City v Southampton pre match thread

[city saint]

everyone predicting 13 or more points are a bit premature imo rags will keep grinding out wins so we need to try and keep the 8 point gap which hopefully will eventually break their spirit

 

[Ric]

Think it will be a tough game tonight, so strongest team possible for me. We can rotate a few against West Ham and a lot against Shakhtar.

Ederson
Walker
Kompany
Otamendi
Delph
Fernandinho
D Silva
De Bruyne
Sterling
Sane
Jesus

 

[FantasyIreland]

Think it will be a tough game tonight, so strongest team possible for me. We can rotate a few against West Ham and a lot against Shakhtar.

Ederson
Walker
Kompany
Otamendi
Delph
Fernandinho
D Silva
De Bruyne
Sterling
Sane
Jesus

It will be tough,Southampton will be on a high and will fancy their chances after their weekend result.I'm pretty certain Pep will agree and wont choose tonight to rest/rotate.
It should be a cracking game,and wrap up warm if youre going.....its gonna be a cold one!

 

[Academica]

How many of our player's are a card away from a ban, need to manage this so we don't lose any for the match against the rags.

 

[Ric]

It will be tough,Southampton will be on a high and will fancy their chances after their weekend result.I'm pretty certain Pep will agree and wont choose tonight to rest/rotate.
It should be a cracking game,and wrap up warm if youre going.....its gonna be a cold one!

Yeah, just seen it’s going to be -1 by full time. Softens the blow that I’ve got to miss the game tonight for my daughter’s birthday!

 

[Ric]

How many of our player's are a card away from a ban, need to manage this so we don't lose any for the match against the rags.

Fernandinho and Sane. Need them to get a cheap yellow tonight, or rest them against West Ham if not.

 

[Chippy_boy]

yep. The pundits on U.S. TV mention it every time they play. It shocked me too that they've played that many home games since last September, though tinpots like Europa and League Cup surely boost the figure.

We'd happily count those games in our stats though tbf.

I know this is all a bit OT. But it does have some relevance for the forthcoming game at the swamp. You don't go 40 games (Let alone 150) unbeaten at home by being total shite or just lucky.

it will be a tough game to win there and although I'd of course love us to hammer them 6-1 again, a boring no score or low score draw would do just fine. So long as they don't win, we are still very much in the box seat for the title.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Yeah, just seen it’s going to be -1 by full time. Softens the blow that I’ve got to miss the game tonight for my daughter’s birthday!

Haha,its one of the few times i'm glad i'm working...!

 

[bellsouth]

We'd happily count those games in our stats though tbf.

I know this is all a bit OT. But it does have some relevance for the forthcoming game at the swamp. You don't go 40 games (Let alone 150) unbeaten at home by being total shite or just lucky.

it will be a tough game to win there and although I'd of course love us to hammer them 6-1 again, a boring no score or low score draw would do just fine. So long as they don't win, we are still very much in the box seat for the title.

Dead right - recently there has been complacency and dare I say it some arrogance from some of our posters, predicting big wins for us and losses for United. We need to remain grounded whilst grinding out our results. I do think we'll win tonight in a close one and against West Ham, but I'm expecting them lot to win at Arsenal too

 

[Airbags Optional]

I have a ticket tonight and as usual I am very nervous before a game, just hope it’s a stoke type game for us as that’s the last one I went to!