Brighton (a) pre-match thread

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We're not as free flowing as we were , i fully expect another stressful game.
City to win but not an easy game
 
domalino said:
Sané gave the ball away 2 or 3 times just after we scored and I thought Pep came close to taking him off. He was worked up in general, but he was apoplectic with Leroy.
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Everybody gave the ball away not just Leroy, Leroy needs our backing whilst he's out of form.
 
rnblade said:
Me and a rag colleague were discussing this at work and HE came up with various scenarios for us to win whilst heaping pain on the dippers.
The best was Dippers winning and is drawing and ten scoring an offside goal in 92nd minute.
He hates them more than ever now!!
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A wonderful thought, but the stress would be too much. After the last 3 games there's not much more my nerves can take. A straight forward, business-like, play-them-off-the-park 3-0 win will do nicely, thank you.
 
Tough team selection for this game would start with sterling, Jesus and mahrez with bernando, gundogan and Silva in mid keep the same back 5. Think mahrez and Jesus suit this game with their trickery. Plus we can switch to two up if it isn't working. Will be a tough match hoping wolves do us a favour still think we will win but knowing the pool were trailing would certainly ease the nerves they are shot this season.lol
 
Ederson
Walker
Laporte
Kompany
Zinchenko
Gundogan
Bernardo
Silva
Sterling
Jesus
Aguero

Sane, Foden, and hopefully one of KDB or Fernandinho available to be used from bench, if we need it!
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
Got to agree, plus he's fresh. Several of our players looked leggy last night (Silva, Sergio, Raz - plus Leroy was just plain dreadful) and Foden hovered around the fringes too much. Brighton are the most boring, physical, bus parkers in the league. It took us 75 minutes to break them down last season, and we only managed the 1 goal in the cup semi. A bit of Jesus' trickery and tenacity would not go amiss.
Besides the lack of effort I don't know what to make of Leroy at the moment. He seems to be cutting in from the flank at less than 90 degrees (ie heading back up field) all the time, making it almost impossible, even with his pace, to then change direction and go outside of his man. When he does try it he gets mugged, and to be honest there's not a great deal of point to him if all he's capable of is laying the ball back to Zin, Gunders or Dave.
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I think Leroy may be struggling with the bus-parkers. He's less effective in the tight spaces than Bernie and Raz. On the counter, he and KDB are probably our most effective players but Leroy may have to adapt his game for when there's no space to attack. Perhaps he needs to be tried as an inverted winger: with his shot, he might be more effective coming in from the right against the packed defences.

Don't see what we have to lose by giving Gabby a go and moving Duracell Bernie inside on Sunday.
 
As long as the players will play their normal game of pass and move, it shouldn't be much of a problem in beating Brighton. It will only become a problem if we forget our basic way of playing the game. Which is of course pass and move. Please pep tell the players to put a bit of pep in their game and play the passes a little bit quicker, also to play the passes into the box to the players feet, as we are not blessed with tall strikers.
 
I’m going to see if the bookies will take a bet on Gabby.
After how many minutes after comes on that he’s caught offside.
I’m going for less than 1 minute.
 
Glad Brighton are safe, hopefully they will attack us like they did Arsenal the other day, if they do we will hammer em, if not we will all be shitting ourselves for most of the 90 mins, unless we get an early goal... Fuck, i hope they attack us.
 
Blue Til Death said:
Glad Brighton are safe, hopefully they will attack us like they did Arsenal the other day, if they do we will hammer em, if not we will all be shitting ourselves for most of the 90 mins, unless we get an early goal... Fuck, i hope they attack us.
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They've got absolutely no reason not to

They cannot drop lower if they lose and the only way they can move higher is by getting 3 points
 
Still going to be a tough game this, remember the fa cup semi! Had a thought as well they are going to have a Liverpool premier league champions board at Anfield in case they win, like united in 2012, if they don’t win I wonder if a picture will surface.
 
chaddblue said:
They've got absolutely no reason not to

They cannot drop lower if they lose and the only way they can move higher is by getting 3 points
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They have every reason not to, they know if they go full tilt against us they will get their arses handed to em, they will be happy to be the side that stopped City winning the league, just like Leicester tried to be, they are nowhere near as good as Leicester though, as the table highlights ...
Don't get me wrong, I sincerely hope you are right but I can t see it panning out that way,can you?
 
Heard that City In the Community are doing a charity Manchester to Brighton bike ride for 3 to 4 days before the match, 30 or so riders, arriving Sunday. Might be one for Ian Cheeseman and his video diary. If you read this, Ian, or if anyone can let him know, maybe go and talk to them at the seaside.
 
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