Comments on: How David Silva makes Man City tick http://backpagefootball.com/how-david-silva-makes-man-city-tick/28175/ Tue, 21 May 2013 06:03:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Football_Follower http://backpagefootball.com/how-david-silva-makes-man-city-tick/28175/comment-page-1/#comment-79718 Football_Follower Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:17:55 +0000 http://backpagefootball.com/?p=28175#comment-79718 Thanks for your comment. I agree with you that it’s a team game and David Silva has a much better team around him this year. But it’s Silva’s play in Mancini’s system which is making the Blues as good as they are. He leads the league in Key passes and assists which are big indicators of how much he is creating for the team. He needs finishers, which Dzeko, Aguero and Balotelli are, but Silva is pulling the strings.

I do agree with you that Nasri and Silva don’t look to be a great fit on the pitch right now. Although Mancini has probably seen this, as the last few games he has been using Nasri from the bench in the Premier League. I much prefer the look of the side with Adam Johnson filling that role. What are your thoughts?

]]> By: Melon Man http://backpagefootball.com/how-david-silva-makes-man-city-tick/28175/comment-page-1/#comment-78671 Melon Man Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:59:07 +0000 http://backpagefootball.com/?p=28175#comment-78671 Silva is world class, but remember it’s a team game, and City hammered Wolves in the cup 2-5 without him.
It’s Mancini’s system that is most important going forward, not individuals – Carlos Tevez is living proof of this.
I’m not sure that Nasri and Silva work to best effect together, but there’s enough games for City to rotate them, and I think you’ll see that is the case as the season progresses.

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