Manchester City v Norwich City - Match Day Thread

#NCFC
Ruddy; Martin, Turner, Bassong (c), Whittaker; Pilkington, Fer, Johnson, Olsson; Howson; Hooper.

SUBS: Bunn (GK), Hoolahan, Elmander, Garrido, Becchio, R Bennett, Josh Murphy.

#MCFC
Pantilimon; Zabaleta, Demichelis, Nastasic, Clichy; Nasri, Fernandinho, Toure (C), Silva; Aguero, Negredo.

SUBS: Hart (GK), Lescott, Richards, Kolarov, Navas, Milner, Dzeko.

 

Their line up reads like an IKEA catalogue

 

M thinks it's gonna be a very long afternoon

please log in to view this image

 

http://www.whoscored.com/Matches/720114/Preview

I use this site for monitoring my bets but it's great for seeing how well the players are performing during the game.

 

Not one English player in their starting eleven, no wonder our national team is so ****!!!

 

Geordies now 2-0 up, another side pulling away from the bottom three

 

but they could end the game with 3 of them, so not all bad

 

I was about to say the same thing, pretty sickening when you consider this is the English Premier League!

 

Come on Monarch if given that team list would you be picking Lescott, Richards and Milner and co over the players they have at their disposal?

The problem with the national team is down to the backwards and dated coaching methods used in this country, you've got it the people coaching youngsters in this country are absolute dogshit and that's at the grass roots level. Also the mentality of your typical British football fan has a big effect on things too, they don't care about technical ability they want entertainment running aimlessly down the wing beating two players is more better then passing the ball brilliantly 48 times around the pitch.

 

So, if hooper wants to boost his chances for England, not much better opportunity to do it than now.....

 

My thoughts as well, GP. It's about the biggest stage he'll get to show what he can do!

 

Will he get the service though?

 

Expect to see the 'player cam' trained permanently on Joe Hart all afternoon

 

Talking of goalkeepers, Begovic has scored for Stoke in the first minute

 

What a bloody soft goal to concede FFS !!

 

That was a bit unlucky

 

****bag a bit unlucky, but this is what I mean by containing Silva.

 

let the cannonfodder continue

 

a case of Ruddy reacting rather than acting there...