Benjamin Mendy (Back In Training)

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City have state of the art scanning equipment.
He will have had a scan within 24hrs of injury so Pep will have been given a pretty good idea of the nature of the injury before his press conference yesterday.
I would be v surprised if it turned out Mendy has a major problem.
 
Burtonblue said:
City have state of the art scanning equipment.
He will have had a scan within 24hrs of injury so Pep will have been given a pretty good idea of the nature of the injury before his press conference yesterday.
I would be v surprised if it turned out Mendy has a major problem.
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I find that hard to believe, but I have not been on the tour of the hospital, and they normally wait a couple of days for a CT scan.
 
Burtonblue said:
City have state of the art scanning equipment.
He will have had a scan within 24hrs of injury so Pep will have been given a pretty good idea of the nature of the injury before his press conference yesterday.
I would be v surprised if it turned out Mendy has a major problem.
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I wouldn't. They haven't sent him to Pep's favourite specialist just to confirm he's twisted his knee
 
I said at the time after his stupid, needless challenge he could have done some real damage. You feel the pain with cruciates immediately but can still walk around, just a bit swollen. I recall Gundogan playing on for a period v Watford after he'd done his and then walking off unaided. Ibra was a shocking landing but again he got up and walked off. I reckon he's in trouble if he's gone to Pep's doc.
 
Said pre-match vs Palace it was a risk we didn't need to take playing him with 3 games this week ending with a big one at Chelsea. He's currently our most important player to keep fit due to the lack of replacements available if he's missing. It's going to cost us dearly as the season goes on if he's out for a lengthy time. Can only hope we can manage until January and as soon as 1st Jan comes around we've got somebody lined up to come in as we won't win the league with just 1 left back.

Danilo cannot play left back.
 
ninjamonkey said:
Said pre-match vs Palace it was a risk we didn't need to take playing him with 3 games this week ending with a big one at Chelsea. He's currently our most important player to keep fit due to the lack of replacements available if he's missing. It's going to cost us dearly as the season goes on if he's out for a lengthy time. Can only hope we can manage until January and as soon as 1st Jan comes around we've got somebody lined up to come in as we won't win the league with just 1 left back.

Danilo cannot play left back.
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He can play there, but he'll be playing much more conservatively, ie concentrating on defending, than Mendy would, which granted is not ideal. I'm thinking perhaps this might spur a return of the 3-5-2 with Sané as wingback. Hopefully with the form he's in that won't be too much of an impediment. Of course, we might very well stick with the 4-3-3 and rely on him and Sterling (or Jesus) for width. Dunno.
 
ninjamonkey said:
Said pre-match vs Palace it was a risk we didn't need to take playing him with 3 games this week ending with a big one at Chelsea. He's currently our most important player to keep fit due to the lack of replacements available if he's missing. It's going to cost us dearly as the season goes on if he's out for a lengthy time. Can only hope we can manage until January and as soon as 1st Jan comes around we've got somebody lined up to come in as we won't win the league with just 1 left back.

Danilo cannot play left back.
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agreed, it's either a back 3 or Delph at LB in my opinion.
 
karen7 said:
He is too excitable and not very focused in my opinion,he is only young so fair enough but he didn't need to make the tackle
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Your opinion is bollocks. It's ok to be a character. You don't know what he's like before games. You're just basing your suggestion on Social Media which gives you a very limited sample of what somebody is actually like
 
aguerrrroooooooooooo said:
I've seen it and that still doesn't make any sense?
Just because he likes a laugh with the fans on Twitter, it doesn't make him 'excitable' on the pitch.
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He is doing his thinking on social media and taking that to the pitch,calm down and use his head is what he needs to do,he is a really good player but needs to calm down all round IMO
 
Danillo looks a top player but at lb he hasn't looked convincing..delph God knows if he's a suitable replacement,delps injury record must be one of the worst at the club also...going in to the season with one recongnised left back was stupid,let's hope the injurys not too serious
 
wolfie1988 said:
Your opinion is bollocks. It's ok to be a character. You don't know what he's like before games. You're just basing your suggestion on Social Media which gives you a very limited sample of what somebody is actually like
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It may or not be bollocks but it is what it is
Do you think he was right to make the tackle?
 
taconinja said:
He can play there, but he'll be playing much more conservatively, ie concentrating on defending, than Mendy would, which granted is not ideal. I'm thinking perhaps this might spur a return of the 3-5-2 with Sané as wingback. Hopefully with the form he's in that won't be too much of an impediment. Of course, we might very well stick with the 4-3-3 and rely on him and Sterling (or Jesus) for width. Dunno.
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Danilo will defend fine but it's the crossing ability in dangerous areas where we'll be hit badly.
 
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