Didn't Match Manchester City 11 for 11?

It was a poor execution of a naive plan, that's the most succinct way to put it. You went into a war with one of the best teams in the country and you hoped to play them in somewhat of an equal footing in some areas. What happened very early on is that those two or three key areas that he hoped to match Manchester City were just impossible. And then what could have been an equal playing forward very quickly becomes a deeply lopsided one. When you're playing uphill against Manchester City, you get got.