City v Cardiff Pre Match Thread

[Ducado]

Re: City v Cardiff Pre Match Thread

Think we are allowed to be confident. But over-confident? Revenge-seeking? These are things that can only turn against us.

Lets ensure we take 3 points, even as dull as we did it vs Palace.
If we lead comfortably, lets go all out and attack to try and score the next. And the next. And ...

Not too interested who starts the game. Just hope we have both Yaya and Silva back to provide much needed creativity upfront.

We will score and I put my money on a safe be: Negredo to score the 100th.

So if City fans are confident it will turn against us? More magical thinking I do wish posters would snap out of it!

 

[paphos-mcfc]

I think teams now up their game when they come here as they know how hard it is to get a draw, nevermind 3 points. Will be a very tough game blues make no bones about it.

8-0 for Us ;)

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

I've been saying we'll dick someone properly since spurs, laugh at your peril but I believe we'll hit double figures this weekend!!!!!!

11-0

 

[samharris]

I've been saying we'll dick someone properly since spurs, laugh at your peril but I believe we'll hit double figures this weekend!!!!!!

11-0

I dont think Rubens knees will hold up Z..

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

I've been saying we'll dick someone properly since spurs, laugh at your peril but I believe we'll hit double figures this weekend!!!!!!

11-0

I dont think Rubens knees will hold up Z..

He doesn't need knees pal, he's really paralysed, stands up on will alone (:

 

[samharris]

I've been saying we'll dick someone properly since spurs, laugh at your peril but I believe we'll hit double figures this weekend!!!!!!

11-0

I dont think Rubens knees will hold up Z..

He doesn't need knees pal, he's really paralysed, stands up on will alone (:

I reckon hes got wallaces techno trousers on..

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

I dont think Rubens knees will hold up Z..

He doesn't need knees pal, he's really paralysed, stands up on will alone (:

I reckon hes got wallaces techno trousers on..

You wouldn't say that to his face (:

 

[samharris]

He doesn't need knees pal, he's really paralysed, stands up on will alone (:

I reckon hes got wallaces techno trousers on..

You wouldn't say that to his face (:

I would fella..
























If I were inside a bullet proof boothe..

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

I reckon hes got wallaces techno trousers on..

You wouldn't say that to his face (:

I would fella..















If I were inside a bullet proof boothe..

Was just on my mind this fucker, about to get his just deserts the nonce (:

 

[OB1]

Payback's a bitch. Both for that bastard Solskjaer and Cardiff.

I have felt we could get ten against someone this season and this could be it.

I haven't checked my facts but I reckon every time you go gung-ho like this, it's the kiss of death.

 

[sam-caddick]

I think Sergio will start but I can't see him playing a full 90, maybe 60-65 mins??

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

You must have a great life mate if that is all you have been keeping locked up in your troubled mind ;-) Glad you let it all go in the end, your soul is cleansed, you can move on with your life..!

It feels great! :)

That's good to know, always happy when fellow blues are happy, maybe you should consider changing your name now to The New Tricky_ Trev ;-)

No, the Born Again Tricky Tev.

 

[LoveCity]

Last time everyone predicted a cricket score in the league, we scraped past Palace 1-0. :)

3-0 or so I think.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Cardiff will not park the bus. They will park an ocean going container ship. But it won't matter, we'll still get past them, several times. For this, please, whoever else is in, we must have Kolarov and Navas, Navas, Navas. I don't know who man of the match was against Blackburn, but for my money, it was Navas. Might be a surprising choice to some, but he's been a total pest for the opposition in every match he's played for several weeks. As good a buy as Ferny and Beast, and someone that we totally needed. Last season, for all our skill, we were going up the middle every time, the opposition had it sussed and in too many matches were able to deal with it, limiting us to just the one, very late goal to save it (e.g. Swansea, Reading at the Etihad). Now central defenders have to be watching for the defense splitting through ball but also looking out wide, and it's visibly doing their heads in.

 

[Ducado]

Fraizer Campbell targets Cardiff City success against Manchester City again
Thursday 16th Jan 2014

Campbell had his best day in a Bluebirds shirt when he was on target twice as City rocked Manuel Pellegrini’s superstars in the Welsh capital back in August



Fraizer Campbell believes Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s Cardiff City can turn the Premier League form book upside down and shock title favourites Manchester City for the second time this season.

Campbell had his best day in a Bluebirds shirt when he was on target twice as City rocked Manuel Pellegrini’s superstars in the Welsh capital back in August.

That historic triumph in City’s first home match in the Premier League ranks as one of the greatest results in the club’s proud history.

The odds are stacked heavily against Solskjaer’s men repeating the feat at Man City’s Fortress Ethiad, where they have a Perfect 10 record this season... played 10, won 10.

Sergio Aguero and co are also chasing their 100th goal of the season, having taken their tally to the 99-mark with Wednesday night’s 5-0 FA Cup thrashing of Blackburn.

But Campbell maintained the Bluebirds were up for the fight and ready to man up against City, declaring: “I hope the game goes same way, we get three points and I score again.

“We will have to play well as a team, defend well and take our chances when they come.

“We beat them earlier in season so hope we can repeat that. If the team around me play well, we play some good football, create chances we can do well.”

Jordon Mutch looks like missing the big match through injury, but Craig Bellamy is ready to start.

Free-scoring Man City will be bolstered by the return of Vincent Kompany, David Silva and Yaya Toure, as well as Aguero.

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[Bewar3them00n]

We missed creativity in midfield first half against Rovers, Cardiff will be another matter, Yaya, Silva, Kompany, Zaba, Kolarov and Aguero will do the the business for us, I'm not expecting a cricket score, a win and a good performance with no injuries is all I ask!
And maybe a brief cameo from Jovetic?

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

a defeat is on the cards

The true City fan. I always think that we are going tits up - Blackburn away was the sort of fixture I thought we would bugger, and then there was Pulis Palace where I thought one of Uncle Joe Mercer's bizarre goals would nick it for Pulis to make even more of the Grand Canyon between the financial clout of the two teams.

And then I think that with scorers of goals from everywhere on the pitch bar goalie I adopt a more upbeat approach - we are gonna win.

And if we don't we will at least score the hundredth goal of this season!

 

[kippax81]

4?, 5?, 6?

Pretty much pick a number upwards from 4, and that's what we will score.

I'm going for 7-0. Fuck it, 8-0.

Haha I like your way of thinking.

Hart, Zabba, VK, MD, Kola.......Jimbo, Ferna,....Merlin, Jesus,.... ED, Alf

Give Sergio the last 30mins or so. I'd also think that this is a game were we can give Yaya another weekend to rest and get his back sorted. We are going to need him at 100% for the big games coming up.

5-0. Edin to get No. 100 and Ruben to nut that little Norwegian rag bastard.

Happy days.

 

[Kompany is King]

Three points is the key.

Clean sheet, no bookings or injuries would be good.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

I'd rather see sergio start than come off the bench. Regardless what form dzeko and negredo are in, aguero is arguably the best striker in the league (Suarez could have something to say about that) and poses that extra fear factor. Adding an extra 60 minutes to his fitness coming into some tricky fixtures will do him no harm.