next two prem games

[Chippy_boy]

For me, the biggest question is whether we can maintain our scintillating form after the international break. It's funny (actually, bloody annoying) how you can be playing brilliant football and then you have a break and one or two players come back injured or just knackered and somehow the momentum is lost and you look like a different side.

If we play like we have in the first 4 games, we will have 18 points after the next 2.

 

[rnblade]

I hope the guys return from Country duties and maintain the focus they had for the previous games.
We threw away points last season against 'lesser quality' teams. We need to bag all the points we can as early as possible. It's a long season with lots of matches(hopefully).
Come on city, keep the pressure on the others to catch us up.

 

[Bewar3them00n]

Don't change the team, Navas, while not having his best day last time out, will offer a definite counter attacking threat, bring KDB on with 20 to go, maybe give him a full home debut next home game.
Zaba will only come in for Sagna if he either gets injured, or his form dips, Zab understands this more than anyone.
We will be a test of any team right now, with a reinvigorated Kompany running a tight ship, Yaya up for it, and a now up to speed Aguero after the international break, confidence is high, and rightly so, fear no one, and relish the challenge!!!

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

Bad news for delph hope he gets well soon cant wait for these two games hopefuly see ottamendi and de bruyne and get two good results.

 

[sam-caddick]

These two will tell us all we need to know about our mentality this season in my opinion.

A season of fight or a season of inconsistency because of complacency, I am hoping for the former.

 

[avoidconfusion]

Looks like Delph has been signed to keep our Medical team occupied since we moved Jovetic on?

 

[Sergio Picasso Aguero]

Assuming that Zabaleta, Sagna, Clichy and Fernando are unavailable.


vs Crystal Palace (A)

................................Hart..............................
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Maffeo..........Kompany..........Mangala..........Kolarov
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.......................Touré..........Fernandinho.............
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Navas.........................Silva......................Sterling
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...............................Aguero.............................


vs West Ham (H)

.................................Hart..............................
.....................................................................
Maffeo..........Kompany..........Mangala..........Kolarov
.....................................................................
.......................Touré..........Fernandinho.............
.....................................................................
De Bruyne...................Silva.........................Nasri
.....................................................................
...............................Aguero.............................


Navas and Sterling will be crucial away at Palace for their pace on the counter attack as will their defensive work as Palace play with 2 very attacking wingers (Zaha, Bolasie) I would replace Navas with De Bruyne for West Ham for the cutting edge he brings which will be necessary to unlock the 2 banks of 4 Bilic will employ against us like he did away at the Emirates and Anfield. Nasri provides ball retention which is important because we'll need to be patient against a stubborn defence and our tactic will probably be to wear them down gradually similar to the way we beat Villa at home when we won the title in 13/14. Also think resting Sterling would be a good idea for this game due to the busy schedule coming up with the Champions League and League Cup. Hoping our momentum will carry us through these 2 games and we will be edging ever closer to breaking Arsenal's consecutive wins record.

 

[MC ID]

Shame about Delph but I see no reason to change things up until we need to, if we continue in the same vain of form we should win both matches. Dare I say after the internationals it looks like Aguero might actually be in better form.

 

[sam-caddick]

Shame about Delph but I see no reason to change things up until we need to, if we continue in the same vain of form we should win both matches. Dare I say after the internationals it looks like Aguero might actually be in better form.

Aguero if he plays tonight will have played 6 games going into the next part of the season which is the same amount of games we played in pre-season so hopefully he will have had his pre-season out of the way and is ready to kick on now.

Big concern for me is our full back positions, especially right back because if Sagna is indeed injured can see Bolasie running riot if we don't setup correctly on Saturday.

Same goes with Juventus.

Zabaleta should be back for West Ham if he was correctly ruled out for a month.