WBA vs City Pre-Match Thread

[BlueAnorak]

If City win it will break our record for consecutive victories in all competitions that currently sits at 8 (we equaled it against Palace). Probably means bad news for WBA.

 

[jollylescott]

West Brom have some nippy players up front that could cause us trouble on the counter. Varela is a skilful player, and they had Berahino coming off the bench against QPR. He is their top scorer this season. Sessegnon can also cause trouble for us if he has one of those days.

I can therefore see some reason for Dave's premonition that this might be a banana skin game.

I don't anticipate many changes from the team that played the last game. The key for me is that Pellers has to play Fernandinho again. We have not lost a game in over 12 months when Yaya and Fernandinho start the game. We can start Fernando in the following home games and give Fernandinho a rest.

I don't think Fernandinho has got the attention and kudos that he deserves. He completed more passes than Yaya in the Palace game, and his huge engine allows him to cover the ground of two players. So for me he is a must in this game.

So for me it would be the same team, other than the possible return of Clichy over Kolarov. In saying that I am assuming that Jovetic will still be unavailable.

 

[NoahCity]

Hart
Zabaleta
Martin
Mangala
Clichy
Navas
Yaya
Fernandinho
Nasri
Silva
Jovetic

For some reason just not confident about this match. Remember us drawing 0-0 on Boxing Day year we won the league first time. And maybe because lescott is playing.

Whilst over confidence in football is never a good thing, I would like to know why you and a couple of others are not confident or are fearing the worst?

Is it a defence mechanism, in order to nullify any possible disappointment? I am not taking the piss here either because we are are in fine form and WBA are not, so logic would dictate a good result is a strong possibility although anything is possible in football as we all know

Not with me, Ducado. My gut feel is more often positive than negative. There weren't many who felt we'd beat bayern and roma, but I was one.

I just have this sense that we are due a bit of bad luck. There's no real rational reason for it apart from the fact that we haven't had any to speak of for a month or so.

Don't get me wrong. If I was a betting man I wouldn't hesitate to bet on a City win because, even with all of our absences, if we played them 10 times we'd win 7, draw 2 and lose 1. I've just got a daft little gut feel it will be the one and we will get an unjust result.

does losing your whole striker force and captain not count?

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Whilst over confidence in football is never a good thing, I would like to know why you and a couple of others are not confident or are fearing the worst?

Is it a defence mechanism, in order to nullify any possible disappointment? I am not taking the piss here either because we are are in fine form and WBA are not, so logic would dictate a good result is a strong possibility although anything is possible in football as we all know

Not with me, Ducado. My gut feel is more often positive than negative. There weren't many who felt we'd beat bayern and roma, but I was one.

I just have this sense that we are due a bit of bad luck. There's no real rational reason for it apart from the fact that we haven't had any to speak of for a month or so.

Don't get me wrong. If I was a betting man I wouldn't hesitate to bet on a City win because, even with all of our absences, if we played them 10 times we'd win 7, draw 2 and lose 1. I've just got a daft little gut feel it will be the one and we will get an unjust result.

does losing your whole striker force and captain not count?

Haha. Point taken. I meant in terms of the way the ball has run and things fallen on the field of play.

 

[sam-caddick]

Pretty much same team that played Palace, maybe Fernando in for Fernandinho and Clichy in for Kolarov for a more typical alway from home setup.

If we play without a stiker again I think we should see lot of the ball, but we do have to be aware of WBA's counter, Palace did legitimately score a goal against us at 2-0 on Saturday and that was when we were seeing a lot of the ball so we do have to keep focus here, especially considering we are away from home.

We need to be clinical in front of goal again, 3 shots on target, three goals on Saturday, not a lot considering we were at home and possessed a lot of the ball.

I do worry about focus on Boxing Day, it's only natural to feel like you are playing on a day off and it can be a day where surprise results do indeed happen, so like I said before, absolute focus is needed.

Ambrose on the bench please, Manuel!

 

[raymondkl92]

Hart
Zabaleta
Martin
Mangala
Clichy
Navas
Yaya
Fernandinho
Nasri
Silva
Jovetic

For some reason just not confident about this match. Remember us drawing 0-0 on Boxing Day year we won the league first time. And maybe because lescott is playing.

Whilst over confidence in football is never a good thing, I would like to know why you and a couple of others are not confident or are fearing the worst?

Is it a defence mechanism, in order to nullify any possible disappointment? I am not taking the piss here either because we are are in fine form and WBA are not, so logic would dictate a good result is a strong possibility although anything is possible in football as we all know

Not with me, Ducado. My gut feel is more often positive than negative. There weren't many who felt we'd beat bayern and roma, but I was one.

I just have this sense that we are due a bit of bad luck. There's no real rational reason for it apart from the fact that we haven't had any to speak of for a month or so.

Don't get me wrong. If I was a betting man I wouldn't hesitate to bet on a City win because, even with all of our absences, if we played them 10 times we'd win 7, draw 2 and lose 1. I've just got a daft little gut feel it will be the one and we will get an unjust result.

No mate, we'll go toe to toe with Madrid for most Consecutive wins this season.

