Burnley (h) pre-match thread

[deano ou812]

Any early rumours of line up yet ?

 

[tiggsywiggsywoo]

It will be either a 1-1 draw or 5-0 to City. Hat Trick for Aguero.

 

[HorlocksWalk]

Lee Mason ..... say no more.

Rather have Blatter ref it with Platini running one line and Taylor the other and Clattenburg as 4th official at least you would know the reason for the "strange" decisions. Mason is just incompetent.

 

[Adlab123]

Rather have Blatter ref it with Platini running one line and Taylor the other and Clattenburg as 4th official at least you would know the reason for the "strange" decisions. Mason is just incompetent.

Maybe he'll be incompetent for us for a change.
Pawson was ok the other night - surprisigly

 

[HorlocksWalk]

Maybe he'll be incompetent for us for a change.
Pawson was ok the other night - surprisigly

Fair point and seen us not get more blatant pens than the Sterling one at Hull

 

[BusterPhillips]

Got a feeling this will be a frustrating afternoon, but hopefully we'll do enough to get the win. Not expecting a vintage City performance though, with it being our second game in three days, and confidence low after the Liverpool defeat. I'm sure Mason will do us no favours either.

Im a pragmatic kind of guy, that said, I think we'll dick them today.

 

[Powello]

if we cant beat burnley, god help us.

 

[BLUEMATT23]

What's Delph doing these days?

 

[SWP's back]

I've never understood why we shifted away from this just to accommodate Gundogan, who, to be fair to him, is a good player, but hasn't shone in the league. That formation solved the Silva-KDB problem by having them both in the middle, protected by Dinho, and able to thread passes to Aguero or a true winger on either side. And this formation actually worked even better with Sterling on the left and Navas on the right.

Silva is terrible on either wing, and putting KDB there takes him out of the game. I'm hoping Pep realizes this again.

100% this. First said it about six weeks ago.

No idea why he hasn't tried it again.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Any early rumours of line up yet ?

My sources are saying we've selected 11 players