City v Sunderland Pre Match Thread (CoC Final)

[DaveSAFC]

I have tickets in club wembley. Can anyone advise if I'm ok with club scarf?

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Bossed the FA cup semi last year for 75 mins.

And United, after the opening 20 minutes.

They say play the game, not the occasion.

I have to ask the question, would there be any doubts if Sunderland were playing Barca or Bayern this weekend at Wembley?

That's the current levels City are at and while the same could be said for Wigan, last year, it's clear there will be no excuses for us this time.

I have genuine affection for Sunderland fans and hope they stay up.

There's a fine line between arrogance and belief but I won't be surprised to see us get three or four, once the game settles down.

Didn't you say that we'd put 5 past Wigan?

Worries me every time I see you go gung-ho but you have to be get it right sometime ;-)

I hope you're right, but I have to say I would happily take a 1-0. Sunderland will employ the exact same MO they've done on our last 4 visits to the Stadium of Shite, namely park the bus for the entire game and hope to sneak one. Breaking teams down who play that way is far more difficult than I think anyone accepts, and almost impossible to generate any kind of tempo against.
Surely though, their luck (and they've had the full Monty - offside goals, freak goalkeeping errors, ridiculous penalties, red cards not shown etc etc) has to end sometime? I reckon we'll win, but if we don't score early it'll be a fucking grind

 

[Deleted member 58678]

I feel like the players owe us one after the FA Cup final last season. I hope they can level it up with us after that dross they served up in that game.

I'm well up for this. It might be the least important of the four competitions we're in but I'm fucking well up for this after last season. I am slavering at the mouth for trophies like a wolf after its prey.

Mackems, we are coming and we're not here for a day out. We mean business and we're not fucking about this season.

Will you fucking shush.

Why? I've got fire in my belly for this one, love. Last May I turned up, like most of everyone else there, and was quite calm thinking we'd walk it. This year I'm not thinking like that. I'm bouncing, I feel like I could go and put on a City shirt and play and get us to win, I'm that up for it.

COME ON!

 

[Didsbury Dave]

We are a miles better team. Not one of their players would get into our squad, never mind our team. We have a team full of experienced internationals who have played at wembley and the biggest arenas in the world. I am totally convinced the players will be correctly motivated and correctly organised by the manager. A nice big pitch and for the first time this season we should have our strongest eleven on the pitch. A nice weeks rest, too.

Everything is in our favour.

I expect us to win and I wouldn't be surprised, should we get our usual good start, to see us do it by several goals. I believe Silva is going to run this game for us and I believe Vinny is going to be lifting the first, but not the last, trophy of this season.

 

[bluemc1]

I feel like the players owe us one after the FA Cup final last season. I hope they can level it up with us after that dross they served up in that game.

I'm well up for this. It might be the least important of the four competitions we're in but I'm fucking well up for this after last season. I am slavering at the mouth for trophies like a wolf after its prey.

Mackems, we are coming and we're not here for a day out. We mean business and we're not fucking about this season.

Will you fucking shush.

Why? I've got fire in my belly for this one, love. Last May I turned up, like most of everyone else there, and was quite calm thinking we'd walk it. This year I'm not thinking like that. I'm bouncing, I feel like I could go and put on a City shirt and play and get us to win, I'm that up for it.

COME ON!

Do you track back ?

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I hope you're right, but I have to say I would happily take a 1-0. Sunderland will employ the exact same MO they've done on our last 4 visits to the Stadium of Shite, namely park the bus for the entire game and hope to sneak one. Breaking teams down who play that way is far more difficult than I think anyone accepts, and almost impossible to generate any kind of tempo against.
Surely though, their luck (and they've had the full Monty - offside goals, freak goalkeeping errors, ridiculous penalties, red cards not shown etc etc) has to end sometime? I reckon we'll win, but if we don't score early it'll be a fucking grind

Haha. EB with his weekly pre-match paranoia. For some reason I feel even more bullish now ;-)

 

[FantasyIreland]

Not been since 99 so,unsurprisingly,i cant wait to get back and see them tear the mackem's apart.

The first trophy of many for Pellegrini:-)

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

We are a miles better team. Not one of their players would get into our squad, never mind our team. We have a team full of experienced internationals who have played at wembley and the biggest arenas in the world. I am totally convinced the players will be correctly motivated and correctly organised by the manager. A nice big pitch and for the first time this season we should have our strongest eleven on the pitch. A nice weeks rest, too.

Everything is in our favour.

I expect us to win and I wouldn't be surprised, should we get our usual good start, to see us do it by several goals. I believe Silva is going to run this game for us and I believe Vinny is going to be lifting the first, but not the last, trophy of this season.

Now that is the spirit, I like it. Spot on in my opinion, we will beat them.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Will you fucking shush.

Why? I've got fire in my belly for this one, love. Last May I turned up, like most of everyone else there, and was quite calm thinking we'd walk it. This year I'm not thinking like that. I'm bouncing, I feel like I could go and put on a City shirt and play and get us to win, I'm that up for it.

COME ON!

Do you track back ?

I'm that fired up I reckon I'd beat Samuel Eto'o's workrate from the 2009 CL final!

 

[Blue Is the Opposite of Blue]

We are a miles better team. Not one of their players would get into our squad, never mind our team. We have a team full of experienced internationals who have played at wembley and the biggest arenas in the world. I am totally convinced the players will be correctly motivated and correctly organised by the manager. A nice big pitch and for the first time this season we should have our strongest eleven on the pitch. A nice weeks rest, too.

Everything is in our favour.

I expect us to win and I wouldn't be surprised, should we get our usual good start, to see us do it by several goals. I believe Silva is going to run this game for us and I believe Vinny is going to be lifting the first, but not the last, trophy of this season.

I pray and hope you're right. I'm still a little uncertain but I think that's just me talking. I worry a lot.

I'm going down too - 539 is where I'm sat - so a happy drive home would be just what I need.