Wolves (H) - Sun 22nd Jan, 14:00 | Pre-Match Thread

[Ric]

Todays starting XI:

31. Ederson
5. John Stones
8. Ilkay Gündogan (C)
9. Erling Haaland
10. Jack Grealish
14. Aymeric Laporte
16. Rodrigo
17. Kevin De Bruyne
25. Manuel Akanji
26. Riyad Mahrez
82. Rico Lewis

 

[Deleted member 81382]

Performance doesn’t matter one bit today - all about getting 3 points somehow

I'm quite the opposite. After Pep's passionate calls for a reaction, I would say the performance is the most important thing and will tell us quite a lot.

I get what you mean in terms of it being a must win game for our title aspirations though.

 

[Claytop]

 

[kaz7]

Just win blueboys , no giving up of silly goals

Pretty please

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Todays starting XI:

31. Ederson
5. John Stones
8. Ilkay Gündogan (C)
9. Erling Haaland
10. Jack Grealish
14. Aymeric Laporte
16. Rodrigo
17. Kevin De Bruyne
25. Manuel Akanji
26. Riyad Mahrez
82. Rico Lewis

That's going to blow the guess the team session wide open.

 

[deano ou812]

Todays starting XI:

31. Ederson
5. John Stones
8. Ilkay Gündogan (C)
9. Erling Haaland
10. Jack Grealish
14. Aymeric Laporte
16. Rodrigo
17. Kevin De Bruyne
25. Manuel Akanji
26. Riyad Mahrez
82. Rico Lewis

Line up or is that what you think it will be Ric.

 

[Claytop]

Laporte LB?

 

[TheThirdDeano]

I’m hoping he’s just injured or going through a rough patch but I am concerned for foden.

 

[kaz7]

No point me doing team news anymore

COME ON BLUEBOYS

 

[PragueBlue]

Laporte LB?

Will be a back 3 no doubt with Lewis alongside Rodri.

 

[domalino]

Todays starting XI:

31. Ederson
5. John Stones
8. Ilkay Gündogan (C)
9. Erling Haaland
10. Jack Grealish
14. Aymeric Laporte
16. Rodrigo
17. Kevin De Bruyne
25. Manuel Akanji
26. Riyad Mahrez
82. Rico Lewis

Ederson
Rico Stones Akanji Laporte
KDB Rodri Gundogan
Mahrez Haaland Grealish

 

[Claytop]

Ederson
Rico Stones Akanjo Ake
KDB Rodri Gundogan
Mahrez Haaland Grealish

Laporte instead of Ake.

Can’t see it being a 4-3-3 or he’d just play Ake?

 

[Ric]

Ederson
Rico Stones Akanjo Ake
KDB Rodri Gundogan
Mahrez Haaland Grealish

Ake’s not starting.

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

Would’ve liked Alvarez to start again but hey-ho. The Foden news is worrying

 

[deano ou812]

So same team as Thursday night bar Laporte in for Ake ..opps kdb starts and no Alvarez..

 

[richards30]

Can’t imagine Dias has a bad attitude so baffling why he can’t get a start?

 

[pudge]

Todays starting XI:

31. Ederson
5. John Stones
8. Ilkay Gündogan (C)
9. Erling Haaland
10. Jack Grealish
14. Aymeric Laporte
16. Rodrigo
17. Kevin De Bruyne
25. Manuel Akanji
26. Riyad Mahrez
82. Rico Lewis

More folk out of position

Lovely

 

[chesterbells]

Chuffed to see Lewis retained.
Would’ve been a travesty if he hadn’t stayed in the team after the way he played on Thursday.

 

[PragueBlue]

Most likely 3 at the back with Lewis in MF and KDB up front with Haaland, which I'm not a big fan of. Would have preferred 4-3-3 with traditional, overlapping fullbacks but it seems that is out of favour recently (strange as it has worked well for us when we've done it). I'd have also had Bernardo in for KDB.

Anyway, should still be good enough for a win today.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Can’t imagine Dias has a bad attitude so baffling why he can’t get a start?

He’s just returned back from injury.