closed Man City 1-0 Chelsea

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[OneMoSalah 8,615]

21 hours ago, Jason said:

 

Have to agree with a bit of that. Forget tactics, effort was not there. Too common a factor this season. Regardless of how we were set up or not having Kante in the team or Man City being a different level, that clip of Cesc for example or the numerous clips of Eden with his hands in the air or at his sides or Willian doing the same, instead of trying to rectify mistakes/work hard for the ball again or whatever. It was an absolutely gutless/spineless performance. I said in the Hazard thread that for a player of his ability, giving out 45 minutes of a performance in 3 games against Barca, Man United and Man City is unacceptable and I fully stand by that. Cesc for example I thought he was pretty impressive against Barca but again against City? Terrible. Willian who was our most in form player, played poorly too. Pedro? How can you fuck up so many simple 4 yard passes and look disinterested continuously except one moment where he won a corner? Too many guys who when the going seems to get tough shy away from responsibility. That 3-0 loss against Roma the performance was the same in many parts: weak, lazy, no interest from players.... Bournemouth and Watford too. I think if any player regardless of the manager, cannot get up for it against a huge team like Man City and be willing to put an ounce of effort in should be kicked in the nuts repeatedly because it is not acceptable. 

[Sideshow Luiz 2,310]

Now that there has been some time for reflection: 

Which was the worse performance, this or a few years back against PSG when they dominated us with 10 men?

[bluephoenix 1,125]

On 3/5/2018 at 11:32 PM, cosmicway said:

He gave up, or the players did ?
The team is below the standard of last year and City have a runaway season and that more or less explains how things stand now.
We knew it, several months now, but now the Europe position is gone too (unless we manage to win this year's CL !).
I don't know what a new manager could do and there may be better managers around -Simeone perhaps- but there is almost nothing one can do now for this season.

Can there be anything done for next seasons? I mean the kind of quality  we have and players we have I don't think the board will go in a spending spree coming summer either!

All we can do be deluded by the our clubs statement when they get a new manager "The club believes 'X' is the right person for  the job and will win us titles blah blah"

The fact still remains that we made some pretty messy transfers that will not help any manager that agrees to sign for us.