Firstly, I would like to apologise for the lack of a preview for this match.I must admit that I completely forgot about the blog yesterday, but I can promise, hand on heart, that this terrible occurrence will never happen again!!Result: WBA 2 1 Man CityI HATE MARK HUGHES!!! Another underwhelming and ma sively disappointing performance from City have left Blues bo s Hughes fearing for his job. The home side took the lead partway through the second half after a quick break following a City corner allowed Gianni Zuiverloon to slip a pa s through for former Aston Villa striker Luke Moore, who calmly slotted the ball under
Maxime Lagace Men Jersey the body of the advancing Joe Hart. With time running out, and City desperately pushing for an equaliser, who else but prolific Ecuadoriangoal-machine Felipe Caicedo, fresh from his goalscoring exploits in midweek against Racing Santander, who provided a delightful back-heeled finish that took a deflection and squirmed tantalisingly into the net. City were level and with only injury time left to play, surely they would not concede an injury-time striker as happened recently against Everton. But if you could put money on one team to me s things up, it would be City, and they duly obliged, when, in the penultimate minute of the match, Roman Bednar scored with a header to hand the Baggies a much-needed three points and condemn City to another defeat, leaving them without a win in the pastnine games.After resting a
Brendan Gaunce Jersey numbers of key players in midweek, City bo s Mark Hughes brought back his star names, including Stephen Ireland, Joe Hart, Vincent Kompany and Shaun Wright-Phillips. Captain Richard Dunne alsoreturned, in place of Israeli international Tal Ben-Haim, after the birth of his baby, whilst Zimbabwean striker Benjani made a miraculous recovery from his injury after it was predicted he would be out for a number of weeks. For some unknown reason, Hughes decided to replace the much-improved Javier Ive got his parents autographs Garrido with Michael Ball, therefore depriving City of any attacking flair down the left. Brazilain trio Robinho, Jo and Elano all mi sed the game for various reasons, with Hughes claiming that Elano had the flu. Funnily enough, this was the same reason why Roque Santa Cruz mi sed the Blackburn game yesterday, just days after saying he would like to leave the club!! Mi sing former City forward Ishmael Miller, WBA manager Tony Mowbray decided to partner Luke Moore and Roman Bednar in attack with a midfield including James The Singer Morrison and Jonathan Tramp Greening expected to provide support to the front men.The game was an open affair, and although few clear-cut chances were created, it was a highly entertaining and watchable game. Bednar hit the post was a powerful shot, but it was City who fashioned out the best chance of the half, when, moments into injury time, Benjani fired woefully over after taking the ball off Micah Richards toe.The second half was also enjoyable, with Shaun Wright-Phillips firing straight at Scott Carson after a good cro s from Pablo Zabaleta. However, just minutes later, with WBA having broken following
John Moore Jersey a City corner, the ball found Moore, who scored his first goal for the club. City needed a goal urgently, so who better to bring on than Felipe Caicedo, scorer of his first goal for City in midweek. And gue s what courtesy of a deflected back-heelthat somehow found the net, the Ecuadorian striker notched the equaliser for the Blues. What a player!!!However, just as City thought they were going to attain a share of the spoils, West Brom stuck a dagger through the heart, with full-back Zuiverloon finding Bednar with a beauty of a cro s, and after Micah Richards gave up on the challenge, the Czech powerhouse looped his header over Joe Hart to win the game for the Baggies, and cue
Jakub Zboril Jersey chants of Youre getting sacked in the morning towards City gaffer Mark Hughes.Player Ratings:Hart Maybe at fault for the winner when he half-came for the cro s, but needs a better defence in front of him 6Zabaleta Likes to get forward, but maybe needs to curve his attacking instinct in the final moments of a game 7Dunne Looked shaky again and needs to communicate better with Richards 5Richards Looked shaky again and needs to communicate better with Dunne!! Was at fault for winner 4Ball In the side to replace Garrido and did OK. Would be nice to see him at left-back with Garrido on the left of midfield 6Wright-Phillips Citys bst player. Constantly wanted the ball and tried to make things happen 8Kompany Adds steel in centre of midfield but needs someone better than Fernandes alongside him 7Fernandes A mind-bogglingly, jaw-droppingly atrocious player. No positional sense and no skill on the ball. Citys worst ever player since Georgious Samaras!! 4Ireland Stuck out on the left, but needs to be more central to have an impact
Kevan Miller Women Jersey 6Va sell Finally, he was placed in his preferred position up-front, but still did nothing 5Benjani Rushed back from injury, but at least he looked interested 6Subs:Caicedo Scored again and will turn out to be a world star or maybe not 7Man of the Match Shaun Wright-Phillips
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