FA Cup Semi-Final | City v Chelsea pre-match thread

[ojeme]

Ortega
Akanji Stones Ake Gvardiol
Rodri Kovacic
Foden
Doku Haaland (Alvarez) Grealish
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[Gabriel]

Cole Palmer is going to score the winner in this isnt he?

Possibly. However, it will likely be from the penalty spot, and that apparently doesn’t carry the same weight…

 

[hobbsisablue]

Fucking FA screwing us over for putting this on Saturday.

Think it’s the TV companies that put this on Saturday. The FA, like the Clubs, sold their souls to the devil a long time ago.

 

[Gigant]

Ortega
Akanji Stones Dias Gvardiol
Rodri Nunes
Doku Foden Grealish
Haaland

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

.........................Ortega

.............Walker.....AKanji......Ake

.........................Stones

.................Lewis........Kovacic

Doku.................Bobb............Grealish

........................Alvarez

Trying to get some fresh legs in there. Just cannot envisage any of Haaland, De Bruyne and Rodri anywhere near starting. The bench at best.

 

[cleavers]

Rest everyone of note, get them some fitness back, and concentrate on the PL.

 

[JV63]

The state of some of the defeatist half arsed johnny come lately snowflakes commenting on this thread. FFS get a grip and grow a pair. Chelsea are a mid table team with a lot of injuries and spend as much time fighting each other than for each other. We are unbeaten in 20+ games - I don't count penalties - are the current Treble and World Champions have almost 3 days between games and 5 days to the Brighton match. Ortega/ Stones/Ake/Doku/Kova will come in and will be fresh, which hardly weakens us and Walker/Foden/Berni will likely play having not played on Saturday. The big question is can we get 75 mins out of Rodri. I am going with my mates as I always do and expect us to win, as I always do. Hopefully I'm not sat next to some of the absolute wet wipes throwing in the towel in on this thread. Can't be arsed with you.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Not fancying us for this after 120 minutes of trying to batter down Madrid's defence. We looked absolutely fucked in extra time and Saturday is too soon for us to have fully recovered. Team wise I think it will be: Ortega, Lewis, Stones, Ake, Gomez, Nunes, Kovacic, Bobb, Grealish, Doku, Alvarez

I agree with all of this. We have no choice but to fully rotate and it may well cost us the tie. Not doing so could cost us both trophies and the league is priority now.

 

[cleavers]

I agree with all of this. We have no choice but to fully rotate and it may well cost us the tie. Not doing so could cost us both trophies and the league is priority now.

Whoever is fit, whoever he picks, we simply MUST avoid extra time.

 

[kun]

Ortega
Akanji Dias Aké
Lewis Kovačić
Doku Bobb Álvarez Grealish
Haaland​