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[PALUS]

Dzeko has had Mertersacker for breakfast on more than one occasion in Germany, so this is the ideal time to play him.

I recon it'll be Tevez & Aguero though & another bizarre, shock, defensive selection, as Bob is mentally unstable when it comes to Arsenal.

Surely this guy has to give the Dzek a chance FFS.

He'll probably drop him and start Mario though... I am starting to wonder...

Mario didn't make the squad for Madrid & Bob said it was his plan to bring on Aguero but couldn't due to injury of other players. Therefore, he preferred Dzeko to both Mario & Aguero in the Bernabau.

We will see hope u are wright Ted and to add i agree to return our defence play them until they make that form from last year u cant rotate defence like atack and bring Nastasic litlle by litlle , i think even i respect Bob hes in over hes head with to many plans all at once and he must be more sure in our atack force in Champions leugue

[carolina-blue]

I to hope Dzeko will start deserves it ,

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Zabba Komps Lescott Cliche
Sinclair Yaya Milner Silva
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[kinkylola]

i think Dzeko deserves the start as well, and with tevez dropping deep as he always does ... it seems like a perfect complimentary partnership. I just wish Dzeko would stop drifting out wide. I feel like if he stayed up top he would get the kind of service he needs to flourish ... I dunno why, but everytime I see him out on the left wing it does my fucking head in.

[PALUS]

i think Dzeko deserves the start as well, and with tevez dropping deep as he always does ... it seems like a perfect complimentary partnership. I just wish Dzeko would stop drifting out wide. I feel like if he stayed up top he would get the kind of service he needs to flourish ... I dunno why, but everytime I see him out on the left wing it does my fucking head in.

Ithink he is going wide to create space for other players because hes pulling one CB from defence he did that in wolfsburg , Felix Magath hes the one making him from atacking midfilder to striker and the he start with machine in germyny and hes have a lot assist to so i think Bob dosent mind him doing that,

[london blue 2]

Dzeko has had Mertersacker for breakfast on more than one occasion in Germany, so this is the ideal time to play him.

I recon it'll be Tevez & Aguero though & another bizarre, shock, defensive selection, as Bob is mentally unstable when it comes to Arsenal.

Surely this guy has to give the Dzek a chance FFS.

He'll probably drop him and start Mario though... I am starting to wonder...

Mario didn't make the squad for Madrid & Bob said it was his plan to bring on Aguero but couldn't due to injury of other players. Therefore, he preferred Dzeko to both Mario & Aguero in the Bernabau.

Yet when fit Aguero will start (rightly) and Mario seems to get many more starts than Dzeko throughout the year.

I like many others would love to see Dzeko get a decent run of games, he seems to be a confidence player yet everytime he scores (club and country) he ends up back on the bench, shit he even scored four in one game and started sub the next one. Mancini just doesnt seem to trust starting him.

[AG7]

Starting Aguero ahead of Dzeko is a no brainer but Balo getting a nod ahead of him more times than not even when he has been misbehaving is something I just don't understand ... Mancini does come across as favouring him all the time, we should totally have taken £40m of PSG if they had bid that this summer ... Btw, after Real Madrid no show and apparent partying news the Daily Mail is linking him to PSG again for a possible January move. I'd keep Dzeko over Balo any day!

[Chinners]

Starting Aguero ahead of Dzeko is a no brainer but Balo getting a nod ahead of him more times than not even when he has been misbehaving is something I just don't understand ... Mancini does come across as favouring him all the time, we should totally have taken £40m of PSG if they had bid that this summer ... Btw, after Real Madrid no show and apparent partying news the Daily 'print any negative story on City' Cunt is linking him to PSG again for a possible January move. I'd keep Dzeko over Balo any day!

Fixed it for you fella

[kinkylola]

i think Dzeko deserves the start as well, and with tevez dropping deep as he always does ... it seems like a perfect complimentary partnership. I just wish Dzeko would stop drifting out wide. I feel like if he stayed up top he would get the kind of service he needs to flourish ... I dunno why, but everytime I see him out on the left wing it does my fucking head in.

Ithink he is going wide to create space for other players because hes pulling one CB from defence he did that in wolfsburg , Felix Magath hes the one making him from atacking midfilder to striker and the he start with machine in germyny and hes have a lot assist to so i think Bob dosent mind him doing that,

I understand that he is doing it to pull players out there ... but with Tevez also dropping off, we're missing someone to spearhead the attack. I think Dzeko could improve his goal tally if it played out this way, and people would generally be happier with his contribution.

