+++ man city v chelsea +++ match thread

[branny]

What a team. I’m so so so happy. You wouldn’t believe

I don’t, that team has probably never played as a unit together, I fully expect a repeat of cup semi, handing a psychological advantage to the chavs, I don’t buy this giving away how we play talk, fucking Chelsea know who we are and how we play, we could have played a strong team, that team at best is unbalanced and probably lacking in cohesion, prepare for a post match inquest

There’s no guarantee our best 11 wins so where would that leave us?

So lets just throw the names into a fucking hat and pick out the first 11 shall we !!

Coward springs to mind.

Sounds like a plan

[gmercer1]

Mendy - enough said

[sheblue]

Can we change the title of this thread to "The Team Stevie Wonder picked V Chelsea ".

[Harry Dowd scored]

If we are scared of injury, why is our arguably player of the season playing, Dias should not play if injury fear is the criterion

[carl_feedthegoat]

If we get battered today the fallout will be nuclear.

Its just a fuckign stupid stupid team hes put out.

[Harry Dowd scored]

Can we change the title of this thread to "The Team Stevie Wonder picked V Chelsea ".

Stevie would never have picked that team, he would see it for what it is, a fuck up

[Dubciteh]

Im ok with that team....we had a massive game midweek and players need to recover. After this i expect us to be close to full strength from here on in to keep us sharp.

Hopefully sergio can get some sharpness and even if we lose at least it will keep dippers out of cl.

This is a nothing game, the league is won whether thats today or midweek its done.

Lets keep chelsea guessing at how we will play the final.

[branny]

What a team. I’m so so so happy. You wouldn’t believe

I don’t, that team has probably never played as a unit together, I fully expect a repeat of cup semi, handing a psychological advantage to the chavs, I don’t buy this giving away how we play talk, fucking Chelsea know who we are and how we play, we could have played a strong team, that team at best is unbalanced and probably lacking in cohesion, prepare for a post match inquest

There’s no guarantee our best 11 wins so where would that leave us?

I did not say best 11 at all, that team is unbalanced at best, I really hope I am fucking wrong I really do mate

Maybe KDB getting injured in the semi has swayed him.

[dave watson's perm]

Play the strongest team and batter them. Win the league. Get a big psychological advantage and tinker until the CL final. I just can't fathom some of his decisions. If Chelsea don't know how we'll approach the final they must be fcking stupid

[carl_feedthegoat]

Lets keep chelsea guessing at how we will play the final.

I don't think they are guessing mate...they know baldio will play the same as the SF.

Chelsea hit you on the break just like PSG do........there is no guessing for the game.

Today s starting lineup is a fucking disgrace

[Harry Dowd scored]

I don’t think Mount is playing for Chelsea, so not as bad as I though, Mount is on fire at the moment, he is their Foden and a real threat

[john@staustell]

We will know by May 29th. Maybe we will know today.

[carl_feedthegoat]

We will know by May 29th. Maybe we will know today.

We should focus on the here and now....and that means we should rant due to baldies fucking shit 11.

[Harry Dowd scored]

We play a strong team today, beat Chelsea, it forces them to play their first team for the remaining games to achieve top four, on the other hand we lose today with this team, that gives a massive psychological advantage to Chelsea, they will think, lads we have beaten these twice on the trot, chest out time, confident in the final, well they would be wouldn’t they

[johnny crossan]

COME ON THE STIFFS!!!!

[Whassat]

Excellent lineup.

I mean, would have been a shit move playing close to what we would play in the final.

I agree. Lets not have them playing us with our expected line-up for the final - That would just make things easier for 'em. This selection is strong enough to win this game.

[PeterParker]

We play a strong team today, beat Chelsea, it forces them to play their first team for the remaining games to achieve top four, on the other hand we lose today with this team, that gives a massive psychological advantage to Chelsea, they will think, lads we have beaten these twice on the trot, chest out time, confident in the final, well they would be wouldn’t they

The problem is if we play the same team we will play in a similar way like we will in the final and Tuchel can use it to see what they did wrong and try to fix it.
In the first game Lampard was there, not him, he never faced our game so far, he saw it only on tv. And by our game I mean playing the best.

[ruralblue]

Excellent lineup.

I mean, would have been a shit move playing close to what we would play in the final.

I agree. Lets not have them playing us with our expected line-up for the final - That would just make things easier for 'em. This selection is strong enough to win this game.

Completely disagree Birfdi Boy. We could pretty much name the starting 11 for the 29th, plus Chelsea will know why these are being rested.

Foden..... young energetic well up for the win today. Mahrez..... said other night he has hunger to play every game now.

Anyways still hope you get the best present in the next hour and half

[branny]

We play a strong team today, beat Chelsea, it forces them to play their first team for the remaining games to achieve top four, on the other hand we lose today with this team, that gives a massive psychological advantage to Chelsea, they will think, lads we have beaten these twice on the trot, chest out time, confident in the final, well they would be wouldn’t they

The problem is if we play the same team we will play in a similar way like we will in the final and Tuchel can use it to see what they did wrong and try to fix it.
In the first game Lampard was there, not him, he never faced our game so far, he saw it only on tv. And by our game I mean playing the best.

The finer details could be the difference in the final, look at the contrast in the 1st leg v PSG between the first half and the second because Pep tweaked things so let’s not give our final opponents a whole 90 minutes of footage to scrutinise.

[nottsblue]

Not Chelsea’s first XI by any means either as it goes

Come on blue boys. We want the second pot on the sideboard for Sunday