Newcastle vs City pre match Thread

[hutton who blue]

Newcastle are shit, they need the win, they're nervous. We'll pull them apart.

 

[FanchesterCity]

There's a possibility we feel fairly confident of a win and decide to rest a few players... not many, but just enough to lose a bit of our edge.
We go into the game expecting to win with our slightly weakened team and with players who are nervous of getting injured for the CL games.
Then we have Newcastle bouyed by their Swansea result and playing for their PL survival.

We should win this game, but complacency is our enemy as it has been too many times this season. We should stop going into games assuming we will win, but go into them expecting to win if we give 100%.

 

[ojeme]

I wouldn't underrate our performance yesterday as Chelsea hadn't lost in EPL at home under GH prior to the game. Then again,they weren't under pressure but we were, knowing that man u had closed the gap. Considering how poor we have been at times this season vs worse opposition and that even though Chelsea are in a difficult time, still have world class or near world class players in their ranks, I'll say kudos to the CBs, our Brazilian wonder, the big fella, our front 4 and indeed everyone else. That said, id like them to maintain their focus in the
remaining games. In fact if this fixture was to be played 2 months ago,with our patchy form at the time, the best we would've gotten would've been a scrappy draw but hey we did win away vs Chelsea at a Stamford bridge by 3 unreplied goals. I have no complaints whatsoever. The boys deserve some praise as this was no straight forward game by any stretch.
It's well documented that KDB'S return
and then Nasri's turned our season around for good but we have not realized that KDBs playing in the hole is another factor to our renaissance of late. This guy is a chance creating machine and I only wish MP had tried this earlier. Be that as it may we have a task of finishing on a very strong note even though I think the title is all but gone.

 

[ojeme]

It was great result at Chelsea, but it looked like a pre-season game compared to the Norwich Sunderland game. There might have been some great periods of passing but it was played with very little commitment. I hope City's players realise what it's going to be like at SJP. We need an early goal to deflate them and take the heat out of the game

I think we made it look easy. Thanks to our red hot form

 

[sir baconface]

We need to be up for this one, then quality will be the deciding factor.

An early goal from Kun would knock the arse out of them.

 

[Oystercatcher28]

This'll go one of two ways, they'll do a Villa on us and grind out a nil nil, or we'll tear them a new one.

 

[tonea2003]

the mere fact they have to win means they have to come at us, and will open vast swathes of space for us to exploit their dodgy back line.

get it right as we should and we could win by a least couple

 

[aguerrrroooooooooooo]

It will be tense I think as Newcastle will desperately want to get something from the game. I think we'll nick a one nil win with kdb getting it and dragging us over the line

 

[Marvin]

I think we made it look easy. Thanks to our red hot form

It did look easy eventually but early on it was pretty even, and it had an end of season feel. It did not look like a City v Chelsea game. We took them apart and embarrassed them, but they did not compete. In comparison the relegation scraps were on a different level.

All the comments elsewhere about Newcastle being rubbish miss the point. Yes they have been rubbish for 95% of the season, but these teams (Villa apart) can play like supermen at this time of the season. Suddenly they realise what's at stake and there are no other games to follow.

 

[shemnel]

think we need to be careful of a team fighting relegation, weird shit happens, but any performance even half as good as Saturday's should see us win