Derby Pre Match thread

[waspish]

I think we will miss Navas

Maybe but the way Lvg sets his team up can't see them coming out of there half

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Happy with the extra body in the middle.

Same team as Spuds away, though, outside of Bony for Sergio?

Navas and Mangala can consider themselves unlucky.

Hope Otamendi and Vinny keep calm and no cheap early bookings.

 

[kaz7]

big test for otamendi today.

Needs to not do one of his on the floor tackles

 

[SWP's back]

He's got the most important part right and that's the midfield. United have predictably gone with 3 in there we absolutely had to match them to stand a chance. We have so well done to him for finally realising that. However the decision to put Otamendi ahead of Mangala is worrying for me. He's been crap so far, we've now got two centre halves that love to ive in unnecessarily and he's a red card waiting to happen today. I'm not a Navas fan but i would of played him instead of either Sterling or Bony.

I think Otamendi reads the play better.

I'd have started this team.

To drop Sterling after his last league match would make very little sense wouldn't it.

 

[5948947]

their back 4....

 

[Chi-town blues]

Looks like a tight game. I will gladly take a point .

 

[Champions2012!]

komps is in thank god

 

[sh249]

Pretty surprised at that - Otamendi over Mangala seems a strange one, and I expected Navas to be in. Not overstruck by having Fernando in either - let's hope Yaya can have more of an influence from that more advanced position than he has on previous occasions when he's started there in the past couple of seasons.

But all that said: I still expect us to win, and fairly comfortably - provided, of course, that we turn up with the right attitude. A good start will be important - get them on the back foot and put them to bed early.

 

[deano ou812]

Is mangala on the bench ? Happy with the line up but just would have liked mangala in there instead,hope I'm proved wrong and ottamendi like the other ten has a blinder today and even pops up with a goal....

 

[malg]

Good midfield for the Rags - no excuses. That must be full strength for them?

As I just said in another thread, no hiding place today. Time for Sterling to prove he's worth £49m. KdB needs to be brilliant today, and Bony needs to run himself into the ground.

As is usual on Derby day, I'm shitting it.