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supercity88 said:
Hung said:
Marvin said:
In which case Pellegrini would have probably brought him off after an hour.
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But the fact remains that every minute he was on the pitch in our 4th most important competition, there was a threat of injury, particularly against a side who's only chance against us was to niggle, tackle hard and hope for the best. Sundays game is infinitely more important, as is the Moscow game. So why risk him?
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Based on your idiotic assessment no one would do anything. Football is a physical game. Silva could have dropped a kettle on his foot and been injured. Everyday there is some risk of injury. Loads of players are injured in training. It was a game we wanted to win whether you see it as 4th in terms of importance or not. It was also a game where we could try and put a performance together and address previous poor results. Silva getting injured at any time is a loss. But you are completely blowing it out of proportion and showing no respect to a manager who brought us our best season in decades last time out. We can alter the system to create chances a different way. Yaya can create chances, so can Jovetic, and Nasri, and Milner and Navas. We have more than enough against the rags who aren't particularly good at defending. Calm it down child.
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Oh dear - we are are getting your panties in a twist aren't we? Do you not think it is reasonable to question why our best player is turning out 4 days before one of our biggest games of the season in a competition which, whilst 'important', is 4th on the 'important' list? Why, for example did he not play Kompany and Zabaleta from the start on Wednesday? Resting them for Sunday maybe? I accept that players can get injured at any time, I accept that Pellegrini won two trophies last season and at this very early stage in his so far successful career at City, I certainly wouldn't advocate dismissal etc. However, playing Silva on Wednesday, who has been the stand out player again and again this year, rather than rest him for what will be a series of far more important games, is poor judgement and , for a fan, losing your best player 4 days ahead of the game against your hated rivals in this way, is frustrating.

I'll assume that you are on your bleed at the moment, hence your 'moron' and 'child' quips. Be careful not to burst into tears on Sunday if we're not creating many chances.
 
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The rags simply cannot defend. They struggle when playing against pace and they struggle when playing against more intricate sides. Without Silva we would be better to play Jovetic behind Aguero so that he can draw the defence forward and pick out Aguero. We will create chances and the stats suggest we are due a run of converting them finally! As long as we press the rags and don't allow the ball to get to their forwards we should be able to overrun their defence and beat them. It depends how they setup for the game. This game is won in the midfield and Yaya has battered them in previous seasons and run through them. I am confident that will happen this time out and we will win. Against Chelsea we were very good defensively and I expect the team to step up for this one as well. Silva is a loss but we can cope.
 
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supercity88 said:
The rags simply cannot defend. They struggle when playing against pace and they struggle when playing against more intricate sides.
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That also perfectly describes us of late.
 
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Pellers saying he won't change how we play so anyone hoping for anything other than 442 should get on the valium now
 
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Now that Silva is out, I suddenly find our team line up unpredictable apart from the back four and Hart, hopefully this will work in our favour on Sunday.
 
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pikku said:
Now that Silva is out, I suddenly find our team line up unpredictable apart from the back four and Hart, hopefully this will work in our favour on Sunday.
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Hart
Kompany. MDM
Zabba. Mangala

Dinho. Fernando
Milner.
Yaya.
Jovetic

Aguero

will he have the balls though,the fact Silva is not playing does restrict his choice a little
 
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Falcao confirmed OUT, Rooney IN for United. tbh, despite Falcao being a superior striker I think I'd rather face him given Shrek's tendency to score against us (all-time top scorer in the derby I think).
 
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