Swansea v City

Must-win game.

Man City
31Ederson
2Walker 30Otamendi 14Laporte 18Delph
20Bernardo Silva 8Gündogan 21Silva
26Mahrez 33Gabriel Jesus 19Sané
Substitutes
3Danilo 7Sterling 10Agüero 35Zinchenko 47Foden 49Muric 50Garcia

Expect nothing less than a comfortable win.

I don't know, think they might get to half time at 0-0. How comfortable it is will be dependent on how early we score IMO.

I fancy us for the result.. so long as theres no nail biting involved it will be a good game...

Calamity Delph to the rescue

Pretty impressed with their approach to the game so far. Hard to see why they’re struggling in the Championship. 1-0 down!

They'll try to hang on to this for the rest of the game. Gonna be a real grind from now. Did Delph make a similar mistake at the start of the season?

Might buck us up a bit, but we are worse up front with Mahrez starting. Constant one trick pony

A very complacent air about us today. Though it was a walk in the park. Good goal

Is it too late to revise my earlier confidence?

Sub Mahrez now, gives us nothing.
Will still win though so not worried

Is it going to be one of those games? Ffs

We look like we've not scored a goal for a month

The only way we are going to get three points out of this is if Pep makes changes. Sterling needs to come on for a start.

Over to you Pep

sadly can't watch the game as it is not shown here. So have to listen to fred eyre and some other guy from radio Manchester. Sounds bloody frustrating. Appears everything is bouncing off their keeper and Delph,  walker and Mahrez are having nightmares

Think it will only take an early goal this half, but they have a bloody force field around the goal.

Change this fucking shite pep, we will never break their block down. Fair play Swansea, done something nobody else has.

We’re certainly not getting any luck, it’s a bit like the home defeat to Palace, every ricochet going their way. Sterling for Mahrez soon please.

There is a force field on that goal

Fuck off Mahrez you give us nothing

Sane off? Mahrez still on?

Odd one, fair play Swansea, I've no complaints.
Team of prima Donnas today. Not up for it.

Every rebound, never seen anything like it

C’mon!

Grandstand finish

Never thought we’d be subbing Delph for Zinky don’t know what’s happened to him this season

Can't look

Blimey, a ricochet!

Lucky lucky lucky

Peps subs are paying off

Offside

Due one though

No luck at all for an hour then all the luck in the world - way offside!

Like I said at the start, expect nothing less than a comfortable win. I’ll get me coat...

Stop crying Hartson, you are stealing a living anyway

Let's hope that's not all our luck used up this year :-)

just listening to radio commentary is a nightmare. Which goal was offside as it wasn't mentioned on the commentary?

Sergio’s winner offside, penalty was pretty dubious too.

Just watching it with cry baby Hartson, that's a pen, Razz nicked it past the player

oh well have to wait till 7.00pm tonight to watch the game. now 03.55am time for some sleep. night all

We got away with it yesterday. We won't if we start like that in the CL. Awful first half. However, just shows you how Sergio, Bernardo and Sterling can change games. No pen for me and Sergio offside - but that's the FA's choice for not having VAR and the other 14 clubs like LFC who voted against it.

Sane, another uninspiring display. And as for Mahrez? Holy fuck, thought he'd been garbage this season, but that performance was embarrassing. Get rid.

It's one thing saying "he needs another season"....but he's surrounded by brilliant players. He's playing one position. And who's place will he be taking next season as a starter?
One-trick pony. 

Hate to break our momentum, but the International break will allow Ferna and KDB to get back.

That first half was a tough watch in horrible conditions. The amount of bile, hatred and vitriol aimed at Mahrez, by our own fans, was simply disgusting. Nearly came to blows with one fella for his racist abuse of Mahrez. He may have been shit, but there's a line you don't cross.

Obviously don't condone racist behaviour but Mahrez was very poor and has had a poor season considering we are still in 4 competitions and he's had plenty of game time. He was even poor in some of our 7/8-0 drubbings of teams. Personally I'd cash in on him. We may get what we paid & buy someone else as back up to Razza. Whilst we are at it we need another left FB as well as Mendy is perpetually injured & Delph ain't good enough.

I watched this one down the pub and I said at half time, we could win this, but not with Delph or Mahrez as they are both passengers.  At least Sane was trying, but it looked to me like he pulled up short halfway through the first half, so maybe be tweaked a hamstring or something.

Once we had Serge and Razza on the pitch, we looked a completely different outfit.  We can't keep relying on these two to bail us out every time.  And I have to say, Zinchenko looked infinitely better than Delphinho, who was constantly dragging himself out of position instead of letting Laporte do his job.

Oh well, a fluke it may have been, but looking who's left, we'd have to be favourites now.  Let's just hope Watford take care of Wolves, they've been looking pretty handy of late too.

Topdawg wrote:That first half was a tough watch in horrible conditions. The amount of bile, hatred and vitriol aimed at Mahrez, by our own fans, was simply disgusting. Nearly came to blows with one fella for his racist abuse of Mahrez. He may have been shit, but there's a line you don't cross.

Usual problem with late away kick offs
There were loads of pissed up/coked up arseholes near me as well

It was like that at Goodison....couldn't believe they were taking it behind me. It's definitely becoming a problem at football stadiums.

It's the new brand of Yuppie Blue that has come with our success. They were probably Rags or Dippers 10-20 years ago.

TMG wrote:It's the new brand of Yuppie Blue that has come with our success. They were probably Rags or Dippers 10-20 years ago.

mostly kids in their 20 I thought.

Topdawg wrote:

TMG wrote:It's the new brand of Yuppie Blue that has come with our success. They were probably Rags or Dippers 10-20 years ago.

mostly kids in their 20 I thought.

Yeah, that seems to be the demograpic for this nonsense. Plus it's easy to take on the stands, unlike legal stuff like booze or cigs.  And I bet it's cheaper than a couple of pints as well...

Nope...these guys were in their 40's/50's....some older than me! 

Yeah, it's definitely cheaper these days.....see that Ian Herbert wrote something today about it.