LoveCity said:Is Yaya really 1 yellow card away from missing the derby?
Mirallas a good option from the bench?! If he's fit he'll start and rightly so he is brilliant and has been every bit as good as Fellaini this year.ayrshire_blue said:I don't think it's possible to over emphasise how important our next 2 league games are in respect to how our season might shape up. We've got the possibility of being top of the league a week come Sunday but there's also the real possibility that these fixtures could go completely wrong for us and we COULD end up 5-7 points behind.
With Jelavic, Fellaini, Naismith, Oviedo, Pienaar all available there's a fair bit of pace in the Everton team and if we start the game at the slow pace as we have done of late then they can cause us major problems (Vellios and Mirallas are good options from the bench as well).
Likewise defending set pieces; Fellaini, Distin and a few others could create unwanted headlines about our zonal marking system, we have to be completely on the ball (pardon the pun) on Saturday.
There's certain teams we can get away with below par performances against, Everton are certainly not one of them. They'll beat us unless we're up for it and at our best. We know they'll treat it like their cup final, they do up their game for City, rags, Chelsea etc so we have to treat it like ours as well.
Anyway, if we get the next two games out of the way and we're either on top or within touching distance of the rags, we've got a good few "winnable" games coming up afterwards.
It was December we lost our first game last season and until April time I think it's fair to say our season never quite took off again with the exception of the odd game. Hopefully this December we can up it a notch and get a solid place at the top of the league, starting Saturday.
ImBlue said:Mirallas a good option from the bench?! If he's fit he'll start and rightly so he is brilliant and has been every bit as good as Fellaini this year.ayrshire_blue said:I don't think it's possible to over emphasise how important our next 2 league games are in respect to how our season might shape up. We've got the possibility of being top of the league a week come Sunday but there's also the real possibility that these fixtures could go completely wrong for us and we COULD end up 5-7 points behind.
With Jelavic, Fellaini, Naismith, Oviedo, Pienaar all available there's a fair bit of pace in the Everton team and if we start the game at the slow pace as we have done of late then they can cause us major problems (Vellios and Mirallas are good options from the bench as well).
Likewise defending set pieces; Fellaini, Distin and a few others could create unwanted headlines about our zonal marking system, we have to be completely on the ball (pardon the pun) on Saturday.
There's certain teams we can get away with below par performances against, Everton are certainly not one of them. They'll beat us unless we're up for it and at our best. We know they'll treat it like their cup final, they do up their game for City, rags, Chelsea etc so we have to treat it like ours as well.
Anyway, if we get the next two games out of the way and we're either on top or within touching distance of the rags, we've got a good few "winnable" games coming up afterwards.
It was December we lost our first game last season and until April time I think it's fair to say our season never quite took off again with the exception of the odd game. Hopefully this December we can up it a notch and get a solid place at the top of the league, starting Saturday.
Ayrshire - you raise some valid points but we are a better team and have better players than Everton.We don't have to be at our best because playing at about 80% of our potential we're still better than them and that assumes they are playing at the top of their game.After laying to bed the jinx they have held over us at the Etihad last season I'm optimistic.ayrshire_blue said:I don't think it's possible to over emphasise how important our next 2 league games are in respect to how our season might shape up. We've got the possibility of being top of the league a week come Sunday but there's also the real possibility that these fixtures could go completely wrong for us and we COULD end up 5-7 points behind.
With Jelavic, Fellaini, Naismith, Oviedo, Pienaar all available there's a fair bit of pace in the Everton team and if we start the game at the slow pace as we have done of late then they can cause us major problems (Vellios and Mirallas are good options from the bench as well).
Likewise defending set pieces; Fellaini, Distin and a few others could create unwanted headlines about our zonal marking system, we have to be completely on the ball (pardon the pun) on Saturday.
There's certain teams we can get away with below par performances against, Everton are certainly not one of them. They'll beat us unless we're up for it and at our best. We know they'll treat it like their cup final, they do up their game for City, rags, Chelsea etc so we have to treat it like ours as well.
Anyway, if we get the next two games out of the way and we're either on top or within touching distance of the rags, we've got a good few "winnable" games coming up afterwards.
It was December we lost our first game last season and until April time I think it's fair to say our season never quite took off again with the exception of the odd game. Hopefully this December we can up it a notch and get a solid place at the top of the league, starting Saturday.
Agree Cyprus, absolute nonsense. Happened right in front of where I sit. Cahill tried to 'do' Vinnie and came off second bestcyprustavern said:ImBlue said:Kompany tried to break Cahill in two. How he wasnt sent off is beyond me, he was through on goal as well.
rubbish...it was near the half way line and cahill went in hard and came off worse
ayrshire_blue said:I don't think it's possible to over emphasise how important our next 2 league games are in respect to how our season might shape up. We've got the possibility of being top of the league a week come Sunday but there's also the real possibility that these fixtures could go completely wrong for us and we COULD end up 5-7 points behind.
With Jelavic, Fellaini, Naismith, Oviedo, Pienaar all available there's a fair bit of pace in the Everton team and if we start the game at the slow pace as we have done of late then they can cause us major problems (Vellios and Mirallas are good options from the bench as well).
Likewise defending set pieces; Fellaini, Distin and a few others could create unwanted headlines about our zonal marking system, we have to be completely on the ball (pardon the pun) on Saturday.
There's certain teams we can get away with below par performances against, Everton are certainly not one of them. They'll beat us unless we're up for it and at our best. We know they'll treat it like their cup final, they do up their game for City, rags, Chelsea etc so we have to treat it like ours as well.
Anyway, if we get the next two games out of the way and we're either on top or within touching distance of the rags, we've got a good few "winnable" games coming up afterwards.
It was December we lost our first game last season and until April time I think it's fair to say our season never quite took off again with the exception of the odd game. Hopefully this December we can up it a notch and get a solid place at the top of the league, starting Saturday.