***Champions v Arsenal Official Match Thread***

[nottsblue]

Massive game tonight, not only in the context of the season but possibly our legacy as well


We have home advantage and a hoodoo recently over Arsenal having not lost to them for 7/8 years in the PL. We need to make this advantage count. And I think we will

It will be a tough fixture, make no mistake. Missing Ake is a blow but Laporte is more than capable. But Arsenal have injury concerns of their own. Let them worry about our attack with no Saliba and maybe Xhaka.

A close game 2-1 Haaland and Jackie

[Harry Dowd scored]

Massive game tonight, not only in the context of the season but possibly our legacy as well


We have home advantage and a hoodoo recently over Arsenal having not lost to them for 7/8 years in the PL. We need to make this advantage count. And I think we will

It will be a tough fixture, make no mistake. Missing Ake is a blow but Laporte is more than capable. But Arsenal have injury concerns of their own. Let them worry about our attack with no Saliba and maybe Xhaka.

A close game 2-1 Haaland and Jackie

Would take that now Notts

[nottsblue]

Massive game tonight, not only in the context of the season but possibly our legacy as well


We have home advantage and a hoodoo recently over Arsenal having not lost to them for 7/8 years in the PL. We need to make this advantage count. And I think we will

It will be a tough fixture, make no mistake. Missing Ake is a blow but Laporte is more than capable. But Arsenal have injury concerns of their own. Let them worry about our attack with no Saliba and maybe Xhaka.

A close game 2-1 Haaland and Jackie

Would take that now Notts

Reckon we all would HDS!

[johnny crossan]

Ederson;

John Stones, Manuel Akanji, Reuben Dias, Aymeric Laporte;

Kevin De Bruyne, Rodri, İlkay Gündoğan;

Bernardo Silva, Erling Haaland (F/L), Jack Grealish:

Bench: Stefan Ortega, Kyle Walker, Kalvin Phillips, Riyad Mahrez, Phil Foden, Julián Álvarez, Rico Lewis, Sergio Gómez, Cole Palmer.​

City win 3-0

[sheblue]

Ederson;

John Stones, Manuel Akanji, Reuben Dias, Aymeric Laporte;

Kevin De Bruyne, Rodri, İlkay Gündoğan;

Bernardo Silva, Erling Haaland (F/L), Jack Grealish:

Bench: Stefan Ortega, Kyle Walker, Kalvin Phillips, Riyad Mahrez, Phil Foden, Julián Álvarez, Rico Lewis, Sergio Gómez, Cole Palmer.​

City win 3-0

That's the line up most are predicting. Alas Pep doesn't do predictable.

[Mase]

Jack scores tonight and we win I’m getting my todger out in the center of Chorley

[CTID Hants]

XI | Ederson, Walker, Dias, Akanji, Stones, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, Gundogan (C), Bernardo, Grealish, Haaland

SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Phillips, Laporte, Alvarez, Gomez, Mahrez, Foden, Palmer, Lewis

Hays Worldwide

[gmercer1]

Who’s playing left back…..Bernie?

[CTID Hants]

Mahrez rewarded with bench after a hattrick

[nottsblue]

Who’s playing left back…..Bernie?

Would appear so

[Harry Dowd scored]

One change for Arsenal from the side that started the 3-3 draw with Southampton last Friday.

Granit Xhaka is back for Fabio Vieira, who is on the bench.

[blues2win]

Akanji left back? We must buy a left back in the summer. Losing Ake was always going to be a nightmare. Biggest match of the season too.

[stevefromdonny]

COME ON CITY

[Mase]

Mahrez rewarded with bench after a hattrick

He wasn’t great on Saturday though was he?

[blues2win]

The rest of the side looks strong. Attack Zinchenko. He’s dodgy defensively and I suspect will get too worked up for this match.

[Mase]

Good team. Laporte is 100% off in the summer

[CTID Hants]

One change for Arsenal from the side that started the 3-3 draw with Southampton last Friday.

Granit Xhaka is back for Fabio Vieira, who is on the bench.

That xhaka is a dirty turd who plays the ref, he will kicks ours all over yet it'll be ours that gets the yellow for reacting!!

[carl_feedthegoat]

I see PeP trusts Laporte as much as I trust him !!!

This fucking lack of a LB is always coming back to haunt us - Arsenal will rip that side of the pitch up and nearly every attack will come from that side IMO.
We need to be rock solid at the back.

[PeterParker]

Are we one up yet?

[Mase]

I feel as though if I don’t moan about the team it’s going to be bad luck. So….

“Fuckin Phillips should be nowhere near our bench! I’ll drive him to Liverpool”