I genuinely do not know what to expect on tomorrow night. It goes without saying that I want a fabulous victory, but I have to admit to feeling a little bit aimless at the moment as far as football is concerned. Still no matter how we are feeling, spare a thought for the toon army, who it seems have given up completely. They are also coming to this game on the back of (humiliating) derby defeat.
Given their state of mind, it’s not surprising that there is not a lot of material to share with you. Still here goes, and as always, we start with the team selection:
Krul
Debuchy -- Taylor -- Coloccini -- Santon
Cabaye -- Tiote -- Anita
Ben Arfa -----------------------Remy
Cisse
My Favourite:
we turn up
we lose
pardew talks sh***
we go home
the end
who cares
And the rest...
It's very difficult to predict how this game will go, Man City look like they're still getting used to playing under Pellegrini and it was a blunder that cost them a point against Chelsea yesterday. It would depend how they approach the game, if they play a fully strength team with the likes of Toure, Silva and Aguero we could get turned over. It's a cup game, if we get it right anything can happen.
Maybe 4-4-2 would be best for this game, Krul, Debuchy, Taylor, Williamson, Santon, HBA, Cabaye, Tiote, Jonas (I think he needs to come back and put a shift in), Remy, Gouffran.
with hart struggling they may look to that tall bloke costel pantimillion... might give us half a chance.
We'll get creamed pure and simple.
Looks like it will be Pantilimon in goal for City, Hart's paying for his mistakes, though I thought with Chelsea's winning goal it was Nastasic's fault just as much for heading it over Hart and putting it on a plate for Torres
Hodgson is even thinking of replacing him with Forster for the upcoming friendly!
Souness was sacked following a poor performance against MAN CITY, so I just wonder if we do get demolished by them Pardew could be gone, probably not though but the situation at that point in 2005/06 was just as bad as the state of the club now.
3-0 City.
We'll play a weakened team with one eye on Chelsea. The club have already said in that fans forum they don't view cups as a priority compared to league position.
The changes we make will give Pardew carte blanche to peddle some more BS excuses. "We was unlucky tonight, we was robbed really. If one of those two chances go in at 0-3 in the 78th minute then it's a different game. The ref didn't help us either. As I thought it was a throw in to us, then 27 passes later they scored their second. The lads that have come in have been excellent and we've got a really strong group blah blah blah."
Their weakened team is still probably good enough to finish top 4-6. Whilst ours is relegation material.
As its us, and the way we've performed this season, I reckon we'll somehow win this, only to be knocked out in the next round by Burnley or someone.
I can't stand us at the moment.
This is one of those times that I hope we get beat 11:0 so things start to change.
But at the end of the day, I know I'll be cheering for my team and get heartbroken again.
