Swindon Town (A) - FA Cup 3rd Round - Fri 7th Jan, 20:00 | Pre-Match Thread

[feelymcfeel]

Strong bloody team that.

 

[Trickyblues]

If Dias, Cancelo, Rodrigo or De Bruyne pick up injuries tonight I will be furious. They should all have been cotton balled.

There’s probably equal or more chance of them picking up an injury in the Chelsea game because they haven’t played for 2 weeks tbh

 

[BringBackSwales]

I'm hoping KDB will be playing the false 9 and Bernardo in CM and not the other way round.

I always feel more confident seeing Bernardo, Rodri and Gundogan as our three in CM. It has the perfect balance and leaves KDB free to wreak havoc further forward.

I’m hoping it doesn’t matter

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

We really couldn't manage to give McAtee a start here? We don't do ourselves any favors when it comes to getting young players to sign new deals.

I know. Look at that Sancho bloke compared to that Foden bloke...

 

[samuelyeboah]

Foden was starting basically every single one of these at 19, the man already started getting off the bench at 17. McAtee is already 19 (and 3 months!)

I know there's a very lazy tendency to compare, but at least make the comparison fair.

Seriously, let's take a look
Foden was born on may 2000, McAtee October 2002, so the equivalent season for the stage of his career for McAtee would be Foden's 19/20 season.

Phil Foden - Detailed stats

These are the detailed performance data of Manchester City player Phil Foden. The website contains a statistic about the performance data of the player.

www.transfermarkt.com

He played 90 minutes in almost every carabao cup game (including the final), played 800 minutes in the league, 250 in the CL and 230 in the FA cup.

In comparison, McAtee has 22 minutes of senior football.

McAtee is getting maybe 5% of the minutes foden was getting at his age, this isn't comparable. If he were getting foden minutes, that'd be something else.

 

[jimharri]

Disappointing not to see McAtee and Lavia not in the starting XI. How are these lads supposed to get experience?

 

[Trickyblues]

Disappointing not to see McAtee and Lavia not in the starting XI. How are these lads supposed to get experience?

If we’re up by a few at half time they’ll probably be subbed on

 

[samuelyeboah]

McAtee is nowhere near Foden in term of talents though, there's huge gap between those two in term of talent if we compared them in same age.

that's absolutely not what people are saying, a ton of people are saying they are equally as talented, what you're saying is just not true.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

could be an injury

Isn’t his girlfriend a prominent tinfoil hatter? Could he be refusing to get vaccinated and getting left out as a consequence?

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

We really couldn't manage to give McAtee a start here? We don't do ourselves any favors when it comes to getting young players to sign new deals.

Follow Foden or follow Sancho ? Hmmm, tough choice.