NiftyNeil wrote:I missed the match yesterday due to work. I was told that Rafa changed the formation and we were pants first half. After reverting to 4-4-2 in the second half, we got our act together and won the game. However, this wasn't the case. I watched the extended highlights last night on football first. I thought City were second best throughout the game and were extremely lucky to be 2 goals ahead at half time. I think the formation worked well in the first half and we should of been ahead. Like someone has already said, we started off well in the second half with the same formation and scored a crucial early goal - and the second was from a corner. I think Rafa got it right, but a few individual (player) errors have put him under Big Mick's microscope again.
You hit the nail on the head. The media will tell you that we were pants in the first half but the fact of the matter is that we just made uncharacteristic, poor errors.
When the City player got sent off we played a lot better, but the media says that its down to the fact that Rafa FINALLY made the right change and put out the team that he should have played from the start.
If we were against 10 men with our initial formation then I think that we would have got at least the same result (on average).