Newcastle vs City

by **Topdawg** Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:05 pm

Pants
Richards, Boyata, Lezza, Kolarov
Milner, Rodwell, Nasri, Navas
Jovetic, Dzeko

by blueboy Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:51 pm

For me:

...................................Pants.........................................

Micah............Boyata...................Lezza..............Kolorov....

..............Milner.............................Rodwell.......................

........Jovetic.................Nasri.........................Lopes.......

...................................Dzeko......................................

Subs:

Shay Facey
R Wright
Zaba
Rusnak
Navas
Negredo

by **shakencity** Mon Oct 28, 2013 6:51 pm

Take it your not taking this competition seriously then.

....................Pants
Micah.....Demichellis...Lescott...Kolarov
........Fernandinho.....Garcia
Milner............Nasri............Navas
..................Negredo

by **leopold** Mon Oct 28, 2013 9:16 pm

Newcastle will want a win on Wednesday after being done by Sunderland - bad enough being beaten by your rivals, but when they can't even buy a win, it's doubly embarrassing. I suspect we'll have a scrap on our hands. So let's go there with a decent team.

by blueboy Tue Oct 29, 2013 8:45 am

shakencity wrote:Take it your not taking this competition seriously then.

....................Pants
Micah.....Demichellis...Lescott...Kolarov
........Fernandinho.....Garcia
Milner............Nasri............Navas
..................Negredo

Nor you - Kolorov, Demichelis and Garcia in the back 6? Jesus, Remy will be rubbing his hands at the slowness of those 3. Very Happy

by Guest Tue Oct 29, 2013 8:50 am

Garcia can feck right off from any team, including the EDS for me.

But I would play Demichellis just to get him match fit.

by **shakencity** Tue Oct 29, 2013 9:07 am

blueboy wrote:
shakencity wrote:Take it your not taking this competition seriously then.

....................Pants
Micah.....Demichellis...Lescott...Kolarov
........Fernandinho.....Garcia
Milner............Nasri............Navas
..................Negredo
Nor you - Kolorov, Demichelis and Garcia in the back 6? Jesus, Remy will be rubbing his hands at the slowness of those 3.

Demichellis needs the game time so will definately play. Clichy was shockin at the weekend, so will be dropped for Kolarov and can you really see Yaya playing?
Ok, if Garcia doesn't play (but i think he will), stick Rodwell in if he's fit.

by **leopold** Tue Oct 29, 2013 9:34 am

Demichelis needs game time and this is a better game to be getting him into the team than the one against Chelsea. I also agree with Kolarov, he's been looking pretty sharp under Pellers.

But Garcia? Not a chance. Rodwell all day for me, and give Yaya a rest.

by **shakencity** Tue Oct 29, 2013 7:47 pm

Apparently Fergal Sharky's between the sticks tomorrow night, as "a good Hart these days is hard to find".

Sorry, i'll get mi coat Embarassed

by blueboy Tue Oct 29, 2013 9:29 pm

get it............ "Taxi for Shaken"

by **Topdawg** Tue Oct 29, 2013 9:39 pm

I thought you were more shakin stevens than fergal sharkey Den...

by **shakencity** Wed Oct 30, 2013 7:10 am

Very good there Dawg Laughing

My Everton mate sent me that....why couldn't they have had a poor start with a new man in charge?

by blueboy Wed Oct 30, 2013 1:34 pm

Well Yaya will not play for definite...he's in Nairobi with the UN.

by **Topdawg** Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:03 pm

Good to see he is resting for the Norwich game...

by Guest Wed Oct 30, 2013 6:50 pm

STARTING XI: Pantilimon, Richards, Boyata, Lescott, Kolarov, Rodwell, Garcia, Navas, Milner, Jovetic, Dzeko

Ok I guess, bar Garcia of course

by bellyblue Wed Oct 30, 2013 7:11 pm

Think i shit it with my 3-1 prediction.... somebody must see something good in Garcia just not found who yet though!

by Moonchester Wed Oct 30, 2013 7:33 pm

Garcia must have that magic power over MP that Yaya had over Mancini..

by **shakencity** Wed Oct 30, 2013 8:26 pm

40 mins in and I haven't seen Rodwell touch the ball yet.

Dzeko, well he's just Dzeko....useless and lazy.

by Guest Wed Oct 30, 2013 8:30 pm

They really do not look arsed!

by Nijinsky Wed Oct 30, 2013 8:34 pm

The most forgettable half of football I've seen for a long time

by Guest Wed Oct 30, 2013 9:36 pm

Oh please god not another 30 mins, somebody score a goal

by blueboy Wed Oct 30, 2013 9:43 pm

Well...i think we've witnessed 2 players on the park that either need to pull their finger out....or fuck off in Jan, as I'm fed up of them....

