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Date:Wednesday September 22 2010
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West Bromwich Albion 2 - Manchester City 1
League Cup 3rd Round
The Hawthorns
22/9/10
Attendance: 10,418
Referee: Neil Swarbrick
West Bromwich Albion |
2 - 1 |
Manchester City |
Zuiverloon 55 , Cox 57 |
Jo 19 |
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Venue: The Hawthorns |
Attendance: 10,418 |
The Teams | ||||||||
Myhill |
Given |
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Zuiverloon |
Vidal |
54 |
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Meite |
Boyata |
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Ibanez |
Mee |
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Shorey |
67 |
Cunningham |
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Tchoyi |
A Johnson |
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Reid |
Vieira |
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Dorrans |
Ibrahim |
71 |
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Barnes |
Jo |
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Bednar |
82 |
Santa Cruz |
80 |
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Cox |
Guidetti |
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Substitutes | ||||||||
Carson (GK) |
Taylor (GK) |
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Olsson |
Kompany |
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Brunt |
Zabaleta |
54 |
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Odemwingie |
Milner |
71 |
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Fortune |
82 |
Silva |
80 |
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Scharner |
Kay |
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Jara |
67 |
Veseli |
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Game Statistics | ||||||||
16 |
Goal Attempts |
7 |
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8 |
On Target |
5 |
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8 |
Corners |
5 |
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14 |
Fouls |
11 |
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55 |
% |
45 |
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Comments... | ||||||||
| Johnny On The Spot: An immensely disappointing performance from a young Manchester City side against an equally much changed West Bromwich Albion. It was a cup tie in every sense towards the final whistle in front of a less than half full Hawthorns. City were outplayed from the moment Jo's excellent finish went in, and but for Shay Given's brilliance, The Baggies could have racked up 4 goals by half time. City's youngest ever back four were ruthlessly exposed. Older heads Milner, Silva and Zabaleta were brought on, but could do little to turn the tie around. By contrast, the booed off Roque Santa Cruz's efforts were non existent. Ultimately City have thrown away a chance to progress on four fronts this season. Roberto Mancini must surely confess that he got the mix wrong, particularly across the back four. | ||||||||
Your Comments
a massive risk that didn't pay off, a wasted opportunity in my opinion but its clear that the overwhelming priority is top 4
arthur7171
There's strong feeling across Planet Blue over that suicidal back four selection when we have a solid enough squad to play at least two senior heads back there. The general consensus is we expect a strong showing, in fact demand it against Chelsea after what was served up for the travelling Blues tonight.
Johnny Baguette
Hats off to an under-strength West Brom........
RobsonGreensleeves
We tried to be too clever and got done, so well done WB, and we got what we deserved.
johnkelv
Mancini on fielding youngsters: "If they do not play tonight, when will they ever play?" Fair comment really. Arguably we needed a few more senior players on the pitch if we were to win the game, but its a learning curve that United and Arsenal youngsters have been exposed to over the years and now its City's turn. If we beat Chelsea at the weekend - im sure this loss will be long forgotten.
eighthsin
I think we need to win something before we start being
arrogant in cup competitions.
Spud 1
I am all for blooding youngsters in cup comps .......but FFS why so many in this game ....surely we have enough senior players to put up a decent side and still blood a couple of the young guys.
Doody
Ah now we know why WHL was empty on Tuesday.. Spurs fans were here gloating :)
Sajit
We had an entire second squad out injured so Mancini was left to play his THIRD TEAM SQUAD with the exception of two players (Given and Johnson). What would have happened if he had played two or three first teamers and they had got injured? RM had set his squad out to compete on all fronts this season but even he couldn't have forseen 8 SQUAD MEMBERS OUT WITH INJURY.
Thaibluefan
Really, money comments like that from "123spurs" are less relevant than ever in this thread. He obviously must think names like "Vidal" and "Mee" and "Boyata" and "Ibrahim" and "Cunningham" are 15 million quid signings from Bournemouth rather than academy products.
StuMCFC
123 - what's an "abai dabai card"?
Bluedub
Disappointing night but as folk have said, Mancini decided to play a third tier team. Bit embarrasing to lose but at least it wasn't as embarrasing as the Liverpool defeat.
Tudor
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