I haven't seen it at all, but I'm wondering if this a consequence of the trend of closing down at the final moment and almost taking the players in possessions space literally, which is something I clocked onto about 3yrs ago.
It's a City move from earlier in the season, the amount of room for that guy to move laterally and then get the pass off, abysmal really, nothing taken away from the lads strike though, sweet.
I think lampard Said in interview after Boro that may be the fan's (us) need it more, appeared to place the pressure on the player's rather than shielding them?