As a member of the Manchester City experts, how can you not know that you have to bring your best game to defeat Everton?
The season before the one City won, their title hopes were dashed, again at the Stadium of Light, by Everton. They beat Man. City, on that day (- 20 December 2010 -), 2-1, with 2 goals scored in the first 19 minutes, and effectively took Mancini's team out of real contention.
(Everton's previous and next result, flanking that famous win, were 0-0 at home against Wigan and 1-1 at home against West Ham. One can easily see, therefore, that Everton really gave its best to trouble Man. City. And it doesn't take a genius to see that it was all for the benefit of Man. U. But that's another story.)
If Mancini is a somewhat smart individual, he should have known that it would be just as tough to defeat Everton as it would probably be to defeat Man. U. (if the referee does not throw some blatant help to Man. U., like mark clattenburg did in the match Chelsea - Man. u., in which case beating United might be slightly harder).
Maybe he did know that, but the players certainly did not act as if they knew.
Even though they scored the equalizer relatively quickly, they were just not incisive enough to prevent an Everton team playing very good football from stopping the EPL champions from getting the win.
So, these were two huge dropped points by City.
And I'm sure Everton and Manchester United people were both celebrating. Maybe some of them even together.
But, getting back to yet another title contender not named Man. U. faltering in December, what else is new? Such title contenders are now notorious for shooting themselves in the foot, hard, come holiday time.
It's a great time to be a manchester United fan, isn't it? It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
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Saturday, 1 December 2012
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
What a Pathetic Display from the Leaders!
Today, I stayed home from work to watch those pathetic amateurs who call themselves "Manchester City players". What a waste of time and money!
Man. City has become such a fucking bunch of losers in the away games, that they make me sick!
At this rate, they certainly won't be top contender anymore.
And they're not looking great in home games, either, as of late.
One shot off the bar, that's all they had in this match.
It seems they're improving at hitting the post at the expense of hitting the back of the net. (I remember a similar course of events in the Sunderland away game. They lost that game, too, eventually.)
This is a perfect example of that defective football mentality of most English teams, which I mentioned in an earlier post, at the beginning of January.
After Christmas, all Manchester City players came back at seemingly only 50% of their past potential. (Or less.) WHY???
Mancini supposedly accepts the blame. That's what the media says.
Yeah, so? Is he going to quit? Is he going to promise to win the title, or else give back every money he got while at Manchester City? (No? Well, then, who cares if he accepts the blame?)
And, of course, Everton has been another one of Man. U.'s servants, since as long as I can remember. (I still cringe while thinking about an Everton - Man. U. that ended 2-4, on 28 April 2007, after Everton was up 2-0 in minute 60, and which pretty much sealed the title for Ferguson's team because Chelsea dropped two precious points at home against Bolton, and faith in continuing the fight, surely.) Everton, Wigan, Tottenham, Bolton... those are four more teams than another title contender has in their camp... Man. U. fans must be so proud... because you never see any other team coming back from 0-2 or 0-3 against Everton or Tottenham, do you?
Of course Everton is going to play to the death against the teams that annoy United. I wonder how huge their bonus was, now, for making City drop these three huge points.
Man. City has become such a fucking bunch of losers in the away games, that they make me sick!
At this rate, they certainly won't be top contender anymore.
And they're not looking great in home games, either, as of late.
One shot off the bar, that's all they had in this match.
It seems they're improving at hitting the post at the expense of hitting the back of the net. (I remember a similar course of events in the Sunderland away game. They lost that game, too, eventually.)
This is a perfect example of that defective football mentality of most English teams, which I mentioned in an earlier post, at the beginning of January.
After Christmas, all Manchester City players came back at seemingly only 50% of their past potential. (Or less.) WHY???
Mancini supposedly accepts the blame. That's what the media says.
Yeah, so? Is he going to quit? Is he going to promise to win the title, or else give back every money he got while at Manchester City? (No? Well, then, who cares if he accepts the blame?)
And, of course, Everton has been another one of Man. U.'s servants, since as long as I can remember. (I still cringe while thinking about an Everton - Man. U. that ended 2-4, on 28 April 2007, after Everton was up 2-0 in minute 60, and which pretty much sealed the title for Ferguson's team because Chelsea dropped two precious points at home against Bolton, and faith in continuing the fight, surely.) Everton, Wigan, Tottenham, Bolton... those are four more teams than another title contender has in their camp... Man. U. fans must be so proud... because you never see any other team coming back from 0-2 or 0-3 against Everton or Tottenham, do you?
Of course Everton is going to play to the death against the teams that annoy United. I wonder how huge their bonus was, now, for making City drop these three huge points.
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