Burnley (A) - Fri 11th Aug | Pre-Match Thread

[ken tali]

City being the first fixture is a piss take as well, given our season ended after evryone else. We should have been the Monday night game.

and then super cup on wednesday lol?

 

[stonerblue]

Can't shake this nagging feeling that we're gonna get turned over tonight.
COME ON CITY

 

[jimharri]

Piss take that the champions are not scheduled to play at home first game of the season, manufactured bullshit,
Premier League are utter arseholes...

Pretty sure this has been covered to the nth degree. Don't we usually request the first game to be away, to allow the pitch an extra week's recovery time after any summer concerts? Also, this particular summer, the work going on outside the stadium. Extra time to get fences/hoardings up.

 

[Mike N]

Pretty sure this has been covered to the nth degree. Don't we usually request the first game to be away, to allow the pitch an extra week's recovery time after any summer concerts? Also, this particular summer, the work going on outside the stadium. Extra time to get fences/hoardings up.

This rings a bell

 

[BringBackSwales]

Any word on Johny, Jonny Stones?

 

[Bellamy's Caddy]

and then super cup on wednesday lol?

Haha, I'd forgotten about that one. Good point!

 

[BringBackSwales]

Only think Gvardiol will start if Stones isn’t available (rumours he also picked up an injury in training).

My prediction:

Ederson
Walker
Akanji
Stones/Gvardiol
Ake
Rodri
Kovacic
De Bruyne/Foden
Bernardo
Grealish
Haaland

You sure about John Boy Ric? Didn’t you say the same last week and are you trying to give Eccles Blue a cardiac arrest?

 

[ken tali]

Haha, I'd forgotten about that one. Good point!

no problem :D i think we are all good and ready to beat a team like Burnley.

 

[stonerblue]

Any word on Johny, Jonny Stones?

He's daddy cool..

 

[jimharri]

It won't be easy tonight. Vinnie will have them fully revved up (with it being their first game back in the PL), and they'll come out of the traps flying. Also, the crowd (once they've finished howling at the moon) will be hostile. If we can weather the onslaught in the opening half hour or so, I would hope that our greater overall quality should prevail. I'll gladly take a 2-0 win right now.