***Official City v Villa Match Thread***

[Esky]

Man City: Hart, Richards, Lescott, Kompany, Clichy, De Jong, Barry, Milner, Johnson, Toure Yaya, Balotelli. Subs: Pantilimon, Dzeko, Kolarov, Nasri, Hargreaves, Silva, Toure.
Aston Villa: Given, Hutton, Dunne, Clark, Warnock, Delph, Petrov, Ireland, Heskey, Agbonlahor, Bent. Subs: Guzan, N'Zogbia, Albrighton, Cuellar, Bannan, Weimann, Herd.
Referee: Anthony Taylor (Cheshire)

[Dameerto]

At least we have some game changers on the bench - very worried we aren't starting Dave though.

[phips]

im a bit worried about this match..especially with the side selection. Dzeko, Silva, and Nasri on the bench...
glad that we're resting Silva ahead of the next week but resting all 3 of those at once is going to be interesting...
granted, we do have two big matches coming up but look what happened to Utd. today when they rested/dropped players.

This match became much more challenging in my opinion.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

There has been plenty of talk about who has the best squad around and this will an interesting test to see how we fare in a game missing arguably our 4 best attacking players ( it would have been 5!) The scum rested 3 of theirs and got a good draw away at the dippers. We should beat Villa anyway but will need to play very well against an unbeaten side so far this season.

An early goal I am sure would help but I feel the key is to keep a clean sheet and be patient so that an 85th minute goal will be a winner.

[Dameerto]

At least Yaya can get forward with Nige in the team - he really needs to be at his best if there's no Silva though. This is not an occasion for him to go missing.

[Crazy_Cabbie]

Could someone inbox me a link to a live stream to the match

Cheers

[The Original Special One]

Man City: Hart, Richards, Lescott, Kompany, Clichy, De Jong, Barry, Milner, Johnson, Toure Yaya, Balotelli. Subs: Pantilimon, Dzeko, Kolarov, Nasri, Hargreaves, Silva, Toure.
Aston Villa: Given, Hutton, Dunne, Clark, Warnock, Delph, Petrov, Ireland, Heskey, Agbonlahor, Bent. Subs: Guzan, N'Zogbia, Albrighton, Cuellar, Bannan, Weimann, Herd.
Referee: Anthony Taylor (Cheshire)

Our two ex-Villa players and their three ex-City players all starting!

[The Original Special One]

im a bit worried about this match..especially with the side selection. Dzeko, Silva, and Nasri on the bench...
glad that we're resting Silva ahead of the next week but resting all 3 of those at once is going to be interesting...
granted, we do have two big matches coming up but look what happened to Utd. today when they rested/dropped players.

This match became much more challenging in my opinion.

I think he should have started Nasri, since he was resting Silva: Nasri was buzzing for France in midweek and it would have been the perfect opportunity to show what he could do with having Silva to fall back on.

[ruralblue]

Lescott your numpty!, Well pulled back Jo Hart!

come on lads, keep it together!

[Mark (Blue Army)]

Great block from Kompany

[Dameerto]

What a blunder, thanks Joe and vinnie for recovering.

[kennyboy]

Lescott you are shit, and you have always been that for us. OUT

[mr_nool]

Very worried about this game. Villa are not bad, and we lack creativity. We've started quit poorly as well.

[carl_feedthegoat]

LESCOTT...USELESS CUNT.

[bigblue]

Interesting to see yaya ahead of balo when we're defending

[Mark (Blue Army)]

Should of done better Mario

[Wooders]

err... its still 0-0 fellas
nothing like supporting the lads though eh

[Mark (Blue Army)]

err... its still 0-0 fellas
nothing like supporting the lads though eh

I know 16 mins in and people are worried, relax lads we will win this.

[carl_feedthegoat]

err... its still 0-0 fellas
nothing like supporting the lads though eh

er..it wont be for long if we keep playing like this.

[Mase]

Is Gareth Barry taking the piss?