The Manchester Derby Pre Match Discussion Thread

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

We would dominate the midfield as long we don't play that Spanish girl with a lot of facial hair.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

At the start of the week, the talk was Clichy & Silva not being fit. Now, it seems they both are, and United have Vidic, Cleverley, Anderson, Nani, Valencia & Kagawa injured.

It means one of Scholes, Fletcher or Jones will be partnering Carrick in DM for them, which can only be a good thing for you.

There's no reason why yuou shouldn't be beating United on Sunday. None whatsoever.

Are all three of Kagawa, Nani and Valencia definitely out? I thought Valencia and Nani were just 'doubts'. Would help us if so.

Hart, Zab, Kompany, Nastastic, Clichy, Milner, Barry, Yaya, Aguero, Silva Tevez.

Vs

De Gea?, Rafael, Smalling, Ferdinand, Evra, Fletcher/Jones, Scholes, Young, Rooney, RVP, Wellbeck/Hernandez

 

[Didsbury Dave]

This thread is encouraging me.

In fact I'd go so far as to say that if Clichy and Silva are fit we will win.

What we need is fluidity in attack so no Nasri, please. I actually think I'd leave out Tevez for this reason, too. We need to attack at speed and not have these two slowing things up.

4231, I'd actually go with this:

Zab............Komps......Nasty..........Clichy

..............Milner...............Barry..............

........Silva............Yaya..............Balotelli

.........................Ageuro.....................

Contraversial I know but gives us pace and power on the counter attack.

 

[Josh Blue]

This thread is encouraging me.

In fact I'd go so far as to say that if Clichy and Silva are fit we will win.

What we need is fluidity in attack so no Nasri, please. I actually think I'd leave out Tevez for this reason, too. We need to attack at speed and not have these two slowing things up.

4231, I'd actually go with this:

Zab............Komps......Nasty..........Clichy

..............Milner...............Barry..............

........Silva............Yaya..............Balotelli

.........................Ageuro.....................

Contraversial I know but gives us pace and power on the counter attack.

I actually agree with this and would like to see this team line up on Sunday. However your spelling of controversial is incorrect.

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

Any news on Silva/Milner?

 

[Didsbury Dave]

However your spelling of controversial is incorrect.

I couldn't be less arsed if you pumped me full of Valium, played me a Pink Floyd album, rolled me a Camberwell Carrot and tickled my feet with an ostrich feather for 2 hours.

 

[Middlesbrough_Blue]

At the start of the week, the talk was Clichy & Silva not being fit. Now, it seems they both are, and United have Vidic, Cleverley, Anderson, Nani, Valencia & Kagawa injured.

It means one of Scholes, Fletcher or Jones will be partnering Carrick in DM for them, which can only be a good thing for you.

There's no reason why yuou shouldn't be beating United on Sunday. None whatsoever.

RV fucking P

Ill be happy if Kagawa and Valencia are out, Those two are threats.

If they play with either Scholes or Giggs then I will be happy

 

[moomba]

At the start of the week, the talk was Clichy & Silva not being fit. Now, it seems they both are, and United have Vidic, Cleverley, Anderson, Nani, Valencia & Kagawa injured.

It means one of Scholes, Fletcher or Jones will be partnering Carrick in DM for them, which can only be a good thing for you.

There's no reason why yuou shouldn't be beating United on Sunday. None whatsoever.

A bit simplistic that. Plenty of reasons why results don't turn out like you'd expect, football is played on grass not paper.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

At the start of the week, the talk was Clichy & Silva not being fit. Now, it seems they both are, and United have Vidic, Cleverley, Anderson, Nani, Valencia & Kagawa injured.

It means one of Scholes, Fletcher or Jones will be partnering Carrick in DM for them, which can only be a good thing for you.

There's no reason why yuou shouldn't be beating United on Sunday. None whatsoever.

RV fucking P

Ill be happy if Kagawa and Valencia are out, Those two are threats.

If they play with either Scholes or Giggs then I will be happy

Never say things which have potential to come back and bite you on the arse mate, especially on derby day!

 

[LHarper]

This thread is encouraging me.

In fact I'd go so far as to say that if Clichy and Silva are fit we will win.

What we need is fluidity in attack so no Nasri, please. I actually think I'd leave out Tevez for this reason, too. We need to attack at speed and not have these two slowing things up.

4231, I'd actually go with this:

Zab............Komps......Nasty..........Clichy

..............Milner...............Barry..............

........Silva............Yaya..............Balotelli

.........................Ageuro.....................

Contraversial I know but gives us pace and power on the counter attack.

Good starting XI (same as the Sick Swan apart from Zaba and Nasty), and I'm hoping Yaya gets back to dominating a game in that attacking midfield position.

Agree with what you say about Nasri too, he seems to want to beat himself more often than not.

Mario will have to play a lot like Tevez with regards to defending from the front to justify his inclusion IMO.