Sporting CP (A) - Tue 5th Nov, 20:00 | CL | Pre-Match Thread

Match Result Prediction?

  • Win

    Votes: 193 51.3%

  • Draw

    Votes: 104 27.7%

  • Loss

    Votes: 79 21.0%
  • Total voters
    376
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With our midfield set up not looking quite right at present, both defensively and creativity wise. It would be a welcome boost for Kdb to get some game time tomorrow, would love to see him start but not sure if that will happen.
 
Cellarite said:
Give over. Why is it suspicious? How many times have we heard that a manager is leaving and a new one coming in long before its happened? We knew all the way through Italia 90 that Bobby Robson was leaving England for PSV. We knew for the last months of Pellegrini's reign that he was being replaced by Pep. Amorim has a notice period, United have negotiated a price to release him, Sporting have asked for a couple of weeks to get a new man in and have three games before the international break. Nothing to see here.
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They don't normally have press conferences though.

I heard snippets on the news on Friday of his appointment as was out all day. I fully expected the new bloke to be in charge straight away but he stays for some more games!

It's an odd situation, comes across as a typical Rag knee jerk decision.

They claim to be holding all the cards and of giving him an ultimatum but it looks more like he told them when he would start!
 
Despite the injury situation, City can go anywhere with confidence and get a good result. Bournemouth was disappointing, tried to contain rather than being positive, need to be more positive and aggressive. The tackling was non-existent on Saturday.
If the team press, are strong and pass faster and more accurately this is winnable.
If we sit back hoping something will happen, well, …. Some players need to grasp the opportunity now…
 
Gone for a Burton said:
This new format just doesn't seem right.

For example, we've been in the CL for 15 consecutive seasons,2 finals winning one,semi finals, quarter finals and the highest coefficients.

Villa have never qualified for the CL & finished 4th last season but some how have got a much easier group than City who have Inter, Juve,PSG & Sporting, three of which are away.

It doesn't seem to be based on merit,coefficients or random picks.

Surely some form of seeding at this stage would be more sensible ?
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Juve aren’t a good side anymore, haven’t been for a good few years now.
 
With the injuries and ake and akanji not being fully fit, I'd leave them both out of this, we can deal with them not playing here, a loss makes no difference really anyway but not having them available for Brighton would be a disaster. Start both Wilson-esbrand and Simpson-pusey with gvardiol in between them then walker on the right if he's good.

Ortega
Walker
Simpson-pusey
Gvardiol
JWE
Kovacic
Lewis
Nunes
Foden
Bernardo
Haaland

Nunes and Lewis in midfield anchored by kovacic, get some energy in midfield, foden and bernardo drifting in from wide then we've got impact from doku and savinho and potentially kdb from the bench if any of them are good to play a part.

I know Pep loves to state hes only ever thinking about the next game ahead but Brighton has to be the priority.
 
Think it's obvious Pep checks twitter and other social media and checks out the shit that people are saying.

He came out swinging for the team, and individual players like Walker, in his press conference.
 
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