Yes they deserve the plaudits. Silva and Zaba were also immense today - and of course YaYa has had a solid season. Patience was the key - Mr Pellegrini was right and tweaked it with Milner's replacement. Well done lads - Garcia has also stepped up his game over the last couple of months. Bet Brenda could kick himself for not doing the same when Liverpool were 3-0 up.

Have to say that it beggars belief that Silva was not even mentioned in the Player of the Year Awards. Couldn't be fixed could it?

Dzeko in particular for me. The amount of times he leads the line on his own with no supporting runs into the box, is surrounded by five opposition players yet gets the blame is just mind boggling. He has been simply brilliant these last few weeks and is severely underrated.

Joe Hart's save against Everton isn't even the MOTD shortlist for Save Of The Season. How much do the BBC hate us.

great night for City and some of the lesser lights have really come to the fore ,also a good night for city old boy Mancini as he wins the Turkish cup final

Demichelis is the worst CB at any of the top 4 clubs.

And don't think Dzeko got that much hate he was a 30+ goal a season striker before you got him. He only got hate last season when Mancini didnt give him game time, everyone knew if he was given matches he can score goals.

Shows the depth that 4th choice striker for City is better than any of our first choices. That has been the difference this season.

"Demichelis is the worst CB at any of the top 4 clubs."

These last two months, I wouldn't swap him for any cb at arsenal or Liverpool. He's actually been better than Kompany.

He is just so bad positionally, he probably doesn't know how to defend any set piece.

He is strong and athletic but that only covers some of his weaknesses. Nastasic is much much better.

Oh dear.

He is great positionally, his counterparts aren't, that's the issue.

Yo are you serious he his so bad I wouldn't even let him play alongside me, I am surprised Kompany hasnt made a formal protest. His assets are in speed and aggressiveness that is it, he leaves you exposed and rushes into things.

It's a cross we have to bear.

Can you move on to how much of a liability Joe Hart is now.

Demichelis gets dogs abuse, but he's actually a good player. It's like last season ago when people were going on about Luiz being mince. Nowhere near as bad as people say.

"Yo are you serious he his so bad I wouldn't even let him play alongside me, I am surprised Kompany hasnt made a formal protest. His assets are in speed and aggressiveness that is it, he leaves you exposed and rushes into things."

His assets are in speed? Are you kidding? His lack of speed is what has caught him out, like against Barca. If you look at that, Kompany was out of position and Demichelis got sent off making a rash challenge covering for him. Any time we play the offside trap on the 18 yard line, Demichelis will be in the perfect position and it will be someone else playing the opposition on side.

He has a much better footballing brain than he has physical qualities anymore. To question his positioning is completely opposite to what his actual failings are.

I've always said that demichelis had been getting undeserved stick during that rocky period for you a few months back. It was all too easy to put the blame on him rather than Kompany.

comment by meltonblue (U10617)
posted 1 hour, 9 minutes ago
"Demichelis is the worst CB at any of the top 4 clubs."

These last two months, I wouldn't swap him for any cb at arsenal or Liverpool. He's actually been better than Kompany.
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lol

Just found this comedy! Is that guy serious?

Demi has been brilliant for a while now after over the top criticism from the press and pundits alike.

See Jo hart also!

I bet Alan Hansen wishes Liverpool had a defender who could defend half as well!

As i said before i would love to see Terry and Cahill play our system, spending most of the time on the half way line pressuring the opposition instead of sat in their own box with 3 or 4 defensive midfielders in front of them.

The irony is when AVB took charge he did exactly that and Terry had his worse season of his career couldn't hack it and he made mugs like Walcott look good

Pundits look for a target,often a new foreign signing and continually slag him off. Demich has been pretty good throughout when i've seen him and lately has been rock solid.
Mersey of the day pundits slaughtered him for every tiny error yet barely mentioned any of Kompanys faults.
Zabaleta is such an intelligent player going forward as last night showed,timing of runs etc and is a player it is easy to admire despite being a United fan. Hope you finish the job though it hurts but for me and everyone else i know it is the lesser of 2 evils.

comment by Mancblueloz give me your chicken (U6305)
posted 2 hours, 1 minute ago
Just found this comedy! Is that guy serious?

Demi has been brilliant for a while now after over the top criticism from the press and pundits alike.

See Jo hart also!

I bet Alan Hansen wishes Liverpool had a defender who could defend half as well!
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http://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewArticle/265373

I've said Demichellis is decent before. Saying you wouldn't swap him for Kos/Mertesacker is stupid though. And he is playing better than Kompany because Kompany really hasn't been any good.

The only reason why i wouldn't swap him for Kos/Mertesacker is because of his age.
He has definately another season in him at this level though.