Did Wagner’s caution-first approach cost City two points"
If City are to break that glass ceiling between sixth and seventh place and sneak into the playoffs, games like QPR (A) are the type they are going to have to win.
And so, on that basis, yesterday was one that got away. Two points dropped rather than one gained. A game in which City struggled to find any discernible flow and rhythm but where they managed to wrestle the initiative away from the hosts and get themselves into a lead only to then hand it back.
From what appeared a position of relative comfort, some curious substitutions handed momentum back to the Rs and, lo and behold, we snatch a draw from the jaws of victory and return home from Shepherd’s Bush with just a point.
It wasn’t the complete disaster of the type we experienced far too often in the autumn – although some of the football in the first half teetered on the brink – but was an opportunity squandered where better decision-making from the technical area could have aided those on the pitch to see it through.
We lauded David Wagner for getting it right last week and he was liberal with his use of the I told you so’s in his post-match conversations, but had no grounds for such bravado yesterday.
His decision to drop Marcelino Nunez from the starting eleven was an interesting one given the Chilean’s growing influence in the middle of the pitch, but could just about be justified by the match-winning cameo of Ashley Barnes last Saturday.
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