United (H) - Sun 6th March, 16:30 | Pre-Match Thread

[kaz7]

Really want ffs to play , he takes the most accurate long range shots of anyone , gundy please , bernie with rodders , cant be that difficult pep !

 

[Mike N]

I’d love Foden to put in a MOTM performance and win a derby all on his own.

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

Really want ffs to play , he takes the most accurate long range shots of anyone , gundy please , bernie with rodders , cant be that difficult pep !

ffs? Do you mean Mahrez?

 

[mancityvstoke]

ffs? Do you mean Mahrez?

ffs yeah

 

[kaz7]

ffs? Do you mean Mahrez?

Yes

 

[DMA's]

Pep once again saying we will play with a low block. Wonder if he will go 4 2 3 1 with rodri and fern both playing. Seem to remember we played that formation away at Leicester once before

 

[Blu3m00n91]

United 7/1….. I thinks 100% worth putting £20 on that

 

[TedofChume]

Just going back to the History forum, and I see to my dismay that during the entire decade of the 90s we did not beat them once in any competition. I had forgotten that. Fuckers.
In the second decade of their hegemony, though, we beat them several times when strictly speaking we had no right to be doing so. In fact, this last decade has sort of reversed that. They've beaten us several times, when they are a markedly inferior team.
Derby day, form goes out the window. Who's most up for it, that's the question.
Reckon Pep's bluffing, when he says he's going to change his tactics. Pep never, ever says in advance what he's doing. He follows Don Vito Corleone's maxim: never let anybody outside the family know what you're thinking.

If it's a crumb of comfort, I seem to remember City beat them 2-0 in a pre-season friendly at Old Trafford in 1999, SWP stole the show!

 

[Bellamy's Caddy]

I’d love Foden to put in a MOTM performance and win a derby all on his own.

Is SWP the last home grown City player to score in a derby game? Agree, would love to see Foden score (at least one) tomorrow.

Incidentally, when was the last hattrick scored in this fixture? Unfortunately the only one that comes to mind is Kanchelskis for them in the 90's. A game I wish I could forget, but is seared in to my memory.

 

[pirate]

Is SWP the last home grown City player to score in a derby game? Agree, would love to see Foden score (at least one) tomorrow.

Incidentally, when was the last hattrick scored in this fixture? Unfortunately the only one that comes to mind is Kanchelskis for them in the 90's. A game I wish I could forget, but is seared in to my memory.

depends if we class Kelechi Iheanacho as home grown.
He spent a year at the academy before stepping up to the first team