Bournemouth (a) pre-match thread

[meeesh]

You think after playing on his own up front for 60 minutes on Monday and being rotated today is reason enough for him to totally disrespect the best manager in World football?

Interesting.

Oh give it a rest lad,he's over complicating things again.dropped the clubs best striker and you think that is ok,rotation ? 3rd game of season ? Is that what you want to call it ? Yea very interesting

 

[Yates]

I agree with this line up. Said it the other day. Sterling compliments Jesus with his willingness to make the run beyond the back line. Also delighted to see Bernardo start.

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

Yes that was my thought s

I suspect his English is better than you think

still he wont be one that tweets. Will be the social media team

 

[colbee59]

You're arguing against yourself there with those two sentences.

No I didn't Jesus deserved benching as he does today. Pep won't actually drop Jesus in place of Aguero but never mind that I hope Jesus gets an hat trick as at end of day it's all about City winning. On a a side note I'd pick Yaya instead of Fernandinho

 

[schfc6]

Yeah maybe. I guess I just felt since they were both so out of form Kun's seniority would at least for now get him the start. Hilarious that he's tweeting after he knows he's not in the team!

I thought Jesus was really good against Brighton.

I imagine it's based on nothing more than the energy Sergio expended on Monday.

Plus, if it's surprised us, it will certainly have surprised them.

 

[RACHACE]

Happy that we've played 2 centre backs and were going to see the 2 silvas play. Surprised it was aguero and not Jesus that has been benched though.

We should however play some beautiful football.

 

[route46]

Absolutely useless statistic for predicting player performance for so many reasons.

I love Sergio, too, but this "he should play at all costs" mentality some have is bewildering. He has been objectively bad (and not just by his standards) these last two matches and, apart from not scoring (very unlucky not to in both matches), Jesus has contributed more overall.

Seriously?? Aguero has created far more then Jesus this season with both missing easy chances.

 

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

Absolutely useless statistic for predicting player performance for so many reasons.

I love Sergio, too, but this "he should play at all costs" mentality some have is bewildering. He has been objectively bad (and not just by his standards) these last two matches and, apart from not scoring (very unlucky not to in both matches), Jesus has contributed more overall.

...he set up 2 glorious opportunities for D Silva and Sterling on Monday which they both contrived to miss from about 5 yards, scored against Brighton..how is that "bad:"...it's a lot more than Jesus has offered so far this season

 

[SebastianBlue]

Seriously?? Aguero has created far more then Jesus this season with both missing easy chances.

He's created far more? Or had far more chances?

 

[schfc6]

Oh give it a rest lad,he's over complicating things again.dropped the clubs best striker and you think that is ok,rotation ? 3rd game of season ? Is that what you want to call it ? Yea very interesting

Ok mate, perfectly balanced reasoning.

 

[mosssideblue]

goals galore today
expecting a thrashing

Nah, we should beat them :)

 

[Wolfkin]

Hopefully this isn't 4-4-2

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Jesus proved with last season that he's better at the leading the line than Sergio. We looked so much more fluent before Jesus got that injury.

 

[mosssideblue]

Aguero second choice when we have 1 up top.

For this game - yes, other games who knows

 

[Gabriel]

I think we need to forget the word dropped,we have a quality squad now and pep rotates every single game

Amen, but the BBC (see below) and the rest of the mainstream media will not be so discerning:

"I can hear Fantasy Football managers up and down the country groan at the news that Aguero has been dropped."

 

[HolisticJim]

Why ant the official OS get the lineup something like correct.

They've obviously got the team sheet right and I don't expect them to be exact with where each player will play but they've got Silva at LB and Mendy in Cm.. Sterling up front and our Kev on the LW.

It's a little thing but it does my head in.

 

[mosssideblue]

Like it but would have gone for aguero and stones instead of Jesus and otamendi.
Don't know own why stones is always the one who is dropped from the defence before otamendi.

because Ota is much better

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Love the look of this line up, solid and quick in the attacking areas.

Feel he has dropped the right players and it's time for some to realise it's about the team rather than personalities.

 

[SebastianBlue]

...he set up 2 glorious opportunities for D Silva and Sterling on Monday which they both contrived to miss from about 5 yards, scored against Brighton..how is that "bad:"...it's a lot more than Jesus has offered so far this season

Jesus also set up two glorious chances against Brighton (one of which Agüero completely fluffed, by the way) and was very unlucky not to have scored that header the Brighton keeper saved (it was a matter of inches). He also put in several good passes against Everton and was much more difficult for them to mark, creating space for others.

I think people have their club legend tinted specs on right now. I love Sergio, too, but we have to be realistic if we want to be successful. I have no doubt he'll bang in 25 at least this year but he is out of form right now.

 

[schfc6]

I think we need to forget the word dropped,we have a quality squad now and pep rotates every single game

It's weird. The same posters probably moan about the press making stuff up.

It's a change of system. That's it. No one is dropped or loads are dropped. It's a strange fascination.