City v Liverpool (Home) Pre-Match Thread

[Thenumber1blue]

Never heard such a load of shitbags , my god it's Liverpool not R.Madrid , we murdered this bunch of tossers last season & only a bent ref saved em . They're facing better fullbacks , athletic & fast as fuck , a miles better goalkeeper , 2 silva' snot just one , a dynamic forward in Jesus & then there's Aguero....I wouldn't want to be in their shoes t'row ...it's Moreno , Lovren & he do not Hansen Keegan & Rush ffs , grow some fucking bollocks & back our team

Well said

 

[The slaughtered lamb]

First goal means everything in a game like this,we start slow and they start fast,i think they will get the first goal

Good point. However, I do think this is a game where our much vaunted full backs show their worth and push them back. Really important game for our season and Pep. Either the beginning of the end for the Premier League as it currently stands or the beginning of the end of our 'project'. Let's hope the ref doesn't influence the game.

 

[mardon85]

My Mrs (Liverpool Fan) just tagged me in this by the Enfield Wrap.

Reading this got me up for battering these fuckers even more!

IT’S 14 years since Manchester City played their first league game at what was then known as The City of Manchester Stadium.

For the older arses among our support that might jolt a bit. I know it did for me when I looked it up. Moving from their old Maine Road home was a huge step in the history of the club and yet it’s something that can never be taken away. It’s part of them. And for those that remember it, part of what you remember of them.

They might strut around with bags of cash in the here and now, boasting about two titles won and star players on huge wages, but the Reds of a certain vintage will always remember them knocking around in the third tier of English football.

Then they were a laughing stock; a side seemingly always destined to endure misery. The old Manchester City was neatly summed up in one afternoon at Maine Road against the Reds when City mistakenly believed a 2-2 draw on the last day of the season was enough to keep them in the Premier League and preceded to waste time.

Their information was wrong and they went down.

A traditionally soft underbelly wedded to flirtations with the lower divisions and Maine Road, an often moody away trip. That was the old City. It's why the new one, the one with this ground, with this money is still a bit of a head fuck despite that 14 years at the ‘new’ ground.

That history of underachievement, essentially of irrelevance to Liverpool, is still there. This is a Manchester club, supported by Mancs, from a city that is a rival to ours. Yet City still don’t feel like a rival. There isn’t a deep hatred there. There isn’t a constant need to look for one-upmanship like there is with Everton and Manchester United.

And yet, now, in 2017, this is a de-facto big game. A club that are favourites to win the league with the bookies at home to Jürgen Klopp’s pretenders, a fourth-placed also-ran-to-be if those same odds are to be believed. An early kick off to get it on live to the world’s big TV audiences show its importance. The nouveau riche versus one of the best-supported teams in the land. New money versus a traditional superpower.

Among the Red hordes, we fancy our chances. We know Klopp can fire up a team for the big games. We’ve watched the Reds go to the toughest grounds and get results with regularity under this manager.

In 15 games at the ‘whatever-they-are-calling-it-now’ stadium, Liverpool have lost just five times, with four wins and six draws. In one of those wins, under Klopp, Liverpool had Manchester City’s kecks off, winning 4-1 in one of the most enjoyable aways under this manager. City were firmly put back in their box that day.

When old footie is compared to new footie, Liverpool’s star has faded while City’s has undoubtedly risen. Going to grounds like this one and laying a marker down for what your team is about this season is important. It builds a reputation. It keeps that star shining. It lifts everyone, from manager, to players, to fans. A buzz can grow from here.

After the bore of the international break, proper footie is back with a bang. One of the biggest league games of the season followed by Anfield’s first hello to the Champions League proper next week when the Reds take on Sevilla.

Our lads have been shining in lands afar while on international duty. The Philippe Coutinho saga is no more. We have a front three that is as good as anyone’s and we have a new player in Alex Oxlade Chamberlain to watch and wonder about.

It’s a good time to be a Red. The season stretches out in front of us. Tomorrow should be an open game, a toe-to-toe battle between two of the league’s biggest managers, both known for attacking football.

It should be good. It could be great. And I can’t wait to find out. Up the back after a break Reds. Let's remind City who they are, and who we are.

Robbo

Love how he manages to make us beating them one more time sound like they have beaten us more.

 

[Adamb95]

My Mrs (Liverpool Fan) just tagged me in this by the Enfield Wrap.

Reading this got me up for battering these fuckers even more!




Love how he manages to make us beating them one more time sound like they have beaten us more.

Its a shame stevie G isn't around to slip

 

[Adamb95]

The fact that Coutinho, according to Klopp, isnt in the squad does give me some hope. Liverpool were made to look good by a lacklustre Arsenal a couple of weeks back, and apart from Salah I wouldn't say they have particularly improved majorly since last year, where City certainly have!

 

[vmsuhail]

Some of the hype about Liverpool on here is way over the top. I might have Can, Mane & Coutinho (If available) in our team, although I'm not sure that Mane and Coutinho are that much better than our equivalent players. Henderson, Wijnaldum & Lallana (if available) would be useful to have in the squad. The rest are fairly average.

Yet, these average players destroyed Arsenal and never lose a Top 6 game.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Yet, these average players destroyed Arsenal and never lose a Top 6 game.

And have won nowt of any significance for 20 years , 'istory club , who's current players only turn up for the big games , and cheat their own supporters by not giving 100% against the lesser teams

 

[Bluekiwi]

So who will the captain be, inspiring, cajoling, cursing, motivating, calming nerves and everything else that Vinnie is so good at?
What pisses me off about Vinnie's injury is that it occurred in a game that the Belgium U-21s would have won - did he really have to play?

 

[mancity1]

So who will the captain be, inspiring, cajoling, cursing, motivating, calming nerves and everything else that Vinnie is so good at?
What pisses me off about Vinnie's injury is that it occurred in a game that the Belgium U-21s would have won - did he really have to play?

There is some doubt about the nature of his injury but if it is a strain as its being reported that he felt after the game and after getting a " knock on his knee " then we all know its the type of injury that VK is prone to regularly and it can happen anytime and has happened more than once on the training track.

As many have said we should have got a CH to be groomed to replace Vinny eventually in ability and the qualities you allude to and more hopefully sometime ago.

Whether our inability to get the CH , DF and player who can both create and score this window results in another season where we fail to win the premiership remains to be seen.

I do believe we are 3 to 4 players short of what is required to challenge seriously in Europe and have doubts about it being up to what is required at home but we shall see.

Tonight will give us some indication of what we do under pressure as no doubt Liverpool will put us under.

In big games in recent seasons we have lacked the steel and graft required to get the job done and until that is addressed seriously we won't progress.

 

[mancity1]

Anyone else not too bothered about Sterling missing this one?

Well, for one, I would take the three points we got on Saturday over him being available so if that was the choice, would take those two extra points every time ... but second, I can't remember him having a good game for us against that lot since his transfer across ... so I am actually viewing this as a blessing in disguise!

He is going to have to stand up in the big games at some stage if he is going to make his mark in the game.

Really good players can be relied upon most times but especially in games that you have to make you mark and this is one such game.

If you have the steel you especially bring your best against teams you used to play for so if he is available for Anfield and the sentiment is its still a blessing in disguise then you have to question why we didn't use him as bait for Sanchez.

Pep has given him the seal of approval in this window and now the ball is in Sterling's court to show why we made him a City player as he has been with is long enough now to show why he is worthy of being here.