Stoke vs. City Pre Match Thread

[kaz7]

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Thought Aguero said he was allright? Ffs

Not by the looks of it, let's hope Bony pulls his finger out tomorrow and not got bullied by stokes centre halves. Least with Yaya out we can keep the Delph,Fernandinho partnership going. Will make us move the ball a lot quicker.

 

[kaz7]

 

[venkatssv]

I believe if Yaya plays it will be a draw and we win if he doesn't....KDB/Kolarov to take free kicks

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Hart
Sagna
Demichelis
Otamendi
Kolarov
Fernandinho
Delph
De Bruyne
Silva
Sterling
Bony

Subs: Caballero, Clichy, Humphries, Fernando, Garcia, Navas, Iheanacho

 

[Bewar3them00n]

Yaya needs a rest, this should be part of a planned phasing out of the once great Yaya, or at least scribble out that "must play every game" clause in his contract, which just wastes his talent by wearing him out.
Silva being back is a great plus, if we can get the penetration down the flanks, and Bony shifts his arse into the box, we might should Stoke over. the midfield enforcers of Delph and Dinho will make us solid in the middle, hope Nacho gets some game time too

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

From the beeb@

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini begins his news conference with a gloomy injury update.
Sergio Aguero, Vincent Kompany, Yaya Toure, Samir Nasri, Pablo Zabaleta and Patrick Roberts are all still out.
However, goalkeeper Joe Hart is in the squad for Saturday's visit to Stoke.
"Joe worked yesterday and today without any problems so he's in the squad list," said the Chilean.

 

[bellsouth]

I hate it when MP says "hopefully back in 2 weeks" - for me this means we won't see Vinnie until January, hope I'm wrong, but god forbid anything happens to Otamendi now.

 

[mancity1]

On the other side of the coin it looks like Crouch will be missing and although he doesn't feature much these days he always gives our defenders trouble for some reason.

Our injuries continue to pile up though and we its long overdue that we get a decent run with them and get those on the sidelines back ASAP.

 

[PragueBlue]

Yes! No Yaya!!!

You might want to cast your mind back to the last time Yaya was away at the African Nations and see how that went. We were joint top going into that period. We were pretty much out of the title race by the time he came back IIRC.