Dzeko.....the most useless twat I've seen wear a City shirt...lazy as fuck.

Navas - why the fuck have we bought him? He hardly goes past anyone, and when he does his crosses hit the defender. AND NEVER tracks back!!

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by **shakencity** Wed Oct 30, 2013 9:52 pm

GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by Guest Wed Oct 30, 2013 9:58 pm

That lazy fucker ;-)

by blueboy Wed Oct 30, 2013 10:03 pm

Listen....a goal means fuck all...we should be battering a poor team like Newcastle with our 2nd 11....look at Chelsea last night.

Sorry, but Dzeko is shit, regardless of his goal and assist in the 94th minute...the other 93 he did fucking nothing....and in a PL game...he wouldn't have had that opportunity.

by bellyblue Wed Oct 30, 2013 10:09 pm

On a brighter note Boyata has played good!! And Pants has done his chances no harm.

by Nijinsky Wed Oct 30, 2013 10:18 pm

Pants hasn't put a foot wrong all night and can someone tell me why lezza doesn't play in vinny's place

by Guest Wed Oct 30, 2013 10:20 pm

Pants did very well. That is Dzekos game though, never in the game but all of a sudden makes 1 and scores 1.

He is an impact sub pure and simple, but he can turn it on when needed.

by meltonblue Wed Oct 30, 2013 11:04 pm

Leicester away! Absolutely perfect!

by blueboy Wed Oct 30, 2013 11:21 pm

good draw...no doubt... Embarassed

by **leopold** Thu Oct 31, 2013 10:14 am

Nijinsky wrote:can someone tell me why lezza doesn't play in vinny's place

Because he doesn't favour the appropriate foot. Like that really matters in a player who operates in a central position. Please, don't ask, I've been scratching my head at that one.

Not the most enthralling contest ever and half the players looked a bit lethargic. Like they'd climbed all those fooking stairs to get to the away section. Christ, it's a long haul, I was knackered! But a win's a win, nobody knackered themselves too much, Pants definitely did enough to prove he's worthy of a shot in the big games and JoLo really ought to be on the park instead of Garcia.

And now we've got Leicester. Which reminded me of this...

skyblueoz wrote:Judging by the rounds so far Wigan & now Newcastle we should get Leicester in the next rnd then Stoke in the semis & spurs in the final

That's pretty spooky, and the fact Stoke and Spurs are still in it just makes it weirder...

by Jordan Thu Oct 31, 2013 10:42 am

skyblueoz wrote:Judging by the rounds so far Wigan & now Newcastle we should get Leicester in the next rnd then Stoke in the semis & spurs in the final
That's pretty spooky, and the fact Stoke and Spurs are still in it just makes it weirder...

Wow! I remember that. And it's halloween What a Face

by ManCityMan Thu Oct 31, 2013 2:25 pm

Last night, particularly in the first half, you could have picked probably any of the outfield players and said that they were under performing. Negredo replaced Jovetic on 10 mins but did not really produce anything special in terms of performance the whole time he was on the park yet he scored.....after great work by Dzeko. Yet still Dzeko bashing continues on this site, leave the guy alone he is a City player, he does not go out and intentionally play badly. Some players need to feel the love and it's hard when you are now 3rd or 4th in the pecking order. Last night he was no worse than any one else and managed make one for Negredo and score another yet still he gets abuse.
Why has Negredo not been mentioned? He was not better than Dzeko in fact i would argue that Dzeko was the better of the 2 last night.
We are all entitled to our opinion but continually bashing City players is best left to rags and others. Shocked

by blueboy Thu Oct 31, 2013 3:08 pm

Last night he was no worse than any one else pale

You sure?

MCM.....Dzeko is shit, I stand by that comment and don't feel I am a lesser City fan than you for saying it.

Why can't we bash a City player on a City forum if we want to? If not, let's all be delusional like the Rag websites and have a 'love-in'?

It's what the forum is designed for.....I'm not going to change my opinion of Dzeko or Garcia because some feel we shouldn't say anything bad about them.....and I'm sure if we got 'loved-up' with those 2 players, they ain't going to be better players because of it. Very Happy

by **leopold** Thu Oct 31, 2013 3:48 pm

ManCityMan wrote:Why has Negredo not been mentioned? He was not better than Dzeko in fact i would argue that Dzeko was the better of the 2 last night.

