*** City v Crystal Palace match thread ***

[CTID Hants]

Quietly confident but who's the fucking ref?

Neil Swarbrick

Oversaw 4 games last season, away wins against, Swansea,Bournemouth, and Southampton. Home was 0-0 against stoke.

Sterling and Sane both picked two yellows in those so I think he's not a fan of players going down cheaply

Cheers bud. Swarbrick isn't usually that bad and let's the game flow; tries not bringing attention to himself unless needed.

Think he did the Stoke v Rag game the other week where the Rags dropped 2 points. He'll do for me

Correct and not one card in that game, I didn't see it, but it would suggest the game was allowed to flow, now that would be nice. I've not watched much of Palace this season but Woy isn't one to get his players kicking lumps of shit out of the oppo ala pulis the cunt. They will play organised and stubborn but not dirty (hopefully). I will be keeping a firm eye on Merlin though as he's always the one targeted first, that should be an early indicator imo

[CTID Hants]

City XI | Ederson, Walker, Stones, Otamendi, Mendy, Fernandinho, De Bruyne, Silva (c), Sterling, Sane, Aguero

[CTID Hants]

Subs | Bravo, Yaya Toure, Bernardo, G Jesus, Mangala, Danilo, Delph

[sheblue]

Sane had to start after his recent form.
Jesus taking a breather.
Like that team.

[Saul Goodman]

Like it. But wouldve preferred Bernardo to Sterling

[bigblue]

Good lineup designed to get in behind parked busses.

COME ON CITY!!!

[Pretty Boy Lee]

Genuine width and creativity all in at once. Love it.

[Swales4ever]

Must admit I had mixed emotions coning into this tie, since I saw Mr. H's assessment on prediction thread. It smoothed my tension and ripped off any shiver of anxiety.

Pretty expected lineup, solid picks with one notable rotation upfront. I must live with Pep's faith on Otamendi... so be it.

Also glad that someone has applied to my old request of info on the ref, thanks to beefy well earned good relations.

finger crossed on the reddit thingy... Sky bastards have let me down once again.
different to UK, cant recall a last season league game without coverage of City here.... scums!

COME ON CITY!!!

[stevefromdonny]

COME ON CITY

[mr_nool]

If I'm not mistaken this is the first time we play 4-3-3 with both Mendy/Walker and Sterling/Sané on the pitch. It will be very interesting to see how it pans out.

I expect the front three to be quite fluid, but I hope we will see Sané and Sterling playing as inverted wingers, with Mendy/Walker overlapping. That will absolutely lethal imo. Just look at the goals Leroy's scored from the right in the last couple of games.

[City64]

Cant even get in the fucking Etihad what a fucking joke !!!!!

[Douglas Higginbottom]

any rivers around?

[Swales4ever]

You gotta love and sing loud praise of the Big Fella for this redit thingy!

game on

[mr_nool]

If I'm not mistaken this is the first time we play 4-3-3 with both Mendy/Walker and Sterling/Sané on the pitch. It will be very interesting to see how it pans out.

I expect the front three to be quite fluid, but I hope we will see Sané and Sterling playing as inverted wingers, with Mendy/Walker overlapping. That will absolutely lethal imo. Just look at the goals Leroy's scored from the right in the last couple of games.

It does look like Sané on the right and Sterling on the left. At least to start off with.

[Swales4ever]

any rivers around?

check inbox Doug
by the good grace of BigBlue

[Dwaring]

Someone needs to tell John Stones to wake up

[stevefromdonny]

any rivers around?

[CTID Hants]

Wish I understood Romanian, where's PP when you need him

[BookJunior]

Coming up today, setting off shortly in case of traffic on M6.

Kompany back? All the signs are that we will win about 7-0. But we all know what that means don't we?

I think there's a fair chance of that and on the M5.

[Justified logic]

We're really slack so far. Be tight and get a fucking goal and then relax!