Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [18th - 20th March 2016]
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City were already out of the title race weren't they :/
They were but now they might not even make 4th.
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Why? What else is he going to do, he's getting paid a lot of money, he's a professional and has no reason to leave.
He will be unfairly judged, he hasn't done well this year but City are a broken team that he doesn't have full control of. Like too many clubs they have players who are too highly paid and no where near good enough. The type of players who have the rare epic game that makes clubs stupidly hang on to them.
One of the major reasons Poch has improved Spurs is while the club stupidly brought several inconsistent and ultimately problematic players like Sandro, Capoue, and much as I like him Soldado failing badly upfront. If these were dramatically overpaid players on 5 year contracts the club may not have let Poch push them out, instead they identified the players not pulling their rate and shoved them out the door.
For City they have Yaya who instead of being pushed out because while he's great sometimes he's anonymous far far too often. He also is part of a midfield partnership that has to be disciplined and work hard but him randomly trying or not trying at any given moment in the game means the other midfielders have no freaking clue what to do, do they hope Yaya will cover where he should and get owned when someone runs through the Yaya shaped hole or do you cover the hole and leave a gap elsewhere.
Invariably big clubs that are struggling have these big name, big contract yet undropable players who are dragging everyone around them down FAR more often than they lift them up. Yaya is a horrible player to build a team around. Rooney is a horrible player to build an attack around, they aren't necessarily horrible players but so inconsistent and don't gel with the players around them that it just isn't working.
City need to get rid of Yaya more than anyone else, with a solid consistent midfielder in there Fernando and Fernandinho might... might just turn out to be great players, but in that system with a guy alongside them who is all over the place they can't play close to their best.
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I've thought so for a while, the biggest issue is they had 15 points out of 30 in 2016, but that included way more bottom half games than top half. The following 9 games were very heavily weighted to the top half of the table and their form before this final 9 games was dire against the top half. So the 15 points out of 30(worse than West Ham, Utd, Liverpool, Southampton, Spurs, leicester) was with a favourable run of games, it was only likely to get worse in the next games and they lost to another top half team.
Arsenal actually had worse points in that 10 games in 2016 but had the opposite runs of games, harder top half games in that 10 played and easier bottom half games in the run in.
Same was just worried every time the ball was with Valencia & schweinsteiger.
Lol City proving that they just don't want the title lol. Mind u that's as hilarious as Arsenal completely bottling the title race and allowing Leicester and Spurs to race ahead of us in the title race.
What a truly bonkers season this has been. Title is now leicester's to lose....there's my jinx on them lol
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What a truly bonkers season this has been. Title is now leicester's to lose....there's my jinx on them lol
.Fellani says he not dirty- http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35849022
"I don't want to elbow someone, I just defend myself. I am physical. I like to win my challenge. That's English football as well, but I am not a dirty player."
"I don't want to elbow someone, I just defend myself. I am physical. I like to win my challenge. That's English football as well, but I am not a dirty player."
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Yeah but he also says he's a footballer, looks like he's wrong in a lot of ways
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Haha you best me to it.
A lot of that is because we are playing **** football 90% of the time. Even when we were "challenging for the title" early in the season we were ****. City are just inconsistent but they play well a lot of the time.
What a truly bonkers season this has been. Title is now leicester's to lose....there's my jinx on them lol
7 games to go and Leicester can afford to lose one. Tottenham cant. If Tottenham lose a game I think it's over, and given their next one is Liverpool away, it could be a loss.
I have said this most of the seaon, Pelligrini is ****. I have no idea why they pay him. I think they would have got top 4 with a caretaker manager because he fails so badly getting any consistency with the best resources in the league.
I'd let him coach my sons under 7's for free and that's it. No one, not even LVG has failed as hard as him this year.
They are still in the champions league though, they don't have Kompany which is huge loss but if he had been fit, i wouldn't of bet against them not getting past PSG
Sure, but there's no reason why they can't beat PSG. If they got to the final of the CL for example, would that be a bad season still? It seems their hearts haven't been in the PL and they want to go as far as possible in the CL. They still have some great players in the squad.
I hope Leicester go all the way!! Underdogs to favourites now.