Micah Richards

I feel like when we talk about high line as defenders, I was like, oh, it's a bit, as long as the team know what they're doing.

So when we was playing Spurs and there was winning 2-0, there's a time and a place to do it.

And if you're going to be high, all know what to do when you lose the ball.

And if you can't win the ball high, just give yourself an extra five yards.

So in terms of that,

I don't mind it.

But I have to say, being at the ground, Man City on the ball were amazing.

And they did it sort of in a different way.

Not something that they haven't done before.

So they had the box in midfield.

So you had Gonzalez and O'Reilly as your two number sixes and then Foden and Reinders as your two number tens.

But the split, the strikers really...

high and wide, so the width was coming from the strikers, so Mammouch down one side, Semenyo played on the right, and Newcastle just didn't know how to deal with it, because what they was doing, they was going really deep to get the ball, and then Foden and Reinders could get on the ball, so maybe Foden, then Reinders would make the run, then Semenyo would stay wide, Mammouch, and then they would come in, but Newcastle was only playing with three defenders.

They were at a loss, Newcastle, they couldn't cope with it at all.

They didn't know what to do.

Three centre-halves.

I was playing essentially five at the back, but when Man City got the ball in the areas where they wanted, they only had three at the back because they broke that line if Trippie and Hall was a little bit higher than expected.

And Newcastle just didn't know what to do.

So in terms of Man City on the ball, that's one of the best I've seen them this season.

I thought it was excellent.