Capital One Cup - Third Round 25/26 September *** Spoilers ***

Mancini has just gone completely mental this year, absolutely utterly mental, stupid teams, odd transfers, daft formations, dropping people when he shouldn't, putting unfit players in with no game time in the biggest games and dropping the ball against a pretty woeful Villa side.
 
So City are out and we play like that, in a cup that we can realistically win. *insert rage here, I can't be bothered*
 
FA disciplinary committee seriously need to look at that Heitinga stamp incident.....
.....It was on Diouf, therefore the yellow card he received for the preceeding challenge should be rescinded :)

edit: regarding the MC lineup, while it is a strong side, arguably only a couple of those who started would be in the first choice XI (Lescott and either Tevez or Balotelli.... Kolorov maybe). Don't need to play kids when you've got a bunch of experienced pros needing games. Then again I didn't see their formation but I'm guessing it was also another chance to experiment with the 3-5-2 i.e. Lescott/Nasty/Toure at the back with Kolorov/Milner wingbacks - aside from Kompany that could be pretty close to what they'd choose to find in terms of the defence and wingbacks (not 100% sure as Mancini seems to have an obsession with including Clichy or Zabaleta in a back 3)
 
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In seriousness I think the booking was for the foul and the stamp was missed. He could (and should) be out for a few games.
 
Yes, the stamp was nasty, though I can't remember from the replay if it was a massive stamp or did he just step on him, both nasty just one more nasty than the other. THe truly unbelievable thing was it was directly infront of the ref, if he gave a yellow for putting his studs into a player he just fouled then I don't even know what to say. If he's seen it how can it be anything but a straight red, if he's not seen it, just how the hell not?

Maybe its just me but it kind of looked like Heitinga... meant to fall on top of him as they both went down as well.

Diouf may be a nasty ****, but that doesn't somehow make it okay to be an equally nasty **** to him, if I were the FA i'd be giving him a straight red ban + a couple games extra.

EDIT:- while not always accurate the Sky sports centre thing had the City formation down as a 3-4-3 with Barry and Koralov as the two central midfielders and Razak/Milner the two wider midfielders. Ruddy cup games and lack of streams and the stupid wait to see highlights.

Frankly Arsenal dominated the early cup rounds for 6-7 years with a youth team, City after spending half a billion + should be able to walk into the final stages of both cup competitions with a mix of their second and third string players, that they can't says a lot about Mancini to me. Certain players criminally over rated(Barry/Milner) certain players criminally underplayed(Toure in particular).

But his massive insistence on throwing away a working system that won him a title and dropping points while testing a system in completely inappropriate games AND using odd players to do it is just mental.

Of course these days there is just as much money in being fired as there is actually having a managers job with all the stress and headaches that go with it.

he's got a big contract bump, an extension and at this point he can't really do better. He's always done poorly in the champs league, where he's already looked rubbish with City. Anything short of winning the title will be seen as a failure, anything short of winning the title AND competing for the champs league in the next 2-3 seasons will be seen as pretty weak considering other managers at similar clubs spending that amount all managing it.... he's in a no win situation really, and being fired means all the same money... none of the work or stress. So maybe getting fired as quickly as possible is his best option :p

EDIT 2:- even more funny is I only just realised Villa didn't even really play their first team either with Bent, Albrighton, Bannan, Herd on the bench and only 2 of those came on, lol.
 
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I'm 'certain' (as in my interpretation) that the ref booked him for the foul and didn't see the stamp, which was basically subtly tredding on him. Referee's report should clear it up, one of those incidents that will probably get more focus because it was on live TV.
 
timebomb26 said:
Chelsea have 6 now. Can they get to 10?
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There were enough chances to get there.

Very enjoyable game at the Bridge last night with debuts from Cesar Azpilicueta, Lucas Piazon and Victor Moses. Matko Marin came in for the last twenty minutes and JT played despite his hearing.

Our new young players look very promising and will become a force to be reckoned with when they have gained experience and become first team regulars. The future is beginning to look very rosy indeed.
 
Tummy said:
Bah.
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:( I offer some condolences, it just sounded a poor game all round.

Plus the video of the goals makes the penalty look mad, de ridder hacked down about 5 yards from the box but is sort of tangled and walks into the box to fall over with the rb still stuck to him.
 
The Liverpool Echo are reporting that Jerome Sinclair could be involved in our match tonight. I'd love to see Sinclair get a run out, even as a sub - he only turned 16 last week and has been spoke about in even higher regard than Sterling was at 15/16.
 
Andybtsn said:
Azza, Thundy, Dannyjo, your boys took one hell of a beating :D
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I will be completely honest, I didn't care one bit. I don't even expect Everton players to take that cup seriously anymore. I wish we had just used it to give younger players a run out. I don't know why we even need two cups one of which the big clubs don't care about. They should just make it a cup for non premiership teams and the winners get seats to watch the FA cup final ;)

Even if we had won the cup I couldn't summon the enthusiasm to go on about it. A non event that needs removing. :D
 
dannyjo22 said:
I will be completely honest, I didn't care one bit. I don't even expect Everton players to take that cup seriously anymore. I wish we had just used it to give younger players a run out. I don't know why we even need two cups one of which the big clubs don't care about. They should just make it a cup for non premiership teams and the winners get seats to watch the FA cup final ;)

Even if we had won the cup I couldn't summon the enthusiasm to go on about it. A non event that needs removing. :D
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Might aswell get rid of the league and fa cup too:D;)
 
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