Burnley (A) - Fri 11th Aug | Pre-Match Thread

[FantasyIreland]

Hoping this is his season.

Pre-World Cup him and Haaland were playing well together in that front 3.

Hes a world class player,the injury interrupted him slightly but the signs of the end of last season,and what we saw in his CS cameo,were mouthwatering.

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

Bit worried about our left side, defensively. Foden will have to take a leaf out of Grealish's book and get back to help Lewis.

 

[axlgod]

Come On City!!!!

 

[TinFoilHat]

Promo for VAR

Were gonna get fucked over.

 

[Cobwebcat]

Surprised Alvarez got the nod.

Hopefully Stones & Dias nothing serious.

@SuperSilva21 called it. Said they were both out On Wednesday.

 

[pride in battle]

Our 3 best centre half's not playing...

 

[N1985]

Burnley now Prime Barca according to this thread.

5-1 City

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Have De Bruyne and Alvarez ever played together before as the 8s? Unlike us to not have a controller in one of the 8 positions, unless Alvarez is shunted out wide and Bernardo’s in the middle but it seems unlikely as Alvarez hasn’t been seen as a wide player at all so far. I don’t actually remember them both playing as the 8s before but maybe my memory is bad.

 

[Chi-town blues]

I think this is more or less the team we’ll see this season but with Stones and dias as cbs .

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Pep seems relaxed, nice to see.

Sure it won’t take long for his blood pressure to start increasing again.

 

[Gumzy97]

Get passed the first 20 to 25 mins and I think we should be comfortable. First game in the prem since coming up Burnley are going to be up for it in those first 20 mins.

 

[homerdog]

Peter Schmeichel is a ****!

 

[I'm With Stupid]

It's presumably already been answered, but why are Stones and Dias not in the squad?

 

[SCEtoAUX]

The Foden season begins here, though I'm not entirely convinced with that lineup.

 

[wolviedinho]

Have De Bruyne and Alvarez ever played together before as the 8s? Unlike us to not have a controller in one of the 8 positions, unless Alvarez is shunted out wide and Bernardo’s in the middle but it seems unlikely as Alvarez hasn’t been seen as a wide player at all so far. I don’t actually remember them both playing as the 8s before but maybe my memory is bad.

Go long to Haaland and have Alvarez and kdb playing off him. Or just stick gvardiol in midfield -:)

 

[TinFoilHat]

@bluealf

Izzy looks nice

 

[jimharri]

Hoping this is his season.

Pre-World Cup him and Haaland were playing well together in that front 3.

It's a huge season for him. He ended last season well, hopefully that carries over into this campaign.

 

[FantasyIreland]

It's presumably already been answered, but why are Stones and Dias not in the squad?

Injury

Muscle strain and concussion respectively

 

[N1985]

Peter Schmeichel is a ****!

Rag ****

 

[Chi-town blues]

It's presumably already been answered, but why are Stones and Dias not in the squad?

father ruben got a head knock but don’t k iw about stones.