City win 3-1 and maintain their excellent start to the season with a game in hand over their rivals.
1. Nice comfortable win for City. West Ham's position at the start of the season is more a reflection on a weird fixture list that saw them play only two home games and in those face the in form Spurs and Liverpool. Zola has a good squad and the Hammers will be mid table shortly.
2. The West Ham fans have always treated Carlos Tevez well. The Argentinean gave his heart and soul to the club and the strikers celebration after he scored his first West Ham is still one of the best moments in Premier League history. Therefore nice to see the respect of Tevez back to the fans after he scored against their club.
3. Robinho, Adebayor, and Ireland out for one reason or another while RSC and Johnson on the bench coming back from injury. Depth is an understatement.
4. This game is a perfect illustration as to why it was, and is, so important to keep Martin Petrov in the squad. You could tell that the Bulgarian was out of match fitness, even on the Tevez first goal the winger almost lost control, but this is another reason why he needs to play more.
4a... Love, just love that the MCFC match blogger has hung the nickname of Rigsby on Petrov. Sure I'm dating myself, but that's just perfect.
5. Today's team and tactics is one I'd like to see more of when City play away, even when the team is at full strength. The constant hustle of Bellamy and Tevez is the sort of focused industry that the team could use in securing points - and the attacking options are obvious when you have Petrov and SWP on the wings.
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Posted by lex on 09/29/2009
Nice win today.
I agree that the hustle of Bellamy and Tevez made a difference. De Jong was also happy to make the challenges, and the three of them could really become a nuisance for opposing teams. Nice to see Johnson and Santa Cruz back.
"Depth is an understatement" - Couldn't have said it better.
I sincerely hope Petrov sticks around. There were several times during the game where he lofted the ball from one side of the pitch to the other, really helping out with distribution.
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Posted by city laxer on 09/29/2009
wallace good to hear from u again.. thought u were dead :p
Wallace Reply Dead tired... doing my very own impersonation of an Ian McShane movie. Props to the first one who knows which one!
Posted by Stan on 09/30/2009
A match such as this one shows that all that fodder about ManCity being fit for the lofty perches in the table isn't just space filler. After that disheartening last-second loss to ManU, and with Adebayor and Ireland and Robinho out for one reason or another, ManCity of old would have capitulated. But this squad has so much more depth now, and played with a cohesion that is remarkable considering how recently it was put together.
Aston Villa away is going to be another stern test of the ManCity mettle. Let's hope Ireland can make it back onto the pitch...and I'm glad Adebayor's suspension is completed now.
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Wallace Poulter is an award winning video game producer, designer, industry consultant and writer. He has been a football fanatic since the day he moved in next door to Brian Clough. "Cloughie" being the acknowledged genius that he was promptly moved out and went to manage Derby. A serviceable senior school left-back in his youth, Poulter played one season of Sunday league football as a striker proving conclusively that he was a serviceable senior school left-back! Today Poulter remains involved with football as a licensed referee and most recently as a consultant on a Football MMO.
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