you can spin it any way you want.
I could say the individualistic brilliance of the players has carried the team through most games, and then in the crunch clashes when the manager was really needed, pellegrini failed to deliver and team was subsequently defeated and left to look a disjointed mess.
or I could say pellegrini has banded together an unbalanced squad to rack up a points total that would, 99 times out of 100, win the league with something to spare. and that the unbalanced nature of this squad and the over-reliance on the wildly capricious guti for rhythm and control has been their undoing in the bigger games.
depends on what side you wanna take.