Match Day Thread Swansea City v. Manchester City (FL Cup)

Swansea City v. Man. City

Football League Cup Third round
Date - Wednesday 21 September 2016
Kick off - 19:45
Venue - Liberty Stadium

Following Sunday's abject performance against Southampton at St. Mary's, the Swans' next match is a much needed break from PL action, with the attraction of a home cup tie - the bad news is that the visitors are arguably the best team in the UK, Manchester City.

Hopefully, Guardiola will put out a weakened team - it's all relative - and the Swans may give Borja Baston his home debut, but Guidolin may keep him fresh for Saturday's encounter against the same opponents.

With both Managers expected to ring the changes, forecasting the outcome could be difficult - but I expect Manchester City to run out comfortable 0-3 winners...

 

Man City to score at least 5 goals.

 

You sound like Dai ...

 

Oh what the heck 2-1 to the Swans

 

Cheer up Never it may never happen !

 

HELP

 

I can't see anything other than a loss. I just hope we keep it respectable.

0-3 City, and thats being respectful to the swans

 

This I will watch from a bar in Crete!.....................

 

They will field a weakened side and that wont matter as their weakest side is ten times better than us, We may have the players who can win but with the type of football our players are made to play then we have lost before a ball has been kicked.....It's a shame that we have ended up like this and an even bigger shame nobody is doing anything about it....

 

Guidolin has been shafted..as have the fans. I also think Franco will go if this keeps up. He's after all the cheap option, the yes man fall guy for Jinx and the board. Remember last season, Chelsea sacked their best manager ever due to player power, we'll probably have to bin FG for the same reason, with the way this season is shaping, I hate player power but that is the game these days............

 

Death by a thousand cuts

 

Mawson cannot play, he is cup-tied having played in Barnsley's 1-2 home defeat to Northampton.

 

I actually think we will do all right in this game, simply because we will make a lot of changes and they cant possibly do any worse than what has been selected so far.

 

Hmmm....one of the worst performing teams in the Prem vs the best? Let me think.....

 

Would like to see two up front Borja because he needs the game time and Mcburnie because he needs the experience. It's a cup tie so anything could happen.

 

I dont think Guildo has been shafted at all. I think he is a nice man but is not good enough for the fastest league in the world and has no bottle because he only knows one way of playing which unfortunately is not good enough.....If we stick with him and he may well win a couple of games but i dont think that will be enough to keep us out of the danger zone.......I was one who said maybe he deserves a chance but i have seen enough now to make my mind up that we need a much more experienced top level manager as Guildo is not good enough and will take us down....

 

I expect our team to look something like;

Nordfelt
Rangel, Van der Hoorn, Amat, Taylor
Britton, Cork
Barrow, Siggy, Montero
Baston

I hope we don't go for the diamond again because it doesn't work. The amount of wasted space on the left side of the pitch was extremely frustrating to watch Sunday. You need to try and give as good as you get against a team like City. I'd prefer to lose 4-0 than play negative boring football and still get beaten by a similar scoreline. We're likely to lose anyway so why not have a go. All I'm expecting is an improved performance.

Swans 1-4 City

 

On the plus side, Colin Bell, Francis Lee & Mike Summerbee aren`t playing!

 

On the minus side the present Man City team are better than them.