Burnley (a) pre-match thread

[Chi-town blues]

Sean Dyche on facing City: "They are a top side but they have got the demand of going to win the title. We have a different demand; to play well and see the season out in a proper fashion. You can't relax against City but I think there is that bit of freedom.”


Burnley have reported no new injury concerns and could name the same team for a fourth straight match.

Peter Crouch, Steven Defour and Aaron Lennon remain out, while Phil Bardsley is doubtful with a gashed leg that has sidelined him for the last three games.

Manchester City will assess Fernandinho, who was forced off against Manchester United with a knee problem.


City will hope that fellow midfielder Ilkay Gundogan, who suffered a knock in Wednesday's derby, is available.

Kevin de Bruyne remains out with a muscle injury.

So they have nothing to play for ? 7-0

 

[supercity88]

I would go with Otamendi and Laporte, also Mendy and Walker.

Pep mentioned how impressed he was with Bernardo playing essentially a holding midfield role the other night, so possibly Gundo, Bernardo and Silva in the middle, so we can finally accommodate Leroy?

Kev is a big miss, he loves playing against Burnley.

I would agree with that. Otamendi is more up to the physical challenge. Mendy gives added height and stretches the pitch. This will be about craft and guile and lost of movement. Sane Sterling and Aguero give you that with Silva, Gundogan and Bernardo creating from the middle and finding pockets to play others in behind or using the full backs.

 

[Kinkys Left Foot]

Survive the inevitable rough-housing of the first 20 minutes and they'll sit back in their 5-4-1 with no space between the lines and say come on and beat us with first Barnes and then Wood last 10 minutes trying to catch us on the break.
It won't be good enough another 0-2 to the blue boys.

 

[aguero93:20]

Didn't we score 6 at Burnley under Hughes as well.

Nope. Don't think we ever scored more than 3 away from home under Clueless, but more importantly we never played at Turf Moor under the ****.

 

[aguero93:20]

Wed’ve got 10 that day if it wasn’t for the monsoon 2nd half!! aren’t we the only ever side to be 5-0 up away at h/t in prem league?

Could well be, there's not too many instances where the away team have reached 5 in 90 minutes after all.

 

[citytill1die84]

Nope. Don't think we ever scored more than 3 away from home under Clueless, but more importantly we never played at Turf Moor under the ****.

Yep. It was Mancini when we scored 6 at Burnley and HT we were all shitting it as rumours were going round rain was getting it called off haha.

 

[burnley blue mcfc]

Nope. Don't think we ever scored more than 3 away from home under Clueless, but more importantly we never played at Turf Moor under the ****.

Remember night game under joe royle when we won 6-0, the goat used to love playing burnley!!

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

You're minds fucking with you, if we win this game then you'll be thinking Leicester are a great side and if we win that one Brighton away is then seen as one of the tougher away visits when in reality if I said to you at the start of the season win our last 3 games against said teams you'd of snapped my hand off.

I’d have certainly snapped it off when we were 7 behind Liverpool and about to play them!

If we keep our calm and play like we have been doing we will be ok. We just need to try and kill the games as quickly as possible though like we did at Fulham. 1-0 is always risky. 2-0 less so.

In 2012 and 14 we won all of our last matches and this side is much better.

They have lost 3-1 to Liverpool, 5-1 to Everton, 2-0 to the scum, 4-0 to Chelsea and 3-1 to Palace and 3-1 to Watford at home as well as a loss to Newcastle and Leicester. They have lost 8 of their 17 games at home with only 1 big win against Spurs.

They are very beatable. Our hardest game will probably be Brighton if they are not safe by then.

 

[Eoiyflem]

'By all accounts'

Can you add a bit more please?

It's a figure of speech...

Any articles/news i have read are putting KDB as either knee or hamstring. These are rarely less than 3 week injuries which would put him out for the remainder of the league.

Fernandinho has been reported as having a problem in his knee and was scheduled to go for a scan yesterday. Again, that sounds likely to be more than a fortnight out.

These are all press articles so I'm asking if anyone has better info

 

[Rhapsody in Blue]

Not overly worried, but we have to cut out the mistakes, especially giving away unnecessary freekicks and corners as Gudmundsson has a lovely foot, which he showed in the 1-1 draw we had against them.