Manchester City 0:1 Manchester United

caisenma · Mar 18, 2016

MyOnlySolskjaer said:
De Gea
Valencia Smalling Blind Rojo
Morgan Bastian
Januzaj Herrera Martial
Rashford

For me too, except Darmian instead of Valencia.

khoazany · Mar 18, 2016

De Gea
Varela Smalling Blind CBJ
Morgan Bastian
Januzaj Lingard Martial
Rashford

Parry Gallister · Mar 18, 2016

Fellaini x 11

2 fullbacks and an ageing midfielder to be subbed on. Have a 35 min spell during either half where we look good but do feck all. Goal a fluke or set-piece.

3-1 City.

That or we let the kids go nuts and expose the lack of speed/nerviness of their team, run at them, press in packs, use width well...

Rajeev · Mar 18, 2016

I have a better feeling about this, guys. We haven't won in 4-5 matches so we are overdue a win now

SqueakyWeasel · Mar 18, 2016

I predict another predominantly grey infographic up there top right but a surprisingly successful performance probably

RedDevil@84 · Mar 18, 2016

Away at Etihad. We suck away and it is at Etihad and it is a derby.
I believe the team will show the passion of punching doll and lose 2-1 or 3-1 maybe.

Oh wait!! The punching doll does come-back unlike the current Utd team

2 man midfield · Mar 18, 2016

RDCR07 said:
We will lose for sure. Its just a case of by how much.

Yep

WPMUFC · Mar 18, 2016

there's a good chance that if both teams go out and play for a 0-0 draw, both sets of fans might walk out of emptyhad :lol:

LLMU · Mar 18, 2016

LvG will set up the team for us to have a draw.

OnlyTwoDaSilvas · Mar 18, 2016

City look ropey. They've also not beaten any of the current top 8 this season. Our record in the big games is mostly good. I see us getting a result.

We have to really. They are 4 pts ahead with a game in hand. They are the side we're aiming to catch up with. Top 4 will over if we fail to win I reckon. They'll be 7 ahead, and their game in hand is against Newcastle. So, 10 pts ahead.

Kompany is out. Otamendi might be too. Yaya is doing his usual strop already. Silva hasn't looked fit for ages and Aguero is hot and cold. Let's fecking do 'em.

Andy_Cole · Mar 18, 2016

OnlyTwoDaSilvas said:
City look ropey. They've also not beaten any of the current top 8 this season. Our record in the big games is mostly good. I see us getting a result.

We have to really. They are 4 pts ahead with a game in hand. They are the side we're aiming to catch up with. Top 4 will over if we fail to win I reckon. They'll be 7 ahead, and their game in hand is against Newcastle. So, 10 pts ahead.

Kompany is out. Otamendi might be too. Yaya is doing his usual strop already. Silva hasn't looked fit for ages and Aguero is hot and cold. Let's fecking do 'em.

They have no game in hand. Just 4 points.

dileno · Mar 18, 2016

We can't even score from open play, we'll get 1 penalty, tops. City to win 3-1.

Sunny Jim · Mar 18, 2016

Damien said:
Lost, won and drawn the last three meetings against them under van Gaal. Win is a must and Kompany missing the game is good news. Will probably end up 2:0 to City.

Kompany missing the game is irrelevant. Whoever replaces him is sufficient to deal with impotent attack. On the other end i see their attack running havoc in front of DDG's goal. 3:0 City.

Havak · Mar 18, 2016

Unless LvG suddenly gets things right tactically and plays Schneiderlin from the start, I think we'll lose.

I'd say City need to win more than we do to keep any slim chance of a title challenge alive, though I believe it was gone after their draw with Norwich. A draw suits neither side as we'll miss our biggest opportunity to close the gap and they'll miss theirs to put 4th completely out of our reach. The draw just keeps both of us and West Ham in the same position and I think we'd all faulter to a similar degree for the rest of the season, with City eventually holding on to 4th (or maybe sneaking third with Arsenal dropping to 4th). However, even if we win I think City would edge 4th anyway.

I do think that Arsenal and West Ham will fail to win on Saturday though, so that would put even more importance on this game. Can't count out Liverpool if they win their game in hand either... So we could well be looking at five teams in with a shout of the final two places come Sunday night.

Due to our lack of goal power, I'm saying 1-0 City until we see our line-up...

OnlyTwoDaSilvas · Mar 18, 2016

Andy_Cole said:
They have no game in hand. Just 4 points.

Apologies, I got them mixed up with Liverpool.

Point still stands though. 7 points will be a lot to make up if they beat us. I think a loss effectively ends our league season.

Siorac · Mar 18, 2016

Truedevil said:
Just sim this game.

Yes, let the assistant manager handle it.

Oh wait.

