Pre Match Thread | Sunderland v City

[MadchesterCity]

Sunderland v Manchester City

Date: Tuesday 22 September 2015 19:45 BST Away
Competition: Capital One Cup

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MCFC SQUAD NEWS

Squad(from):Caballero, Hart, Wright, Demichelis, Otamendi, Kolarov, Sagna, Fernandinho, Fernando, Zuculini, Navas, Toure, De Bruyne, Sterling, Bony, Aguero
Injuries/Doubtful / Suspensions: Clichy, Zabaleta, Kompany, Mangala! Delph, Silva / Nasri / .

Sunderland Squad News

Squad (from): Pantilimon, Mannone, Stryjek, Jones, van Aanholt, Brown, Kaboul, O'Shea, Coates, Robson, Bridcutt, Cattermole, Larsson, Rodwell, Johnson, Jordi, Gómez, M'Vila, Buckley, Borini, Lens, Defoe, Graham, Toivonen, Gooch

Injuries / Doubtful / Suspensions: Matthews / Watmore, Fletcher / Kaboul??

KEY BATTLES

Sunderland have had a terrible start to the Premier League season and look in real danger of relegation. Their only victory has been in a 6v3 victory {match report} in the League Cup against League Two Exeter City with a Rodwell double and a Defoe hatrick.

• 19 Sep 2015 AFC Bournemouth v Sunderland 2-0
• 13 Sep 2015 Sunderland v Tottenham Hotspur 0-1
• 29 Aug 2015 Aston Villa v Sunderland 2-2
• 25 Aug 2015 Sunderland v Exeter City 6-3
• 22 Aug 2015 Sunderland v Swansea City 1-1
• 15 Aug 2015 Sunderland v Norwich City 1-3
• 08 Aug 2015 Leicester City v Sunderland 4-2

City will look to bounce back after defeat at home versus West Ham in a game which was heavily influenced by the referees inability to manage the game time and keep up with play. A terrible refereeing performance from an overweight referee with a bad attitude. A day when referee performances should be heavily scrutinized after the disgraceful scenes witnessed at Stamford Bridge where Costa made a mockery of the referee and rules of the game.

POTENTIAL LINE UPS

HEAD TO HEAD FIXTURES - Last 10 games

• 03/04/2011 Sunderland H PL 5-0
• 01/01/2012 Sunderland A PL 0-1
• 31/03/2012 Sunderland H PL 3-3
• 06/10/2012 Sunderland H PL 3-0
• 26/12/2012 Sunderland A PL 0-1
• 10/11/2013 Sunderland A PL 0-1
• 02/03/2014 Sunderland N LC 3-1
• 16/04/2014 Sunderland H PL 2-2
• 03/12/2014 Sunderland A PL 4-1
• 01/01/2015 Sunderland H PL 3-2

Further information about the head to head can be found in the Bluemoon History section

You can find the full City team, match reports and Youtube videos here with footage from these matches

Referee Appointments

REFEREE: Roger East | referee history
ASST. REF. 1: Andrew Garratt
ASST. REF. 2: Richard West
4TH OFFICIAL: Darren Bond

FA Premier League 2014/2015 City 3 v 2 Sunderland
I would recommend watching the the 3v2

match in which YaYa and Jovetic scored great goals and 2 City old boys Rodwell and Johnson scored for Sunderland. Johnson scored from the spot after Roger East awarded a penalty for a foul from Zabaleta.

League Cup 2013/2014 Leicester 1 v 3 City

BETTING ODDS - Oddchecker

Sunderland Away was one of the most dreaded fixtures on the calendar for the Citizens; with City going down 1v0 three times consecutively in the last 4 away games. Last seasons 4v1 victory should bring more hope.

For the pessimistic - you can get odds of 19/1 for a Sunderland 1v0 scoreline!

 

[thyer64]

Surely Iheanacho will get a decent run out this time?

 

[MAG]

Surely we can't lose three in a row? Lose here, out of a competition and three loses on the bounce within a week would spell Crisis and confidence will be shattered. Don't think Pelligrini would want that so any chance we had of seeing kids in this cup is gone now, at least for this game, due to the last two games. He will play a strong side ...

Good thing is Spurs who we play next have a tougher derby in the cup and they only play on Wednesday so we should be in better shape physically before the Saturday early kickoff and would have had one extra day in between our games ... but with our current injury list .... who knows!

 

[Blue Smarties]

Iheanacho must start. Aguero needs to rest and Bony needs to fuck off stealing a living.

 

[simon23]

Rest aguero silva and yaya.

Bony up front with the msg now or never in his ear.

And drop navas ...play roberts as roberts has been playing well and navas needs to know he is droppable.

Otamendi with mdm at centre half

Kdb in the silva role along with fernado and fernandihnio

Sterling on the left

 

[Man city fan 72]

OK Manuel, will you have the balls to go for this starting eleven

Caballero

Maffeo. Otamendi. Demichelis. Kolarov


Fernando. Zucculini


Roberts. Sterling


Iheanacho. Bony


Can't see it in a million years tbqh.

 

[Man city fan 72]

Surely we can't lose three in a row? Lose here, out of a competition and three loses on the bounce within a week would spell Crisis and confidence will be shattered. Don't think Pelligrini would want that so any chance we had of seeing kids in this cup is gone now, at least for this game, due to the last two games. He will play a strong side ...

Good thing is Spurs who we play next have a tougher derby in the cup and they only play on Wednesday so we should be in better shape physically before the Saturday early kickoff and would have had one extra day in between our games ... but with our current injury list .... who knows!

Spurs will play their Europa team against Arsenal, make no mistake about it.

 

[kenzie115]

Bad news for us that Kaboul will be suspended.

Glad to see Bony getting lots of support through this poor run of form.

 

[Marvin]

Not sure how SAFC will approach this. They need to kickstart their season, but they are also in desperate trouble. They need to rest players to maximise their chances in the league. SOL will be half empty.

I don't know what kind of team we can field given the injuries.

Nasri, and Navas will probably start. I'd also start Bony and have Aguero on the bench. I assume Willy will start

--------------------Willy
Sagna---Demichelis---Otamendi---Kolarov
----------------Fernando
-----------Yaya Toure--Nasri
-----Roberts-----Bony-----Sterling

We need to do win this

 

[Marvin]

Bad news for us that Kaboul will be suspended.

Glad to see Bony getting lots of support through this poor run of form.

I could not believe it when they bought Kaboul. One of the worst defenders I have seen since the bad old days at City