Sooper Steve's shin Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 14 hours ago, UHDrive said: I'll take a win here. I think we'll play with lookman on the RW if BR judges him ready. My only cause for concern is our full backs when man city counter down the channels. Bertrand will be pivotal in this game as will RP if he's fit. Brendan doesn’t chuck new signings in. Lookman will not start. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazza M Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 Could they somehow shoehorn Ake in to their side, that would be a plus for us. Proper Pound Land Ruud Gullet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st albans fox Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 9 hours ago, Nicolo Barella said: Man City will be missing Jesus, de Bruyne, Ederson, and Steffen, and maybe some others I can't think of. Feeling weirdly optimistic for a result. KDB is supposed to be available (as is foden) though not match fit so could be on the bench. the ederson/Jesus duo could run and run through till tomorrow afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post StriderHiryu Posted 9 September 2021 Popular Post Share Posted 9 September 2021 (edited) 10 hours ago, Fox85 said: I think you will find that Man City strughle against teams that actually press them. However if you want a defensive mindset against them they will stick 5 past us. Sorry but that’s not true at all. Barring Liverpool every team that tries to press them usually gets murdered. See Norwich this season as a prime example. It happened to us in Rodgers first full season too. Man City have historically struggled the most against counter attacking teams that play 3 at the back and a low block. Spurs already beat them this season with that approach, we beat them 5-2 playing the same way last season. Nuno Espírito Santo also consistently got wins against them playing this way with Wolves and even glorified PE teacher Ole Solskjaer has beaten Man City in recent times by counter attacking them. Leeds are the only team I can think of who as a middle table team beat them with a pressing approach. And even then that game was abnormal in the way it played out. Edited 9 September 2021 by StriderHiryu 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox85 Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, Nicolo Barella said: We beat them 5-2 last time playing defensively You dont score 5 goals against one of the greatest teams in the world playing defensively. Stats show teams that defend and play defensively nick a goal to win with roughly 2 or 3 shots. So maybe we wasn't playing as defensively as you think Edited 9 September 2021 by Fox85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbury Fox Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 16 hours ago, UHDrive said: I'll take a win here. I think we'll play with lookman on the RW if BR judges him ready. My only cause for concern is our full backs when man city counter down the channels. Bertrand will be pivotal in this game as will RP if he's fit. No chance that BR will start Lookman. He'll trot out the usual about him needing to build up fitness, etc, which might of course be fair given that he hasn't played a competitive game since last season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DezFox Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 I would imagine that the Brazilians will play as normal. It would be interesting to see if it were us they had players banned. Doubt it would be the same outcome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UHDrive Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 3 hours ago, Sooper Steve's shin said: Brendan doesn’t chuck new signings in. Lookman will not start. Depends on injurys to our full backs/RP etc. We won't play man city without pace on our wings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammie82uk Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 33 minutes ago, DezFox said: I would imagine that the Brazilians will play as normal. It would be interesting to see if it were us they had players banned. Doubt it would be the same outcome. well we know that Richarlison will be playing as Brazil have excluded him from the request to ban but If the rest did what would be the punishment as they would be fielding “ineligible” players Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buce Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 12 hours ago, HighPeakFox said: Can we wait for the match to start before whining about the style of play, or is that asking too much? This is Foxestalk, Peaky. Does that answer your question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scanchez Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 I can't be arsed to post in the post match thread so can someone just copy and paste one of these in for me after the game? 1. 'Brendan Masterclass. We're lucky to have a manager like him. Barnes is back on form and Cags absolutely bossed it. Top 4 finish looks on. What a team!' 2. 'Brendan needs to go. It isn't working. Cags is a bomb scare and Barnes can't shoot. Seriously thinking about handing my season ticket back. Also, what is it with the way Maddison dresses? He thinks he's Beckham. Get rid'. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotch Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 Anyone have any idea how our injuries are looking for this game? Vestegaard, Evan, Bertrand, Ricardo etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suffolk fox Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 One thing you cannot do against these is to allow them to play out from the back. Unfortunately we do every time. We stand off them try to hold a defensive shape and they simply pass it around us. I would like for a change for us to press them from the front dont allow them to play out. Rogers will revert to type though. It will appear we only have Vardy up front. Apart from the 5 2 (a freak result) we always in my opinion, show these too much respect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filbertway Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 They're too good to press, especially when the press is generally half arsed from us. What we need to do is cut out the stupid passing around when they've got all 10 outfield players camped in our half. As soon as we win the ball back, we should be looking to move the ball forwards as quickly as possible into the massive gaps they leave behind them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post An Sionnach Posted 9 September 2021 Popular Post Share Posted 9 September 2021 Last season Utd. crowded them out, dominated them physically and quite frankly made them look ordinary. Never play the way Guardiola wants you to play , Chelsea have worked them out and Spurs did the same. They are good but not that good. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suffolk fox Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 17 minutes ago, An Sionnach said: Last season Utd. crowded them out, dominated them physically and quite frankly made them look ordinary. Never play the way Guardiola wants you to play , Chelsea have worked them out and Spurs did the same. They are good but not that good. this. spot on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacreblueits442 Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 1 hour ago, UHDrive said: Depends on injurys to our full backs/RP etc. We won't play man city without pace on our wings. ...it will be Albrighton and Barnes out wide!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosbehFox Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 There’s a lot of chat in this thread as although we’ve haven’t got points off Man City before. I have said previously they don’t particularly like playing us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 We royally pissed them off last season by cutting off their supply line in to Rodri, it completely disrupted them and they surprisingly didn't alter their approach to overcome that. Rodri's comments were a thing of beauty after, salt and vinegar. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HybridFox Posted 9 September 2021 Popular Post Share Posted 9 September 2021 49 minutes ago, Ric Flair said: We royally pissed them off last season by cutting off their supply line in to Rodri, it completely disrupted them and they surprisingly didn't alter their approach to overcome that. Rodri's comments were a thing of beauty after, salt and Lineker. Fixed it 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim5000 Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 While we are a bit of a bogey team for Man City, I can’t see us getting anything out of this match given how our start to the season has gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacreblueits442 Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 1 minute ago, jim5000 said: While we are a bit of a bogey team for Man City, I can’t see us getting anything out of this match given how our start to the season has gone. ...do not judge the way we have played so far to this game, it will be a totally different approach and mindset!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copunk Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 Had a dream last night we won 2-1 with nacho grabbing both goals... what a delight that would be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turlo Posted 9 September 2021 Share Posted 9 September 2021 3 hours ago, An Sionnach said: Last season Utd. crowded them out, dominated them physically and quite frankly made them look ordinary. Never play the way Guardiola wants you to play , Chelsea have worked them out and Spurs did the same. They are good but not that good. This is where you'd want a more physical box to box type midfielder to come in like Soumare or KDH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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