Andy_Cole · Mar 18, 2016

OnlyTwoDaSilvas said:
Apologies, I got them mixed up with Liverpool.

Point still stands though. 7 points will be a lot to make up if they beat us. I think a loss effectively ends our league season.

Yup make or break. Would say a draw also kills our season.

Silverman · Mar 18, 2016

SSSSnake · Mar 18, 2016

The only saving grace for this is their defence all out injured. I think this will be a close game with someone making a big cock up allowing the other team to score.

SSSSnake · Mar 18, 2016

Would love us to nick fourth spot and see Pep managing in Europa. Jose would love that. I'm sure he'll have a dig if he manages us one day.

pseudo_canadian · Mar 18, 2016

Comfortable win for City.

RedSky · Mar 18, 2016

There doesn't seem to be a 6 in the dropdown box selection?

El Zoido · Mar 18, 2016

I wouldn't be surprised if LVG pulls a win out of this. Every time the writing's been on the wall for him, he picks up an important win to give himself just a little bit more breathing room.

Bwuk · Mar 18, 2016

Fellaini will play and we will lose

entropy · Mar 18, 2016

I am not going to fall for this :nono:

sunama · Mar 18, 2016

Attila said:
It's actually really frustrating to know that if we had changed managers sooner we would very likely be above them and guaranteed champions league football.

Indeed. And as an added bonus, we knock MCFC out of the CL, so Guardiola would be arriving to a team who cannot offer him CL football.

Silverman · Mar 18, 2016

I think we will beat them because nobody expects us to do anything. Also they are really struggling atm and Kompany's injury will only add to that.

sunama · Mar 18, 2016

Rajeev said:
I have a better feeling about this, guys. We haven't won in 4-5 matches so we are overdue a win now

We haven't won using our first team for 5 matches.
Against Sunderland we had our first team - who lost.
Then we had 4 games where we played lots of U21s players.
Then our first teamers all returned and we played 4 games (2 x losses, 2 x draws).

I have no faith in our first team players and I can't see them beating MCFC. The loser mentality is so engrained into them, that they can't help it.
Basically we are now at a point, where we were with Moyes' MUFC - the morale was very low and the mentality was negative.

Wayne's World · Mar 18, 2016

I'm glad I'll miss it because of work, fecking losing to Liverpool and City in a space of 10 days....

dichinero · Mar 18, 2016

Silverman said:

This one has common sense. Sadly it doesn't apply here!

Wednesday at Stoke · Mar 18, 2016

Hopefully Schneiderlin, Schweinsteiger and Herrera return for this one.

Martial
Memphis Herrera Young
Schweinsteiger Schneiderlin
Rojo Blind Smalling Valencia
deGea

NoLogo · Mar 18, 2016

I think we will lose but not by a high margin. 2-1 or 3-1 max. Hope we can keep the game open as long as possible.

bosnian_red · Mar 18, 2016

Hopefully Fellaini doesn't play, but that seems unlikely. My lineup would be:

De Gea
Valencia Smalling Rojo Blind
Herrera Schneiderlin Schweinsteiger
Lingard Rashford Martial

Though Mata will most likely start, and I would guess Fellaini will as well. Probably for Herrera and Rashford. We actually have a chance to get a result if there is no fellaini though, because City are just as shite as us. Neither team deserves top 4.

Natener · Mar 18, 2016

Probably be a draw or City win by 1-0. City drew their last league game goalless with Norwich. We are even more shite in comparison but these matches tend to disappoint for everyone more often than not.

Winrar · Mar 18, 2016

Wayne's World said:
I'm glad I'll miss it because of work, fecking losing to Liverpool and City in a space of 10 days....

mitchmouse · Mar 18, 2016

The only thing that will effected the score is how many City want to score. We are going to get whopped and I'd be surprised if Hart needs to turn up: my guess is one shot on target

LuisNaniencia · Mar 18, 2016

Should play very attacking with no Kompany, just try to outscore them. Chances of that happening?

buckooo1978 · Mar 18, 2016

Like Liverpool, City are very vunerable.....

sadly we are lacking motivation/confidence and will probably not capitalise

the team I'd like to see

--------------------------------------DDG----------------------------------
Darmian-------------Smalling-----------------Blind--------------------CBJ
----------------------------------Schneiderlein-----------------------------
---------------------Herrera----------------------Schweinstieger----------
Rashford-------------------------Martial---------------------------Memphis

francobaresi · Mar 18, 2016

Won't be watching this one. Can't wait for this season to be over

Sandikan · Mar 18, 2016

Silverman said:

Looking at that, it is quite impossible to comprehend how a guy can spend so much money and that's the best we can put out.

If Mourinho does arrive, I can just about see 3/4 of them starting next year.

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