Burnley v City - pre-match

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Expecting a very tough game. They've already beaten Liverpool, and Arsenal were very fortunate to win there.

A 12.30 kick off after a Wednesday night European away game makes it even harder for us. Presume there will be a fair bit of rotation - can't see many playing three games in seven days. Virtually impossible predicting Guardiola's line-ups though.

Bravo
Sagna
Stones
Otamendi
Clichy
Fernandinho
Toure
Gundogan
De Bruyne
Nolito
Iheanacho
 
Burnley are no pushover.

Their forwards will be chasing down Bravo at every given opportunity, hoping he'll gift a chance; I won't be surprised if he makes another howler. As long as at the end of the season he saves us more points than he costs us I'll be happy.

I can see Pep going 3-5-1-1, but you never know. As long as we play the fast paced, decisive football we are capable of then we should be home and dry by HT. We will just need to make good use of the bench, as 3 games in 7 days is a lot to ask.
 
They are terrible away from home, buggers on their own ground. It'll be a tough 1-1 for an hour, the superior class will tell and City win 3-1, iheanacho to score two.
 
jimmygrimblesboots said:
anybody expecting a walk in the park will be disappointed , the inbreds will defend for their lives and we will be leggy from a tough champs league away game . they used to be the whipping boys when we played them and i remember a few 4 , 5, 6 goals victories in the past , unfortunately their are no easy games in this league nowadays , i will take a victory any victory to keep the pressure on the new premiership champions Liverpool :)
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I kind of disagree with that bit. I thought we were in control and controlled the tempo. The last 5 mins or so, the players had started to warm down.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
Burnley are no pushover.

Their forwards will be chasing down Bravo at every given opportunity, hoping he'll gift a chance; I won't be surprised if he makes another howler. As long as at the end of the season he saves us more points than he costs us I'll be happy.

I can see Pep going 3-5-1-1, but you never know. As long as we play the fast paced, decisive football we are capable of then we should be home and dry by HT. We will just need to make good use of the bench, as 3 games in 7 days is a lot to ask.
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for my sanity, please could you list the howlers as I am obviously not quite seeing them. I note one, possibly two at most. Being serious btw
 
An already tough game made tougher by our schedule. I'd take a scrappy win akin to Palace right now.

3 points would be nice to keep the pressure on teams around us, particularly with Chelsea in mind next week.
 
With our title rivals all having straightforward home matches this weekend, it would be great to get the 3 points at Burnley and at least keep pace. Yaya and Kelechi show - 1-3 City
 
makinghistory said:
Not sure which way this will go. Now we have CL last 16 in the bag we should be able to really go for it in the PL. Ya Ya will almost certainly stary and prob Nacho both will be fresh and both on the day can make there mark. On the other hand without our strongest team on Saturday we could struggle against a team that will be really up for a big scalp. Im sitting on the fence guys.
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Is this a Freudian slip ........... YaYa being stary could mean he will be standing about in the middle of the pitch looking into space or just wandering around there as he has done quite a few times in the past!! :-) I just hope it is not a premonition!!

(Sorry makinghistory I couldn't resist it!!)
 
I'd take any type of win, no matter how scruffy because we just aren't playing well. Not sure why but the required intensity of the high pressing, movement off the ball and tempo of passing which the players seemed to grasp quite quickly when Pep first came in seems to be lost on them at the moment.
 
Ric said:
Expecting a very tough game. They've already beaten Liverpool, and Arsenal were very fortunate to win there.

A 12.30 kick off after a Wednesday night European away game makes it even harder for us. Presume there will be a fair bit of rotation - can't see many playing three games in seven days. Virtually impossible predicting Guardiola's line-ups though.

Bravo
Sagna
Stones
Otamendi
Clichy
Fernandinho
Toure
Gundogan
De Bruyne
Nolito
Iheanacho
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How can the fact that the game starts at 12.30 rather than 3.00 or even 5.30 make any meaningful difference considering the game will be played in the greater Manchester area?
If we were playing Southampton away you might have a point. This is the sort of crap the" specialist in failure" comes out with!!!
 
Father Paul said:
How can the fact that the game starts at 12.30 rather than 3.00 or even 5.30 make any meaningful difference considering the game will be played in the greater Manchester area?
If we were playing Southampton away you might have a point. This is the sort of crap the" specialist in failure" comes out with!!!
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Presumably any additional recovery time will be of benefit to the players, even a matter of hours?

Burnley's not in Greater Manchester, by the way!
 
we've all seen what high energy teams do to our back 4, Burnley will repeat it.

Conceding on the road is becoming the norm, WBA aside, so we'll have to outscore em.

we'll have a hatful of very good chances, like usual, so it's down to us to take them.
 
Ric said:
Presumably any additional recovery time will be of benefit to the players, even a matter of hours?

Burnley's not in Greater Manchester, by the way!
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Thanks for the Geography lesson Ric. I have only been to Burnley twice but from recollection it's not that far away from MCC.
Football has really reached a sad state if 2 and a half hours can make any demonstrable difference to how a team will perform and more
importantly if the people in charge of our team are of that way of thinking then we are fucked.
 
Father Paul said:
Thanks for the Geography lesson Ric. I have only been to Burnley twice but from recollection it's not that far away from MCC.
Football has really reached a sad state if 2 and a half hours can make any demonstrable difference to how a team will perform and more
importantly if the people in charge of our team are of that way of thinking then we are fucked.
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Ric said:
Presumably any additional recovery time will be of benefit to the players, even a matter of hours?

Burnley's not in Greater Manchester, by the way!
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Bye the way 4 or 5 of our side tm will probably not have played in Germany and given that Burnley had a tough game on Monday night and will most likely play the same team
half of our lads should be fresher anyway.
 
Father Paul said:
Thanks for the Geography lesson Ric. I have only been to Burnley twice but from recollection it's not that far away from MCC.
Football has really reached a sad state if 2 and a half hours can make any demonstrable difference to how a team will perform and more
importantly if the people in charge of our team are of that way of thinking then we are fucked.
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I'd be more annoyed because it's just not the done thing usually. Arsenal play on Sunday which is the norm for a team playing Wednesday night in the champions league, either that or a late Saturday kick off.
 
aguero93:20 said:
I'd be more annoyed because it's just not the done thing usually. Arsenal play on Sunday which is the norm for a team playing Wednesday night in the champions league, either that or a late Saturday kick off.
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That is a valid point. Also I thought the idea of Friday night football was to give some extra time for Euro sides to prepare.
 
Eccles Blue said:
Which, if true, is very shortsighted of Guardiola and the powers that be because if we don't get a good position in the PL we could end up in a rags situation where we are playing on a Thursday night or even, heaven forfend, not even be in any of the European games.

We have to make sure that we are top 4 and hopefully PL Champions and therefore concentrate on games here in England both PL and Cups.
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Yup that is my point, it makes no difference from a business point of view if we finish top 3 or 1st, either way we still get CL qualification and approx the same prize money. CL is next thing we need to win, if we win the prem on the way then all well and good.
 
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