Friday News Round-Up

Gary Bowyer believes "City are the best football team in the world right now"

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Neymar suffers a twisted ankle and may miss the home match against City at the Etihad.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2540917/Neymar-injury-hell-Brazil-star-suffers-ankle-sprain-Barca-Copa-del-Rey-win.html

Bad news is - Messi looks like he is back with a bang!

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Micah Richards claims there are no weaknesses in this City team:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/16/manchester-city-micah-richards-manuel-pellegrini

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City and Chelsea circling for Luke Shaw
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2540898/Pochettino-ready-walk-Saints-faces-fight-hold-30m-rated-Shaw-Chelsea-City-hover.html

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Micah - "it's a bit different to when Joey Barton was our top scorer"
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/micah-richards-manchester-citys-goal-3029130

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Mourinho's mind games won't work on Pellegrini, he's one tough cookie
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/analysis-jose-mourinho-mind-games-will-not-work-on-manchester-city-manager-manuel-pellegrini--this-is-one-tough-cookie-9062799.html

Meh... Neymar is no loss, he's not as good as people say he is. I'd rather see Messi in action anyway.

I think his stats have been pretty impressive this season, though Messi is clearly still the star attraction.

Wonder who will be given the job to stop him early on in possession? As once he's in full flow, it's generally goals, free-kicks or yellow cards.

blueboy wrote:Wonder who will be given the job to stop him early on in possession? As once he's in full flow, it's generally goals, free-kicks or yellow cards.

Easy....Garcia   

shakencity wrote:

blueboy wrote:Wonder who will be given the job to stop him early on in possession? As once he's in full flow, it's generally goals, free-kicks or yellow cards.

Easy....Garcia   

I was going to say Demichelis...

leopold wrote:

shakencity wrote:

blueboy wrote:Wonder who will be given the job to stop him early on in possession? As once he's in full flow, it's generally goals, free-kicks or yellow cards.

Easy....Garcia   

I was going to say Demichelis...

  

Garcia or a piece of 3 x 2? not much difference

Stat:

After Dzeko, Garcia is the next player with the most aerials won per game, followed by Negredo, Nasty and DeM.

Dzeko - 2.4
Garcia - 2.3
Negredo - 2.1
Nasty 1.9
DeM - 1.7