Spurs Vs City pre match thread.

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waspish said:
Sherwood will pack the midfield I have no doubt all this 2 up front wing play will go out the window against us
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that would be my guess too, he is still in his job interview phase...doesnt want to fuck it up shipping 6 goals.
 
Spurs have had a recent resurgence and they are now being more attacking. They're new manager is still on a good run and things are going well for them. They are at home and therefore will be under pressure to attack us and to right the 6-0 defeat from earlier in the season. I think all of these things will work against them. If they do come and attack us we can counter and I think if we score first it will be comfortable. Spurs are on a good run without being unplayable, whereas at times we are exactly that. A ground we have improved on in recent seasons, I think we can go and win. Pellegrini will certainly believe we can and that will be the difference.
 
It's gonna be a very difficult game, to start off with the most obvious remark I could think of. They are at home (always a tough place to go to) and on a good run regaining some confidence since the departure of AVB. Adebayour will be up for this one and when he is, he is dangerous opposition.

We have had relatively easy matches provided the opportunity to rotate without ever playing our stringest line-up. At Spurs we will have the strongest line-up ready to start. And it'll be a stronger line-up to the one when we played Spurs at home.

If we win we make a big statement towards the upcoming awayfixtures. We are playing with a mood lately that says we will win every match. Even though we are on such an immens run the opposition hardly dropped any points themselves, so we need to get the 3 points. No matter what ...
 
Our next 2 games are games against teams who are 3rd (Spurs) and 2nd (Chelsea) in the form table.
Sherwood has done a good job and turned it around for them.
If he's watched any City game this season then Sherwood will play 4-3-3 against us and get as many forwards up against our defence as quickly as possible.
 
They have tightened at the back and they needed to.

Top four is the minimum target for them this season given their early demise in both Cups and the likelihood they will come up short in Europa.

Their only major challenge so far since Sherwood took over they came up well short namely Arsenal in the Cup.

Their win at Southampton was a top effort but Swansea away in free fall and crippled with injuries was nothing to get too excited over.

Again it will be more what we do than what they do but we will need to up the anti a bit to come away with a win which we can do.

If we are at our best Spurs cannot expect anything but a loss.
 
If Fernandinho keeps Eriksen quiet and Adebayor is marked into a sulk, there's no reason we shouldn't be quite comfortable: 3-1 City!
 
Only really rate eriksen of there attacking players so for me this game is where yaya needs to stand up if he does he, ll win the game on his own for us.
 
All these talks about spurs coming to attack us and taking a revenge is making me extra happy !

We would beat them again but this time its going to be 0-4 !
 
whp.blue said:
I genuinely believe if we keep a clean sheet we will get at least a point
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I can't make my mind up whether this is the dumbest thing I have ever read, or a Clarkie?
 
blue b4 the moon said:
Andre (get a proper name) Marriner.

He's likely to be swayed by a lively home crowd. We need to get them quite earlydoors.
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WHL will be like a bear pit, unless we manage to get a substantial lead.

I expect a difficult game.

I'd go with

...Hart

Zab...............................Vinnie..............DMC...................Clichy

...................................Fern........................Garcia

...........Navas....................................................................Silva....

.......................................Yaya.........Sergio


Don't think Negredo will be fit or Jovetic fit enough to start so I'd push Yaya forward: if we start to get overrun in midfield, Yaya is a much better option to be moved back into midfield to help out than Dzeko but carries a similar goal threat and a greater ability to retain possession.
 
Negredo fit, Milner, Garcia and Nasri all injured according to Pellegrini.
 
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