Watford (H) - Sat 23rd April, 15:00 (BST) | Pre-Match Thread

[PepGuardiola]

Ederson
Cancelo
Dias
Ake
Zinchenko
Fernandinho
Palmer
Gundogan
Sterling
Jesus
Grealish

Watford? Easy big win.


Stones, Dias, KDB, Rodri, Bernardo, Foden, Mahrez, at least rest 3 of them

 

[PragueBlue]

Ederson

Cancelo Dias Laporte Zinchenko

Bernardo Rodri Gundogan

Sterling Jesus Grealish

 

[chesterbells]

La Liga taking care of their CL teams, flying the flag for Spain, just like the Premier League does for the top British teams!

Oh wait…!!!
NUMPTIES!!!

So how does that work then? Have their league postponed/rearranged the fixture they had scheduled for this weekend?

 

[sh249]

Should be straightforward enough, but a tricky one to navigate in terms of selection. Bit short in midfield - be nice to give Bernardo a rest, but Gundogan is clearly fucked and I don‘t really see him doing another 90.

 

[Deleted member 87819]

So how does that work then? Have their league postponed/rearranged the fixture they had scheduled for this weekend?

They scheduled the weekend for the Copa del Rey game, which Madrid isn’t involved. There in only one La Liga game, Barcelona’s, on Sunday.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

They are lively on the counter if you give them a sniff, but I want us to go for it and annihilate them.

Get a couple of early goals and really try to boost our goal difference.

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

Would be good to rest Bernie, Rodri and Phil in an ideal world, but it will be one or two of them at most. Depends if Palmer is ready for a start and how goosed Gundogan is.

 

[DMA's]

This period is really showing how light we are in cm. Ideally we need to protect kdb and Bernardo but at least one will have to start. Maybe they could play 45 each?

ederson

cancelo
dias
laporte
zinky

rodri
gundogan
bernardo/kdb

grealish
jesus
sterling

 

[Seth MCFC]

They will sit back and defend. 11 men behind the ball at all times. Their only hope will be Sarr on the counter, who is quite quick but the most I can see them getting from this game is a draw. We should break them down and win.

 

[Seth MCFC]

This period is really showing how light we are in cm. Ideally we need to protect kdb and Bernardo but at least one will have to start. Maybe they could play 45 each?

ederson

cancelo
dias
laporte
zinky

rodri
gundogan
bernardo/kdb

grealish
jesus
sterling

Might finally see Grealish as a midfielder.