City v Palace Pre Match Thread

[alib]

Didn't Negredo have an ice pack strapped to his calf after he came off (on tunnel cam)?

 

[blueinsa]

Didn't Negredo have an ice pack strapped to his calf after he came off (on tunnel cam)?

He did mate but i think its just a precautionary thing. That said, Dzeko will start the game today imo and that will have been the plan all along.

 

[sir baconface]

Did you study the faces of the Palace players after their game on Thursda? They looked shattered. So relatively fitness levels shouldn't be an issue.

Concerns are less about relative fitness; more about the coming month's demands on City.

There has to be a balanced approach with every opponent taken seriously and only moderate rotation. By all means take other players off if/when the game is clearly won.

Wholesale rotation and/or playing a load of kids smacks of arrogance and complacency. Once you start grading opponents and disrespecting the "weaker" ones you are likely to get bitten on the arse.

 

[willipp]

No way we can afford to rest 4 or 5 players today, Palace should be given full respect. Pulis will have them well organised and up for it which reflects in their recent results, Pellers keeping them at a hotel between games suggests he isnt taking it lightly, and we then have 5 days rest before Swansea away. I have a feeling todays game will be a lot tougher than some are thinking.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Our chance to take top spot.

MP won't take his eye off that ball.

 

[Ireland_for_pm]

I have a bad feeling about this game today

 

[blueinsa]

I have a bad feeling about this game today

Give over ffs.

 

[Ducado]

I have a bad feeling about this game today

Do you think they may run out of chips again ?(that's fries for our US based blues)

 

[Ireland_for_pm]

I have a bad feeling about this game today

Give over ffs.

I think he should play his best team and get the game won. I have doubts he will rest the key players which worries me. Hopefully we start like this;
Hart
Milner
Kompany
Nastatic
Clichy
Navas
Fernandinho
Yaya
Silva
Nasri
Dzeko

Garcia on for silva at half time if we're winning.

 

[Ducado]

He will play the best team he has available