please log in to view this image Manchester City v Swansea City please log in to view this image Barclays Premier League Date - Sunday, 22 April 2018 Kick off - 4.30pm Venue - The Etihad Stadium Following their battling draw against Everton - a game that they should have won - the Swans next face Champions, Manchester City at The Etihad Stadium. With United losing to West Brom, City are Champions - so it is highly likely that they will want to celebrate in style in front of their own fans so the Swans may, in all reality, have to play in 'damage limitation mode' - goal difference could be the key to safety or relegation. On the same day that the Swans drew with Everton, City bounced back to form by beating Spurs 3-1 - stopping a run of 3 successive defeats, having lost twice to Liverpool and also to United. Since, and including, their first meeting on 25 September 1925, the Swans and Citeh have played each other on 34 occasions, with the Swans winning 7 games, drawing 4 and losing 23. In the corresponding fixture last season, Manchester City ran out 2-1 winners with Gabriel Jesus scoring twice - the second in injury time - as Manchester City overcame a battling Swansea City at Etihad Stadium. Jesus had an immediate impact in front of his home crowd, using his natural pace to dart forward and put his side in front with a tap past Lukasz Fabianski. The hosts dominated the first half, but the visitors had the better of the second half, taking advantage of Manchester City's lack of intensity as Gylfi Sigurdsson picked up Luciano Narsingh's cross and steered the ball beyond a diving Willy Caballero. However, the goal spurred the home side on and in the 92nd minute Jesus was on hand to slide home a winner after his header was parried by Fabianski. In many respects, the best outcome next Sunday would be defeat by no more than a couple of goals, no injuries and no red cards - keeping the team fully available for the final 4 matches. My heart says 2-0 to Citeh, but my head say 4 or 5......
Well they will be playing us as Champions so they will be looking to turn on the style. Can't see anything but at least 3 goals for them. But let's try and be positive, what if Mawson gets a headed goal in the 5th minute and we hang on in there zzzzz sorry just nodded off there
Nothing to play for now for Man city they have done what they set out to achieve......So hopefully they will relax their pressure for fear of injury so close to the beach,,,,It is job done for them thanks to WBA ironically who may have done us a favour.....
Mission impossible me thinks!! Must keep the goal difference respectable if at all possible..........
Carlos must have a good game plan and we can get at least a point that will practically see us home.....
Man city Manager is given a £200m as starters to rade other clubs of their best players......FFS just say no if they are under contract and build your own clubs up and dont let the money no object clubs dictate what you do at your club....The premiership is becoming a joke and the top teams want more of the overseas TV money than the rest of us....
Carvalhal congratulated Manchester City and said: "They deserve to be champions. They are the best team in the competition, the numbers represent not just the football but also that they deserve to be champions. "We will be proud to do the guard of honour for them on Sunday because, with justice, they are the champions this season. "They are the best team and they play fantastic football."
Anyone who buys the chance of winning the league with foreign players dont deserve Fcuk all.....Their 3rd team is better than most premiership teams and most of them are foreigners also......The premiership is so unfair that it will always favour the big money clubs and to cap it off the are insisting that they get the lions share of the over seas TV money.....how can anyone compete fairly with that.....I dont respect any team that buys the premiership championship...
Fab -Polish Mawson- English Fede - Argentinian Van Der Horn - Dutch Naughton - English Ollson-Swedish Narsign-Dutch Ki- S Korean Clucase -English Carroll- English King- Welsh hurrah Ayew x 2-Ghanian Bony-Ivory Coast Sanches- Portuguese Britton- English Dyer-English Routledge-English All bloody foreigners except one
Don't worry, after Brexit and the withdrawal of the Bosman and freedom to employment almost all will be British and we'll go back to being a club able to afford a team that can challenge for promotion to League 1.
