City Vs Roma Pre Match Thread

[tonea2003]

Very unlikely lineup for us.

Florenzi will start on the right, Gervinho on left while Totti will play as "falso nueve" in the middle.

Torosidis should play on the left, but if I were superstitious I would play Cole. He's got a record of 14W-5D-2L in 21 fixtures against CIty, not that bad if you believe in those kind of things.

Gervinho-Totti-Destro would be arrogant and I tactical mistake in terms of pace, but I'll sure love it. Francesco and Mattia have got an amazing chemistry going on, they probably date even though they're both married.

not being funny mate but if the teams are anything like the above there will be questions asked if we don't win

There will be questions asked anyway you either lose o make a statement.

Anyway our starting linep would look like this:

De Sanctis
Maicon Manolas Castan Cole
Pjanic De Rossi Strootman
Iturbe Totti Gervinho

A hell of a difference compared to the other, which is by the way incorrect almost 100%, both in terms of starters and consequently bench players available.

I'm sorry mate to disappoint you with that, that's what we've got left.

we shall see

 

[nikoman]

I truly expect a smashing victory today and a burst of confidence after that. Roma is a very good team, but today City will show champion stuff.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

City team almost picks itself for me. The questions in Peler's mind would be as follows:

Mangala or MDM = I can see MDM getting the nod in view of his experience although its almost too close to call and most fans would go for the aggression of Mangala.
Clichy or Kolarov = I think Clichy keeps his place.
Milner or Navas = I think Milner but its very close and whoever doesn't play will surely come of the bench.
Lampard = Tempting to go with his experience and he will be well rested but the team is to strong.
Jovetic = Too soon after injury and no obvious space for him so i expect him to play of the bench.

 

[mastermind]

City team almost picks itself for me. The questions in Peler's mind would be as follows:

Mangala or MDM = I can see MDM getting the nod in view of his experience although its almost too close to call and most fans would go for the aggression of Mangala.
Clichy or Kolarov = I think Clichy keeps his place.
Milner or Navas = I think Milner but its very close and whoever doesn't play will surely come of the bench.
Lampard = Tempting to go with his experience and he will be well rested but the team is to strong.
Jovetic = Too soon after injury and no obvious space for him so i expect him to play of the bench.

Clichy is a disaster . I fail to see why he gets to play so many games. He got skinned by a hull city player just before the mangala own goal. That whole left side is open thanks to Gael Clichy. Kolarov I think is the better defender and better attacker as well.

 

[leighton]

I went for a 4-0 win to City tonight. Think we are going to put on a show tonight after a Bayern game then to kick on from that. The game tonight if we start well we could run up a big score.

 

[sgerlat]

City team almost picks itself for me. The questions in Peler's mind would be as follows:

Mangala or MDM = I can see MDM getting the nod in view of his experience although its almost too close to call and most fans would go for the aggression of Mangala.
Clichy or Kolarov = I think Clichy keeps his place.
Milner or Navas = I think Milner but its very close and whoever doesn't play will surely come of the bench.
Lampard = Tempting to go with his experience and he will be well rested but the team is to strong.
Jovetic = Too soon after injury and no obvious space for him so i expect him to play of the bench.

Mangala's aggression and phisicality is something Totti would rather avoid, but it does open up some space behind for the driving cutter.

 

[pikku]

If we don't win this,well the team can forget about the champions league this season.Roma are an in form team and truly baffling to see a lot of people over here under estimating them.Even if we win,i fully expect it to be a hard fought victory.A lot of players in our team have yet to perform well in the european competitions,lot of them seem to be fazed by the champions league.Anyway my team to face Roma would be..JH..VK..MD..AK...FER..YT..JM.....JN...DS...ED/SA..Come on City...

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

City team almost picks itself for me. The questions in Peler's mind would be as follows:

Mangala or MDM = I can see MDM getting the nod in view of his experience although its almost too close to call and most fans would go for the aggression of Mangala.
Clichy or Kolarov = I think Clichy keeps his place.
Milner or Navas = I think Milner but its very close and whoever doesn't play will surely come of the bench.
Lampard = Tempting to go with his experience and he will be well rested but the team is to strong.
Jovetic = Too soon after injury and no obvious space for him so i expect him to play of the bench.

Clichy is a disaster . I fail to see why he gets to play so many games. He got skinned by a hull city player just before the mangala own goal. That whole left side is open thanks to Gael Clichy. Kolarov I think is the better defender and better attacker as well.

I do agree that the left side is weak deffensively and left back our weakest position but Kolarov doesnt significantly improve things for me. Kolarov on a bad day is no different to Clichy on a bad day. I'd give Clichy a run but there is very little in it.

 

[watbur]

We're in trouble with only 9 men then.

 

[bluevengence]

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