Closed Man City 2-0 Chelsea

[sutro 1,026]

We should have rested some key players for this one, its quite clear some are tired while city had their game canceled.

Whats the point of having a big squad?

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

It's only the cup.. Calm down.

The players were tired so much!

I miss Terry... we conceded 2 goals in 11 matchs with him. without him, 3 goals in 2 matches.

[Henrique 9,133]

And why would Man City's game against Barca matter at all to Mourinho?

why are replying those kind of thing? lol

[TrippingStep 336]

I don't know why some are so harsh on Salah.

Nothing was working today.

Don't know why you would pick on him being lost as many others were also lost today.

What is frustrating is that we lose too much energy against the average mediocre teams of this league while we should be able spend more matches, passing them out of the park.

City against average teams only have to play 20-30 minutes, the rest they can relax, making a passing exercise the rest of the game.

[bababoom 4,478]

Everyone was useless today. The most embarrassing thing was watching us constantly pass the ball around the back, same against West Brom, we're so poor at starting attacks from the back. This leads me to my next point, i thought D.Luiz was king at this? many people keep on saying he's vital in our team because he starts our attacks, nonsense.

Mikel, Luiz, Willian, Ramires, Ivanovic, Matic and Hazard were all poor today, just looked disinterested. Also Mourinho was on bad from tonight, Salah for Eto'o? very weird sub.

The thing that annoys me the most is that this was against City's second team...

[Alan Partridge 1,124]

We have a week rest now, that's why we didn't rotate in the last 2 games. West Brom was too important game to lose and rotating against City would be suicide.

It might sound good saying " Should have played Shurrle " etc but he is clearly not good enough to replace someone from the first 11 against a big team.

Just say we made 4 changes and got beat 5-0..Who is going to sit here and say " At least the players got a rest " ? Nobody, you would all be bitching about the selection and be like " Should have kept the same 11, they get a weeks rest after the game anyway "

[nadavTKL 1,787]

To be fair this is the real difference between both teams. 2-0 but it was a demolition.

So how we won the more important game two weeks ago?

Very hard to beat a strong team like City at their home two times in two weeks. The intensity was much lower from our players, players who played great like Willian, Hazard and Matic played poor, very hard to win this kind of game again when we dont give our best. Pellegrini made the changes that he had to do because he tottaly failed in the first game, home team won. No need to make big statments after this kind of loss, when we showed them what we can do when were at our best just two weeks ago.

[Cosmin 2,484]

Nothing to say. Pathetic display.

[Stats 7,140]

Did we even have a shot at goal? Quite, literally a horrible performance. Not even going to bother nominating a MOTM as no one deserves it. We were second best to City at everything and the team looked literally frightened to put in a tackle on Toure. Hazard had a chance to intercept from both Toure and Kompany but you could see that he was so half hearted. Same goes for the rest of the team. The way we made Toure just dominate the game is disappointing. No real effort today and never seen such a dull performance.

Don't ever remember us not having a single shot on target and not to mention that they were missing Fernandinho and Aguero and you would think Lescott was a world class CB watching today's game.

[NishC300 1,865]

We had a B team really? Anyone care telling me with the current players that are fit, what stronger team we can have?

[Henrique 9,133]

It's only the cup.. Calm down.

The players were tired so much!

I miss Terry... we conceded 2 goals in 11 matchs with him. without him, 3 goals in 2 matches.

Stats are really nice because you can manipulate and use them to support a point of view.

Terry was the CB when the team conceded 6 goals in 2 matches.

[Liquidator 5,176]

If we still had Mata...

[Polo7 3,496]

Nasri is faster than Luiz, Cahill or Terry, and Luiz didn't stopped running...get out of his back, as I said before, 0 shoot in 90 minutes, outplayed for the whole match and some people paying too much attention to some hands in the air.

Go and watch it again, he jogged for a bit because he thought it was offside then he ran to catch up with Nasri. Stop defending his shoddy defending. I already said everyone had a bad game but Im sick of seeing Luiz at CB. He is terrible there.

[bluesman2610 1,415]

every last player looked flat no desire which is shocking.. if we were going to lose like that he might as well have given Hazard and Willian Matic a rest and played Lampard Schurrle Salah.. very poor from everyone and from Mou was out coached today

[Krypt 241]

Face it city have extremely good squad depth somthing we don't have. Their players where fresh and it shows by Today's result. Top 4 is our priority and then the summer transfer window anything else is a bonus.