Spurs (H) - Thu 19th Jan, 20:00 | Pre-Match Thread

[BufordUSABlue]

It's not just the passing, it's the little pocket of space Silva carried with him

We will never replace Merlin ‘like-for-like’
Sadly

 

[DWIFF]

Bad feeling about this one.
Has Pep ever beaten Conte?

 

[dhruvblue]

Bad feeling about this one.
Has Pep ever beaten Conte?

Yes 2017-18 centurion season. Our win at Stamford bridge away kicked off our great season and at Etihad Chelsea gave one of the most embarrassing performances . Both 1-0 victories to us. It was a dominating win against defending champions who were managed by fake hair clown from Italy

 

[trueblue1972]

Bad feeling about this one.
Has Pep ever beaten Conte?

2 wins 3 losses

 

[chaddblue]

Postponement wouldn't be the worst thing for the team, as I don't think it's a good fixture to play while in bad form, but the travelling fans deserve to know very soon either way. Doesn't look likely to be called off.

Not a chance this is getting called off unless there is a sudden and drastic turn in the weather

It's sunny but cold and all the snow has melted

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

3-0: Hattrick for the Viking, Ederson and Grealish with the assists.

 

[MarsLlama]

Not a chance this is getting called off unless there is a sudden and drastic turn in the weather

It's sunny but cold and all the snow has melted

 

[Blu1]

We have to beat them this time, Arsenal did it twice, rags did it, Newcastle did it, even the dippers beat them, it will be embarassing if we don't.

They all change tactics to do it. Just hope we do too. We can’t allow counter attacks

 

[dhruvblue]

Son has 4 goals this season : 3 against Leicester in Sep and 1 in Jan against Palace and 2 assists in August and September against Soton Brighton. Just 4 matches where je has contributed. Surely we cannot let him play well and run th show again. He has been beyond terrible

 

[Tbilisi]

This is our West Brom at home 2012 moment...unless Pep decides to chase the game at 1-0 up.

 

[lazerblue]

pre World Cup we played how we have for years and Haaland took advantage of huge amount of attempts at goal and chances we created.
post World Cup we now seem obsessed with just getting the ball to him

we seemed to go out of the way NOT to get the ball to him v the rags, the amount of times he made a great run without anybody finding him was criminal

 

[kaz7]

Dreamt last night that we won 4-0, dont put your house on it though

 

[platty7]

Interesting if lloris doesn’t start. He is their captain would be a big statement from conte. Particularly as Forster is utter wank

only good thing forster is good at is time wasting .

 

[Legal Alien]

He's usually bang on lineups for Spurs.

Forster in goal is an interesting one.

We need to keep an eye on that Romero, he's a dirty bastard and i can see him wanting a piece of Haaland.

Pep will have us fired up for this one and i'm feeling confident.

3-1 to us.

COME ON CITY!!!

 

[mdj0520]

Fucking rail replacement bus back to poynton tonight. Don't suppose anyone is driving back down to Poynton area who'd give me a lift? Would obviously chip in for petrol etc.

 

[PistonBlue]

No messing about tonight City. We owe these pricks a good hiding, get it done.

 

[mcfcpride]

Gundogan will start vs. Spurs

 

[pudge]

At least I won't struggle to get to sleep tonight

 

[leithblue]

we seemed to go out of the way NOT to get the ball to him v the rags, the amount of times he made a great run without anybody finding him was criminal

Yeah, I think I touched the ball more than him against United and I was in the house.

It was very strange to watch

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

we seemed to go out of the way NOT to get the ball to him v the rags, the amount of times he made a great run without anybody finding him was criminal

There’s also an element of us being sussed out involved here - we have Haaland as a centre forward but we’re now, in effect, a midfielder down.
We’ve changed the way we play because we have different tools, teams have sussed how best to cope with it and we’ll change it again in response.
Evolution innit.