Yep, we've been headless chicken. First match vs Arteta and somehow it influenced Pep and players.I truly didn't expect us to lose to Arsenal last season. I was astonished at how poor we were. And how relatively good they were. Anything can happen. If we want this trophy — and for me the F.A. Cup still has great prestige — we're going to have to take this tie very seriously.
Yes. Realistically 5 competitive league games with the , hopefully, 9 above. 14 games between now and late May. Time for the strongest team at every opportunityPep has to play our strongest 11,which I think was the starting 11 on tuesday.
We have one league cup game left, a possible 3 f a cup games left and a possible 5 champions league games left.Hopefully players can be rested in the premier league when it's done and dusted.
What Championship side? City dispatched Birmingham quite easily. It was Cheltenham of League Two who caused the most problems for City.I see a lot of names like Torres. Ancelotti is a famed master of cup ties. Since there is an international break coming up (granted many of our players will feature) we do not need to much rotation.
If a championship side were 10 minutes from beating us in a cup tie recently, it would be naive to think that we can just run over Everton and with the form they have shown this season, they will be a very very strong opposition.
I usually pick the team I'd play rather than the reality which Pep might go for. Agree that Steffen will probably be in goal and was thinking about putting Ake in as Canc needs a rest but think this is going to be harder than people think. Heart wants Sergio to start but bring him on from the bench later on in the game....i think pep goes with jesus and aguero again up front steffen will play in goal and laporte and maybe garica or ake will be defenders