United (A) - Sat 14th Jan, 12:30 | Pre-Match Thread

Match Result Prediction

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Do we ever have a fully fit defence!

For me this game is all about midfield. Win this battle we win the game. I do worry Bernie & Kev doing what they want will leave huge gaps. Be happy with Gundy & Rodri sitting in for this. I’d sacrifice foden for Bernie right now. I can see Rico having a huge part to play too

Play to our best we destroy them
 
Any sign of Dias as yet? Thought they said 4 weeks and it’s more than that since he played in the World Cup last time.
 
balotelli's back pocket said:
Think it's clear now that Pep tried Walker in the middle with an eye on this game. If he'd done a decent job, I reckon we'd have seen Lewis and Walker both play, with Lewis into midfield and Walker coming out to the right in possession.

Lewis Walker Laporte/Akanji Ake
Rodri

Walker Laporte/Akanji Ake
Lewis Rodri

I would imagine it may well be Lewis Akanji Laporte Ake now.
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I don't know why Pep hasn't tried Rodri & Laporte at cb if we were short on cb's. They play together for Spain in those positions. Thursday would have been a good chance to try it.
 
IronsideKozuch said:
i wish English been my first language, would be easier with some cases in my job;), trying to improve though.

My point was only this - judgments, especially judgments that raises criticism againts againts our manager, are formulated far too easily and without proper knowledge. Supporting club for years, even at its worse, is about loyalty, not about patience or not in our judgments about ongoing reality - evaluating is an intellectual process, where experience is important, but could be also misleading. Thats why its easy to make a judgment about for instance food (i dont like this english breakfast - because this is solely about my experience, tastes), but should be much more complex about so called mistakes made by best ever coach. We (supporters) pretend to know better, although we are not close to training process, actual mood of players and so on. Experience alone without abstract structure of so called thinking could lead to stupid conclusions, for instance: I met rude City supporter, so I think City supporters are rude, even though its not hard to process, that there are thousands of such supporters and their personality may be different etc.

I take Your standpoint and wish You well, my point is this - we have arguably best football coach in history and then, when we do not win every game, we makes charges, that hes making mistakes left and right. In reality we do not even have a basic knowledge, what may be hidden behind particular bad team performance. In my book loyal approach to such times is to acknowledge limited info about a matter and to trust the leader, in this case - Pep. Maybe what appears for me at first sight as a mistake was not, because for example Rodris fitness before Chelsea's final game was very bad, but it had not been disclosed for a public. Margins are also very slim - maybe on less mistake with Havertz goal and one better shor or pass by Gundogan and we would talk about genius Pep in UCL final, not about great and famous mistake?

I refuse charge that I am only a Pep's supporter, because my attachment to City goes well earlier than 2016 or even 2008. Again, to make accusation like this without any factual background, You show that You are able to make this accusation on what factual background exactly? That I defend Pep? Its a bit silly, isnt it?

My accusation in my world had better grounds: do not doubt decisions of arguably best football manager ever because we lost a cup game or team has a decrease in form for a few weeks. This way of judging proofs to be impatient, rush and deprived from factual grounds.
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Thanks for the extended reply and explanation, mate.

Your English is still better than most people who live here ;)
 
We won't be wasteful in possession tomorrow. They will have to attack at some stage, and the crowd won't let them sit off us, waiting to counter attack for the whole game. Ortega, Gomes and Palmer were liabilities against Southampton; they won't start tomorrow.
Worst of the lot was Cancello, and I hope he won't start either. With these disfunctioning, the team was crap, and we never recovered from that first half.
So, over to Pep - we can never second guess him, but you can bet that he'll have some sort of master plan.
Time for the real City to reappear and give the scummy twats another lesson.
Get back in your place;scum!
 
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