Chelsea (H) - Sat 25th Jan, 17:30 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[manclad76]

top 8 in PL last season:
City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Villa, Newcastle, Chelsea, Spurs, rags

we havent beaten anyone of these yet this season neither anyone half decent in CL yet. apart from Chelsea in first round of PL back in middle of August.

We beat Chelsea 2-0 on the opening day.

 

[manclad76]

We beat Chelsea 2-0 on the opening day.

And don't think even city could beat city.

 

[uwe rosler 28]

That midfield doesn’t look great. There’s isn’t much end product in the side either without Kev or Ph

Interesting selection. That back 4 had better find some instant form as they're getting no protection at all from your front 6.

Maybe we might be able to salvage a point against Chelsea if we can score 6 again.

The back 4 doesn't get any protection whoever we play in midfield.

 

[br88]

I hope that both Khusanov and Marmoosh (God, I love that name haha) play as they will be bring some much needed speed and physicality into the team.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

A bloody big Saturday night atmosphere is required !!

You're right, but the atmosphere will be like the Darby and Joan club where you are in CB3. You FOCs could all shake your colostomy bags and gurn though ; )

 

[eyalluvitt]

Despite the PSG result, the man utd result, the feyenoord result, the Juventus result, the Liverpool result, the Brighton result, the Brentford result, the spurs result....I still think we'll win this.

Not forgetting the Villa & Bournemouth bin fires

 

[citymad]

---------------------Ederson
Akanji--Khusanov--Dias--Gvardiol(Ake if fit)
---------------Anyone with legs
-------------Marmoush--KDB
Doku-------------Haaland------Savinho

Front 3 have to run themselves into the ground to help the midfield.

So they have nothing left for Brugge ? Shame its come to this.

 

[madloaf]

So they have nothing left for Brugge ? Shame its come to this.

Has it come to this where our players cannot play two games in a row?

 

[its a Barm]

Play the news lads what's the worst can happen

 

[pride in battle]

I hope that both Khusanov and Marmoosh (God, I love that name haha) play as they will be bring some much needed speed and physicality into the team.

Marmoosh can't play against Bruge so has to start ?

 

[pride in battle]

Apart from the hole in midfield we really need to sort out the full back positions. So

GK Take your pick
RB Khusanov, he's fast and a defender, so even though it would be his debut , he's better than the other options.
CBs Akanji and Stones pick themselves as Ake and probably Dias are injured.
LB Gvardiol as we don't have a LB

CM O'Reilly, Nuñes and Kovacic. Here we'd at least have some energy from the first 2 and Kovacic could get forward a bit.

Attack. This is the easiest
Foden Haaland and Savinho.

No Marmoosh ?

 

[kaz7]

We are just going to play the same way with same players so I don’t see how we get anything from this.

Several of our players have fully checked out & I also think pep has too

You keep saying pep has checked out , clearly not or he wouldnt have signed the new contract

 

[robbieh]

No Marmoosh ?

I'd bring him off the bench at some point.

 

[super_city_si]

Despite the PSG result I'm confident we'll win this.

Haha i love you optimism. At least you're not in the 'we'll smash these 4-1' category.

 

[bondsman]

Akanji RB new kid in at CB. Start Marmoush, start OReilly in CM. Stones and new lad CB ideally Ake fit and LB. Haaland and not sure about anyone else tbh. But we need to be brave with the new personnel.

 

[Pedestrian]

It’ll be the same predictable bollocks and we’ll hope Chelsea are some how shitter then us.

 

[The Black Shed]

This game will have more holes than Pornhub's frontpage.

City 4-4 Chelsea

 

[Goro]

Haha i love you optimism. At least you're not in the 'we'll smash these 4-1' category.

We are beating them 8-1 for sure

 

[RegisteredToSeePhotos]

We are beating them 8-1 for sure

By half-time

 

[applecentral]

Despite the PSG result, the man utd result, the feyenoord result, the Juventus result, the Liverpool result, the Brighton result, the Brentford result, the spurs result....I still think we'll win this.

You are quite an optimistic person.