Wolves (H) - Sat 4th May, 17:30 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[SWPISHOME]

.........................Ortega........................

...Akanji..............Ake...........Gvardiol...

................Rodri...........Kovacic..............

..Bernardo.........Foden..........Grealish...

........................De Bruyne.......................

..........................Haaland.........................

City 4-1 Wolves

 

[chesterbells]

I think they are running fine during the day, It's from just after midnight until around 8am there's no trains as far as I know.

I'm flying out of Manchester Sunday morning at 7:45am, There's no trains so I've to get a taxi. I'm not sitting around waiting on a bus.

Cheers for reply. Yeah, it’s getting one after 11pm from Manchester that night that’s bothering me a bit - their website says this kind of action leads to last minute cancellations, and it’s often the services at the start and end of the day most affected …

 

[jimharri]

I'm assuming/hoping that, with us not playing again until next saturday, the players will get a couple of days off. And that the training will be concentrating on ball work more than a the circuit type training (running, weights etc).

 

[IrishBlueSince92]

Almost a weeks rest before this one
Lovely stuff

 

[SWPISHOME]

Cheers for reply. Yeah, it’s getting one after 11pm from Manchester that night that’s bothering me a bit - their website says this kind of action leads to last minute cancellations, and it’s often the services at the start and end of the day most affected …

Where you heading to from Manchester if you don't mind me asking?

They have paragraphs online which are very misleading, Not any real concrete details unfortunately.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

5:30 kick off and my daughters not going, so a piss up with the lads it is for a change. :)

 

[domalino]

I'm assuming/hoping that, with us not playing again until next saturday, the players will get a couple of days off. And that the training will be concentrating on ball work more than a the circuit type training (running, weights etc).

In Pep Confidential, One of Pep’s quirks is that all fitness training is done with the ball.

So they never do any running or sprints or extended cardio unless it’s part of a football drill Pep and Bonaventura have designed. I think it’s something Cruyff taught him and he insists on.

Obviously they do weightlifting etc and some recovery sessions in the pool, doing yoga and on bikes etc. but in terms of trying to get and keep them aerobically fit it’s all turned into a football drill so they’re working on both sides of the game at once.

At Bayern one of his big problems with the players early on is they felt they weren’t doing any fitness work compared to under Heynkes and Muller and Martinez would go for secret runs and then get injured.

 

[TueartsOHK]

No Pedro Neto will be a bonus - he was their best player when they beat us

 

[Gabriel]

We lost at Molineux when Rodri, de Bruyne, Stones, and Bernardo were all unavailable and Gvardiol was not yet settled. We also only fielded 8 subs that day, 2 of whom were keepers, so we'll be a different proposition this time, I imagine.

 

[Oyster28catcher]

Tough game. I think it'll be close, even with a decent rest and gap until kick-off.

 

[Blu3m00n91]

Ortega; Akanji Dias Ake Gvardiol; Rodri; Bernardo KDB Foden Grealish; Haaland

 

[Blu3m00n91]

We lost at Molineux when Rodri, de Bruyne, Stones, and Bernardo were all unavailable and Gvardiol was not yet settled. We also only fielded 8 subs that day, 2 of whom were keepers, so we'll be a different proposition this time, I imagine.

And no Pep if I recall correctly?

 

[RayCTID]

We lost at Molineux when Rodri, de Bruyne, Stones, and Bernardo were all unavailable and Gvardiol was not yet settled. We also only fielded 8 subs that day, 2 of whom were keepers, so we'll be a different proposition this time, I imagine.

And not mention the winning goalscorer should have been sent off.

 

[BringBackSwales]

And no Pep if I recall correctly?

And no ref

 

[sibierski express]

I know Pep and the coaching staff will adapt the best formation to counter the opposition set up but if I had to choose one side to stick with until the end of the season it’d be;

Ortega (As Ederson likely out)

Walker
Akanji
Ake
Gvardiol

Rodri
Kovacic
Bernardo

Foden
KDB

Haaland

Feel like always have control with this lot. Rodri likes Bernardo and Kovacic interlinking with him in midfield and opposition can’t get the ball.

 

[Franny 1234]

Same again another cleansheet please.
Cleansheet are the foundation for success. Now kevs back into his groove am confident the big fella will bag a brace. CTID

 

[richards30]

Ederson
Akanji
Dias
Ake
Gvardiol
Rodri
De Bruyne
Bernardo Silva
Foden
Grealish
Haaland

 

[NoCompromise]

Its a banker but don't get complacent. This is the one to bring the noise, send the boys off for those 2 away games with a vibe.

 

[LesBleuMiserable]

bit more time to relax, it was quite the high tense period last few weeks.

hope we can up the tempo in this one, and give them a good beating. losing to them from 1-0 up in the reverse fixture was one of the low points and worst results in first half of the season.

time for a payback

again TV made sure Arsenal can play earlier, would have been nice just once to be ahead of them to put extra pressure on them.

Was it not 2-1?

 

[vanchi]

We lost at Molineux when Rodri, de Bruyne, Stones, and Bernardo were all unavailable and Gvardiol was not yet settled. We also only fielded 8 subs that day, 2 of whom were keepers, so we'll be a different proposition this time, I imagine.

gvardiol was benched for that game, he played 2 games before and 2 games after the wolves game.