***Official MCFC Vs Chavski match thread***

[Ted Hughes]

Just to let you guys know, the game kicks off at 7:45 not at 8pm.

Did you get the text mate?

No didnt get any text, just heard it and thought id let everyone know. So did City text every one then?

They texted me.

[Chopper]

Reckon we will draw but still win the league on goal difference.

[Wonderwall]

I see the notice boards are dubbing this game "El Cashico". How very droll

[everyonehatesus]

and the scum along with the red bindippers are calling it the "El Plastico"
Fuck them, fuck everyone else.................COME ON CITY

[bigblue]

Don't win tonight and were out of the race. I honestly believe that.

We still have over 1/4 of the season left!! FFS you pathetic individual

Come out like 2nd half vs. Sporting @ home and we'll be fine. 100% intensity, always looking to score and Chelsea can't cope. If we start to play a slow passing game without being 1 or 2 up, we need to be very careful. One bad pass or luck break and we're fucked. As said above: attack, attack, attack. We have the players for it, lets do it.

Also need a big game out of Dave, he's been missing recently. Yaya is almost always carrying the team and I don't expect Nasri to step up until next season (please surprise me). Mario has been showing good intensity, but stop slipping all the time and get more shots on target.

COME ON CITY!!!

[Mingchester Mingy]

Rather be a bit nervy about playing Chelsea to keep the pressure on the rags in a title race,than be worried about playing Wigan in a relegation battle.
These are the games and situations we dreamed about not so long ago.

Still don't understand why so many think a dropped point or 2 is season defining. There is still a long way to go and manytwists and turns. The rags will fucl up at some point and suddenly the picture will change again.

Lose and it's all over....MY ARSE!!!!

I gotta disagree here....we lose today and the League Title is essentially out of our grasps. The Rags schedule is easier than most of my ex girlfriends ! We got Chels, then Arsenal away....and of course... The Rags. Lets get up on Chelski early, get some momentum and confidence going. For the love of Pete, I would love to see some movement too, some give and go's.....LETS GO BOYS GAME TIME !!!!!

[Dendza]

Just to let you guys know, the game kicks off at 7:45 not at 8pm.

Hey bro, do you know what time does it start in Canada at? The channel i watch EPL on says 3:30. Livescore says 19:45. And to make it even more confusing Europeans didn't move the clock yet so I can't trust Livescore either.

Can you help? Because I'm at the university and I wanna go home watch it. Thanks mate ;)

[Bluemoon16]

Any suggestions for the most ideal line up tonight? And how are we going to play our strikers with the return on Carlos Tevez? If we play one striker, we will have 3 on the bench, which will make us short of defenders/midfielders on the bench. If we play two strikers, we will be short of midfielders on the pitch to support our weak defence (Savic). Any ideas?

[Invisible Man Fan]

Where abouts in Canada? DO you guys not have different time zones spanning the country?

[Dendza]

Where abouts in Canada? DO you guys not have different time zones spanning the country?

Ottawa ( the capital ) My time zone is: EDT

[Invisible Man Fan]

Any suggestions for the most ideal line up tonight? And how are we going to play our strikers with the return on Carlos Tevez? If we play one striker, we will have 3 on the bench, which will make us short of defenders/midfielders on the bench. If we play two strikers, we will be short of midfielders on the pitch to support our weak defence (Savic). Any ideas?

Ideally I think we need to play 2 strikers, Aguero and Dzeko for me. If Chelsea play Luiz and Cahill at CB we can do them a world of damage. Dzeko looked really up for it vs Sporting.

I have a feeling we will go with 2 midfielders protecting the back four with Yaya floating between attack and defence, and then Silva, Aguero and Dzeko up top......playing through the middle with no width.

[bigblue]

Just to let you guys know, the game kicks off at 7:45 not at 8pm.

Hey bro, do you know what time does it start in Canada at? The channel i watch EPL on says 3:30. Livescore says 19:45. And to make it even more confusing Europeans didn't move the clock yet so I can't trust Livescore either.

Can you help? Because I'm at the university and I wanna go home watch it. Thanks mate ;)

The channel only says 30 because of 15 mins of pregame nonsense babble before the game. Its starting at 3:45 edt

[Invisible Man Fan]

Where abouts in Canada? DO you guys not have different time zones spanning the country?

Ottawa ( the capital ) My time zone is: EDT

According to my phone you are 5 hours behind....so I would imagine that 14:45 local time

[Dameerto]

Where abouts in Canada? DO you guys not have different time zones spanning the country?

Ottawa ( the capital ) My time zone is: EDT

According to my phone you are 5 hours behind....so I would imagine that 14:45 local time

Dendza - if you changed your clocks recently (IE a week or so) then you're 4 hours behind us, until we put ours forward an hour this weekend. (My sister on the west coast altered hers I think it was last weekend but apparently not the whole of Canada alters theirs)

[Douglas Higginbottom]

One of the training sessions this week had a back 5 with Milner as right wing back so maybe that's the choice for tonight. Maybe though that was because Zaba isnt considered ready to come back yet?

It also didnt include Silva but I cant see him being left out so it's possible they were just working on options

[Mark (Blue Army)]

Tevez is in the Squad, just got off the coach with the rest of the lads

[john68]

Mingchester,

A loss tonight would leave us 4pts adrift with NINE games to play...one of which is the derby. 27 points still at stake.
Please don't give the rags the honour of thinking they are better than they really are. For most of the season they have scraped and scrapped. It is wholly unreasonable to suggest that they will not drop points, no matter how much easier their run in is.

This season is still far from over...even if we were to lose tonight. Harder to win maybe...but certainly not finished.

[Mark (Blue Army)]

CITY: Hart, Zabaleta, Richards, K. Toure, Clichy, Y. Toure, de Jong, Silva, Nasri, Balotelli, Aguero

CITY SUBS: Pantilimon, Savic, Kolarov, Milner, Barry, Dzeko, Tevez

[Beeks]

CITY: Hart, Zabaleta, Richards, K. Toure, Clichy, Y. Toure, de Jong, Silva, Nasri, Balotelli, Aguero

Herman on the bench

[Moonchesteri]

CITY: Hart, Zabaleta, Richards, K. Toure, Clichy, Y. Toure, de Jong, Silva, Nasri, Balotelli, Aguero

come on City!!