Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
So we didn't win yesterday, it was city who lost? It's still city and they were coming off a run of wins, weren't they. In the PL. So while they aren't at their own standard of recent years it doesn't mean they've dropped to a standard where "poor" players can dominate them. We dominated them because we finally decided to exploit weaknesses that have come into their game, and to do that we have to be capable of exploiting those weaknesses. It wasn't as if city were kicking he ball into the net for us.
If you’ve watched how City have played this season even in games they’ve won, you would see that without the ball that yes even poor players can exploit their weaknesses (I didn’t exaggerate when I claimed they had no chance of winning the title without Rodri, a lot of ageing players being made to play in a way that teams can exploit). Is Rice a poor player? No he’s an excellent no6. But arguably so was Gilberto Silva and he absolutely lacked the attributes to play in the Vieira role