Given One good save of note, quite far out of goal and amongst a sea of bodies. Not at fault for the goal, but regardless his distribution was not quite as precise as usual. 6
Zabaleta When more defenders are fit I would not be surprised if he dropped out of the side, with Richards moving across. He was poor this evening, as he has been for much of the season. He missed a few tackles, and gave away some silly free-kicks. There were a few moments of clever play going forward, but he no longer looks much more solid than Richards. 5
Richards Error-free defensively - when could we last say that? Centre back may not be his natural position but he did well today. Scored a very good goal: storming forward with the ball, in a manner reminiscent of Lúcio, before feeding Benjani and hitting home the Zimbabwean's rebounding shot. 8
Kompany Fearless and peerless at the back for almost the entire game: he is playing better than any MCFC centre-back has this season. Blotted his copybook when a heavy touch and a slip let in Morten Gamst Pedersen, who scored the first goal against us of the Mancini era. 7
Garrido Untroubled for most of the evening. One or two nice touches going forward but a quiet game. Left back is certainly up for grabs. 6
Petrov Flashes of good stuff, but never quite sustained. Spent most of the game on the right flank, meaning that he could not play in his old fashioned manner of running to the byline and cutting the ball back. Put in a few good balls but never hurted Blackburn as he can. 6
de Jong Does not mind coming up against physical teams and he gave as good as he got. Will be unfortunate if replaced by Vieira at Goodison Park. 7
Barry With two wingers and two strikers on the pitch his movements were necessarily restricted, but he was impressive in his control of the ball and retention of possession. Another who will be unlucky to lose his place to Vieira. 7
Bellamy Quiet. Beat Jacobsen for pace a few times but failed to do anything with the space that he created. Much less of a threat than he usually is. 5
Tévez Exceptional. He scored three - two of which were beauifully curled finishes from the edge of the box, and could have had four or five. Moreover, his all round play was excellent - dropping into space, holding the ball up, playing in team mates. When did we last have a striker of his ability in this sort of form? 9
Benjani Now I'm not his biggest fan. But he did quite well tonight. His touch was better than at Middlesbrough, so his hold up play was too. He also got three assists. Admittedly two of those were from mis-struck shots, but at least he's contributing. 6
Subs:
Robinho Some very nice touches - keeping the ball well and almost scoring from distance. 7
RSC Held the ball up well. 6
Boyata Too late n/a
5 comments:
Only a 9 for Tevez? He scored a hat trick. ;)
How can you rate RSC and Robinho when they hardly played 10 minutes and then not rate Boyatta?
None of those three can be rated on the last 10 minutes of play unless they actually made an impact which they did not.
Tevez is easily a 10, Bellamy and Benjani deserve more than what you have given them.
The Balckburn goal was clearly a mistake by Dejong but still gave a solid performance.
All of citys players deserved a minimum of a 7.
Correction, seems Kompany was to blame but still was abit of bad luck imo.
All in all was a very good performance considering the weather takes its toll with the winter chill biting at you.
Unless you write film reviews for the Daily Star, you can't give anything 10/10. Was Tevez perfect last night? No, he missed a sitter. I think he might also have mis-controlled a pass once.
harsh on benjani , he won ball, kept it and passed to blue shirts, had a hand in three goals and he only gets 6....come on!
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