EFL Semi Final Draw | Newcastle United - 2nd leg at home

[The Fat el Hombre]

Good draw. Their home and away form is black and white (so to dpeak) so playing them home second leg is a biggie. Pretty confident we'll be in the final bar an injury crisis

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Have it!

 

[TinFoilHat]

Should be entertaining games for the neutral.

Absolute bruisers for our players though.

 

[west didsblue]

The only downside is the dozens of flights of stairs in the Newcastle away end!

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Chances of two tickets with membership for second leg?

City will mess up the sales criteria and make it difficult to buy at first (membership plus previous games) , then relax the criteria too late when most people have already made plans.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

The only downside is the dozens of flights of stairs in the Newcastle away end!

I got in a lift last time ;-)

 

[bluetonium]

That means something like 12 games in 39 days from 27th December to first week of February, including a trip to the arctic circle!

Anybody on the squad list who doesn't get a chance on those games either has to be injured, or may as well pack their bags!

Properly stepping up time now.

 

[mancityvstoke]

League cup

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

City will mess up the sales criteria and make it difficult to buy at first (membership plus previous games) , then relax the criteria too late when most people have already made plans.

Are you implying we have form for this type of scenario? :+)

 

[AshtonBlueMooner]

Hopefully, tickets will be priced sensibly and we’ll get a cracking atmosphere.

 

[Blue Bogey]

The £25,000 available to the winners of the semi final tie will thankfully help our club accounts.

Another shiny trophy to make our rivals froth at the mouth.

 

[Withnail]

I'm glad we have avoided Arsenal, however the additional games will test the strength of the squad. Not ideal that we have the Rags and the Dippers games after the semis.

 

[Gordyola]

Chelsea would suit us the most imo. quite strong semifinal set up anyway, possibly 4x teams of last season top5 in PL.

Arteta has a way of shitting on domestic cups to save energy so not impossible he fields a very weakened side vs Palace, btw why is that one single game next week?

Palace play in Conference League this evening

 

[bluestevei]

I do think there’s a decent chance the home leg will be played at home.

What i meant was the 2nd leg at home, just to tierd and wrote shit lol

 

[Blue Til Death]

Happy with that, nobody is beating City over 2 legs, especially with the second leg at home..
Another trip to Wembleyhad methinks..

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

Hopefully, tickets will be priced sensibly and we’ll get a cracking atmosphere.

You’d best post that request to Santa :)

 

[East Level 2]

Think I might boycott the semi after that disgraceful decision last night. It was a red card for Kush and entirely City's fault the ref didn't see it. And the torrential rain was City's fault. And having a match on the same night as an event at Co-op Live is also City's fault. And making Andy Hinchcliffe cry. And lo and fuckin behold the BBC are asking about the bloody red card this morning.
How can we go to the semi-final after such a travesty of justice?

 

[WesthoughtonJohn]

I'm glad we have avoided Arsenal, however the additional games will test the strength of the squad. Not ideal that we have the Rags and the Dippers games after the semis.

Suspect the teams will be very different across the games ;).

 

[WesthoughtonJohn]

Correct.

I’ve made it home to Wythenshawe from thr Etihad before this draw has been made.

Yeah but there wasn't much traffic last night ;)

 

[Buckshaw Blue]

Yeah but there wasn't much traffic last night ;)

Empty streets at home :-)