kellzfresh 7,229 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 City had one week rest, we had 3 days rest. Our system is costly with fewer days rest than the opponent. gary gordon and Barbara 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
╫rue Blue 47 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 City had one week rest, we had 3 days rest. Our system is costly with fewer days rest than the opponent.but, beside thatthis game is show mourinho liabilitysome people say pellegrini responed and learn our strategyso pellegrini, choose to keep the defensive line stay deepthat is the way to make mourinho team having problemand with burn out player, just make it more horrible to watch mourinho should fix this, we believe and trust himbecause beside he can install winning mentality to team he managesbut also he bring exciting and promising system, but just only in first season,his 'system' already noticable for opponent to find the solutionand combine with his player not having fresh leg, what we will see just pathetic display Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 City had one week rest, we had 3 days rest. Our system is costly with fewer days rest than the opponent.Feel this excuse of 'tiredness' is being overused as the reason for our last 2 poor results. Only valid till a certain extent as questions also have to be asked on the players' form and/or if they were up for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellzfresh 7,229 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 but, beside thatthis game is show mourinho liabilitysome people say pellegrini responed and learn our strategyso pellegrini, choose to keep the defensive line stay deep02that is the way to make mourinho team having problemand with burn out player, just make it more horrible to watch 02mourinho should fix this, we believe and trust himbecause beside he can install winning mentality to team he managesbut also he bring exciting and promising system, but just only in first season,his 'system' already noticable for opponent to find the solutionand combine with his player not having fresh leg, what we will see just pathetic display Yea pellegrini learned and didn't attack at stupidly. They infact got most of their chances on the counter attack and sat deep. Hazard was totally man marked without any space and I didn't see him at all. Since they sat that deep, we should have put oscar earlier and got at them with the same approach we used at stanford bridge.But you can't deny that our players didn't look up for it, willian and hazard didn't make one dribble all game which is rare. Even silva was bullying ramires and collected the ball from him a lot in that match. That's why I said tiredness was a main cause of that flat performance. 02Feel this excuse of 'tiredness' is being overused as the reason for our last 2 poor results. Only valid till a certain extent as questions also have to be asked on the players' form and/or if they were up for it.Yeah they seemed like they were playing with an attitude of not getting injured or something.They played so slow and no running or dribbles by hazard or willian. Only when oscar came on we had some life but it was too late.I still think it was partly due to tiredness and city was far fresher after having their game called off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,853 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 Feel this excuse of 'tiredness' is being overused as the reason for our last 2 poor results. Only valid till a certain extent as questions also have to be asked on the players' form and/or if they were up for it.why? In addition to Chelsea using basically the same XI for the 3rd time this week, City had a nice little rest period before Saturday's game. Barbara and kellzfresh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 why? In addition to Chelsea using basically the same XI for the 3rd time this week, City had a nice little rest period before Saturday's game. That is true but let's not pretend as if we don't have any decent amount of rest in between ourselves. Not saying we should be expecting great performances from the players in every game but certainly should be performing better than what we did yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NishC300 1,865 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 They fielded a team a weaker XI yesterday and with a squad like ours we should be rotating and our players shouldn't be tired for such a big game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedsBlue 1,549 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 Fatigue can not be an excuse for this side. We have the squad depth and quality to rest our key players. Andre and Salah should have started this one as they anyways were not going to play on Wednesday. Barbara, Blue Armour and DYC. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,853 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 That is true but let's not pretend as if we don't have any decent amount of rest in between ourselves. Not saying we should be expecting great performances from the players in every game but certainly should be performing better than what we did yesterday.yes definitely. ironically Mou pointed out fatigue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 Wenger has bite back (from 1:50 onwards)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Armour 4,759 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 Fatigue can not be an excuse for this side. We have the squad depth and quality to rest our key players. Andre and Salah should have started this one as they anyways were not going to play on Wednesday.This. It would have been nice to mix things up just to see how City would cope against a different set of players than what they are used to from Chelsea. Instead they just had to deal with same, but more fatigued versions of Eto'o, Hazard and Willian from last week. BleedsBlue, Fulham Broadway, Barbara and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! Fulham Broadway 17,810 Posted February 16, 2014 Popular Post! Share Posted February 16, 2014 Ok maybe Mourinho can be a bit cringeworthy, with some comments, but fuck me how I love a manager that fights for our club. kellzfresh, Barbara, Rmpr and 8 others 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! Benches not the shed 77 Posted February 16, 2014 Popular Post! Share Posted February 16, 2014 Ok maybe Mourinho can be a bit cringeworthy, with some comments, but fuck me how I love a manager that fights for our club.Spot on, what else is cringeworthy is looking through some of the threads on here and looking at posts from people criticising Mourinho, or questioning him playing Lampard 160 games on the spin.... I mean fuck sake, did this geezer even see Lampard play then? 20 plus goals every season, we can't even get a striker to do that these days.. Some proper mongs about. Blue Armour, kellzfresh, Viper22 and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodIsBlue 291 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 Had Mourinho played any other squad just because of fitness we would have still lost. Any one of you that had the idea going into that game that we were favorites and were guaranteed a win were very deluded. This Man City squad is one of the best Prem teams I've seen in a long time. Had Azpi or Cech blocked that opening goal the game might of went differently but I would have never bet money on our Chelsea to win that sorry guys. They're better than use, doesn't mean we can't beat City, but the conditions are not in our favor in terms of team quality, fitness, depth and preparation time. Our dept is an illusion; we are 1 big Hazard, Oscar, Willian, Ramires or Azpi injury away from a disaster. We could have tried those fresher players but the result would have been the same in my opinion. Mourinho put out that squad using his 4321 strategy because he respected this City team and the tournament, that was the best shot we had at progressing in the FA cup. I stand behind Mourinho on that game until the substitutes. To see David Luiz as a centerback, and Mikel and Torres on at the same time against city made me cry. Viper22 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mohammed Seif 1,451 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 I think we lost simply because City and Yaya Toure dominated the midfield. Our players were pretty much isolated. Surely some of the players were fatigued but that was not the main reason. I have faith in Mourinho, he is a one cunning fox. He will definitely find a way to bounce back against Everton. Barbara 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manpe 10,861 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 I mean fuck sake, did this geezer even see Lampard play then? Yes, I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polo7 3,496 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 Wenger has bite back (from 1:50 onwards)... Lol cant wait for the end of the season when Arsenal fail to win a trophy yet again. Viper22 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benches not the shed 77 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 So why would you question Mourinhos reluctance to "rest" a player who clearly wanted to play every minute of every game, and was obviously able to not just play, but play to a level that had him nominated for all sorts of shit...I do think by reading this forum that there are quite a lot of people who do not understand the English game/league. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zolayes 14,489 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 Jose loves to play mind games ,, but to be good (and he is VERY good) sometimes you are lieing sometimes teasing sometimes telling the truth .. the secret is keeping people guessing as to which it is ,,, With regard to the horses ,, he was telling part the truth and part teasing ,City are the big horse ,,, we are the young foal ,,,, but Arse are the Dead Donkey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manpe 10,861 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 So why would you question Mourinhos reluctance to "rest" a player who clearly wanted to play every minute of every game, and was obviously able to not just play, but play to a level that had him nominated for all sorts of shit...I do think by reading this forum that there are quite a lot of people who do not understand the English game/league.I didn't question it, I brought it as an example from his first stint of his reluctance to rotate the players. I know Lampard was renowned for his unbelievable stamina and professional approach towards his fitness and to this day I pride myself with his record achievement, because he's my all-time favourite player.(Next time please quote my post so I get a notification) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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