Derby Pre Match thread

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I honestly don't think the rags will be able to live with us, and can see us winning comfortably. If we'd just watched them come off the back of winning league games 6-1 and then 5-1 (without some of their strongest players) we'd have reason to be worried about getting a hiding going into the derby. They know this - don't be fooled by their current apparent lack of concern.
 
steviemc said:
I honestly don't think the rags will be able to live with us, and can see us winning comfortably. If we'd just watched them come off the back of winning league games 6-1 and then 5-1 (without some of their strongest players) we'd have reason to be worried about getting a hiding going into the derby. They know this - don't be fooled by their current apparent lack of concern.
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Hi Stevie, had the same attitude before the swamp derby myself last season, the players will/should definitely won't to eradicate that performance and hopefully our pace like Arsenal should cause them untold problems
 
Sergio Picasso Aguero said:
looking forward to some unbiased commentary from tyler and rat boy
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Tyler is the worst for that shit, he can't help but sound devestated when the scum concede, how sky haven't kicked him out to pasture I have no clue.

He'll be calling the samaritans if we line up similar to Arsenal, we can slaughter them.
 
utd are starting to look a little better under Van gaal.....at least slightly better than they were under moyes

the problem is the loss of silva and kun who both terrorise them on a regular basis, esp silva as the cannt ever get anywhere near him when he is finding those little pockets of space....i don't think we have a player like that to replace him and even though KDB is a very creative player he doesn't do it in this way as much as silva.

Vs bournmouth we looked to have gone more 4-4-2 with sterling alongside bony and Kdb out wider on the left.......i don't think this is what we should do v utd or they will outman us un midfield and they will win.

I think it should be 4-5-1

---------------------Hart-------------

Zabba------Kompanny---Mangala-------Sagna

---------------ferando---------- ferna

Sterling------ ------yaya----------------- KDB

-----------------------Bony--------------------

But i think MP will play navas for starters and he won't drop KDB or yay so he either drops Sterling or fernando.

I have a horrible feeling he will go 4-4-2 or 4-2-2-2 but without silva i don't think this is very wise....

We got dominated in midfield last year at their place and we were awful as MP set the team up wrong. He is restricted this time by injuries but he must adapt when kun and silva are missing and against better teams...it will be fine against the likes of bournmouth but not against utd away.
 
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trotsky said:
i too, am a Euro-sceptic. If there had to be one win and one defeat in our next two games, then it would be a derby win all day long for me.
of course, there's no reason we can't do both...
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Relative to the two competitions...the CL result is more important.
 
goatersnipple said:
have a funny feeling were going to see a repeat of that amazing day.
This time like that game is after the same amount of games.
If we win we will be 5 points in front of them at the top of the league.
The game before that we scored 5 against spurs.
We obviously scored 5 at weekend.
What odds on 6 . 1 again
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Around about the same time of the month too... You could be on to something here :)
 
Guys a word of caution
Im not so sure wether this will be a hammering as some pf you are making out
Yes we play the better football but those bastards always seem to have a strpke of luck somewhere along the line
Just saying lets not be over confident
I hope to high heaven we shut giggs lvg and the rest of them ip on sunday
It may be a bit more harder without kun and merlin though (this keyboard is crap)
 
There's always a lot of bravado before a derby. It's clearly going to be an extremely difficult game, especially without Silva, Aguero, Clichy, Kolarov, Nasri and Delph. I'd be more than happy with a point.
 
I have no degree of confidence that City will win on Sunday for pretty much every reason - injuries, Rooney finally remembering he's a footballer, de Gea having a blinder, linesmen not remembering what offside is, Fellaini having carte blanche.

But then again, I never do expect to beat the swampdonkeys.

One thing I am aware of, if Utd win, it'll be the best victory known to man (and Sky's commentator will need new trousers); if City win, it'll be because we're megarich big-spending football-ruining City, and because Utd's left back is injured.
 
United lack experience and have less top-grade quality than us.

Regardless, they will have organisation and won't be lacking for motivation. They played without width at the weekend to give themselves more of a solid base.

I'm sorry, but those who believe we are going on to the pitch this Sunday in a superior fashion are kidding themselves. There is very little to choose between the two sides presently set up and it will come down to who has the smarter tactics and those few players who can do something out of the ordinary.

As stated previously, their trip to Moscow might play to our advantage, but in this instance, we might need to play the occasion rather than the match, and fight to put the game out of sight inside the first half.

The longer the game goes, the more we leave ourselves open to a hard-luck story.
 
we need to be three or four goals up going in to added time for me to have any faith that we'll win... Do I go in to the scumbag-infested local to watch it or cower behind the sofa?...
 
You have to go on to the pitch believing you are the better team but knowing you will have to be disciplined and work hard to prove that. Nothing wrong with confidence at all, as long as its not mixed with complacency.
 
Think we'll need to score at least 3 to win. Our defending is not great at the moment. And if Utd play as compact as at the weekend, we will have to play very well to break them down without Silva and Aguero. I can see it being 2-2
 
Ric said:
There's always a lot of bravado before a derby. It's clearly going to be an extremely difficult game, especially without Silva, Aguero, Clichy, Kolarov, Nasri and Delph. I'd be more than happy with a point.
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Is Silva definitely out for Sunday? I presume so but they seeme da bit cagey about his return date.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
United lack experience and have less top-grade quality than us.

Regardless, they will have organisation and won't be lacking for motivation. They played without width at the weekend to give themselves more of a solid base.

I'm sorry, but those who believe we are going on to the pitch this Sunday in a superior fashion are kidding themselves. There is very little to choose between the two sides presently set up and it will come down to who has the smarter tactics and those few players who can do something out of the ordinary.

As stated previously, their trip to Moscow might play to our advantage, but in this instance, we might need to play the occasion rather than the match, and fight to put the game out of sight inside the first half.

The longer the game goes, the more we leave ourselves open to a hard-luck story.
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This always. Even when we were shite I always felt we had a chance in a derbygame because it's a derby and in a derby it's hardly ever the qualityside that wins things.
Them lot seems pretty comfortable at home. A win would be a huge bonus for several reasons. The fantastic feeling afterwards tops it everytime whenever we play them no matter the circumstances.
 
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