a major trophy will be higher.

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The title was in our own hands and we simply just bottled it. There is no point giving excuses, we just have to deal with it and move on.

The positive side for next season is that we will have a better side than this season and so the chances of us coming close to winning a major trophy will be higher.

It's not as simple as saying we bottled it. I think what sets a league apart from a cup competition is that over 38 games, any deficiencies will be exposed. In a cup game you can maybe go 90 minutes without these being exposed if the luck goes your way. But the simple fact is that we knew we were missing quality up front and Liverpool knew they were weak in defence and the 'beauty' of this league campaign is that those weaknesses are ultimately what cost it for both teams.

Man City were by far the team with fewest weaknesses in their side which you'd expect because they are further along in their development. Toure, Hart, Kompany, Silva, Nasri, Aguero, Clichy, Kolarov and Dzeko were all part of the team which won in 2012 and are still key players in their first team. The addition of Fernandinho was probably that extra piece they needed to push them over the top even when they were missing Aguero for almost half the season.

So I don't think bottle has much to do with it.

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The title was in our own hands and we simply just bottled it. There is no point giving excuses, we just have to deal with it and move on.

If you're talking about the Sunderland game, that was stolen from us.

Other matches (Villa, Palace, Norwich etc), I agree.

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It's not as simple as saying we bottled it. I think what sets a league apart from a cup competition is that over 38 games, any deficiencies will be exposed. In a cup game you can maybe go 90 minutes without these being exposed if the luck goes your way. But the simple fact is that we knew we were missing quality up front and Liverpool knew they were weak in defence and the 'beauty' of this league campaign is that those weaknesses are ultimately what cost it for both teams.

Man City were by far the team with fewest weaknesses in their side which you'd expect because they are further along in their development. Toure, Hart, Kompany, Silva, Nasri, Aguero, Clichy, Kolarov and Dzeko were all part of the team which won in 2012 and are still key players in their first team. The addition of Fernandinho was probably that extra piece they needed to push them over the top even when they were missing Aguero for almost half the season.

So I don't think bottle has much to do with it.

well we came very close to winning it without a well known striker and we just needed to win 2 crucial games(Norwich and Palace) but sadly could not. I understand we played a lot of football and unlike the other title contenders our attention wasn't fully on the league but still part of you has to agree that the team should have done better because we managed to come so far.

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