***Champions v Newcastle Official Match Thread***

[nottsblue]

Early KO today

Hopefully Newcastle will still have a hangover from their cup final loss. They have just hit a bit of a rut lately as well

We have to win probably 13-14 of our remaining games to win the title. So we know what we have to do

1-0
Mahrez
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KDB

[Mase]

Come on City!!

[City_Analytics]

Match preview https://www.mancityanalytics.com/match-previews/premier-league-202223-manchester-city-newcastle-preview

[ruralblue]

They ain't going to drop points at home to Bournemouth three points please pep.

3 - 1 City

[gmercer1]

Hate 12.30 kick offs!

[Blue Jam]

Not optimistic at all

[KinkyKinkladze]

An absolute must win considering the guaranteed 3 points for arsenal today. Come on city, put these Geordie fuckers in their place.

[CTID Hants]

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

SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Phillips, Stones, Laporte, Alvarez, Bernardo, Mahrez, Palmer, Lewis

[PeterParker]

Are we one up yet?

[KinkyKinkladze]

4-3-3 thank fuck for that.

[blues2win]

No surprises. Everyone fit again it seems. Strong bench.

[Outcast]

Laporte should be starting ahead of Akanji

[Harry Dowd scored]

4-3-3 thank fuck for that.

Amen to that, Ake at LB is good too.

[Kippax Sean]

Nearly as good as it gets team wise. KDB and Foden looked great last game. It's screaming get Haaland involved to me. Come on City!

[blues2win]

I presume Walker will push up and Foden will invert allowing him more freedom to run at Newcastle. Walker certainly capable of getting into good positions in the final third but his final,ball is often lacking.

[sheblue]

Rather see Laporte start. However it's a very strong team.

[Nick]

Worst ko times for everyone involved, including local business

[nottsblue]

Laporte should be starting ahead of Akanji

Exactly

[nottsblue]

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

SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Phillips, Stones, Laporte, Alvarez, Bernardo, Mahrez, Palmer, Lewis

More or less full strength.

LFTCU

[Beefymcfc]

Big game this. 6th game in 22 days with the last 5 being away from home, we started to see some real cohesive play and I’m hoping this is the one that brings it all together for the full 90.

On a side note, thought I’d watch a bit of the pre-match on BT and up until now it’s been all about Newcastle. Maybe I tuned in at the wrong time but it seems that it’s only a ‘Big game’ for the Toon.

Come on City!