Manchester City vs Everton pre-match thread

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Romelu Lukaku is a fitness doubt for City vs. Everton next weekend after suffering a thigh injury on international duty with Belgium.
 
karen7 said:
Romelu Lukaku is a fitness doubt for City vs. Everton next weekend after suffering a thigh injury on international duty with Belgium.
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Pity. They're a bit one dimensional when he plays and his control isn't good enough to receive a ball under a press.
 
I'm nervous. Always knew it would take time for us to adapt to teams who took the game to us. You can only defeat football with football. Koeman is a top manager. Hopefully we get lucky.
 
We are a better team than Everton and have better individuals. I expect us to win the game.
 
Mike N said:
We are a better team than Everton and have better individuals. I expect us to win the game.
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we are a better footballing team with better individuals than spurs as well.......

This game will be decided by how Pep sets us up and dependant upon injuries and player availability.

If we don't have the players available and try to play in the same fashion then we will struggle

KDB, Kompany and possibly Sagna all out

For me i would play

----------------------------Bravo-------------------------

---sagna (zabba)--------Stones-----Otto-------------------Clichy

--------------------------fernandihnio--------------------------------

----Srerling-------Gudongan------------Silva------------Nolito

------------------------------Aguero------------------------------------

I still think that with Zabba playing we shoulnt be asking him to press as high/attack so much...he just cant get close to pace wingers when he has to recover.
 
Bravo
zaba Otamendi stones clichy
Fernandinho gundogan
Sterling silva Nolito
Aguero
 
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thought Sagna is injured?

I hope Maffeo starts this one and rest Zaba for Barca if Sagna isn't ready.
 
birchwoodgingerste said:
To many injuries and suspensions it's getting ridiculous.
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thats why we need a bigger squad but supposedly pep doest like working with big squads....

hope some of the kids are good enough..garcia seems ready but from what I've seen he is about the only one...dont thing either of the fullback lads are
 
simon23 said:
thats why we need a bigger squad but supposedly pep doest like working with big squads....

hope some of the kids are good enough..garcia seems ready but from what I've seen he is about the only one...dont thing either of the fullback lads are
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We cant have a bigger squad, we are at the maximum allowed. It will be a while before we can add any club trained.
 
blueparrot said:
We cant have a bigger squad, we are at the maximum allowed. It will be a while before we can add any club trained.
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we should have got rid of a few in the summer that are still here as players like fernando and navas (and Kolorov imho) should have all been replaced as (again imho) they are nowhere near the quality needed to play for Pep and the way he wants to play.....yaya is also taking up a squad place but will never play.....thats 4 players. It would also free up a hell of a lot of money to bring in younger players who can play the way Pep wants.

My main comment was in response to people saying we should beat Everton......if they play like spurs did (with a similar high intensity pressing which they are more than capable) then they will cause us problems as injuries etc are going affect the ability of the team to play the way Pep wants to play....and trying to play that way with 3 of the players mentioned above will result in for displays as we saw against spurs and better teams (and everton, though not as threatening of spurs are one of those better teams)
 
jimmygrimblesboots said:
yep we will have to be dead jammy to beat Everton we are shit 10 wins 1 draw 1 defeat , we are doomed
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Might as well go and slit my wrists then if we are doomed.
Nah, I don't like the sight of blood so I'll forget that idea and anyway, we've only lost once so why shouldn't I be positive that we'll get a result.
 
Bluekiwi said:
Might as well go and slit my wrists then if we are doomed.
Nah, I don't like the sight of blood so I'll forget that idea and anyway, we've only lost once so why shouldn't I be positive that we'll get a result.
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Woooooosh.

Reverse woooooosh?
 
I think Zabs is suspended for the Argies game on Wednesday so should be rested for this. Wonder if he came back early or stayed for the game ?
 
Everton look top notch this year will be tough!
This 150 mil spend in January , should hopefully push us to next level , ahead of Spurs!
MCFC!
 
ctid83 said:
Everton look top notch this year will be tough!
This 150 mil spend in January , should hopefully push us to next level , ahead of Spurs!
MCFC![/

Hadn't heard that we had £150m to spend in Jan and would be amazed if true. There are very few good players who want to transfer in Jan. IMO, we are already ahead of Spuds
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Nolito coming back would get our balance right in the team.

Would play Maffeo in this game, zaba needs all the rest he can get before Barcelona.

Where the hell is Delph?
 
goater1985 said:
so long as everyone comes back healthy from the pointless football over the next 10 days
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The point is to allow countries to qualify for the world cup, quite an important event.

Nervous for this one, huge few weeks ahead. Would like to see sane play a part, offers more of a physical presence if sterling and nolito are fading out of games
 
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