leicester v city

Must win game

Seems Silva trained, but not sure I'd have him back for this.

Ederson
Danilo, Stones, Laporte, Delph
Fernandinho
KdB, Foden
Sterling, Aguero, Sane

Think he'll play Mahrez for Sane...I wouldn't, but think Pep will.

Ederson
Danilo, Stones, Laporte, Delph
Fernandinho
KdB, Bernardo
Mahrez, Aguero, Sterling

CITY XI | Ederson, Danilo, Stones, Laporte, Delph, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Sane, Bernardo, Sterling, Aguero

SUBS | Muric, Walker, Silva, Mahrez, Otamendi, Zinchenko, Foden

Gundogan DM by the looks of it. Hopefully the Stones experiment is over.

Hanging on a bit at the end of the first half there. Wouldn’t like to call this one.

Don't know what Delphs instructions were but he nreds to stay at left back and give sane some support

A left back in the January window please.

No plan B, if we don't steam roller we struggle. 2 worldies in 2 games. CL it is then as much as we dislike it. We won't catch the dippers as much as it pains me.

Absolutely MUST beat them at home next week, if not we’ll be lucky to catch the Spuds, never mind Liverpool. Seriously poor second half there.

defensively we are really struggling, Laporte saved a sure goal with a great blo
cking slide on Vardy but where was the  defending for Albrighton's run in at the back post for the first completely unmarked.
Another unstoppable worldy (why us?) 
Aguero, KDB and SIlva are going to need more games than we would like to return to form and we have another away game against Southampton followed by the dippers at home, lose either and we are virtually out of the race, drop points in both and its looking really grim.

There goes the title.  Think we'll catch the Spuds but Liverpool will prevail I'm sure.

We haven't been great for a while. Since drawing 0-0 v the Dippers on 7 Oct we have had 1 clean sheet in the PL ( v WHU).
The Dippers have had 7 league clean sheets in that same period. (Spuds have had 5) Unless Pep sorts that out we will continue to fall behind the pace.

Is that a 3-match ban for Delph now? Leaves us with just Zinky for the Liverpool game which is a worry. I know Pep keeps saying there’ll be no signings in Jan but a steady experienced LB is surely a must. Someone like Ryan Bertrand from Southampton makes sense, decent solid performer, happy to play second fiddle when Mendy’s fit and won’t cost a fortune. We’ll probably end up signing Isco though.

We played like we had 3 big players coming back from injury. 

Let's keep the faith....beat LFC on 3rd and it's only 4 points. Get beat, it would become extremely difficult.

Spurs have hit some form....so I wouldn't rule them out, which would be an amazing season for them.

Never say never Andy, Dippers were 3 clear with 5 to play so they have form but 3rd is win or bust, don't even think a draw any good.

Agree ...need a good win against Soton and then a win on 3rd.

I'm not concerned. Yet.  Every team has a blip in their season and I'm happy to get ours out of the way now, where the damage can be limited.  Last year we had our blip late on and got knocked out of the CL on the back of it, and also lost to the damned raggies to boot.

The dippers have yet to have any injuries to key players and have ridden their luck quite a lot so far.  It's only a matter of time, and there's still plenty left between now and May.