Burnley (A) | Pre-Match Thread

[Deleted member 77198]

Only realised this kicked off at 18:00 when my Father sent me a message with a picture of the line-up!

 

[clarion]

Aymeric Laporte: "At the moment I'm here, I'll play today, we'll see what happens. I'm happy at #ManCity, I always thought I'd spend many years here. I hope that will happen. I will see what happens between now and the end of the season but for now I'm happy."

can understand his frustration , but no way city will allow him to leave !

How about start playing as strong, quick and dominant defender with no complaining.
No one has guarantee to play in Peps team.

 

[grim up north]

How about start playing as strong, quick and dominant defender with no complaining.
No one has guarantee to play in Peps team.

Yawn, you again!

 

[heslops barnet]

Six fingered cloggers out tonight....hope the lads are up for a scrap

 

[stonerblue]

Cancelo will definitely do that, but that’s how we’ve been playing anyway. Zinchenko has been in a wide back 3 in possession.

He might come further over though so he could pass to either winger? THat's if he lines up as a right back back.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

TwAtA

 

[Shaelumstash]

I'm not Mahrez's biggest fan but I think that is harsh. He was afforded a lot more space and rarely played against packed defences for Leicester. Meant he could get his paceup and get passed a defender. Lot more difficult to do that when we push teams so far back.

I mostly blame Pep for this as he went against what we were good at and tried to find a tactic in Inverted wingers to evolve us when it really wasn't required.

As is being proven now, we are much better with natural width

Yeh fair points mate.

If a winger constantly tries to beat his man, but it doesn't happen I can forgive that.

Sterling has been going through a bad patch of form, but he never stops trying to beat his man. You can see his confidence is really low and he often delays his shot or final pass too long. But at least he's trying.

I think my major problem with Mahrez is that he often just doesn't seem to fancy it. He has the ability to beat any fullback, but he so often checks back and plays the easy option.

But the most frustrating thing about him for me is his decision making, so many times he could puts team mate through on goal and he delays too long or just tries to set himself up for a shot, it's so frustrating.

 

[Deleted member 81382]

Aymeric Laporte: "At the moment I'm here, I'll play today, we'll see what happens. I'm happy at #ManCity, I always thought I'd spend many years here. I hope that will happen. I will see what happens between now and the end of the season but for now I'm happy."

can understand his frustration , but no way city will allow him to leave !

It's hardly surprising that he might be dissapointed with the lack of game time, he's a world class CB. I would be more worried if he wasn't bothered about sitting on the bench. Hopefully he works hard and makes himself first choice again.

 

[Akpowell]

Really really don’t like that front 3

Yeah not many goals in them

 

[stonerblue]

Only realised this kicked off at 18:00 when my Father sent me a message with a picture of the line-up!

Good Dad