***Official City v Arsenal Thread***

[Moonchesteri]

Subs:
Given, Bridge, Lescott, A.Johnson, Vieira, Adebayor, BALOTELLI

[cityPinoy_fc]

COME ON CITY!!! mario is on the bench baby bout time.

[Dubciteh]

boyata ahead of lescott thats brave!!! Having johnson and ade on bench along with balotelli is scary....

[blues-clues]

Understand Ade not making the eleven. No way he was going to displace Tevez if we are just playing one up front. Thing is, if we need a striker to come on, will he use Ade or Ballotelli? Can see Ade getting a touch frustrated if he doesn't get a kick against the Arse today.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Zaba was planned to start at left back but clearly must have got a problem in/after training yesterday.

[french_tony]

What a fucking bench....
In 2008 our bench for this game was:
Schmeichel, Onuoha, Ben Haim, Evans, Hamman, Elano, Sturridge

Just shows how far we have come.

[Moonchesteri]

Understand Ade not making the eleven. No way he was going to displace Tevez if we are just playing one up front. Thing is, if we need a striker to come on, will he use Ade or Ballotelli? Can see Ade getting a touch frustrated if he doesn't get a kick against the Arse today.

Surely that would have to be Ade after his hat-trick. time will tell though whether Mancini thinks the same way!

Anyway, what a bench that is - ridiculous!!

[cityPinoy_fc]

Zaba was planned to start at left back but clearly must have got a problem in/after training yesterday.

doug what happened to kolarov i thought he's ready to play now?

[Chinners]

Hmm, going to be very tricky today

Arsenal: Fabianski, Sagna, Djourou, Squillaci, Clichy, Nasri, Fabregas, Song, Denilson, Arshavin, Chamakh.
Subs: Szczesny, Koscielny, Rosicky, Walcott, Eboue, Gibbs, Bendtner.

[french_tony]

Hmm, going to be very tricky today

Arsenal: Fabianski, Sagna, Djourou, Squillaci, Clichy, Nasri, Fabregas, Song, Denilson, Arshavin, Chamakh. Clattenburg
Subs: Szczesny, Koscielny, Rosicky, Walcott, Eboue, Gibbs, Bendtner.

It is, great attacking threat there but confident we can do over that defense.

[blues-clues]

Understand Ade not making the eleven. No way he was going to displace Tevez if we are just playing one up front. Thing is, if we need a striker to come on, will he use Ade or Ballotelli? Can see Ade getting a touch frustrated if he doesn't get a kick against the Arse today.

Surely that would have to be Ade after his hat-trick. time will tell though whether Mancini thinks the same way!

Anyway, what a bench that is - ridiculous!!

The bench is ridiculous. You could add almost any four pl players to that and it would be a bloody good team! Wouldn't like to guess how many internationals caps between them even though Ballotelli and Johnson have only just started. Must be 350?

[Crossie]

Its not the 11 I'd have gone for, and even though I've knocked Ade, it will be fucking hard for him to just agree and accept a place on the bench. He looked like a new player after his 1st goal on Thurs.

I guess the squad we have can now be tailored to an opposition. Lets hope it works today!! They are capable of ripping us apart. I fucking hope Boyatta is ready for this, big test, not really let us down yet though.

[Mark (Blue Army)]

COME ON CITY!!!!

[dikdik]

What is the point of Ade and Balotelli? I can't make out how Mancini could alter the formation to accomodate them unless he goes 2 3 5 or something??!! (Memories of Malcolm Allison and 1974 league cup final....)

[dazby]

Ok, I'm in town for this one (day off tomorrow) and the pub is full of Rangers fans and a guy that orgasms every time Torres touches the ball.

A few gooners though so it should be alright.

[mr_nool]

Insanely strong bench. I'm loving it!

Kudos to Mancini for having the guts to play Boyata. I hope the kid can shoulder the responsibility!

[Mark (Blue Army)]

Let's get stuck into them today City

[xavi6]

Am I right in saying that Boyata's starts against English opposition have been the Rags, Chelsea and Arsenal? Impressive if so.

[Brad]

Come on City lets fight too the end!

[mr_nool]

HERE WE GO!