Looking forward to Saturday,but will have a few extra beers before going in,just in case.Hope the crowd can get up for it,we need the noise.Hoping for the best UTC !

3 hours ago, Hemel Blue said:

Looking forward to Saturday,but will have a few extra beers before going in,just in case.Hope the crowd can get up for it,we need the noise.Hoping for the best UTC !

Snap, already organised extra beer on the train up Saturday, and yes crowd need to be tip top!!

Will miss this game as I'm going to see Dara O'Briein, hoping to keep away from the result and record it to view later.

Will be good football you can be sure. Not confident on us getting a good result though. They are a couple of classes better than us imo.

Absolutely no reason we can't get a result in this one. Man City aren't invincible, and they've rode their luck a fair bit in their last two games.

Frustrating that Loftus Cheek and Pedro are probably our only two goal threats as of late, and the former isn't likely to start, but we're hardly playing terrible, just really lacking a cutting edge. 

We'll create chances for sure, and we're capable of limiting theirs. Can't see why it's all doom and gloom, we have a knack of finding a way as underdogs anyway. Hoping/optimistic for this to be a good weekend to get the league form back on track.

Can’t see anything but a city win here. We simply can’t defend and it seems so easy for teams to walk through us. 

City 3- 1 

We're gonna get battered.

4-1 to City. All I want is for us to show some fight at least.

Don’t understand why Sarri-ball is in any way unique or different to Klopp-ball, Pep-ball, Poch-ball or Emery-ball? We all (try to) play out from the back, retain possession and move the ball at speed ... the difference is that right now they’re all doing it much better than us! Because ....?

Battle it out as men and i will be pleased no matter the result. We made one half chance in the last half and hour after going down to Wolves midweek.

Kepa

Azpi  Rudiger  Luiz  Emerson

Jorginho

Kante     Kovacic

Pedro     Giroud     Hazard

 

Some may call me overly pessimistic, but I feel like this game might be a difficult one.

City have scored 45 goals in 15 games and have conceded only 7.

Even at the height of my optimism I cant see anything other than Chelsea getting turned over and having our belly rubbed, City are operating in a different league to us and the rest of the PL.

I just hope its not to embarrassing because against Spurs, we could have lost by 5 or 6 easily and Spurs dont have a patch on City.

On 06/12/2018 at 09:10, Zola said:

Hopefully we dont get embarrassed 

That is the worry, could be a very unpleasant watch!! If kante not back at holding midfield, and Morata is starting up front, the back four needs shaking up no more Luiz or Alonso, let's put Ampadu in the middle and Emerson on left, get RLC, Barkley in midfield with Fab or jorginiho, Hazard and Pedro up top, sadly it will be the same old same old, and we will get beaten 0-4. Hudson-Odi on bench as well

1 hour ago, TrueBlueBIH said:

Battle it out as men and i will be pleased no matter the result. We made one half chance in the last half and hour after going down to Wolves midweek.

Problem is, a lot of this team haven't got any bollox.

9 minutes ago, chi blue said:

That is the worry, could be a very unpleasant watch!! If kante not back at holding midfield, and Morata is starting up front, the back four needs shaking up no more Luiz or Alonso, let's put Ampadu in the middle and Emerson on left, get RLC, Barkley in midfield with Fab or jorginiho, Hazard and Pedro up top, sadly it will be the same old same old, and we will get beaten 0-4. Hudson-Odi on bench as well

If Morata is anywhere near the starting line-up then I will honestly start questioning Sarri.

Think this is the first time in a fair while that the pressure is kind of off as everyone expects City to win. Think Guadiola will show respect to us and Sarri and I am not expecting us to get hammered and as long as we give a good account of ourselves I'll be ok. Make us proud lads.

 

Awful feeling going into a game where you can't find any positives. Zero hope of winning this one. Sarri just told a minute ago the team needs to change the mentality towards Sarri's football. He said there is no timeline to this so who knows when the players are ready to play Sarriball instead of this football we have played 3-4 matches now. 

Don’t understand why Sarri-ball is in any way unique or different to Klopp-ball, Pep-ball, Poch-ball or Emery-ball? We all (try to) play out from the back, retain possession and move the ball at speed ... the difference is that right now they’re all doing it much better than us! Because ....?

The difference is, unlike Sarriball, the other-ball actually can defend to save there life.

Kepa

Azpi  Rudiger  Luiz  Emerson

Jorginho

Kante     Kovacic

Pedro     Giroud     Hazard

 

This line up will get us a win eagerness of Giroud and Pedro usually brings out the best in Hazard.

I'll be happy if Aguero misses the game as he always seems to do well against us. Then again City have plenty of other dangerous players to worry about. The odds are against us but I am hoping to see a positive reaction from the disappointing defeat against Wolves. Even if we lose lets hope for a good performance from our team.

Citeh are sh1tting themselves as they are going to be found out 2moro.

14 minutes ago, wallosh said:

4 hours ago, OnePeterOsgood said:

Don’t understand why Sarri-ball is in any way unique or different to Klopp-ball, Pep-ball, Poch-ball or Emery-ball? We all (try to) play out from the back, retain possession and move the ball at speed ... the difference is that right now they’re all doing it much better than us! Because ....?

The difference is, unlike Sarriball, the other-ball actually can defend to save there life.

Nope. City lost games in their first Pep-season defending like schoolboys. Klopp, Emery and Poch play different style. Sarris philosophy is closest to Pep's. You defend by holding the ball. That is all out system. The way we are currently playing is the players are cheating. They are not committed to hold on the ball and finding the best way to go through defences. Now we are hasty and hoofing the ball. 

It doesn't help our attackers can't score to save their lives.

We defend by attacking essentially which we are not doing very well atm. 

6 minutes ago, EmeraldBlue said:

Citeh are sh1tting themselves as they are going to be found out 2moro.

I'll have what your drinking emerald!

18 minutes ago, evissy said:

Nope. City lost games in their first Pep-season defending like schoolboys. Klopp, Emery and Poch play different style. Sarris philosophy is closest to Pep's. You defend by holding the ball. That is all out system. The way we are currently playing is the players are cheating. They are not committed to hold on the ball and finding the best way to go through defences. Now we are hasty and hoofing the ball. 

It doesn't help our attackers can't score to save their lives.

We defend by attacking essentially which we are not doing very well atm. 

In Pep's first season City also had a pretty bad record against their main rivals. We obviously did the double over them, but other than that they only managed a home win against Arsenal and a win at Old Trafford. That was with attacking options like Aguero, and Gabriel Jesus (half a season) too.

Agüero is out tomorrow 

 

5 hours ago, OnePeterOsgood said:

Don’t understand why Sarri-ball is in any way unique or different to Klopp-ball, Pep-ball, Poch-ball or Emery-ball? We all (try to) play out from the back, retain possession and move the ball at speed ... the difference is that right now they’re all doing it much better than us! Because ....?

Because - 

1. They've all been doing it longer

2. In a 4-3-3, each of their front 3 is stronger than Chelsea's front 3

especially centrally. Let's swap Agüero/Sterling for Morata/Willian and see if it makes a difference.

City's 200M on the Back 4 didn't hurt in the last couple of windows either