Oh my stars it's the official Hammers v City thread *******

[french_tony]

Never thought I'd say this. We could do worse than Jo. He has looked -cough cough- decent as of late.
Only three and a half hours to go. Think I'll make me some bacon and eggs to hold over till game. When
does Albertson's open??

eh?

Someone is in for a shock in three and a half hours when they turn on the TV to watch the game

[CitizenYank]

Never thought I'd say this. We could do worse than Jo. He has looked -cough cough- decent as of late.
Only three and a half hours to go. Think I'll make me some bacon and eggs to hold over till game. When
does Albertson's open??

eh?

Sorry My Bad, Pacific Coast Time is a bitch ain't it!! Still got time for breakfast though.

[saulman]

Never thought I'd say this. We could do worse than Jo. He has looked -cough cough- decent as of late.
Only three and a half hours to go. Think I'll make me some bacon and eggs to hold over till game. When
does Albertson's open??

eh?

Was just thinking the same mate. I just double checked the fixture list after reading that.

[Swales4ever]

I got a real feeling watching training yesterday that Yaya is gearing up to score today.Add that to Jo and Mario and its going to be a good day.

Well You're almost always right so You'll be today too. Why do You think Bob hasnt choosen Adam as per My and Ted wishes?

And who the hell is the ref today?... I noticed a certain relevance about the question in the previous match...

[s1ty m]

i would prefer zab at rb, lescott at lb, if micah is being left out. aj not better than jo? mancio is having a laugh.

i am a bit miffed with this team selection, i hope he's right.

is adebayor just frozen out totally then or what?

[Ted Hughes]

Cannot see him playing anything other than 433, so should mean Jo in the same pos. as he had last time. Wonder why AJ is not playing, probably because he wants more strikeforce up top and Jo does give us more prescence up top IMO.

It becomes 4-3-3 when we attack or even 4-2-4 but I bet if you look at the lineup when we lose the ball, there'll be one striker (probably Balo) on his own up front with the rest of the team deeper, more like 4-5-1.

[saulman]

I'm happy with Zabba at RB and Boateng at LB. That's some attacking threat. Deffo go with Boateng over Lescott against easier teams.

Very happy with the team selection. I'm sensing something special today. (but still shitting a little)

[Mase]

Feel a bit sorry for AJ.

[ryanmjo]

I got a real feeling watching training yesterday that Yaya is gearing up to score today.Add that to Jo and Mario and its going to be a good day.

Well You're almost always right so You'll be today too. Why do You think Bob hasnt choosen Adam as per My and Ted wishes?

And who the hell is the ref today?... I noticed a certain relevance about the question in the previous match...

Phil Dowd

[french_tony]

Jo will likely play up front and is a straight swap for Tevez.
I think the only way AJ will start is instead of Balo or Silva. Ade injured btw?

[ashton287]

Should be a good stream today if its on setanta.

Come on city.

[Swales4ever]

Thanks Ryan, Mate.
deffo better than mariner... :-)

Roll on Citeh!

[ashton287]

Is ADE not even on the bench???, kind of sucks to be him.

[Beefymcfc]

From the Beeb:

MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

• West Ham have a fine home league record against Manchester City, winning 24 of 42 all-time meetings at Upton Park. City have left with all three points on only 10 occasions.

• City's last victory at Upton Park was a 2-0 success on the opening day of the 2007/08 season. One-season wonders Rolando Bianchi and Geovanni supplied the goals that day.

• The Hammers have recorded only win in eight league matches against Manchester City, a 1-0 win at Upton Park in March 2009. Jack Collison scored the only goal of that game.

West Ham

• West Ham have only ever picked up as few as 12 points from their opening 16 Premier League games once before. That was during the 2002/03 season, when they were ultimately relegated.

• The Hammers have secured just six league wins during the calendar year of 2010, and claimed a combined total of just 29 points.

• Robert Green (98) has made more saves than any other keeper in the Premier League this season.

Man City

• Only leaders Arsenal have scored more than City's 13 away goals, and picked up more than City's 14 away points this season.

• Joe Hart has kept eight clean sheets this term, the equal best in the Premier League along with Chelsea's Petr Cech.

• City have ended the last eight rounds of Premier League fixtures in fourth place.

• If selected, Joleon Lescott will be making his 350th career league appearance.

LEADING GOALSCORERS

West Ham

Parker: 6 goals (4 league); Piquionne: 5 goals (4 league)

Man City

Tevez: 10 goals (10 league); Balotelli: 5 goals (2 league)

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee: Phil Dowd

Assistant referees: Mike Mullarkey & Paul Thompson

Fourth official: Lee Probert

And, we've won both games that Mr Dowd's ref'd this season - let's go for a hat-trick, eh boy's?

[CITYSTEVEDON]

COMON CITY

[Esky]

'Jo has not scored in any of his last 27 Premier League matches since netting twice for Everton in their 4-0 win against Wigan in April 2009. His only previous Premier League goal for Man City came in September 2008 during their 6-0 win against Portsmouth.'

Time to buck the trend.

[dikdik]

What he said.

[markuse]

And 'til now Mario has scored every two matches. He didn't score last saturday so... (fingers crossed)

[ashton287]

Silva is awesome.

[dikdik]

Hi Ho SIlva!!!!