City vs. Palace pre-match thread

[buckshot]

Is anybody else just hoping they get through warm-ups without losing anybody else to injury?

 

[Damocles]

Down to the bare bones with Sinclair, Boyata and Ambrose on the bench.

4 injuries and we are left with an average bench to be truthful.

Tough game but here's hoping we continue our winning streak.

There's only 25 people in the squad and we have 5 injuries.

Take 20% of anybody else's squad off of them as well and they will struggle too

 

[mancity1]

Is anybody else just hoping they get through warm-ups without losing anybody else to injury?

Lets skip the warm ups and make sure of it.

 

[oasis-city-greek-fan]

Lampard should start .He s great at being in the right place in the right time.His goals against Chelsea and Leicester gave us 4 points

 

[sam-caddick]

I really want to see Ambrose today.

Pelle will play Sinclair before he plays Ambrose. If the young lad comes on and scores the winner I'll finally have a moment to be proud of my middle name

With all due respect to Sinclair, it won't look good on us firstly not starting a youth striker when we have all our seniors out and secondly a youth player not getting on and instead a player who cannot make most of our match day squads gets on the pitch.

We have to start trusting our youth.

 

[Ray78]

I have a good feeling the lads will do the business.

 

[mancity1]

Down to the bare bones with Sinclair, Boyata and Ambrose on the bench.

4 injuries and we are left with an average bench to be truthful.

Tough game but here's hoping we continue our winning streak.

There's only 25 people in the squad and we have 5 injuries.

Take 20% of anybody else's squad off of them as well and they will struggle too

Largely depends on who the injured are.

Having all three strikers out at the same time is hopefully a once in many a blue moon event.

Newcastle have all three goal keepers on the sidelines.

I do take your point but despite the scenario of having to keep as many as possible pleased when you have a full squad available you would much rather that week in week out than have to look at the likes of SInclair etc.

I still think our depth is not balanced as well as it could be.

Hopefully we will address that in the summer.

 

[FredTilson]

People having a go at Pellegrini will at the forefront criticizing him if he plays youth and we lose.

Dammed if he does, dammed if he doesnt.

 

[oasis-city-greek-fan]

I have a good feeling the lads will do the business.

We are in a good form...We are all optimistic because of this...but playing without a striker is harder than we think...

 

[Vienna_70]

People having a go at Pellegrini will at the forefront criticizing him if he plays youth and we lose.

Dammed if he does, dammed if he doesnt.

Well said.

I'm sure Manuel knows more about the relative strengths and weaknesses of our players than anyone on here does and will pick his team accordingly.