Under different circumstances it's an OK result. You can't call it better than that because drawing at home with anyone isn't great if your aim is to bechallenging for the league.
Then you factor in that City are below us, haven't been very good all season, and played pretty poorly even by their standards this season yesterday, and it becomes a disappointing result.
Then you factor in our performance, where the players didn't do too badly but where, due largely to our set up and reluctance to change anything, we spent most of the second half just sitting there hoping not to lose and not even trying to attack, and it becomes a pathetic result.
Playing for a draw against an off form team struggling to find their way towards the top of the league is what relegation fodder teams do. Its not what any team mid table or above should be doing, never mind a tem trying to "improve" on finishing 3rd.
I also don't get why the fact we went out of the CL shoul give Ole any more slack. I've been happy to back him the whole time, but if you feck up or fall below the standards expected, it SHOULD mean you are under more pressure, and it should mean less room to drop below stnadards in other competitions. It doesn't suddenly mean the standards expeced should drop.
We went out of the CL largely due to feck ups from Ole. Now we've dropped two potentially vital points in a ame we'll never know if we coould have won because Ole refused to try and win it. If the plan is to actually win things rather than be mediocre, then that's piss poor management.