Did Mancini mind games work?

Complete jobbies!

City struggled to cope for short spells without Ya Ya Toure, when he left for the ACON and then again when Kompany was missing.

We started the season on fire, and one by one, all of our form players succumbed to injury. Cleverly, Anderson, then Fletcher and worst of all Vidic. Smalling and Jones also had difficult spells of injury which meant that Rio and Evans were not a firm fixture until November/December.

If City had sustained a list of absence through injury like we did, they wouldn't have been near us.

 

They were two points clear when Toure went to ACN, and one when he returned.

Of course they missed him, he's immense, but the Squad coped.

You seem to forget that the Player who would normally have slotted right in should Kompany be injured or suspended was banned for 6 months for taking hos wife's tablets, that Bibotelli spent more time suspended than Suarez, that the previous season's top scorer was playing Golf in Argentina until the last few weeks, and they had sent Adebeyor off to London for a holiday.

Everyone always thinks they are the only one's who had to cope with problems.

 

Apart from the absence to ACON and injuries, that reads like a list of atypical behaviour for some of the players that City have brought together. That is a risk of their own making.

Our list was compounded by injuries to first choice players, but also their replacements, i.e having Vidic, Jones and Smalling all injured at the same time, and our three centre midfielders missing in Fletcher, Cleverly and Anderson.

Y.Toure and Kompany were key players for City and they never had to spend the majority of the season without either player.

 

Tevez!

 

Apart from the absence to ACON and injuries, that reads like a list of atypical behaviour for some of the players that City have brought together. That is a risk of their own making.

Was Tevez injured?

 

Yes, he had the yips, apparently destroyed his Handicap