Official Manchester City vs Arsenal Matchday Thread

[Andouble]

Early team news: Liverpool do not include Javier Mascherano, after his jaunt to Argentina last week, while Arsenal have Tomas Rosicky on the bench.

 

[GAZ CTID]

According to Key 103 Robinho has a hairline fracture on his ankle and wont be involved. They are saying the sqaud is,

Given

Richards
Toure
Lescott
Bridge

SWP
De Jong
Barry
Ireland
Bellamy

Ade

 

[Miku]

Official:

De Jong and Bellers for Robbie and Tevez.

 

[JULES]

Official:

De Jong and Bellers for Robbie and Tevez.

good news

 

[mcfcdjr]

Wonder if johno will make the bench then ?


Vidal on bench

 

[Andouble]

Man City: Given, Richards, Toure, Lescott, Bridge, Wright-Phillips, Ireland, Barry, De Jong, Adebayor, Bellamy. Subs: Taylor, Onuoha, Zabaleta, Sylvinho, Petrov, Vidal, Weiss.
Arsenal: Almunia, Sagna, Vermaelen, Gallas, Clichy, Bendtner, Song Billong, Fabregas, Denilson, Diaby, van Persie. Subs: Mannone, Rosicky, Eduardo, Ramsey, Silvestre, Eboue, Gibbs.

 

[Outrun]

So that's:
Given,Richards ,Toure,Lescott,Bridge,Wright-Phillips,Ireland,Barry,Bellamy,Adebayor,De Jong

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-------------------------------- Given -------------------------------
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--- Richards --------- Toure --------- Lescott -------- Bridge -------
------------- De Jong -------------------------- Ireland -------------
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--------- SWP ---------------- Ireland -------------- Bellamy --------
------------------------------ Adebayor ------------------------------
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(Used <a class="postlink" href="http://www.notunusual.net/lineup/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.notunusual.net/lineup/</a> )

 

[Omiclops]

Man City: Given, Richards, Toure, Lescott, Bridge, Wright-Phillips, Ireland, Barry, De Jong, Adebayor, Bellamy. Subs: Taylor, Onuoha, Zabaleta, Sylvinho, Petrov, Vidal, Weiss.
Arsenal: Almunia, Sagna, Vermaelen, Gallas, Clichy, Bendtner, Song Billong, Fabregas, Denilson, Diaby, van Persie. Subs: Mannone, Rosicky, Eduardo, Ramsey, Silvestre, Eboue, Gibbs.

 

[Outrun]

Subs: Taylor, Onuoha, Zabaleta, Sylvinho, Petrov, Vidal, Weiss.

Four defenders on the bench! Though Zab can play midfield too.

 

[mcfcdjr]

Even with all money spent and all the stick we have taken we still manage to turn out 6 of the 18 from academy. So thats a 1/3 of our squad are academy players .... for me this is fantastic...COME ON CITY !!!