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I'm going 2-1 to David Moyes's massive bastards and although I never back us to lose, I actually feel more confident about this one than I did the Wolves game
Unusual to be involved in a couple of 6 pointers at the top of the table eh?
Think we might lose narrowly, few of our lads looked a bit knackered at Wolves. We should give them a game though.
bigcarpchaser wrote: ↑Thu Nov 25, 2021 8:22 pm
Unusual to be involved in a couple of 6 pointers at the top of the table eh?
Think we might lose narrowly, few of our lads looked a bit knackered at Wolves. We should give them a game though.
Luckily most of them have had over a week off to rest since then
City are playing some cracking football at the moment. Not many teams can live with them. But if we can put in a performance like last season, you never know. Pep said it was one of there hardest games at the Etihad. Hopefully they are still missing KDB, Grealish and Foden. I think we will give them a good game.
I would personally bring Diop and Coufal in for Dawson and Johnson, but I think Moyes will stick with this team.
Fabianski
Johnson Zouma Dawson Cresswell
Rice Soucek
Bowen Fornals Benrahma
Antonio
BethnalGreenHammer74 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 6:59 amI would personally bring Diop and Coufal in for Dawson and Johnson, but I think Moyes will stick with this team.
Same here. Coufal just carries more of an attacking threat while Johnson is still finding his feet in that department.
hammers92 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 8:07 am
I get married on Sunday at 1pm which probably means a 4-0 defeat and a mass inquisition of Moyes and half the squad that they’re not good enough.
The question for moyes is does he stick with dawson which means zouma playing on the left and out of position or does he stick diop in and zouma plays his preferred position. I reckon he will go for dawson and we will sit deep hoping to catch on the counter.
coufal or johnson - again a decision to be made. joihnson quicker but coufal better going forward.
fabianski
johnson dawson zouma cresswell
rice soucek
bowen benrahma fornals
antonio
subs areola coufal diop masuaka lanzini noble kral vlasic perkins
yarmo to drop out as he played the whole match.
important for the 3 to get back to help in midfield otherwise we will be over run. cancelo likes to get forward a lot so we may have a chance inbetween but walker will cover. need antonio to be at his best beast mode and for us to take every chance. no wasteful finishing.
I suspect Moyes will name an unchanged starting 11 from the Wolves game. Despite us losing and not playing well, he’ll probably put it down to fatigue after the International break.
I am personally still undecided whether we should stick with that team, or go with more of a back 5. We were very unlucky against them last season at their gaff. We lost Fabianski to injury the night before, had to throw Diop into the side, with both ultimately playing a part in at least 1, if not both of City’s goals. Plus, Fornals was missing too. We certainly need to be compact defensively and play with aggression. Winning as much of the 2nd balls we can. When I have seen City slip up this season and last that’s been the common feature. It’s been against teams that have matched them physically and have beaten them for pace on the counter. Hence why Palace are especially a nightmare team for them! That’s why I’d seriously consider throwing Masuaku into the team in a back 5. To add more pace to the team.