Man City stars have ‘lost their heads’ after finding out FFP verdict with terrible form ‘no longer about Rodri’
A Man City fan is starting to believe the theory that the players know the Citizens
Will lose their FFP case with their terrible form ‘no longer about Rodri’. Plus, Arsenal, Tottenham, Newcastle, Nottingham Forest and Frank Lampard.
Watching the game against Villa, we were so, so bad. There was mention of the loss of the fear factor but that’s not enough to explain what was going on.
Teams have known for a long time how to exploit ทางเข้า ufabet our weakness – beating the initial press and then breaking. Villa were good at this, but the reason teams haven’t been able to so easily use this tactic until now is that we limited the opportunities to do this to such a point that the opposition had to play it perfectly once they did get on the ball, and that psychological pressure usually crushed their momentum. However it is now us that are giving the ball to the opposition time and time again and we’re basically providing a counter-attacking practice drill for the opponents.
The second issue is our actual attack play has become exclusively ball to feet.
No one got their head up. There were a number of good runs for a ball over the top, and yet the player on the ball NEVER took that option. This was also true of using overlapping runs, cutbacks and pass and run options. Why was Foden asking for the ball in between lines only to pass it straight back to the original player rather than taking a risk on the ball? It shouldn’t take one of the all-time best passers of the ball in De Bruyne to execute a standard line-breaking passing move, but it seems to for us at the moment. The irony in such risk-averse play is that it telepaths to the opposition that closing us down is without danger as we refuse to make them think about gaps in behind. Then we end up turning over possession in our own half instead.
This is no longer about Rodri, an aging squad, injuries etc. These things would reasonably halt a title defence of any team. No, these players have completely lost their heads. It almost makes me believe the theory about knowing they are going to lose the tribunal against the PL. Not downed tools, but zero-confidence. Something massive is on their minds one way or another.