Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Win, Lose or Draw - City Need to Perform

It's funny how football has a nasty habit of kicking you when you're down.

Just when City need an easy game and confidence boosting win to put the disappointment of the Cup exit (and the disappointment of the whole season to be honest), we're up against the mighty Chelsea machine at Eastlands tomorrow night.

Now there's been a lot of speculation of how many games Pearce has left before he gets the bullet, but most football pundits reckon it'll be a case of "G.B.E" - Gone By Easter.

We're clearly going through desperate times at the moment, with performances that wouldn't even be acceptable in Division 1 let alone the top flight, but before the knives get sharpened for tomorrow night, I think we could all do with a reality check about Chelsea game.

At the start of the season when you saw the fixture list, you'd have probably put this game down as an away win with only the most optimistic and probably foolhardy expecting any other result.

I'm expecting us to lose the game, but what I and all the fans want to see from our players is a performance. The players need to earn back some respect from the fans by making sure they turn up focused and motivated. If we've battled hard and fought for everything and still lose to the Champions then I don't really think most fans will have a problem and accept we've lost to a better team.

If we lose timidly with the players having just not turned up again, like so many times this season, then the level of fan disenchantment, which is already nearly off the scale will go up another notch or three.

We shouldn't be surprised if we lose tomorrow, but the performance is everything. I think Pearce understands that, but I'm not so sure about some of the players. We'll find out tomorrow.

I was going to say, wouldn't it just be typical of City to beat Chelsea, but with the way things are at the moment, you wouldn't want to put too much money on it.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Expectations are so low at the moment, just a few shots on target would be a major achievement !

Bluesology said...

I think the players just need to get the basics right and not try too hard ...not that there's much chance of that happening :-)

Interesting that Sturridge and Abdoun are in tonight's reserve team against Everton. That almost certainly rules either of them out of a starting position against Chelsea and probably unlikely to see them on bench. If Corradi and Samaras start up front tomorrow, then I'm probably going to be leaving by half time.

Citehboy said...

Tomorrow could well be a 'typical City' day. Just when we expect a heavy defeat, the opposite usually happens. I'm betting a tenner on a city victory. Come on City, prove us wrong!

Bluesology said...

Save your money... or buy a half-time draw ticket instead

Anonymous said...

I don't expect any more points to the end of the season. Our defence are shattered, our attack...... Sod Chelsea, I've given up that one. In which universe are we ever going to beat the scum with this mixture of stalwart blues and wage-takers? Make up your mind which you are boys - because you will go down in history.

Anonymous said...

Will Barton be playing tomorrow or will he be in jail ???

Bluesology said...

the whole lot of them need to be in jail for deception and impersonating a football team

Citehboy said...

...the way joey keeps flashing his arse, he'll have plenty of admirers if he is convicted... :)

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