please log in to view this image Manchester City v Sunderland please log in to view this image http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=147014&part=sports Streams will appear 1 hour before the start of the match. 19 stations have announced they will broadcast the match. please log in to view this image TEAM NEWS Manchester City forward Carlos Tevez could make his first league start since September as Sergio Aguero is again absent with a foot injury that manager Roberto Mancini described as "stupid". Captain Vincent Kompany is set to return after a calf injury. Sunderland's Wayne Bridge is ineligible to play against his parent club and John O'Shea remains injured. Lee Cattermole is struggling with a twisted knee, but Jack Colback returns after the birth of his first child. MATCH PREVIEW Manchester City's football development executive Patrick Vieira claims they deserve to win the title because "we've been the best team and played the best football". Not lately they haven't. City's title challenge has been built on home form alone. Their away record from 5 November has merely smouldered on a bonfire of vanities. Since their Guy Fawkes night 3-2 victory at QPR they've earned nine points from nine trips. That's mid-table form at best. The 100% home record has kept them in the top two, but even there things have not been as they were in the swashbuckling opening months. Injuries to the excellent Vincent Kompany and hugely improved Joleon Lescott have left them vulnerable. Yaya Toure has been playing too deep, perhaps to shore them up. David Silva's radiance has been dulled by fatigue. Edin Dzeko hasn't scored in six games. Mario Balotelli has become an irritant. So enter the prodigal son! If there was ever a time for Carlos Tevez to redeem himself, it is now. He has scored in the last two home meetings with Sunderland. He netted for the Elite Development Squad on Wednesday. He could put City top again and turn the pressure back on United. It could be a good time to meet Sunderland. The FA Cup quarter-final defeat by Everton will have hit the players hard. They have 40 points and are safe. There is little to play for. Martin O'Neill will be looking for a response from his players. Some might be playing for their futures. But it'll hard for them to raise their game, get a first-ever Premier League point at City or a first win there since 1998. In 19 visits to both Manchester clubs, they've picked up five points. City must ensure that miserable run continues. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17497396
This is a game where we have to win well. We need to improve our goal difference between us and the rags. If we are going to win the prem this yr we need to win every game by as bigger margin as we can. The players can't afford any slow starts, every game for the last 8 matches as to be treated as if it were a European Champions league final. No more dropped points, no slack shooting wide of the goals, 8 wins and we will win the prem nothing more nothing less will do.
City should win. Perfect home record and all that. Also, Sunderland will be down after getting knocked out of the FA Cup. In a game like this you need your CF to hold the ball upfront and Bendtner is not that man.
Fair enough, he made me eat my words. But that's the thing with Bendtner, he will be **** one week and very good the next.
Man City are the worst cheats and divers ever assembled ion one place in the English game in my lifetime. Aided and abetted by a complete tool of a referee today the swan dived their way to an undeserved point. How bad was that penalty decision? I really hope that Utd win the title now and that ****er Mancini get the bullet. For a team and squad that cost £400m to assemble you were complete ****. Hopefully the next manager will continue to waste £millions upon millions and you win **** all. Bunch of ****ing cheats.
It wasn't even a tackle, never mind a foul or a penalty. One of the worst decisions seen in the English game for years and City are jsut a desperate bunch of expensively assembled mercenary twats. I can take losing, as a Sunderland fan I've seen plenty of it but I cant stand cheats and City are full of them these days.
Every team cheats and every team has decisions that go against them, even baconface has said it and he also said it evens itself out over the season, get over it for fecks sake.
im afraid its only sour grapes when someone loses out fair and square. when theres cheating involved its simply churlish to use the phrase. city cheated to get that point and can count themselves extremely lucky to still be as close to utd as they are. on the other hand, its becoming extremely apparent that only a select few groups still hope city will win the title. for once, utd are the lesser of 2 evils to the neutral.
If the manager had played Tevez and Pizarro from the start yesterday i am sure the result would have been different they changed the game when they came on. If you win tomorrow I am sure you will win the title, this season we didn't win the games that on paper we should have and you won the games that on paper could have gone either way.
As i have said every team cheats at some point in a season and as for your comment about only a selective few groups still hope city will win the title i think you will find no city fan gives a flying **** what other fans think.
