Spuds vs City

Must win game. Best team to start and batter spurs.

Ederson
Walker, Kompany, Laporte, Mendy 
Fernandinho
Sterling, KdB, Silva, Sane 
Aguero

Eder
Walker, Stones, Laporte, Mendy
Ferna
Bernardo, Silva, KDB, Sterling
Aguero

on the wembley pitch off twitter, we should play Fellaini up front  :p

Saw A picture of it on the BBC sport website. Looks like the local park.

Anything less than 3 points will be disappointing 
Don’t think spurs are up to much this season,even though bizarrely it’s their best start to a season & a win would take them above us.

Ederson
Walker Stones Laporte Mendy
Fernandinho DeBruyne
Sterling SilvaB SilvaD
Aguero

Been a long week
Tuesday 4am flight to Kharkiv
Wed 6am arrived back 
Thurs 5-30 am flew to Malta long weekend with mrs
Today 12-30 flight Malta to Heathrow for spurs match
Tuesday 7am flight Heathrow to mcr

Wow...logistically, well arranged Rich.lol

We need to win to make all your travels worthwhile Rich. 
Getting ready to drive down in an hour or two.

How we line-up at Wembley tonight

City XI | Ederson, Walker, Stones, Laporte, Mendy, Fernandinho, Silva (C), Mahrez, Bernardo, Sterling, Aguero

Subs | Muric, Kompany, De Bruyne, Sané, Otamendi, Jesus, Foden

Kev still not starting

The state of the pitch probably has a lot to with him not starting. I’m guessing most of the subs will start against Fulham though

Wow, Spuds bench is strong, maybe they have written this one off, that and those bizarre comments from Poch about not being there to win games?  Have spuddies rolled over already?

They still have a strong lineup considering their injuries. Bar Kevin & Sane I think that's our best line up, if the pitch were normal I'd have us nailed on for a win, ut it really plays to Spurs advantage.

Nice start :-) going to be a few goals I think

Spuddies chances are all from errors, sort it out and get a 2nd

Mendy defensively poor again, Mahrez man of the match so far me, both for his attempts on goal & getting back defensively

Kev on for Bernado and hope the errors stop

Is Mendy pissed?

Blue Radley wrote:Is Mendy pissed?

Possibly, I know I will be before the end of the 2nd half.

I just want to say how immense I think Edderson is. He set up the goal with his long ball and his save when Harry was alone on goal was also classic Edderson.

Another Mendy error, I heard Delph is back so would hook him to make a point.

Mendy is the new Kolarov, not a defender

Walker trying too hard against old team. Happy to see this one out with no more drama

Fuck me, just score

Walker is just back so I don't blame him for being rusty, but Mendy's issues are built into his game, great on the attack especially with crosses, but poor with the defensive basics.

Get Kev on.

Not mentioned Sterling, but hes been consistently excellent every single game. An assist this time & always a threat, starting to think City should just pay him what he wants or at least find a compromise.

Pep showing again that he can be pragmatic

..... And relax

Another clean sheet, no idea how. Fullbacks were terrible, odd substitution of Aguero but 3pts in the bag and a game to forget.

3rd away game against top 4 contender too.

We deserved the 3 points, should have been 2-0. Still poor in the 2nd half & yeah a game to forget except its an important win maybe more than it was last season.

Didnt manage to see any of the game, was the pitch as bad as we feared it was going to be

Looked rock hard, really odd bounce. Crap watching as all the NFL markings prominent, but same for both teams I guess.

Mendy reminded me of Mangala last night....he scared the living crap out of me.
Great result despite not playing anywhere near our capabilities.

Agree with most of the above re the fullbacks, awful especially Mendy. If Pep is so good at training players to adapt to play in different positions i.e. Delph, why can't he train a defender (Mendy) to defend? just a thought.
I thought Fernandinho was fantastic tonight, some of his interceptions and tackles were brilliant especially the one where he sprinted back and made a superb sliding tackle to prevent a shot on goal after Mendy let a simple  tottenham forward pass run under his foot!

For any one who didn’t see it this is from Mendy’s twitter: “Not the best mendy tonight but congrats to the team for the 3 points on a difficult pitch” nice to see that he’s taken responsibility for his performance, hopefully it’s just a one off