Man City (H) - 5:30pm, 31/12/16 - Don't Look Back In Anger.

[Jairzinho]

Nobody expected anything else. They just thought there was a tiny chance that with one of the teams 1-0 up with a few minutes left that they could at least nick a fucking point.

[stringvest]

i was feeling very optimistic about this game until I saw the lineup.  Origi or even Sturridge in there, and we'd have battered them.  Now I'm not at all optimistic.  

[Paulie Dangerously]

I hope that's Wijnaldum in the front 3. We could use his pace there and as mentioned above, a Can, Hendo, Gini midfield is bang average. Need Lallana in there to inject the quality.

 

Guardiola's picked a pretty attacking side. Kolarov at left back and Stones back in is good news for us.

Gini can't hit a cows arse with a banjo. Not for me

[Grinch]

Nobody expected anything else. They just thought there was a tiny chance that with one of the teams 1-0 up with a few minutes left that they could at least nick a fucking point.

And it affects our game how? Didnt last week and doeant this week either.

[G Richards]

Big game this. Can't wait. I agree with putting Can in the middle as we need to try to have more of a presence in there. I like Origi but I feel that it comes back off him too much, and Firmino in the middle is the better way to go. 

 

It's all set up for goals and a great match.... so it will probably be 0-0!

[El Rojo]

Plenty of goal threat in Lallana, Mane and Firmino. We have a strong bench for once.

[3 Stacks]

Gini can't hit a cows arse with a banjo. Not for me

 

Personally, I would rather be able to string some passes in the middle and have one useless player in the attacking third.

[Red House]

I like the idea of Firmino upfront, but I still would have preferred Origi in there on the left wing especially considering Zabaleta's lack of pace. 

[KMD7]

Just realised this is on BT. FFS. Any good deals to get BT on Sky for a month/short term? We play three times on BT in the next month.

You back from New York mate?

[magicrat]

No strikers seems odd and doesn't fill me with confidence

[bizzle10]

We're fucked

is that jurgens team talk

[KMD7]

Hope we win.

 

 

I'm bricking it here

[Preston Red]

Need to flatten Sterling early.

[an tha]

No strikers seems odd and doesn't fill me with confidence

Have some confidence click on line ups in below...and Lucas was in the midfield!!

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/34818213

[Grinch]

No strikers seems odd and doesn't fill me with confidence

We've our best forward playing in his strongest position, that has us top scorers in the league.

 

That doesn't make you confident of goals, nowt will.

[JagSquared]

No strikers seems odd and doesn't fill me with confidence

Our best performances against the better sides have come with no strikers. I'm more concerned about creativity (with Lallana presumerably in the front 3) from the midfield and the lovren-Klavan partnership at the back against city's attack.

[FrenchEyeGlass]

You back from New York mate?

 

Yep in the UK until Feb and then going back over. Although by that time that cunt will be the president so i'm not sure how i feel about that!!

 

The irony that i would have better luck to watch this match over there than in this country. Mental!!!

[Josef Svejk]

I like Can. But I've never seen a player who starts so poorly and finishes so strongly. Let's hope his inevitably sluggish start doesn't do much damage.

[Ginny]

Any of you helmets got a link?

[stringvest]

I like Can. But I've never seen a player who starts so poorly and finishes so strongly. Let's hope his inevitably sluggish start doesn't do much damage.

 

 

you're right about his slow starts, but I'm not sure he's that strong at the end.  I'm hoping he confounds us both. 

[Jairzinho]

And it affects our game how? Didnt last week and doeant this week either.

It affects our season, obviously, not the game.

[Torvald Utne]

We're gonna fuck this lot up, we're so much better with firmino up front.

[ZonkoVille77]

is that jurgens team talk

Yer ma's

[G Richards]

We're gonna fuck this lot up, we're so much better with firmino up front.

 

Repped. The pre match nerves are well and truly kicking in, so this was a timely reminder. 

 

Come on Liverpool!

[Strontium]

No team has caused City more problems this season than Leicester, so I was expecting Origi to be deployed as a sort of less good black Vardy.

 

Jury very much out.