Of course, at the end of the day it's mancini's happiness that matters, but maybe a clue there as to why dzeko gets overlooked sometimes? I dunno ... but a type of player like dzeko is not who I want going out to the wings. I'm only an armchair manager though, just a thought.

[PALUS]

Last season he have bad run of games it was bit of chaos that Tevez make after that Bayern game and Edin was playing bad that game and he show that in wrong manner then Bob punish him with few games at the bench and then he lost rytam but he was comme back when was most important few goals that bring us to the title, some lads here must understand that in all clubs where he play e was the target man who gets ball in front and get plenty of cross , if u have time watch few goals in Wolfsburg , ball in front he run from defense score or assist him and Grafite was incredible to be best in Germany attack duo ever ,other way he was score like u have all four ways on game against Totenhem hit him in head , pass him cross in 5 metar he will be there first ,and he can score left like right one. So he come here in system tika taka with 3 to 5 cross a game and 4 would be a bad one no balls up front compleat change for him but he even in that form score 18 and some of that was very important.if anyone remembers counterattack against Arsenall like rocket from hes 16 pass long one to Jhonson who flick it to Aguero and goal to me that was best counter last season he show us from time to time blast off genius moves but that is when he have space to play , he is space player when u have 20 players in 20 metars of goal he cant do much only cross in that situation would be ideal for him, best pair by statistic is Aguero Dzeko last season but there was no Tevez so u never know ,so now i see that Manchini litlle bit change game we have problem with defending but attack we still sore 2- 3 for game no problem so fix defending and we are there but wath i wanna say Bob seams to wont to play not just tika taka when we can ok but i se faster opening of City , faster counterattack and balls on Edin , much more of them so i think if zhat hapends if we should have plan A b and c Edin could stay and he can have amazing season if he have enough games, but with three master players and they are all four of them are amazing . I honestly think we have best attack in Europe and somwone say if we lern how to use all of their strength and buy fewgret defenders we could be force we are force now but we have problem with confedence witch is for me crazy.

[PALUS]

i think Dzeko deserves the start as well, and with tevez dropping deep as he always does ... it seems like a perfect complimentary partnership. I just wish Dzeko would stop drifting out wide. I feel like if he stayed up top he would get the kind of service he needs to flourish ... I dunno why, but everytime I see him out on the left wing it does my fucking head in.

Ithink he is going wide to create space for other players because hes pulling one CB from defence he did that in wolfsburg , Felix Magath hes the one making him from atacking midfilder to striker and the he start with machine in germyny and hes have a lot assist to so i think Bob dosent mind him doing that,

I understand that he is doing it to pull players out there ... but with Tevez also dropping off, we're missing someone to spearhead the attack. I think Dzeko could improve his goal tally if it played out this way, and people would generally be happier with his contribution.

Of course, at the end of the day it's mancini's happiness that matters, but maybe a clue there as to why dzeko gets overlooked sometimes? I dunno ... but a type of player like dzeko is not who I want going out to the wings. I'm only an armchair manager though, just a thought.

If he had enough cross or balls in space i belive he would do that less then he does .

[sheblue]

Dzeko does deserve a run in the side, think bob might play him and augero and put tevez on bench. And play tevez against villa.

[SmallTimeCharlie]

Dzeko does deserve a run in the side, think bob might play him and augero and put tevez on bench. And play tevez against villa.

Or bring Tevez on if needed at 65. If Aguero doesn't start i'll eat my hat, but as we all know, you never know..
Nasri being out makes it a slightly easier choice for Mancini, but my question is what will the back four be?
No clean sheets so far..

[PALUS]

Dzeko does deserve a run in the side, think bob might play him and augero and put tevez on bench. And play tevez against villa.

Or bring Tevez on if needed at 65. If Aguero doesn't start i'll eat my hat, but as we all know, you never know..
Nasri being out makes it a slightly easier choice for Mancini, but my question is what will the back four be?
No clean sheets so far..

i think that Tevez have ability to play where is Nasri ans with two strikers in front an Silva on other side well i would be scare of that ....

