Rory Smith
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first heard Apr 2026
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Football Daily · MNC: Manchester derby VAR controversy & Rangers dominate Old Firm · 14 Sep 2026
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yeah.
Yeah, and he went very defensive very quickly.
And I wonder whether yesterday he worked out that, look...
it's OK to try and just kill the game a little bit, take control of the ball when we can, see if United can break us down.
And as you get through the first five, ten minutes and you see that maybe they aren't cutting through, that they aren't making a huge advantage of being a man up, maybe you think, OK, yeah, let's get to half-time.
I don't know this, but my instinct would be most managers...
even as Shea says, you know, when it's the obvious thing to do tactically, probably don't want to take a player off in the first half unless they really have to, because it is, there's an element of kind of, you're risking the player having a bad reaction, I suppose.
But I think that the last few weeks have been,
have been really impressive for Maresca in a way that has gone sort of under the radar.
that is an impossible job, replacing not just the best coach in City's history, the best coach in the league, but this kind of towering figure who's redefined English football.
And kids play out from the back now, it's all because of Pep.
And in quite an understated way, Maresca's...
won every single game.
And yeah, Bournemouth wasn't that impressive and Coventry wasn't that impressive, but they went and won in Porto midweek.
That's another challenge past, you know, winning after you've been in the Champions League.
He has not put a foot wrong, Maresca.
scientists.
I wonder, I mean, that might be a fact.
He will probably just find City a more conducive environment than he obviously did Chelsea.
The other thing is, like, if you think about how it all kind of played out...
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