teddykgb said:
Screw that. Wednesday showed up and came to play and played well for 60 minutes. There's no reason to think that they couldn't compete for 90 with a bit more Prem experience. City can put 4 past anyone in this league.
I appreciate the kind words, but there's a couple of things here:
1. While I agree that City can have that 7 minute burst against virtually anyone, that was mostly City's second team. As talented and expensive as they are, the first team might have made things worse. You could clearly see the quality of the starters (Dzeko, Yaya, Milner), and had Aguero, Silva, and Zaba been there, it would have been even more dire. The gap between PL top 4 and a Championship club is immense. If Wednesday fielded that side every week in the Premier League, they'd be lucky to win 8 games. I see some useful parts, but that's not a PL caliber side.
2. The red card was what really killed things. That burst of goals to start the second half obviously put things away, but overall Wednesday was defending pretty well, Wednesday's left side excluded (I think 5 of the goals came off of City's right side). After the card (and the PK), it was a bit shambles against a very talented group of players who had complete freedom to open it up. Tough to watch, but well deserved thrashing.
Once again the Wednesday fans brought it though- I could hear them the entire match. My favorite chant was after they went down 5-0, Wednesday fans started in with "When we score, We're coming on the pitch" Wednesday fans have a funny attitude...a proud group but very defeatist. They've turned this into a sort of self-mocking demeanor, which lets them have fun no matter how bad they're getting pasted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocw90QpBsJw