And I'd agree with you. Dzeko was better than Negredo last night. But one game doesn't make Dzeko a better player. We've all seen him loll about the park looking disinterested on far more occasions than we'd care to see. In the short time Negredo has been with us, he's looked more keen to get onto the end of crosses and try and score. Obviously time will tell, but for now I think I'm with the majority call here.

One game isn't enough of a basis to either slate Negredo or kiss Edin's arse.

by **Topdawg** Thu Oct 31, 2013 3:51 pm

Negredo misses a lot of good chances. So does Edin.

by ManCityMan Fri Nov 01, 2013 12:22 pm

leopold wrote:
ManCityMan wrote:Why has Negredo not been mentioned? He was not better than Dzeko in fact i would argue that Dzeko was the better of the 2 last night.
And I'd agree with you. Dzeko was better than Negredo last night. But one game doesn't make Dzeko a better player. We've all seen him loll about the park looking disinterested on far more occasions than we'd care to see. In the short time Negredo has been with us, he's looked more keen to get onto the end of crosses and try and score. Obviously time will tell, but for now I think I'm with the majority call here.

One game isn't enough of a basis to either slate Negredo or kiss Edin's arse.

I was not trying to kiss anyone's arse. It is a forum and anyone is free to criticise players if they wish i was wrong if i suggested otherwise, however, it's ridiculous to keep bashing players simply because you don't like them even when they have not had a particularly bad game and in fact won the game for the team and arguably been one of the better players on the night. I actually agree that Edin is priobably our 4th best striker now and i also agree that he does not have a great work rate and will soon be moved on.
I, like most of us, prefer Aguero and Negredo and i was disappointed to see Jovetic go off so soon as i was hoping to see him in a full game, he will be more consistent than Dzeko when he settles in and gets more game time.
I was mainly looking at the game against Newcastle, it was not a great performance from the team as a whole and i was just pointing out that its a bit unfair to still pound the guy when he won us the game and was better than the widely accepted better striker and others. Credit where it's due and not just kicking the guy just for the sake of it is all i'm saying, if he is shit in a game i will be the first to say so but on this occasion i don't believe he was.

by **leopold** Fri Nov 01, 2013 3:52 pm

All of which are fair points, MCM. But you're preaching to the choir with me; I understand everyone has an opinion and everyone has the right to express it. But part of this is to understand that people can, and do, have diametrically opposed views.

I can see from your response that you generally agree with the consensus that Dzeko isn't the hardest working player and that he's generally not of a level that we need to win matches consistently. I don't think anyone will argue with that, although some haven't expressed it quite as tactfully as you've done.

And yes, Dzeko pretty much won us the game on Wednesday, as he has on a few other occasions, which is fine. But I think the key problem we have here is that he's just not consistent enough. It's all well and good coming on and winning the occasional game, we need him to do this all the time and he simply doesn't do that. I'd liken him to Berbatov; Bone idle, but sometimes pulls the result out of the bag.

I personally don't think anyone is saying Edin wasn't good enough against Newcastle (but feel free to point out where someone has done), but like I said, one game isn't enough.

by meltonblue Fri Nov 01, 2013 4:32 pm

I don't actually think Dzeko was that good at all, the goal aside. He simply does not work anywhere near hard enough off the ball for me which is criminal in a high pressing game. I was getting very frustrated with him in all honesty. I don't think he is a bad player though, I just get annoyed about how good he could be if he applied himself more.

by **leopold** Fri Nov 01, 2013 5:13 pm

meltonblue wrote:I don't actually think Dzeko was that good at all, the goal aside.

He was good enough, against a poor Newcastle side.

by blueboy Fri Nov 01, 2013 5:22 pm

meltonblue wrote:I don't actually think Dzeko was that good at all, the goal aside. He simply does not work anywhere near hard enough off the ball for me which is criminal in a high pressing game. I was getting very frustrated with him in all honesty. I don't think he is a bad player though, I just get annoyed about how good he could be if he applied himself more.

Well that was my point Melton.

He set up one and scored another....both in time past 93 minutes.....for the rest of the game, he was bloody awful. My point was that against a very tired team, he did that.....but isn't the 90 minutes where he is supposed to prove his big price tag? For me, sorry to upset others.....he's shit. 1 good game out of 5 or 6....doesn't prove anywhere near his price tag.

He has the odd game where we ALL say...."Dzeko put it in today".....but that is very, very rare.....he had the opportunity to show MP that it's not all about Negredo and Aguero......but for 90mins...he was rubbish, poor touch, can't leap, can't track along their back 4......he is, as Leo said......Berbatov in a blue shirt.....but with a touch nowhere near his!

Sold in January for me.....and I stand by that. MCM...wasn't having a 'dig' at you personally fella.

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