Post match thread v Man City

[little dave hedgehog]

i see why they subbed kuyt, he wasn't sharp in front of goal today. perhaps they should have thrown maxi and carroll on together.

[ric.williams]

I thought Henderson had an excellent game second half.

[Gingawaria]

have they been battering the better teams away this season or just at home?

6-1 at Old Trafford.

Can't be too disappointed with drawing against a side who hadn't lost all season, but god, we absolutely battered them at the end there. Joe Hart is a very, very good keeper.

[Rich]

Unlucky but plenty of positives to be had. Adam is beginning to shine while Lucas is simply sensational now.

Biggest problem is still out wide.

Downing is utterly ****e, much worse than I thought he was - and I thought he was a bang average player - he's not, he's a shirker with no bottle. Much worse.

Obviously we also need another striker.

[Red_hot]

Great game. We deserved 3 pts.

Lucas was boss.

[Daniel 7]

Should have won.

Great performance form Hart. The best thing about it is we can compete on a level with a Sheikh's billions. If only we could start beating the **** teams...

[Nicey]

henderson doesn't play or comes off for another player, and i'd think we'd have won. he's still young and he'll be a player, but this was not his best display in an attacking sense, certainly.

Just goes to show I would have him in my top 3, him and lucas bossed the middle of the park, tireless closing down

[Exiled_red]

have they been battering the better teams away this season or just at home?

Well they'd scored 23 goals in 6 games away from home before today, they've scored more away from home than at home.

[Vermilion]

Yep, our goal scoring is dire considering the chances we create, while Hart had one of those days today, we've been the same in other games, which is slightly worrying.

[Galb]

We need a winger, not a striker. We struggle to create out wide.

Im not sure we do. The full backs, especially Enrique can provide that. Downing and Enrique keep making the same runs. If we had someone on the left (a Mata/Silva/Maxi type) drifting in with Enrique overlapping, I think we'd have both width and unpredictability.

Lucas and Agger both superb today.

[Chris]

I thought Henderson had an excellent game second half.

Me too, him and Downing come alive, I know they'll both get loads of criticism but you dont dominate Man City that much with two midfielders supposedly playing horrendously.

[BringbackBiscan]

I thought Henderson had an excellent game second half. Maxi should have played based on merit due to his excellent performance last week but Henderson did well. He's going to be a very good player.

Spot on.

Any critism of any today, feels to me like he was scapegoated before the game kicked off.

Downing played well in that second half too.

[kris90210]

Very unlucky not to great all three points. Hart won't make many better saves then that one from Carroll at the death.

Once again Kenny gets his tactics spot on. We bossed that game, particulary in the 2nd half. Lucas & Adam at the heart of everything good. Either of those two could have been motm.

Downing and Henderson had really good second halfs, especially the former.

Really? I thought Downing was poor. He was brought in for his crossing, but his crossing has been pretty woeful if you ask me. He never seems to make a clean contact on the ball. And he was on the end of 2-3 chances where he missed the target by an absolute mile!

I thought Henderson had a decent game, and he certainly helped us control midfield, but it would be nice to see him assert himself on the game a little more. He reminds me a little bit of what Lucas was like when he first signed.

[Gibbo]

I ****ing love Lucas.

[Mostar]

We need a winger, not a striker. We struggle to create out wide.

We create plenty of chances but we struggle to score and we clearly need to improve in that department and we need someone to give Suarez some assistance upfront.

A winger is a requirement but not priority.