West Ham (A) | Sun 7 Aug 16:30 | Pre-Match Thread

[LangleyBlue1970]

The real start to the season.

2-0 City. Let the dippers have 5 minutes of glory today.

Haaland brace.

 

[MCFCFanTX]

2-1 City win

 

[Damanino]

hope Pep rewatching the game from May. that first half was so poor from us, defence all over the place, not much end product upfront.

 

[117 M34]

Stones and foden in for Ake and grealish

 

[MCFC1993]

Kick off time 16:30 (BST), live on Sky Sports.

Hopefully today's game was the game we needed to dust the cobwebs off.

We started last season with a loss a Spurs (A) so we must be aiming to go one better here.

I don't expect us to change the personnel too much if at all, hopefully we can pick up the 3 points and get our season started.


Predicted team:
--------------Ederson
Walker---Dias---Ake---Cancelo
---------------Rodri
-----De Bruyne---Bernardo
Mahrez-----Haaland---Grealish

 

[Ric]

Not an ideal first fixture, given how off the pace we looked today but hopefully we’ll be sharper with another week of training behind us.

Wouldn’t surprise me if we saw the same starting XI as today, but I’d like to see Stones, Foden and Alvarez from the off.

 

[Tokyo32]

Stones and foden in for Ake and grealish

How can you drop Ake though, he did nothing wrong.

 

[CityBluez]

Not overly confident about this game considering how off we looked today.

 

[razman]

How can you drop Ake though, he did nothing wrong.

Ake was good today, a bit unlucky with Trents goal

 

[razman]

Will be very interested with the Line up

 

[chesterbells]

Stones and foden in for Ake and grealish

Good suggestions yes.

 

[CityBluez]

Start foden and Alvarez with haaland . Substitute mahrez and grealish later. Get stones in for ake/dias. Also Bernardo needs to play higher on the pitch

 

[Cobra]

Fuck it

Ederson

Walker
Dias
Stones
Wilson-Esbrand

Rodri
KDB
Bernardo

Alvarez
Haaland
Foden

 

[117 M34]

How can you drop Ake though, he did nothing wrong.

I don't think he did anything wrong but Dias plays better with stones.
If stones played today, Dias wouldn't have made the mistakes leading to goals.

 

[Tokyo32]

I don't think he did anything wrong but Dias plays better with stones.
If stones played today, Dias wouldn't have made the mistakes leading to goals.

I am not the manager but I think it is unfair to say Dias made mistakes because of he wasn’t playing with stones. He made mistakes that is the end of it.

So is it stones that is holding dias’s hand?

It is what it is, don’t really care that much about what happens, hopefully we win and Haaland scores.

 

[CityBluez]

So is it stones that is holding dias’s hand?

Some players have better understanding with each other. We took advantage of that previous to last season. And if that understanding is still there we should take advantage of that in this season

 

[youngbob]

Ederson
Walker, Stones, Dias, Cancelo
Rodri
De Bruyne, Gundogan
Foden, Haaland, Grealish

 

[ctwrd]

Ederson
Walker stones Dias cancelo
De bruyne rodri Gundogan
Bernardo haaland foden

 

[minimalistic]

I hope he starts Foden and Alvarez instead of Grealish and Mahrez.

 

[Jokithedruid]

I hope he starts Foden and Alvarez instead of Grealish and Mahrez.

I think they played themselves in to the starting eleven. Just need Stones to replace Ake so we can get some good build up from the back.