Chelsea (A) - Thu 5th Jan, 20:00 | Pre-Match Thread

[kippaxwill]

I think you might be screaming mate

Think I‘ll be throwing my Chelsea ticket in a puddle.

 

[JWP1926]

Grealish-Haaland-Foden front 3 for me tomorrow. We've played our best football with this forward line so far this season.

 

[citizen_maine]

I can see it being the same starting eleven again, stubborn Pep won't want to give in to what the fans want to see

Do you think he should?

 

[Mr HJ]

Grealish-Haaland-Foden front 3 for me tomorrow. We've played our best football with this forward line so far this season.

I'd go for that depending on how fit Julien is. Happy with this or having Alvarez on the right both make us a better attacking team.

For me, even though Mahrez has played well the last couple of games and looks back to his best, as a team we don't function as well as an attacking force with him in the lineup. At this stage of the season, when we need to go on one of our winning runs, we need to get back to our best attacking wise and Pep has to pick players who work better as a unit and those that make their team mates better. Riyad for all his obvious skills rarely makes those around him better. Against Everton we never really got at them and the constant cut back balls let them keep in shape and defend easily.

 

[mosssideblue]

I can see it being the same starting eleven again, stubborn Pep won't want to give in to what the fans want to see

I'm sure Pep will pick what he thinks is the best team and not go on fan favs, and rightly so don't you think?

 

[blueparrot]

I can see it being the same starting eleven again, stubborn Pep won't want to give in to what the fans want to see

Pep will pick a team that he thinks is the best to win the game, nothing else not what fans think , not being stubborn. You'd have to be an idiot to think otherwise.

 

[blueparrot]

I'm sure Pep will pick what he thinks is the best team and not go on fan favs, and rightly so don't you think?

I don't know we could have a weekly bluemoon poll to pick the team, what could possibly go wrong :)

 

[ancoats]

When the going gets tough, The tough get going.
Pep has not built this Manchester City team to just lie down after a bad result, we just go again and again,
Chelsea Arsenal United Liverpool still Fear us, because if we turn up, we beat anybody,

yes, things have dipped a little after the world cup and Christmas period, but I think we sort of knew it could take time to get back into shape, the one good thing this world cup has done is hold back the Premier League fixture table, so we are only 16 games into the season and a long way still to go,

I think Pep will now revert back to type in a 4.3.3 with 2 wing backs and the strongest team will start vs Chelsea,
only thing is Sterling, normally a player that played for us, can come back to hurt us and have a blinder, but City should have enough to take the points

 

[Franny 1234]

By far the worst thing about this forum the last few years is that every time KDB has a bad game it's 'he's past it, drop him'. Nobody is ever correct when they say this and they never learn.

We drop points when kevs not at his best.
But he's the first name on the team sheet for me. I wouldn't swap him for anyone.
CTID

 

[Fordyboy46]

Do you think he should?

Yes, play the team the fans want to see