(Some quick thoughts immediately after the game)
What can Rafa do? He picks his strongest XI and loses two players to injury in the first half. Neither team could get any rhythym going in the first half because of the constant stoppages. Then we took the lead and sat back. Skrtel was at fault for City's soft equaliser and then their second was offside. Great character to get back level and we should have won it. How Lucas didn't score I'll never know.
It was the right decision not to use Aquilani. It would have been too big a gamble to start him with so many other enforced changes and the injuries left Rafa with just one sub to make. Too big a gamble to throw the Italian on.
What I resent is Andy Gray banging on about a point not being enough for us in terms of the title race. As usual, he isn't looking at the bigger picture. We have been absolutely decimated by injuries whilst having no luck whatsoever at the same time. Two more injuries and conceding an offside goal was just more of the same for us. Right now, our priority is to get players fit; get a settled XI, and pick up as many points as we can to try to finish in the top four.
Although disappointed that we didn't win, the important thing was not to lose. Hopefully, next time we play City we will have something like our strongest XI available and a bit of form going into the game.
If they carry on failing to win, they'll have a new manager by then.
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