***City vs Dirty Rags Official Match thread***

[PeterParker]

Great line up

[ruralblue]

Laporte aside, that'll do

[Harry Dowd scored]

Cancelo is a worry apart from that come on City

[Nick]

Cancelo ffs

And no Lewis. Apart from that happy. Said that the last 3 games..

[sheblue]

Would have Laporte in.
Ake at LB.
Bernardo right wing and gundo in the middle.

It is what it is so let's hope we turn up.

[blues2win]

As Ric predicted. Cancelo lucky to start but potentially offers far more going forward than Ake. I think it was right not to expose Lewis to an in form Rashford. United have a lot of pace going forward and Walker is needed. Foden preferred over Grealish. At his best he is more aggressive with the ball but he needs to step it up on recent performances. We badly need the in form Mahrez of more recent matches. Either Haaland scores or he occupies defenders to allow others space.

[gmercer1]

We’ll smash these cnuts

[Beefymcfc]

XI | Ederson, Walker, Akanji, Ake, Cancelo, Rodrigo, De Bruyne (C), Bernardo, Mahrez, Foden, Haaland

SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Phillips, Gundogan, Grealish, Laporte, Alvarez, Gomez, Palmer, Lewis

Hays Worldwide

Possibly our strongest team. Possibly Grealish for Foden but could’ve been either way.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Playing Cancelo is criminal - Pep rewards players who are playing shit by playing them in the next game and I just don’t fucking get it ,but apart from his inclusión, the team itself is a good one.

[Kippax Sean]

This is derby day no half arsed effort today. We should be 100% fired up for this. A couple of early fouls on KDB and Haaland will have us fighting and at our best. Adrenaline pumping already and ready to strangle some cu#t. Come on you Blue Boys.

[Beefymcfc]

Obviously a nice balance of pundits on BT. Camelgob, Scholes for the Rags, Lescott for us. I wonder who the co-commentators are?

[Beefymcfc]

This is derby day no half arsed effort today. We should be 100% fired up for this. A couple of early fouls on KDB and Haaland will have us fighting and at our best. Adrenaline pumping already and ready to strangle some cu#t. Come on you Blue Boys.

Listened to Pep’s presser and he seemed to very combative and really focussed. I’m sure that will be within the whole group.

[sheblue]

Luke Shaw at CB, mmm.

[blues2win]

Shaw instead of Martinez at centre back is interesting. Casemiro and Fred playing presumably as a double pivot.

[sheblue]

Rags just going to play the counter.

[Bluemoon4610]

Playing Cancelo is criminal - Pep rewards players who are playing shit by playing them in the next game and I just don’t fucking get it ,but apart from his inclusión, the team itself is a good one.

Must be so he can practice his throw ins...no other reason I can see warrants a srart for him.

[Kippax Sean]

This is derby day no half arsed effort today. We should be 100% fired up for this. A couple of early fouls on KDB and Haaland will have us fighting and at our best. Adrenaline pumping already and ready to strangle some cu#t. Come on you Blue Boys.

Listened to Pep’s presser and he seemed to very combative and really focussed. I’m sure that will be within the whole group.

Yep. Just when Pep starts to annoy me he reels me back in. He needs to be foaming at the mouth before kick off. Our fans in the swamp today will make themselves heard hope that passion gets the team going berserk.

[london blue 2]

Haaland please don’t miss your inevitable early chance ffs

[s1ty m]

Selecting Cancelo is an act of criminal sabotage.

[dick dastardley]

We’ll smash these cnuts

We'll find out in the first ten mins, turn up and we'll batter them, don't show up and we'll find it tough