**Official Pre-Match Thread - City v Boro**

[TDAGlobal Superstar]

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There have been so many "massive" or "critical" games for City in the past 12 months, but, this, I feel, is right up there with the most important...................

[TDAGlobal Superstar]

Guerra & Le Fondre on with Jones, but both wide players off.......

[Tans TacheNational Legend]

"He can f**k off with his s**t hair"

[Arkay DubyaGlobal Superstar]

Please can we have Joe Mason back

[Arkay DubyaGlobal Superstar]

Seriously, he's just bagged a hat trick...

[TDAGlobal Superstar]

We've got more forwards that you can shake a stick at. We just can't hold the ball or create chances..................

[RhysGlobal Superstar]

Well, looking at the stats, it looks like we cancelled each other out - boro got lucky with an early lapse in concentration

[CyncoedslumdogNational Legend]

Well, looking at the stats, it looks like we cancelled each other out - boro got lucky with an early lapse in concentration

But in reality it wasn't like that. We were outplayed.

[Tyrion TannisterGlobal Superstar]

One f**king shot on target, at home, against a mid table side. Tha actually makes me feel physically sick. Even Malky averaged more, and he didn't fill the squad with strikers to do it.

[Tyrion TannisterGlobal Superstar]

Might have to disappear for a while guys - I'm applying to be the new manager of Molde.if someone as tactically inept as Solskjaer can win back to back titles then really the sky is the limit.

[Toast BoyClub Legend]

11 players running around the pitch doesn't make a team. I swear for the lack of shape we had for most of the game they may as well have announced the formation as 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1.

How long before the phrase 'too good to go down' is used in earnest?

[TDAGlobal Superstar]

Post-match Ole has said that the team is lacking confidence, he feels his position is under pressure, so he may have to changes things around.

Surely that is a big part of the problem...............

[Tyrion TannisterGlobal Superstar]

Post-match Ole has said that the team is lacking confidence, he feels his position is under pressure, so he may have to changes things around.  

Surely that is a big part of the problem...............

It's the curse of having a big, talented squad - the unrelenting urge to change something when something isn't quite right straight away. He needs to make a stand and pick his XI then stick with it until it gels - Macheda and Jones appeared to run into each other so often last night that it actually became quite embrrassing. The two strikers that will start regularly need to know they are doing that and then they can set to work forming their partnership.

Some positives now I've calmed a little - Manga seemed an excellent player last night and also a both leader - he was furious at the players around him for losing shape and screamed at them to pick up runners when the came. Likewise Brayford remains a very good attacking outlet. Give Manga the armband and get our lines organised to stop conceeding - the first thing to do on a sinking ship is to stop taking up water.

[Slimfrog's Son™Global Superstar]

Post-match Ole has said that the team is lacking confidence, he feels his position is under pressure, so he may have to changes things around.  

Surely that is a big part of the problem...............

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