I think in the atermath of the City defeat a bit of perspective is called for.
Yes one or two of our players looked below the absolute top class when compared to some of theirs, and yes they are a better team than us over a league season, you'll get no argument from me on either point. Kompany is a better centre half than either of ours, Hart was better than Pepe on the night. None of Henderson, Adam, Spearing, Downing, Kuyt or Carroll would get a game for them at the moment, not even close. Yaya Toure and David Silva are different class to any of our midfielders bar Gerrard, Aguerro better than any of our strikers bar Suarez. But bugger me, what are we going to do, slash our wrists about it?
The point is, we got beaten by the probable Champions there. This is the same team that have won ten out of ten at Home. Not only that, but it could have been different if in the Kings words we had been more "clinical". It's painful to admit it though, but the truth is that in terms of the league Man City aren't currently our rivals. Hopefully if they keep imploding Man Utd may become one of our rivals, but my guess is even Spurs are currently ahead of us. The reality is that our main rivals at the moment are Chelsea and Arsenal, the other two teams currently competing for fourth. Now yes we learnt that if we are to be genuine title contenders there are a few of our players who either need to improve or to f*ck off, but this bunch of players first task is to get us back into the top four. Last two seasons we've been 7th and 6th, we've got a lot of ground to make up, we ain't goinna do it one season.
So yes it hurts to get beat, but we didn't give too bad an account of ourselves. Yes they are currently a better team than us, but that doesn't mean we can't take care of them in the Carling Cup semi. It's not the time to panic right now, it's time to get behind the team and the manager and believe in them. We are one win off fourth, and we have to play our two main rivals at Home yet. They've got to worry about Europe, we haven't. Not as good as Man City? Yes I'll give you that, but we ain't that far behind everyone else.
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