Football Tactics and Opinion
Manuel Pellegrini is a man of quiet authority but immaculate intellectualism. The Chilean is thus one of the few football purist intelligentsia still around. His love for football to be played in a certain way – the attacking way – oozes out from all his teams.
What however contradicts him is that his teams rarely produce such tantalizing displays when required to.
Before his 4-1 demolition of Manchester United in the Continue reading “Changing Times : Manuel Pellegrini”
It was not that Manchester United played badly. It just was that Real Madrid played better.
Tactically, they proved superior. Technically, they were supreme. Every Madrid player caressed the ball with subtlety – as if it was a crown jewel and passed it around intelligently, seemingly fearful of losing a precious possession.
All this was summarised by the third Madrid goal. Fernando Redondo running down the touchline then, Continue reading “Changing Times”
The sad irony is that exactly a year after that infamous Aguero moment, Roberto Mancini is no longer Manchester City manager.
A lot can happen within the space of 12 months. The 13th of May, 2012, will forever be remembered in Manchester City’s history as the day the 34 year long League drought was finally broken. 93:20 of the game against QPR will resonate. Aguero had made City champions of England, and Mancini was the man at the helm.
13th May 2013 tells a different story. At 10:22pm GMT, the statement was realesed. Mancini was sacked.
It speaks volumes of the unforgiving nature of football management. Mancini had not done all that wrong. In fact, his record is exemplary for a club that had not tasted victory in years. Champions League qualification in his first full season, coupled with an FA Cup then a League title in the following season. That however did not matter once Continue reading “Mancini sacked as Man City change philosophy”
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