Ah, you generally get what you deserve imo. They've not played great but they've still been better than West Ham and tbh, give me poor passing over time wasting any day.
Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [1st - 4th December 2017]
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Man City have been crap but have done ten times more than WH to win the game! This is like a PL team vs league 2 team in the FA cup.
Lovren has 1 bad game in 4. Mangala's a car crash every time the ball is within 20 meters of him and cost more than twice as much too.Lovren?!
Rather him then Mangala tbh lol.Lovren?!
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Man City aren’t going to get beat are they? Who the hell can beat them?
Probably Man U if they play like they did today.
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Henry and Carragher reckon David Silva is the best creative midfielder in the Premier League era, errrmmm okay guys, I'll have what you're smoking.
Are they talking number 10? If they are then theyre incorrect, Coutinhos better.
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They could have been, they didn't make it clear. I like Silva, he's been an excellent player for City, but even limiting it to claiming he's the best no.10 in premier league history is very questionable.
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Cantona (albeit technically didn't wear 10 more than a few times) or Bergkamp.
Both of those are strikers/forwards, Silva's very much a midfielder.
I've been trying to think of all the creative midfielders that there's been over the years to compare him with and there's really not that many. Coutinho's been mentioned but other than a few games recently and 1/4 of a season under Rodgers he's played mostly in a front 3 rather than a midfield role and it's a similar story with most of the other obvious candidates. Mata's mainly played in a wide role, even the likes of Ozil and Eriksen have probably played more in a wide attacking role rather than in midfield.
I'm sure there's been others that I just can't think of right now but the only players I can think to compare him with (that have performed well at least) are Modric and Fabregas. Modric didn't really perform well enough for a long enough period but Fabregas is decent shout, although the fact that he's a total **** goes against him.