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Ortega

Rico stones dias? Ake?

Rodri

??? ??Foden

Bobb alvarez doku


Turn up. And if haaland plays and does fuck all running I swear to god. He should be motivating by fucking Cole palmer out scoring him.

Unbelievably you can get 4/1 for a Chelsea win

After last night I am not confident at all about this one. I think it will have taken a lot out of the players

You just know that little snot Palmer will score against us.

[quote="Nick"]Ortega

Rico stones dias? Ake?

Rodri

??? ??Foden

Bobb alvarez doku


Turn up. And if haaland plays and does fuck all running I swear to god. He should be motivating by fucking Cole palmer out scoring him.[/quote}

City have won 66.7 per cent of their matches when Haaland has figured, compared to 83.3 per cent when he hasn't, while last season they won 71.7 per cent of their games with him and 75 per cent without.

Obviously we played less games when hes out injured compared to when he does play but the point is , we always have a plan when hes out injured and we win games with that plan.

I think he should be on the bench against Chelsea and we play like we did when he was out injured.

If we tell Kev we’ll play in a Belgium kit he won’t be tired and will run his bollocks off. Might be worth a try?

I think Carl’s starting 11 is pretty well spot on. Maybe Kovacic to play alongside Rodri and Foden?

I want to win the 4P more than the FA cup. He will surely have to rest Rodri again after him doing 120 minutes last night, we can't keep running the bollocks off this man. We will need him at Brighton.

Ortega.
Rico, Stones,.Dias Ake.
Kovacic, Foden, Bernardo.
Bobb Alvarez and Doku.

Rico to help Kovacic, kev can come in if needed.

Agree the PL is far more important (Can we trust Chelsea to beat the Rags in the final?!) The case for Rodri is that the team will be weakened a lot anyway and he didn’t play against Luton. I can see the contrary view though.

We don't have a backup to rodri and backup creativity and that is disastrous.

What is the point in nunes.

sheblue wrote:I want to win the 4P more than the FA cup. He will surely have to rest Rodri again after him doing 120 minutes last night, we can't keep running the bollocks off this man. We will need him at Brighton.

Ortega.
Rico, Stones,.Dias Ake.
Kovacic, Foden, Bernardo.
Bobb Alvarez and Doku.

Rico to help Kovacic, kev can come in if needed.

Mad that we’re asking a kid to help out an experienced player. Shows how truly awful our transfers were last summer.

I’d just let Rico do the Rodri role. Hes twice the player Kovacic is anyway.

Mase wrote:

sheblue wrote:I want to win the 4P more than the FA cup. He will surely have to rest Rodri again after him doing 120 minutes last night, we can't keep running the bollocks off this man. We will need him at Brighton.

Ortega.
Rico, Stones,.Dias Ake.
Kovacic, Foden, Bernardo.
Bobb Alvarez and Doku.

Rico to help Kovacic, kev can come in if needed.

Mad that we’re asking a kid to help out an experienced player. Shows how truly awful our transfers were last summer.

I’d just let Rico do the Rodri role. Hes twice the player Kovacic is anyway.

Yes but hes more than just a kid, to me hes proven his worth and I am totally comfortable with him in the team. Which is a lot more that can be said for some others.

sheblue wrote:

Mase wrote:

sheblue wrote:I want to win the 4P more than the FA cup. He will surely have to rest Rodri again after him doing 120 minutes last night, we can't keep running the bollocks off this man. We will need him at Brighton.

Ortega.
Rico, Stones,.Dias Ake.
Kovacic, Foden, Bernardo.
Bobb Alvarez and Doku.

Rico to help Kovacic, kev can come in if needed.

Mad that we’re asking a kid to help out an experienced player. Shows how truly awful our transfers were last summer.

I’d just let Rico do the Rodri role. Hes twice the player Kovacic is anyway.

Yes but hes more than just a kid, to me hes proven his worth and I am totally comfortable with him in the team. Which is a lot more that can be said for some others.

Totally agree. I love the guy and think he’ll be important for us for years.

sheblue wrote:I want to win the 4P more than the FA cup. He will surely have to rest Rodri again after him doing 120 minutes last night, we can't keep running the bollocks off this man. We will need him at Brighton.

Ortega.
Rico, Stones,.Dias Ake.
Kovacic, Foden, Bernardo.
Bobb Alvarez and Doku.

Rico to help Kovacic, kev can come in if needed.

I'd be happy with that line-up. Massive question mark over Stones if he wasn't fit to start last night, it will be the same Saturday surely? Play him and then he won't start Thursday which is arguably more important

Dropping stones could have been that he's 90% fit and he was punishing him/ rewarding akanji

Nick wrote:Dropping stones could have been that he's 90% fit and he was punishing him/ rewarding akanji

At the expense of winning the game - even Pep is not that stubborn
Said it earlier, if we cannot tely on Stones then we need to replace him with an upgrade which is not easy for what Pep wants.

salford city wrote:

Nick wrote:Dropping stones could have been that he's 90% fit and he was punishing him/ rewarding akanji

At the expense of winning the game - even Pep is not that stubborn
Said it earlier, if we cannot tely on Stones then we need to replace him with an upgrade which is not easy for what Pep wants.

Of course he is. He always does it.

He played last week fine. He came on. Wouldn't have come on if we was less than 70% fit.

Nick wrote:

salford city wrote:

Nick wrote:Dropping stones could have been that he's 90% fit and he was punishing him/ rewarding akanji

At the expense of winning the game - even Pep is not that stubborn
Said it earlier, if we cannot tely on Stones then we need to replace him with an upgrade which is not easy for what Pep wants.

Of course he is. He always does it.

He played last week fine. He came on. Wouldn't have come on if we was less than 70% fit.

Personally think its more managing Srones' game time. Akanji is nowhere near as effective as Stones or Lewis in that role. Madrid let Akanji have it all the time last night and then cut off his passing angles and took the ball from him. Akanji is great for rotation but not a playmaker

Personally don't get why he needed to keep that tactic with akanji. Normal 433 could have done it

Tired of all this 'tired' players bollocks. They are top superfit athletes in prime shape. If i played twice a week until the age of 26, with little training and many of my mates played more, with countlesz casual games in between , i'm sure our players can manage a game on Tuesday and another on Saturday. Anyone got any stats on game running distances?

Tired of all this 'tired' players bollocks. They are top superfit athletes in prime shape. If i played twice a week until the age of 26, with little training and many of my mates played more, with countlesz casual games in between , i'm sure our players can manage a game on Tuesday and another on Saturday. Anyone got any stats on game running distances?