***West Ham v Champions Official Match Thread***

[nottsblue]

The question is, Women’s FA Cup final or the Men’s PL decider?

That’s even a option?

[Tokyo Blue]

The question is, Women’s FA Cup final or the Men’s PL decider?

Men's then women's after full time in the men's.

[Mase]

The question is, Women’s FA Cup final or the Men’s PL decider?

Depends if Alex Greenwood is playing <3

[Nigels Tackle]

heading to stratford now. first away day for my eldest.
very nervous

Hopefully a great day out, mate. Have a good one and ensure you are both loud and proud.

Oh, and boo the ref

fingers crossed. we’ll do the team proud.

[johnny crossan]

The question is, Women’s FA Cup final or the Men’s PL decider?

That’s even a option?

Sky on TV & BBC 1 on PC follow both

[Beefymcfc]

Reading that cheered me up Beefers Mate. until I realised that none of that will count from the moment the 1st whistle blows.

After all these years of Cityups and downs, you'd think I would be immune to all this shit, but for some reason, I am as nervy as I was as a kid in th Kippax

Nothing changes, mate. Whether we are going down with a penny in the bank or winning a domestic quadruple, there’s always that sense that we have the ability to shoot ourselves in the foot, just as the CL semi taught us.

Too true, mate.

I often hear the word "expectation" bandied around about football, mostly by people who ought to know better. I prefer the word "hope" to describe my thoughts before a match or season.

It is, though, very hard not to be confident in this group of players.

Amen to that, brother.

[Beefymcfc]

The question is, Women’s FA Cup final or the Men’s PL decider?

That’s even a option?

Rather sarcastic of me, but it’s there. If we’re 3-0 up after 30 minutes, I might be tempted to flick between games.

[salford city]

All we can ask is for it to be in our hands and it is. Win today and its a massive step towards retaining the title. The way we have reacted since RM tells us where the squad is at and we could do more harm to the GD today to take the pressure off our defence

[Beefymcfc]

All we can ask is for it to be in our hands and it is. Win today and its a massive step towards retaining the title. The way we have reacted since RM tells us where the squad is at and we could do more harm to the GD today to take the pressure off our defence

I’d go as far in saying that this is a free hit as long as we don’t get stuffed. Lose by the odd goal and we’ll still have a decent goal difference going into the Villa game, who I think we’ll beat comprehensively.

Not to say that I think we won’t win, just that the previous few games have afforded us a sense of distance between us and Liverpool, who have seemingly struggled of late.

[City64]

We gave ourselves a fantastic cushion by beating Newcastle and Wolves 5-0 & 5-1 respectively. We will destroy Villa home next week but it will make things sweeter if we get a result in London today . Superb position to be in enjoy the ride ffs !

Awin today will make it beyond sweeter Mate. It will effectively give us the title.
I agree we will beat Villa but we will be relieved of a ton of pressure and nerves.

A good win today will pile the pressure on the dippers and make their last 2 games meaningful for them.
Just the pressure they will need for Madrid to beat them.

We will have to have a beer or two at the Villa game next week pal .

[john68]

We gave ourselves a fantastic cushion by beating Newcastle and Wolves 5-0 & 5-1 respectively. We will destroy Villa home next week but it will make things sweeter if we get a result in London today . Superb position to be in enjoy the ride ffs ! 8-)

Awin today will make it beyond sweeter Mate. It will effectively give us the title.
I agree we will beat Villa but we will be relieved of a ton of pressure and nerves.

A good win today will pile the pressure on the dippers and make their last 2 games meaningful for them.
Just the pressure they will need for Madrid to beat them.

We will have to have a beer or two at the Villa game next week pal .

I will be celebrating wholeheartedly Mate...but I am only a social drinker on a very few occasions. Apart from that I am almost Tee total.
(Though I would allow Carl to buy me a pint of guinness or 10.)

[CTID Hants]

XI | Ederson, Cancelo, Fernandinho (C), Laporte, Zinchenko, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Mahrez, Jesus, Grealish

SUBS | Steffen, Ake, Sterling, Gundogan, Foden, Egan-Riley, Mbete, Palmer, Lavia

[Mase]

FFS Pep. Just play your fuckin best team! Why is Foden on the bench?!

[City64]

FFS Pep. Just play your fuckin best team! Why is Foden on the bench?!

Grealish Mahrez and Jesus fresh , pep always does this after a midweek game . Foden to come on and cause havoc last 30 minutes if required.

[Harry Dowd scored]

Stating the obvious but that defence worries me, Antonio will bully that back line, hope we have our shooting boots on, come on City win today and dippers can fuck off with their quad

[City64]

Stating the obvious but that defence worries me, Antonio will bully that back line, hope we have our shooting boots on, come on City win today and dippers can fuck off with their quad

Antonio only scored 2 goals this year I think , does a lot of running though .

[johnny crossan]

Buggins turn again, we'll probably lose now. Fern is a huge risk.

[Mase]

Stating the obvious but that defence worries me, Antonio will bully that back line, hope we have our shooting boots on, come on City win today and dippers can fuck off with their quad

I’m more worried about the pace of Fornals, Lanzini, and Bowen. They have a decent front 4 playing.

[City64]

Buggins turn again, we'll probably lose now. Fern is a huge risk.

Sterling where he deserves to be , left back in the changing room

[aaron bond]

It’s like Pep wants to make things even harder for us.

Foden should always start.

Ake should be starting considering he’s been great lately and Laporte has been poor lately. Not to mention Fern is not a centre back.