MAN CITY v ARSENAL

MUST WIN GAME. We can't afford any fuck ups now.

Something a little different. If Vinny is fit, he starts.

Ederson
Stones, Otamendi, Laporte
Bernardo, Dino, KDB, Mendy/Zinchenko
Sterling, Aguero, Sane

No David Silva???

This is how I'd start;

Ederson
Walker, Stones, Laporte,
Ferdi 
Sterling, Bernado, KDB, Silva, Sane
Aguero.

If Vinny's fit, he replaces Walker.

For what it's worth:

Ederson
Walker, Stones, Laporte, Delph
Ferna
Sterling, Bernardo, KDB, Sane
Aguero.

Ederson
Danilo Stones Laporte Delph
Fernandinho DeBruyne Silva D
Sterling Aguero Sane

Unfortunately I think he will play "1 trick pony" Mahrez

I stand corrected, looking like 3 at the back.

CITY XI | Ederson, Walker, Laporte, Otamendi, Fernandinho, Gundogan, Silva (C), De Bruyne, Bernardo, Sterling, Aguero

SUBS | Muric, Danilo, Stones, Delph, Sané, Mahrez, Jesus

Three at the back but no natural wingbacks? Looks odd, but I’m sure there’s a plan in there somewhere.

thinking 3-2-4-1
look at our previous matches with Danilo sat inside anyways, makes sense to actually play Gundongan in that hole instead?

If we can win these next 2 games and the Dippers screw up at West Ham we'll be back on top be Wednesday 

Win this one first, my cityitis is well and truly back :-)

Uh oh! Early goal again!

Looks like Dino playing centre back and Laporte right back in a back four.

How is that not a pen FFS

It's a back 3 with Dino sitting back in when needed

It might be the same early score line, but performance is so much better.

And 1-1 oh FFS

Defence is fucking abysmal, this could be any score

Against the run of play though, will be really disappointed if we don’t get 3 points from this game

You would hope so but we have to be do better against a punt forward

They’re wide open, we ought to get a hatful here surely?

78% possession

I'm struggling to be watch this today, it is going to get me so angry it's not worth it. We look desperate going forward. Where is it patience from before.

Well done Ederson

Arse players falling over at the slightest breeze

Ooooh yessss

Lovely goal, patient that time

Fully deserved that. Aguero all comes up with the big goals

Timely stuff, we’d just lost control of the game in the last 15 mins.

Honourable mention for Gundogan‘s contribution

Andy had a selfie with Barry Chuckle, hahaha

Dropping off again, need to pick up the pace & intensity

It's so groundhog Day, need to take one of these soon. Come on

One more and I think will can get 4 or 5, just some composure needed.

Phew

Lucky there, look like it came off his arm. Brilliant from Sterling setting it up.

That was handy!

Not a penalty, but not a dive just bounced off

Arse looking tired would like to get Jesus & Sane on

Comfortable in the end. They’ve got a real soft underbelly the Gooners, I’d like to play them every week.

Made the mistake of reading some of the city Facebook page tonight, I almost wish we were back in the 3rd tier you know. Tourists come with success I get that, but it's painful sometimes. Won't go there again anytime soon.

I thought Walker had his first decent game in months

That was easy...it was like a training session for 75% of the game.

If City really wanted too, they could have got 6....Arsenal were that poor.

Got to back this up with another 3pts at Goodison on Weds now.

blisteringblue wrote:Andy had a selfie with Barry Chuckle, hahaha

Preferred this one.

What I don't get is why we didn't play with that same intensity midweek.  We hadn't lost to Newcastle in 13 years, they've been losing games for fun.  Or maybe it was just part of the plan to keep the spotlight on Klippety after his comments about not enjoying the pressure of having the attention on him and his team.

I wasn't happy about the Everton game being inbetween this and Chelsea, but having won this one comfortably enough and Chelsea seemingly on a bit of a wobble, I'm not so fussed any more, rather now than when the season gets really interesting in a couple of months.

I agree Leo...perfect time to add some more pressure, as long as we play like we did yesterday.

Here's hoping WHU does us a favour tonight.

City summed up perfectly in Leo's post....it's all about intensity. When we play at speed, we're impossible to handle/stop. Play without any - like Newcastle, it becomes a far more even game and we struggle.

Simple message then Pep....keep the intensity up and we'll be fine.

I'm guessing the problem with intensity is that it requires the players to be able to keep it up, which needs a lot of energy.  Maybe they backed off against Newcastle because it was considered the easiest of the four games we had in a two week window, only it bit us on the arse.  I doubt we'd see us drop off against Everton, given it puts us on the front foot against the dippers, who will have a game in hand on us at that point and will have to wait a week to catch up, putting more pressure on them to keep up with us.