View from the Home End

[CuteMancs]

I am still a little bit scarred about going to Goodison and coming away with a result, but Pep's record against Dyche gives me a lot of comfort! I really don’t think The Toffees can pull off another result like last week, no matter what team we put out. A draw isn’t the end of the world, but three points would be better.

COME ON CITY!!!

Referee: Anthony Taylor
Assistants: Gary Beswick, Adam Nunn
Fourth official: Graham Scott
VAR: Craig Pawson
Assistant VAR: Dan Robathan

Team Selection

Pickford
Patterson Mina Tarkowski Mykolenko
Garner Gueye
Iwobi Doucoure McNeil
DCL

And the rest…

We're Gonna Smash the Double Denim wearing tramps.

Not losing would go a long way to helping us stay up, Think a lot of us would take a draw, if we were offered it right now.

Anything other than a defeat is a big bonus. I do fear a little bit though that Dyche will have us set up ultra-negative for this which I personally don't think is the play.

Fantastic team city, just put up a show and hope for the best.
Everton 2-0 in my dreams.

Oh ffs.

Zero points is by no means a foregone conclusion.

If we can beat Brighton 5-1 away, and we can draw at the Etihad, we don't need to write this one off.

I now that City's 2nd XI will batter most teams , us included , but I'd rather face them than KdB , Haaland etc so I hope that City's CL Semi is still in the balance before next weeks 2nd leg.

Dyche record v Guardiola - played 15, drew 1 lost 14.


I said this before yesterday result and I still think there’s a point to be had here. City is going to be all over the place mentally.


We tend to do better against the top echelon it seems. 1-1 for me.


It would not surprise me in the least if they field a completely different team. They were not at their best against Madrid and I think they'll beat Madrid at the Etihad with the same lineup. Guardiola wants the CL more than anything.


So far this season Man City have already drawn against Forest, Villa, Everton. They love dropping points against teams around the relegation zone.


People getting way too confident about this one. We have been terrible pretty much all season and had a good result the another night. Anything other than a defeat would be a big shock.


Man City could drop points here and still win the league. Hopefully they concentrate on the second leg against Madrid. Also am sure the fans will be happy to drop points to Everton if they new they was still going to win the league because they probably hate Liverpool just a little less than we do.


It’s not bad when your backups are Foden, Mahrez and recent World Cup winner Alvarez. They’re no Gray, Davies and Maupay, but they’re OK.

He doesn’t need to beat us and risk injuries or tiredness to players he needs for the 2nd leg against Madrid to win the league. If they draw against us they go 2 points above Arsenal with a far superior goal difference and 3 games to play.

[nottsblue]

Cheers CM as usual

Think a lot of us would take a draw, if we were offered it right now.

Can't imagine a single person connected with Everton wouldn't take a draw. Every single one of them would, not just a lot of them.

Dyche record v Guardiola - played 15, drew 1 lost 14.

This cheers me up.

In the cold light of day we will smash these. We are clearly miles better. But tomorrow the nerves will set in and I will be likely envisaging another fuck up like on NYE

Any old win will do

[johnny crossan]

Do we go strong or do we rotate?

[nottsblue]

Do we go strong or do we rotate?

We go strong. We can then rest/rotate when the game is done.

That said, a starting line up with Mahrez, Foden, Alvarez, Laporte in it is still a strong one

[CTID Hants]

Cheers CM.

I will miss probably most of the first half tomorrow, my first miss of this season in all comps. Got to take the missus back to hospital to have dressings changed.

So the ref is Taylor? He has been involved in contoversy for us and the toffees in recent months and you just know summat happen tomorrow!! We've had some decent youngish refs recently, shame that won't be the case tomorrow!!

Quite a few optimistic posts from them and of course after the Brighton result last week i kind of get it, but surely last week was a one off freakish result?

3 points, key players rested and no injuries is all we ask.

[johnny crossan]

Do we go strong or do we rotate?

We go strong. We can then rest/rotate when the game is done.

That said, a starting line up with Mahrez, Foden, Alvarez, Laporte in it is still a strong one

Agree, all hinges on whether we start Rodri & Erling I think he'll go
Ederson;
Rico Lewis, Reuben Dias, Manuel Akanji, Aymeric Laporte;
Julián Álvarez, Rodri, Bernardo Silva;
Riyad Mahrez, Erling Haaland (F/L), Phil Foden:

Bench: Stefan Ortega, Kyle Walker, John Stones, Kalvin Phillips, İlkay Gündoğan, Kevin De Bruyne, Jack Grealish, Sergio Gómez, Cole Palmer.

City win 0-3​

[nottsblue]

Do we go strong or do we rotate?

We go strong. We can then rest/rotate when the game is done.

That said, a starting line up with Mahrez, Foden, Alvarez, Laporte in it is still a strong one

Agree, all hinges on whether we start Rodri & Erling I think he'll go
Ederson;
Rico Lewis, Reuben Dias, Manuel Akanji, Aymeric Laporte;
Julián Álvarez, Rodri, Bernardo Silva;
Riyad Mahrez, Erling Haaland (F/L), Phil Foden:

Bench: Stefan Ortega, Kyle Walker, John Stones, Kalvin Phillips, İlkay Gündoğan, Kevin De Bruyne, Jack Grealish, Sergio Gómez, Cole Palmer.

City win 0-3​

Perfect

[branny]

Do we go strong or do we rotate?

We go strong. We can then rest/rotate when the game is done.

That said, a starting line up with Mahrez, Foden, Alvarez, Laporte in it is still a strong one

This for me. Go strong for the next 4. If we win those then Brentford away is a dead rubber. There's 9 days between Brighton and the Cup final and another week until the Ucl final. Plenty of recovery time.