***City v Palace Official Match Thread***

[Harry Dowd scored]

Here we go again

If I was an Arsenal fan I’d be pissing myself laughing, they can start celebrating now, unless of course he has seen the Palace team & they have weakened their team

Except Sarr and Wharton they play their best team.

Not looking forward to this now

[nottsblue]

In some ways the pressure is off a little bit as it is out of our hands. All we can do is win and hope Arsenal slip up. And the games are running out

Good result against Brentford who were bang in form as well. And I’d imagine a few of the Palace boys will have an eye on the European final in a couple of weeks so can’t imagine they will be all out for this

4-0
Haaland (2) Foden Doku

Actually forgot it is the Cup Final on Saturday and we’d probably have the team selection with that in mind!!!!

Seeing the team I’d simply take any old win and no injuries

[Nick]

Oh peps usual throw a full new team and system in at once

[stevefromdonny]

COME ON CITY

[Mase]

Oh peps usual throw a full new team and system in at once

Learned nothing from Leverkusen

[Mase]

[Indianablue]

6 CHANGES, given up on the PL, in theory saving first team choices for the Cup final, but it rarely works out that way. Nice to see Guardiol back but surely shouldn't be s starter. Guarranteed to fall behind and have the subs to graft like fuck in the second half to get a result. Past caring ow after the obviously biased officiating at the weekend. How they can ignore the the Trossard and Rice graopling is beyong .me

[Harry Dowd scored]

Oh peps usual throw a full new team and system in at once

Learned nothing from Leverkusen

Very unhappy with that team, wrong messages sent to players. WTF is happening to Nico G ? We have been here before haven't we, the Everton result should have told him you don't keep fucking around with a team, clue in there, it's a fucking team game where if you play regularly you know what the other players can or cannot do.
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[sheblue]

Expected some rotation ahead of the final, but starting josko is a surprise to me.
Good man Pep, he never fails to surprise.

[Harry Dowd scored]

Off the Beeb feed. -:

Crystal Palace have reasons for optimism. Only Arsenal and City have more away wins this season than the Eagles' seven, and they have consistently caused problems at the Etihad, scoring twice on each of their past four visits.
Ismaila Sarr's recent scoring run underlines their attacking threat.
The Senegal forward is in red hot form, hitting nine goals across his past 10 starts in all competitions. Palace have the pace and movement to trouble City - the question is whether they can sustain it long enough to take something from the game.
The stakes for Palace are clear. A Palace win would all but end City's title hopes and leave Arsenal in a position to wrap it up before the final day.

[Mase]

FFS I forgot they have that Brendan Johnson. Little twat always does well against us

[Beefymcfc]

Come on City!

[CTID Hants]

They really need to fuck this offside shit off, he was clearly off so why fucking wait

[Indianablue]

1 scare already, boys own stuff in terms of formation. Nunes started sloppy stuff already. Can only see a struggle for us. Pep overthinking it again.

[Nickyboy]

1 scare already, boys own stuff in terms of formation. Nunes started sloppy stuff already. Can only see a struggle for us. Pep overthinking it again.

Wasn't really a scare. The offside trap worked perfectly

[Harry Dowd scored]

Off the Beeb

Lots of empty seats at the Etihad for a crunch game…

[Nick]

1) sounded dead and empty - as predicted mates told me theyve added the scanners to A so imagine that caused delays

2) peps a mongo - arsenal could.draw and they'll win it on goal difference

[Indianablue]

1 scare already, boys own stuff in terms of formation. Nunes started sloppy stuff already. Can only see a struggle for us. Pep overthinking it again.

Wasn't really a scare. The offside trap worked perfectly[/quote
Oh do fuck off, it was very close and our defenders were not looking to catch him off. They've had 2 good breaks and a great header from a corner that we would dream to have. We have Guehi shooting from distance. My daughter can hit the ball better. We look at 6s and 7s no shape and Palace have started better. We dont know what to do with the ball. . No movement

[PeterParker]

Oh peps usual throw a full new team and system in at once

Learned nothing from Leverkusen

Very unhappy with that team, wrong messages sent to players. WTF is happening to Nico G ? We have been here before haven't we, the Everton result should have told him you don't keep fucking around with a team, clue in there, it's a fucking team game where if you play regularly you know what the other players can or cannot do.
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I was looking at his stats, https://www.footballdatabase.eu/en/play ... o-gonzalez
We've lost one league game when he played 90 minutes, when we were robbed at Newcastle. Since January, he barely got game time after he played excellently.

He made room for Rodri who played poorly and we've lost points with him on the pitch.
100% Nico G was brought over Peps head here, clearly there is something there because of his father was, and the rivalry he had with Barcelona in the 90s.

[Nick]

Does pep actually think

Fvardiol will be fit
Ait nouri will play well
Foden will play well
Savinho will do one good thing

All at once?