Kiss_The_Goat wrote:Its a tough one isn't it? I have no idea. Lewis' competition will be low scoring this week.
For me, these are big questions for this one;
What formation will he play and will he start Robinho and if so where?
Surely he cant drop Tevez or Bellers on their current form, and after the way RSC played against Sunderland, he's got to be starting as well. So where will Robbie play? Will Bellamy drop into a midfield role?
This is a total guess but I think we may line up like this. I dont like our left side though? Not exactly solid defensively.
Given
Zabba Toure Kompany Sylvinho
Bellamy De Jong Ireland Robinho
RSC Tevez
Paul Lakes Knee wrote:For all the Irish City fans on here- the game is being shown on Setanta Ireland, and for one day only they are doing a free to air thing on St Stephen's Day.
Channel 423 on Sky
pepsi_dave wrote:Only thought I have, is that, no-one I have seen so far has mentioned Weiss...... I honestly think it is entirely possible Weiss might flourish under Mancini..... I undersatnd the qualitites SWP brought to the side and why his qualities were needed, but is it not within the realms of possibility that Bob may see him as the ideal player to play on the opposite side of Robi, Imagine how many defences will run scared if you have players of the ilk of Robi and (potentially, based on the glimpses we have seen so far of the lad) Weiss attacking each side......
My team - and this is purely based on a comment from dougs training report about us training with two left backs playing in defence, I wonder if we will play a 5-4-1 with the full backs getting forward but still leaving 3 defenders at the back and still leaving two in Midfield.... Ireland should be given the reign to go forward while I expect barry to sit back more (of course NDJ could play aswell - I was going for left and Right footed balance) and I expect to see one of SWP/Tevez/Weiss on the Right, and either Robi/Bellers on the left with Either Tevez/Santa up front.
There is a reason I am not a football manager and fully expect some of you lot on here to rip holes through the below!
------------------Given----------------------
---------Toure--Kompany--Sylvinho--------
Zabba-------------------------------Garrido
---------------Ireland---Barry---------------
Weiss/Tevez--------------------------Robi/Bellamy
----------------Santa/Tevez--------------
King Kev wrote:Not many people seem to think Adebayor will play. I'm assuming this is because he was dropped (and rightly so) by our previous manager.
I reckon Mancini will start with a blank piece of paper and will pick his team on who impresses him rather than who failed to impress hughes.
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