Nothing serious i dont think although he didnt train yesterday.

Need a good performance from all especially on Mario and Dzeko.

Just hope Kun's injury isn't a bad one...we can win without him today but against Arsenal & the scum he's vital.

Would have rested Silva as well but I'll trust Bobby on this one.

2-0 City for me.

I think if he gets booked aely on he will be taken off straight away, to be fair to Balo though he does seem to have calmed his temper this season. he seems to be shrugging off more and more bad tackles and niggles.

That said, i know exactly where you are coming from and it is a risk.

I think a few are forgetting the performance Balo put in against Stoke in the fa cup final - his nose will be truly out of joint after wednesday, 9 times out of 10 when negativity has surrounded him he has delivered right after, for me he will be the difference today!

Dzeko will be up front on his own with Mario wide left. I would have played Milner instead of Silva in this one because they will try and kick lumps out of him.

might work in our favour, it looks as though this was kept quiet and hopefully Stoke were not aware of this until the team sheets came out, i'm sure a good ammount of their planning during the week would have been spent on how to come with Sergio, now they have to change their tactics.

Could really use some words of encouragement right now.... I have a flight back home in an hour and can't watch the match... Its going to kill me on the plane not knowing the score... feckkkk

Decent line-up. My one issue is with Silva starting again.

espn montage is mad, tis like an advert,lol