City Vs Chelsea Pre Match Discussion Thread

[Sky Blue]

Has our bench been announced?

City subs: Pantilimon, Lescott, Kolarov, Nasri, Sinclair, Tevez, Dzeko

 

[Bluebee2]

Glad Rodwell gets a game.

Why ?, seriously does he deserve a start ?

 

[chesterbells]

Rodwell and Garcia starting???

FFS, I so hope I'm proved wrong, but I cannot believe that

 

[Sky Blue]

Strong bench!

 

[BlueMoonoverUS]

@StuBrennanMEN: City subs: Pantilimon, Lescott, Kolarov, Nasri, Sinclair, Tevez, Dzeko

 

[blueinsa]

Engage brain.

Excuse me?

 

[Mattyc55]

@MCFC: TEAM NEWS: Hart, Zabaleta (C), Kolo Toure, Nastasic, Clichy, Garcia, Milner, Rodwell, Silva, Yaya Toure, Aguero #cityvchelsea #mcfc

Lescott must think wtf and rightly so, he is miles better than Kolo. Garcia and Rodwell is a worry as well.

Plus side it looks like Serg up top on his own with Yaya hopefully pushed up.

Engage brain. Nastasic is a much better player than Lescott. Kolo is a much more natural partner for him than Joleon. Throw in the fact that Chelsea are a small nimble outfit then Kolo is a better footballer than Lescott and quicker. Easy to see why Mancini has gone with this.

If Barry is injured then the only option was one more midfielder or Tevez. If Yaya is pushed forward then maybe it is a good move. We will see.

Small and nimble? They have one of the best target men in the league playing up front. Lescott loves a physical battle & was instrumental in keeping Ba quiet the last few times we've played Newcastle, so why change that now? Admittedly Nastasic prefers playing left center half, but he's good enough to adapt.

 

[ranxerox]

@MCFC: TEAM NEWS: Hart, Zabaleta (C), Kolo Toure, Nastasic, Clichy, Garcia, Milner, Rodwell, Silva, Yaya Toure, Aguero #cityvchelsea #mcfc

Lescott must think wtf and rightly so, he is miles better than Kolo. Garcia and Rodwell is a worry as well.

Plus side it looks like Serg up top on his own with Yaya hopefully pushed up.

Engage brain. Nastasic is a much better player than Lescott. Kolo is a much more natural partner for him than Joleon. Throw in the fact that Chelsea are a small nimble outfit then Kolo is a better footballer than Lescott and quicker. Easy to see why Mancini has gone with this.

If Barry is injured then the only option was one more midfielder or Tevez. If Yaya is pushed forward then maybe it is a good move. We will see.

Yeah that Ba's a real lightweight

 

[BlueMoonoverUS]

No Maicon?

 

[Bluebee2]

No Maicon?

Yeah just the one fullback to bring on if we need a goal.