Aston Villa (A) - Sat 21st Dec, 12:30 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[Man_City_Loyal]

Drop Haaland for Saturday. He is ineffectual and not offering us anything at the moment. Also, let him have a rest.

Play a false 9, and Foden or Savinho should be up top.

Start Kovacic & Grealish, would personally drop both Gundo & KDB to the bench.

Walker should be nowhere near the team. Strip the captaincy and give it to Ruben. Ortega is to play instead of Ederson.

If Ake, Akanji & Stones are fit they all need to start.

 

[Roachy]

Cant see us winning.

If these episodes of dog shit defending carry on it will be very difficult.

 

[BlueMonkey79]

The game our season turns
1-3

We all said that after forest. It's arguably got worse since then!!

We aren't turning anything round until we get new players or new ideas.

 

[TShed]

Kane would be absolutely fucked if he was asked to play the number of games Haaland does

Last couple of time I've watched him playing for England he's been breathing out of his arse

Not surprised playing for England different story when he played for spurs and seems to be doing well at Munich

 

[TShed]

Kane - tottenham didnt want to sell him to us

Rice - the club deemed him too expensive, which is debatable but seemingly he also prefered to stay in london

Maddison we could have brought in and probably should have

Clearly as has been exhausted in debates today we are useless at doing the right deals. Take your points but all 3 could have been within our gift to pull off. Not sure we required all three 1 would have been easy Maddison and no way Rice would turn us down if we had the gumption to pursue and court him sell the club and how his career will be a success
All three last year would have had A PL medal nailed onto their CV and I’d suggest we wouldn’t have rolled over against Madrid and as for the FA Cup that would have been nailed on

 

[SWPISHOME]

Kane would be absolutely fucked if he was asked to play the number of games Haaland does

Last couple of time I've watched him playing for England he's been breathing out of his arse

Sounds like he talks out his arse too.

 

[TShed]

Drop Haaland for Saturday. He is ineffectual and not offering us anything at the moment. Also, let him have a rest.

Play a false 9, and Foden or Savinho should be up top.

Start Kovacic & Grealish, would personally drop both Gundo & KDB to the bench.

Walker should be nowhere near the team. Strip the captaincy and give it to Ruben. Ortega is to play instead of Ederson.

If Ake, Akanji & Stones are fit they all need to start.

Exactly this but it won’t happen he won’t drop Haaland not that I don’t agree with you
Agree about Walker and Edison they should not get near this team unless required due to further injury crisis which inevitably is going to happen so we ain’t seen the last of Walker yet
Gundogen and KDB need nursing and tactically utilised through to the end of the season at which point I’d expect both to leave more than likely they should cash in on a move to US or Saudi
Be good if they went to NY both could possibly return one day as coaches etc don’t think they are candidates for replacing Pep tho

 

[half & half derby scarf]

With Rogers, Mcginn and Duran playing so well....it ll be a tricky fixture again. But as a team we owe them 1 for last year.

Need a bounce back after that mare of a finish.

Duran's on fire. Can see him getting a couple if Emery selects him

 

[TShed]

Can we add more bodies to midfield for a change like a 5-4-1 formation ? Stability first priority, so I'll be happy with a solid defensive performance even if it's 0-0.

Exactly this surely as he has gone public for weeks now how depleated we are Pep should have been setting us up to primarily frustrate the fuck out of teams. Just like they have tried to do with us for 8 years. Four four 0-0 1-1s would have and should have been the Oder of the day.
I’d consider it a good Xmas if we ground out 3 draws

 

[Goater101]

Ortega; Lewis Stones Dias Gvardiol; Kovacic Grealish KDB; Savio Foden Bernardo.

Keep the ball