Agree with Dave, we should have been given more injury time, there was plenty of incidence's during the second half, should have been at least 5 mins.

Thought Boyata had another good game, i wouldn't drop him when lescott and Toure are back, i'd drop Garrido and play Lescott left back. Unlucky City, not our day. Let's focus on prem top 4, and maybe even the FA Cup!

   Red Man Choi, Banjul 28/01/2010 at 23:06

He wasn't in Manchester you glory hunting twonk. Have you ever been to Manchester?

   El crecimiento de los Blue es significativo, hay que seguir en esa senda. Tevez debe estar más acompañado en el ataque.

Carlos, Argentina

   yo dus any1 else feel that given culd of easily come out n got to the ball before i think fletcher or rooney got to it and led to carriks goal

   we have shown you how a classic team plays. Class is to man united fc. Mancicni is sure he was in manchester only last nite. 4-3 wembly we dea!

   I said it when we signed him, and everyone laughed, but Hart is better than Given. He has no fear and wants to come out for crosses. Shay is glued to his line. Why has no other top 4 club ever been interested

   Soy Argentino y Fanatico del Man. City. Mi opinion es que no hay que trasladar la impaciencia y el nerviosismo a los jugadores, pero sí hacerles conocer a cerca de la pasion que significa ser hincha del Man. City y de vestir esta camiseta, de esa manera contagiarlos y que cada vez que ingresen al campo piensen en dejar la vida en cada jugada, que pongan corazon y pasion en el juego... Llegaremos a ser grandes solo si tenemos paciencia y se trabaja con seriedad y humildad. Despues del partido me fastidie mucho pero tranquilo porque este es el camino a recorrer para crecer, confiar en el proyecto de Robby Manchini y traer un jugador importante y con experiencia en defensa y otro en el medio campo, pero jugadores importantes... Saludos desde Argentina de un Fanatico del Manchester City... VAMOS CITY...

   ireland was a passenger when introduced.afraid of getting hit by the ball.all was lost when he came on.swp hang your head,bellamy too greedy last night.boyata brilliant and we need 2 fullbacks.hope mancini is the man.

   "I hope Robinho watched the game and learnt a little about the passion involved in playing for and supporting MCFC"

If he did watch, what he would have learned was that if he couldn't get in a team like that, then he is better off getting out. No doubt he thought to himself that this team does not want talented and skillful players, just those that run a lot.

   Billy Wizz

Weren't you a comedy character in Viz?

Obviously not as funny as Postman Plod, Roger Mellie or Norbert Colon, but a character all the same.

   None of these players should have got above a 5 they were all poor.

   Without hitting the heights, City didn’t play badly at Owed Trafford, but we could have played better. We more than matched them in the first half, with Tevez having the best chance with his header that was saved by Van Der Sar. We should have had a penalty when Ferdinand brought Tevez down. Before that Ferdinand (who was already appealing against a violent conduct charge) should have at very least see yellow after his swinging arm caught Tevez. How did Howard Webb miss that?

As for the second half, we allowed United to have too much time on the ball after the break, which was reminiscent of the League game there this season. We must learn to impose ourselves on them better than we have. We need to play with greater intensity.

We lost our concentration (which is forgivable) after Craig Bellamy was hit by at least one object and that cost us dear. Our shape was also affected by that incident as Barry had to take that the corner instead of the recovering Bellers, thus disrupting how we are set up. It was no coincidence that United scored straight after that. The offending rag cretin in the stands may have been caught, and may well be rightly prosecuted and get a ban, but that doesn’t help City on the pitch. The game should have been stopped to allow Bellamy to feel ready to take the corner and so that City were not disadvantaged in any way.

Richards, Boyata and Kompany did well last night: but our weakness was down the left, where Garrido struggles at the highest level. Wayne Bridge will be returning soon but he will need to be at his very best: surely left back is a priority area for strengthening.

Tevez’s brilliant goal, where he just beat Ferdinand, to skilfully flick past Van Der Sar was top draw and should have been the platform to us going on. It wasn’t to be.

We were eventually undone by a moment of poor defending which allowed Rooney to capitalise at the end. We cannot allow a player of that quality so much room. It was a real shame, because we were looking dangerous in those last few minutes and with Bellamy and Tevez, we always have the ability to hurt United.

In the wreckage of such a crushing disappointment, we have to maintain our perspective. We are getting closer and closer to the Top.

   What on earth has happened to SWP? I am trying to look for positives but he is a shadow of the player he was. I would have hoped that with time and experience he would have improved enough to make a mark on such games. But he absolutely awful, predictable, etc etc ....with no end product. Petrov, who at least has some end product, must be seething and should have started!

    I hope Robinho watched the game and learnt a little about the passion involved in playing for and supporting MCFC. Still so upset today and to think that waster is probably counting his money as I write. Earn a World Cup spot by playing for your employer,we bought you to beat teams like MUFC. You are not in our team because of gutless performances.Hang you head steve grimsley, Perth 28/01/2010 at 12:26

Steve, if as you say Robinho watched that, then he would have learnt nothing about pride and passion in playing for City in a derby game, as none of the 11 players out there last night displayed any themselves, last week at home we had, fight, pride, passion, desire, heart and the will to win......last night we had none of any of them.

   Kompany was head and shoulders above anything else on that pitch in my opinion, he was a collosus at the back for us and brought Boyata on more with each passing game, besides them two and Richards, I cannot for the life of me think of one other who deserved their enormous pay packet this week, the lot of them were useless.

