City Vs Roma Pre Match Thread

[BlueDeadHead]

Juventus won the league last season. I've watched Juventus struggle against Benfica in the Europa League.

Honestly, Juventus and Roma are on the level of Tottenham, Everton, Newcastle, et al. There's no reason why we cannot win .. if we lose it is because of complacency and we've shown alot of complacency in recent years.

That's just ignorance. Juventus has made deeper runs then we have in the CL in the few years they've been back. I've seen us struggle against the likes of Sporting in the Europa league. Does that mean we're on the same level as Fiorentina, Lazio, Napoli?

Juve and Roma would comfortably be top 4 in the prem, and Juve would seriously challenge for the title. If we sleep on Roma, they will punish us. They seem to have some injury troubles at the moment which is good for us, so hopefully we capitalize, but I cant shake the negativity that seems to go into all our CL games.

That is way over the top. So it would be Us, Chelsea, Juve and Roma comfortably beating out Arsenal, United, Pool, Everton, and Spurs? No way.

 

[Ethan23]

I can see a 1-1... think it will be a case of us underestimating or maybe just a slow start... but can definitely see them scoring first

 

[Chris in London]

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Pjanic

Lower league player.

Pjanic on the streets of Carlisle, Dublin, Dundee, Humberside...

 

[mastermind]

My setup with the ball:

Off the ball:

 

[FanchesterCity]

Juventus won the league last season. I've watched Juventus struggle against Benfica in the Europa League.

Honestly, Juventus and Roma are on the level of Tottenham, Everton, Newcastle, et al. There's no reason why we cannot win .. if we lose it is because of complacency and we've shown alot of complacency in recent years.

That's just ignorance. Juventus has made deeper runs then we have in the CL in the few years they've been back. I've seen us struggle against the likes of Sporting in the Europa league. Does that mean we're on the same level as Fiorentina, Lazio, Napoli?

Juve and Roma would comfortably be top 4 in the prem, and Juve would seriously challenge for the title. If we sleep on Roma, they will punish us. They seem to have some injury troubles at the moment which is good for us, so hopefully we capitalize, but I cant shake the negativity that seems to go into all our CL games.

That is way over the top. So it would be Us, Chelsea, Juve and Roma comfortably beating out Arsenal, United, Pool, Everton, and Spurs? No way.

I agree it's nonsense to be so sure of where they'd be. Two different leagues and very difficult to judge how they'd fair (and vice versa for English teams).
I think over the course of 38 games, they'd probably fair pretty well, but I'm not convinced they are 'comfortably' top 4. I'm not even sure Arsenal are 'comfortably' top 4 of late. City and Chelsea are the only ones who are comfortable, and it's still not beyond either of those to make a hash of things!

 

[MeatHunterrr]

TEAM NEWS @MCFC: Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany (C), Demichelis, Clichy, Navas, Fernandinho, Yaya Toure, Silva, Aguero, Dzeko

SUBS NEWS @MCFC: Caballero, Sagna, Kolarov, Milner, Lampard, Jovetic, Mangala

 

[deano ou812]

No disrespect to Roma,but if we aspire to win the champions league then we should be beating them full stop,and we can't keep throwing out the line we are still learning/inexperienced in Europe...I think we will win 3.1....
Good team,nice to see navas in has been playing well recently...

 

[Rammy Blue]

TEAM NEWS @MCFC: Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany (C), Demichelis, Clichy, Navas, Fernandinho, Yaya Toure, Silva, Aguero, Dzeko

SUBS NEWS @MCFC: Caballero, Sagna, Kolarov, Milner, Lampard, Jovetic, Mangala

Happy with that although thought we'd have gone with AK rather than Clichy.

 

[aguero93:20]

Ffs. Clichy again. Shoot me now.

 

[deano ou812]

Any news on Roma line_up?