Stuart Robson
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There's a lot of good wide players playing throughout Europe at the moment and he's one of those players that can go past people down the outside.
He showed he's got a right foot as well because he's a left-footed player when he runs with it, scores with his right foot.
He's got that bit of pace and he looks an intelligent footballer as well.
Quite a lot of players that dribble with the ball, do it at the wrong times, they run into defenders.
It looks as though he's got a bit of that football intelligence as well.
They've got to get it right at some point.
they're not going to be... They will have to play as energetically as they did today, but they can't make that early mistake, because they could have gone one down today with that first pass, and they won it in midfield, Barcelona and Ferran Torre should have scored.
If they did that against Arsenal and Arsenal score, then they're up against it.
So they've got to make sure in that first 20 minutes they try and dominate Arsenal in terms of their intensity, and I would say get the ball into the front areas that little bit quicker, and don't give Arsenal a chance to go and press it.
You know, in years gone by, when Man City were seven points behind Arsenal at this stage, I think in a couple of seasons, you went, oh, Man City are going to win all their games from now to the end of the season and Arsenal are going to have to do well.
And people were frightened of Manchester City.
They didn't want to go and play them.
It's how can we stop them scoring rather than go and attacking them.
Now you can go and attack Man City.
There's lots of spaces to play.
They've lost that fear factor, which is a big blow for them.
He's got a big squad, but is it full of quality?