We may look back and see it as a blessing. We aren't quite as good this season, so juggling the CL and PL at this late point in the season might be a burden too great.We will be pretty much fully recovered by Thursday night, 5 days is plenty.
IF we were still in Champs league it’d have been too too much football as we’d have had a game straight after Forest.
Thats the bonus, if you can call it that, of going out of Europe, we can hard at it for these 2 games knowing we’ve then got 2 weeks where we only play at the weekend.
I agree especially Kev. I worry that he's in the red zone for an injury. The man's a beast playing Weds and yesterday. Having said that Haaland is not the same player without Kev and Dunk will probably do a job on Erling and it'll be like playing with 10 again. It's a dilemma because Kev will need a rest at some point.Ortega
Ake
Dias
Stones
Akanji
Rodri
Kovacic
Foden
Bobb
Haaland
Doku
Bernardo and KDB need at least a week off.
We play Thursday. Bit longer rest.We have 48 hours recovery before another away fixture
I've a feeling Pep will mix it up a bit with "fringe" players such as Kovacic, Nunes, Bobb and Lewis involved somewhere in starting line ups for the Brighton and Forest fixtures
I think he means between the Brighton and Forest games.We play Thursday. Bit longer rest.
Okay.I think he means between the Brighton and Forest games.
After playing Brighton the players will arrive home early hours of Friday morningWe play Thursday. Bit longer rest.
He seemed to be keeping pace with Vinicius ok 3 days earlier though. My point was that maybe he was playing slightly within himself against Chelsea, maybe managing a tweak ?Kyle lost 2km/h compared to his last season, so more and more players will look faster than him. He is still fast, but 2km/h slower than last season. His top speed this season was vs 35.32 km/h vs Bournemouth, as compared to 37,31 km/h last season. Both Nunes and Haaland are faster than him this season.
Anyway, my team:
Ederson
Akanji
Stones
Dias
Gvardiol
Rodri
KDB
Bernardo
Foden
Haaland
Grealish
Tough to leave Jeremy out, but if the above 11 is fit, they are currently our strongest 11 and it's when we play the best football.
Get the game won early, and sub with Forrest in mind. We can't afford to drop points.
Err, idiot!Hope we will not see Kyle nowhere near the start XI for the rest of the season
'Play strongest team' then picks Gvardiol ahead of Ake. LolPretty simple now - play your strongest team until you can't:
Ederson
Akanji
Stones
Dias
Gvardiol
Rodri
KDB
Bernardo
Foden
Haaland
Grealish
Happy to see Doku come on against tiring defences, and also happy with whichever four of our six defenders Pep chooses.
Only one priority now, one focus. Come on, City!
Gvardiol is in excellent form and Ake is returning from injury.'Play strongest team' then picks Gvardiol ahead of Ake. Lol
He did well, but Gvardiol has been our MOTM almost every time for weeks.Ake was brilliant yesterday, he's fit and should start every game til end of season.