 

[NoahCity]

Not with me, Ducado. My gut feel is more often positive than negative. There weren't many who felt we'd beat bayern and roma, but I was one.

I just have this sense that we are due a bit of bad luck. There's no real rational reason for it apart from the fact that we haven't had any to speak of for a month or so.

Don't get me wrong. If I was a betting man I wouldn't hesitate to bet on a City win because, even with all of our absences, if we played them 10 times we'd win 7, draw 2 and lose 1. I've just got a daft little gut feel it will be the one and we will get an unjust result.

does losing your whole striker force and captain not count?

Haha. Point taken. I meant in terms of the way the ball has run and things fallen on the field of play.

Ball coming off of Wickham's shin lol. I see your point though. We're just one deflection away from things going pear-shaped. I just think the team will have enough for WBA. Even if they were to get a goal, this side has proven that they have the mental capacity to come back.

 

[Bill]

a must win now those twats fluked a win at stoke.

 

[city saint]

Hart
Zabaleta
Martin
Mangala
Clichy
Navas
Yaya
Fernandinho
Nasri
Silva
Jovetic

For some reason just not confident about this match. Remember us drawing 0-0 on Boxing Day year we won the league first time. And maybe because lescott is playing.

Whilst over confidence in football is never a good thing, I would like to know why you and a couple of others are not confident or are fearing the worst?

Is it a defence mechanism, in order to nullify any possible disappointment? I am not taking the piss here either because we are are in fine form and WBA are not, so logic would dictate a good result is a strong possibility although anything is possible in football as we all know

Not with me, Ducado. My gut feel is more often positive than negative. There weren't many who felt we'd beat bayern and roma, but I was one.

I just have this sense that we are due a bit of bad luck. There's no real rational reason for it apart from the fact that we haven't had any to speak of for a month or so.

Don't get me wrong. If I was a betting man I wouldn't hesitate to bet on a City win because, even with all of our absences, if we played them 10 times we'd win 7, draw 2 and lose 1. I've just got a daft little gut feel it will be the one and we will get an unjust result.

due some bad luck.i would consider all the injurys bad luck,im hoping for some good luck

 

[tonea2003]

Hart
Zabaleta
Martin
Mangala
Clichy
Navas
Yaya
Fernandinho
Nasri
Silva
Jovetic

For some reason just not confident about this match. Remember us drawing 0-0 on Boxing Day year we won the league first time. And maybe because lescott is playing.

Whilst over confidence in football is never a good thing, I would like to know why you and a couple of others are not confident or are fearing the worst?

Is it a defence mechanism, in order to nullify any possible disappointment? I am not taking the piss here either because we are are in fine form and WBA are not, so logic would dictate a good result is a strong possibility although anything is possible in football as we all know

Not with me, Ducado. My gut feel is more often positive than negative. There weren't many who felt we'd beat bayern and roma, but I was one.

I just have this sense that we are due a bit of bad luck. There's no real rational reason for it apart from the fact that we haven't had any to speak of for a month or so.

Don't get me wrong. If I was a betting man I wouldn't hesitate to bet on a City win because, even with all of our absences, if we played them 10 times we'd win 7, draw 2 and lose 1. I've just got a daft little gut feel it will be the one and we will get an unjust result.

the old cityitis we just can't shake it can we :-)

 

[tonea2003]

a must win now those twats fluked a win at stoke.

hope we can keep fluking games like that

 

[Bluemanc100]

Last time I went to the Baggies was for a cup game... we lost and the walk through the tunnel (it was dark so it might just have been a path round the back of the ground) and past the home stand was pretty dismal

We simply need to show our class, not hard

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

I'm just hoping we play like we did at Southampton.

 

[Champions2012!]

a must win now those twats fluked a win at stoke.

hope we can keep fluking games like that

If that was us going there yesterday, they would have played like real madrid.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

a must win now those twats fluked a win at stoke.

hope we can keep fluking games like that

If that was us going there yesterday, they would have played like real madrid.

I like Hughes' post match interview. "We gave it a go".
What for all of 2 minues :(

 

[Champions2012!]

Didn't he also say in the post match that they were going to win the league this year

 

[BillyShears]

Be shocked if we don't win at a canter even without a recognised centre forward. West Brom are a poor outfit who I reckon will go down this season.

 

[davelyncooper]

a must win now those twats fluked a win at stoke.

hope we can keep fluking games like that

A consummate performance by Chelski - they are certainly title contenders and City will do well to come out on top at the end of the season. Do not know why people on here do not give them the credit they deserve, they are world class and so is their manager.

 

[tonea2003]

a must win now those twats fluked a win at stoke.

hope we can keep fluking games like that

A consummate performance by Chelski - they are certainly title contenders and City will do well to come out on top at the end of the season. Do not know why people on here do not give them the credit they deserve, they are world class and so is their manager.

agreed, nothing to chose between the two of us

 

[Ducado]

No one is saying that Chelsea are not a good team, what people are saying is that there seems to be built in inferiority complex in some blues, it was the same last season with Liverpool, you would have thought that we have been lucky in all our victories this season and none of it is down to having excellent players and a great management team.

We are as good if not better than Chelsea, we had a slow start to the season (just like last season) but are starting to come good even with the injury crisis