[Ted Hughes]

Dzeko does deserve a run in the side, think bob might play him and augero and put tevez on bench. And play tevez against villa.

Or bring Tevez on if needed at 65. If Aguero doesn't start i'll eat my hat, but as we all know, you never know..
Nasri being out makes it a slightly easier choice for Mancini, but my question is what will the back four be?
No clean sheets so far..

i think that Tevez have ability to play where is Nasri ans with two strikers in front an Silva on other side well i would be scare of that ....

I think Tevez can play there but it would weaken us defensively, as Tevez, for all his workrate, is still a striker & not used to having the defensive duties of a midfielder. Nasri has been hit & miss but he does track back pretty well.

If we do use Tevez like that, we need to put our chances away because we will probably give the opponents a few decent chances at the other end. It's a gamble, but nowhere near the level of the one Bob took on Tues.

I just think he'll be conservative & start with Tevez & Aguero though. (And then probably play Kolarov & Rekik in the back 4).

[PALUS]

Dzeko does deserve a run in the side, think bob might play him and augero and put tevez on bench. And play tevez against villa.

Or bring Tevez on if needed at 65. If Aguero doesn't start i'll eat my hat, but as we all know, you never know..
Nasri being out makes it a slightly easier choice for Mancini, but my question is what will the back four be?
No clean sheets so far..

i think that Tevez have ability to play where is Nasri ans with two strikers in front an Silva on other side well i would be scare of that ....

I think Tevez can play there but it would weaken us defensively, as Tevez, for all his workrate, is still a striker & not used to having the defensive duties of a midfielder. Nasri has been hit & miss but he does track back pretty well.

If we do use Tevez like that, we need to put our chances away because we will probably give the opponents a few decent chances at the other end. It's a gamble, but nowhere near the level of the one Bob took on Tues.
I just think he'll be conservative & start with Tevez & Aguero though. (And then probably play Kolarov & Rekik in the back 4).

O i did not think against Arsenal but try it against less dangerus team, and yes 100 % he will start with Aguero and Tevez

[Dameerto]

I think Tevez could cope out wide, he already tracks back enough centrally - he would probably drift inside but that would just give room for the fullback to overlap (if we play with four at the back), and given the fluidity we use anyway he would still be central for large parts of the game. What a forward line that would be...

[Beefymcfc]

I can defnately see Sinclair getting a start but who'll be upfront I haven't got a scoobies. I'd like to see Carlos, Sergio and Edin all start but that's never going to happen, is it?

[PALUS]

I can defnately see Sinclair getting a start but who'll be upfront I haven't got a scoobies. I'd like to see Carlos, Sergio and Edin all start but that's never going to happen, is it?

Not with Bob , no way , only if we losing and it s 15 min to end , Tevez and Aguero its best blanket even Edin is in form ,that will be our forward , but i would not be surprised to see Ballo with Aguero or Ballo us substitute , i do not know who said it i think Carl ,Edin needs hat trick every game for him to be sure to play :D

[Beefymcfc]

I can defnately see Sinclair getting a start but who'll be upfront I haven't got a scoobies. I'd like to see Carlos, Sergio and Edin all start but that's never going to happen, is it?

Not with Bob , no way , only if we losing and it s 15 min to end , Tevez and Aguero its best blanket even Edin is in form ,that will be our forward , but i would not be surprised to see Ballo with Aguero or Ballo us substitute , i do not know who said it i think Carl ,Edin needs hat trick every game for him to be sure to play :D

As mentioned elsewhere, I'd like to see Tevez being rested and Edin possibly getting a start with Sergio. We will find out tomorrow whether Bob prefers Mario though, especially against Arsenal.

[PALUS]

I can defnately see Sinclair getting a start but who'll be upfront I haven't got a scoobies. I'd like to see Carlos, Sergio and Edin all start but that's never going to happen, is it?

Not with Bob , no way , only if we losing and it s 15 min to end , Tevez and Aguero its best blanket even Edin is in form ,that will be our forward , but i would not be surprised to see Ballo with Aguero or Ballo us substitute , i do not know who said it i think Carl ,Edin needs hat trick every game for him to be sure to play :D

Even u know my opinion on Edin i would not bench Tevez over Edin not in this huge match for us , Think like Edin ,Tevez is at his best and u dont change players at there best , if Tevez can go and play he would tell Bob no mather hes mistake he is profesinal player.