Sunderland Vs City Pre match Discussion Thread

[K-Bo]

Fairly unbelievable they played their full strength side tonight, I guess they won so it paid off, but even if we play the same team, they've got a days recovery over sunderland. No excuses if we lose this one lol. No jinx.

 

[jared]

Wouldn't change a thing from Tuesday night. Unleash the beast! 3-1 City.

Rotation is key now. Most successful managers believe this without any doubt. Ferguson, Benitez, mourinho etc. We have a large number of games coming up. No need to burn out players. And with the squad we have, there isn't a large drop on quality anyway rotating some players out

 

[LoveCity]

Wouldn't change a thing from Tuesday night. Unleash the beast! 3-1 City.

Rotation is key now. Most successful managers believe this without any doubt. Ferguson, Benitez, mourinho etc. We have a large number of games coming up. No need to burn out players. And with the squad we have, there isn't a large drop on quality anyway rotating some players out

Well, it's the international break after this weekend and let's be honest, it'll be a glorified 2 week holiday for many of our players with only Nasri and Clichy (WC playoff against Portugal) in a match of great importance. Others will be in friendlies if even called up.

 

[George Hannah]

Wouldn't change a thing from Tuesday night. Unleash the beast! 3-1 City.

Rotation is key now. Most successful managers believe this without any doubt. Ferguson, Benitez, mourinho etc. We have a large number of games coming up. No need to burn out players. And with the squad we have, there isn't a large drop on quality anyway rotating some players out

Well, it's the international break after this weekend and let's be honest, it'll be a glorified 2 week holiday for many of our players with only Nasri and Clichy (WC playoff against Portugal) in a match of great importance. Others will be in friendlies if even called up.

Pity Costel couldn't have made his first team breakthrough a few weeks ago, he'd probably be in the Romanian squad now.

 

[keemcfc]

___________Pantilimon

Richards_Demichelis_Nastasic_Kolarov

________Yaya__Fernandinho

Navas________Aguero______Silva/Nasri

____________Negredo

Hopefully Jovetic and Rodwell can make the bench

 

[Mr Ed (The Stables)]

We'll lose as per normal. You can get odds of 8 to 1 for a Sunderland win I might just have a cheeky couple of quid on that.

 

[dronefromsector7g]

Play our best XI and go for the jugular. Rotation can come later on.

 

[lasereyes]

On paper, City romps away with this one. But we have found very strange ways of losing away games. 3 of our back 4 (barring the Right Back) scare me. In particular, Clichy looks really off - slow and making bad decisions. Lucky the international break will give Kompany an extra rest and hopefully he is 100% for the Spurs game.

 

[FredTilson]

Ha. they managed to beat Soton

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Soton did put out a very weak team though.

 

[Hes the left back remember]

Would give Vinny a bit more time to recover and save him for the Spuds game as long as he doesnt report to Belgium for their 2 friendlies after being out injured with us for 4 weeks should be fine.

sunderland will be up for it but we should have too much for them.