Our weakspot

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Onuoha....Toure....kompany....Bridge

Or:

Richards....Toure....Kompany....Onuoha

Or:

Onuoha....Toure....Kompany....Zabaleta

Or:

Zabaleta....Toure....Kompany....Onuoha

I'd go with one of the ones with Onuoha at LB, to combat Valencias pace, if Bridge isn't fit.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Really, I thought Sunderland were lucky not to lose about 6 -1 to be honest. I take your broader point though. Saturday will be a genuine test compared to the last 3 matches and we will have a much better idea afterwards whether we really are favourites for 4th or not.

Re: Sunderland, yes I know we could have beaten them easily had we taken some of our chances, but we didn't and the reality was it took a wonder goal in the 91st minute for us to scrape a draw. We could EASILY have lost.

And re: me being depressing and hiring myself out for funerals, sorry to sound so negative. I really do think we have improved enormously and I have been a big Mancini fan from the start. It's great to see us playing attractive, attacking football once again. But I am just trying to keep peoples' feet on the ground. Saturday will be much much tougher test than anything we have faced in months. Even when we beat Chelski, they were playing shite. I do not expect the rags to be shite on Saturday - far from it.

-- Thu Apr 15, 2010 2:39 pm --

i agree, we easily could of had 6 or 7 second half.

But we didn't and they were 1-0 up in injury time. I call getting a draw from there quite lucky.

I wouldn't say we were lucky to get a draw at all. We battered them in the 2nd half and they had perhaps 2 or 3 shots all match. Also, we dominated the majority of the Fulham match and deservedly won. I think Sunderland were lucky to get the draw and Fulham would have been lucky if they had got a draw. Depends how you view a game, I suppose. I am quite a pessimistic person but I think your views on those two matches are unneccessarily negative.