Do City supporters take a week on goal kicks? The feck are you on about?
The pile on we've had in the media this week doesn't really bother me as a fan, I just think it's gone too far without looking at context.
Yeah, in tough away games we can slow the game down a bit like Raya dropping on the ball after a catch or an extra couple of seconds on goal kicks etc, but 2nd half Sunday was an extreme case, and I think people need to remember that.
We were protecting a lead, at the home of the most dominant team in England, where we've got severe PTSD from past beatings, including 1 only a couple of years back where we went down to 10 men and got beat 5-0.
The BBC looking at things like restart times, number of passes played etc without considering we've played 2 full halfs with 10 men, and had a difficult fixture list etc.
I think people have forgotten because we've had a tough start to the season, that we are a good attacking team. We had the 2nd highest defensive line only to City last season, you don't do that if you are a defensive team.
The difference is we can defend in different ways given the scenario, we can squeeze a game and press high and go much more front foot like we do most of the season as the numbers show, but we can also defend well in a mid or low block if the game state requires. Hopefully we remind people about the former over the next couple of fixtures.
