City's tactics yesterday

anny road · February 27, 2006

They were told to press on Alonso and deniy him space to play, Barton and Sibierski were supposed to clamp him when we had the ball.....They reckoned that Riise is a defensive weakspot and he was to be targeted with diagonal balls to Samaras......They wanted to keep it quiet for the first half then push on if it was 0-0 to try and nick it...........

According to Ste the game plan went out of the window when Xabi went off, and Pearce was telling Barton to stick to Gerrard but he didnt do it well enough and has received a b******ing for that and the red card after..........They also didnt reckon for Kromkamp playing and Pearce had primed them up all week for Garcia to be playing.

They think we are the most physical side they have played, with all of our players being able to handle themselves, Pearce thinks this is where City lost it as the midfield were out muscled expecially Musampa and Riera...............

All the City players were talking up Crouch after

Romario · February 27, 2006

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