Official match thread: vs Man City (A)

This team

Mingolet

Manquilla
Skrtel
Lovren
Moreno

Gerrard
Can
Henderson

Courthino
Sterling
Sturridge


With this bench

Jones (ssshh)
Ballotelli
Markovic
Lambert
Johnson (ssshh again)
Sakho
Allen

Is a tasty prospect. Look at that bench and that's without lallana, Flanagan, Enrique and suso. Compare that to last year. Yes we could well go there and win.

 

Against a team with Silva, Nasri, Toure, Aguero etc. We would do well to nick a point.

 

Well we nearly did last year and we had no one on the bench to come on and change things.

 

Balotelli needs to be registered by noon tomorrow to play on Monday.

 

[video=youtube;6sadE2Efg50]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sadE2Efg50[/video]

 

Be good to see Mario back in the prem
Very good signing for Liverpool,an absolute no brainer at £16 million

City side I expect to start

Hart
Zabaleta Kompany DeMichellis Kolorov
Fernando Fernandinho
Jovetic Yaya Silva
Dzeko

 

Can't believe anyone rates Nasri. I love to see him in the team list whenever we play city or played arsenal cod maybe one in 10 games he makes something but mostly he cuts inside then passes back

 

Nasri scored the winner against Sunderland last season...one of the reasons we're not champion

 

Was that the one that was 4 metres offside?

I'm more scared of officials at City games than City themselves

 

You guys have had some ****ty luck against them lately.
Am hoping for a draw or a Liverpool win tbh so good luck

 

Very altruistic of you.

 

I wouldn't say so

I think probably a draw would be best for Chelsea, because I am not sure if you guys are going to challenge again.
If you're not, then a Liverpool win would be just the ticket......but then a win away against the Champions may well be the very thing that spurs you on to play as well as last season......
It's a toughie.
What I know for sure is that City will challenge and I dont want them to beat you

 

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Annoyingly I expect Johnson to play ahead of Manquillo.

 

I don't think Markovic will start and, unfortunately, Jaffa might be right about Johnson starting as RB ahead of Maquillo, but I really hope I'm wrong!

Would love Moreno to start as it would be a great acid test for him.

 

It was an equaliser (2-2), and to be fair, it was as much Mannone's goal as Nasri's... It was one of the reasons we're not champions though.

 

was it not balanced out at anfield where suarez shouldve got a 2nd yellow for diving and skrtel clearly punched the ball in the area in injury time?

 

No it wasn't because Sterling was also wrongly flagged offside

#cityyettoplayagamebytherules

 

Don't waste your time mate, he's got the brains of a gnat and he's the full rawk level plastic kopite, so you won't get any sort of sensible retort.

 

Rich coming from you.