This is not a great United team and we allowed them to look a lot better than they are, Shrek apart they have got nothing to worry about, but with City getting no spark, energy or protection to the back 4 from that pathetic trio of DM's who last night were garbage at best and pathetic the rest of the time, it is no wonder.

And some wonder why Vieira was bought and the manager is targetting Flamini, Gago and other defensive midfielders, is that the 3 he has got are simply out of their depth, they don't have the stomach for a fight, and have been rubbish now for too long, we have got away with it too much because of the brilliance from SWP, Petrov, Bellers, Tevez and Robinho more often than not this season have been the difference, by creating another goal after that lot behind them had failed to do their job.

I expected more from the lads last night and was badly let down, and if Mancini doesn't improve himself soon and start to ditch the ditherers (de Jong, Barry, Garrido, Ireland and Adebayor) then he will be ditched himself in May and this process starts all over again.

   I want to know why we did not get more injury time. What with 4 goals in 2nd half, five substitutions, coin throwing incident plus normal time wastage, surely that was worth an extra 15 minutes. Well it would be if United were looking for the winner.

   We all have a different prespective of how players perform and therefore what mark they should have. Given for me made some fantasic saves but at the end lost us the game by not coming to claim a relatively easy ball for such a class goalkeeper. Thought Richards, Kompany(MyMOM) and Boyata(what a find) all good and Garrido not as bad as some are saying. SWP fo me has lost so much-people say that Robi is knocked off the ball easily but how many times did that happen to Shaun last night. De Jong was his usual self interms of agression but misplaced so many passes particularly in the first half that created unecessary pressure. Agree on Barry and would move him to left back where he started his career with Brighton I think. Bellers was his usual self but I think the fire has gone out of his play over the last few matches and he needs a rest. As for Carlito, what can you say!! I was also thinking with Boyata in the team about the players that we have produced from the Academy over the years but in fact very few of them have actually really made it and despite our seeming unending supply line, we have not made it. Could it be the fault of the Managers that have taken them on when they have graduated to the first team squad-Croft, Weaver, Flood, BWP etc. Mancini certainly apears to have a different approach with the inclusion of Boyata, Ibrahim and Cunningham who most of us had probably never heard of!!

   Vamos Azules

   Lavinda Past, Sunny Norfolk, 28/01/2010 at 12:36

Lescott was coming good right before the operation. Typical City, some might say!

   Weiss would have murdered them. SWP doesn't worry defenders any more. Barry looks more and more like Steve Daley every match... What a waste of money - up there with Lescott, Jo and Santa Cruz as our worst buys of the century.

   I hope Robinho watched the game and learnt a little about the passion involved in playing for and supporting MCFC. Still so upset today and to think that waster is probably counting his money as I write. Earn a World Cup spot by playing for your employer,we bought you to beat teams like MUFC. You are not in our team because of gutless performances.Hang you head

   I've decided I must be going mad, I was watching the last half hour of that game saying take off Boyata, he's looking like it's getting too much, miskicks, slipping, out of position - yet here we are, he's top scored! When the cross for Rooney's goal went over his head I felt my reservations were justified. Kompany on the other hand was superb and should be given the captaincy and told the position is his. Bring Boyata in gradually over the next 3 years with Toure in the boxseat and we'll have a world class defender on our hands, push him too much and he'll blow up!

   Nope, don't feel any better this morning, in the slightest. This has hit me harder than I thought it would.

   Main failing was as a team, we gave them far too much respect in both legs, let them have time and space. If you allow United to commit 10 men forward you're asking for trouble but you then have to hit them on the break. We didn't do that and we didn't close them down either.

Look at the way Leeds played them, with a far inferior side they refused to yield the middle of the park and gave as good as they got in every area. Look at the way Stoke played Arsenal in the FA cup - they didn't let them have free ball in the middle to pick a pass. Closed them down in the middle then dropped back when required, but also got forward when required. And in the end they beat them easily, and deservedly.

The coin/bottle throwing was a disgrace. Just like the Arsenal fans at our place, they like to talk all unconcerned but fact is they feel threatened and can't handle it.

Still have the FA cup which, Chelsea aside would be wide open this season and of course we're well placed to push on in the league with a number of key players coming back into contention.

   1st - how can Givens be slagged. Look at the save at the end stopped a certain goal. Saved us more than once this season. More than can be said of Richards & Garrido. L/B & R/B are our weakest points 2nd - Buchan's Guitar, DENTON knows nothing about football to slag Bellamy off. 3rd - If Boyata had of cleared a cross whch should have been easy for him. Rooney would not have gotten a free header to score. Onuha should have played from the start. Boyata for the future not in a semi - derby. 4th - Ireland not the same as last season. Playing like he has got something on his mind. SWP just runs into players & loosing the ball to easy. Barry has been overall poor since we bought him. 6th - Givens, Kompany, De Jong, Tevez, Bellamy are the only players who started last night who would be on my teem sheet. Before I had to think who I would then draft in. Put a bid in for Joe Cole. They can have Robinho in exchange. 7th - looks like the Carling cup is a great cup to win. Old red nose has'nt played his kids over the last 2 games. Giggs, Scholes coming to the end of their playing days. Rooney will go anywhere for money. This die hard Everton fan soon left them. He'll be off & these other players they have left will not be good enough to win anything. But us blues can watch our squad get stronger. We have even got some good young lads coming through who won't cost money to bring in.