Newman123
Well-Known Member
You should probably be more worried about City considering our record against them. We also play a similar brand of football and if City are in top form they play it better than us. Rodri is great but watching yesterday shows he cant do it all by himself. I think a Rice-Jorginho-Ode midfield would be good but we''d be even better if we had a fit and on form Partey in place of Jorginho. I still think a fit on form Partey is the closest player to Rodri.I'm actually more worried about Spurs away than City away! Don't get me wrong, City away is as tough as we get but we will go into that fully focused and with every tactical detail taken care of whereas Spurs away is an emotional wreck of a match with red cards and injuries that you often can't prepare for. I guess saving grace is that Angeball is high line stuff and so we should be able to engage the wide men well there.
With City, if their players are all 100% on it, particularly KDB, Silva and Foden then they'll have too much for us particularly if their best player Rodri (yes I've said it, for me Rodri is their best player over the others I've mentioned) has a monster match (I don't think they've lost for over 50 games when he's been in the team!). City are vulnerable at the back this season but if Rodri bests Rice in the middle it's all moot.
Spurs, we are better than them and I know the way we have been playing we tend to show that in our results. If they go gungho then Martinelli and Saka will have a field day. I also see our team keeping their heads more than Spurs will.