Do you place more trust on us or Inter to stop City's treble?

[DutchSerb]

Oh good, another City thread.

It's getting really annoying. Might as well migrate to the transfer forum until August.

 

[Gabriel Djemba-Bebe]

Inter obviously. They have a set way of playing. They have got some talent and Lukaku/Dzeko can hold up the ball and contest for long balls which Real Madrid failed to do utterly.

Yeah, Ten Hag doesn't have a set way of playing. That's why he couldn't find a way to beat City last time we played them.

 

[Fully Fledged]

Can we stop talking about City for feck sake.

Who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe? Ferdinand Magellan. Everybody knows him he had the most important natural sea route between the Atlantic Ocean and The Pacific Ocean named after him(if you disregard the fact that the indigenous people probably had a name for it before he got there). Now who was the second person? Some bloke named Drake that nobody has ever heard of.
Being second to achieve something doesn't carry the same gravitas as being the first to do it.

 

[redIndianDevil]

Yeah, Ten Hag doesn't have a set way of playing. That's why he couldn't find a way to beat City last time we played them.

Inter always seem to defend first and then counter attack. We are a mish mash of trying to attack, park the bus at the moment. We show this especially in big games where we are supposed to play equally well but we are not capable of it at the moment. So we have the tendency of dominating for some time and reverting to absolutely parking it towards the end. Inter are comfortable at giving the ball to the opponents and wait for breaks. That's what I meant by us not having a set way of playing

 

[McTerminator]

Neither, accept their treble.

We can just hope it’s stripped immediately after due to the massive cheating/financial doping.

 

[Infra-red]

City are obviously massive favourites in each game (have we ever been 5/1 odds to win in any final we've competed in?). I think the onus is on us, unfortunately.

 

[Remember the geese]

Definitely us. I think that City will play like a better version of Brighton, but we will find a way to scramble through to pens. Then, when all hope is lost (De Gea gets nowhere near saving any), Mahrez plays the role of Solly March.

 

[croadyman]

Inter look a bigger goal threat, seem to have players with more grit than us and have peaked at the business end of the season. Inzaghi seems to love a good cup run too. Very difficult to conceive us winning considering how poor we've been of late.

Yeah plus the fact his brother was in team that lost in Istanbul to the scousers in 2005

 

[croadyman]

Yeah, Ten Hag doesn't have a set way of playing. That's why he couldn't find a way to beat City last time we played them.

We beat them in January last time

 

[RedRonaldo]

In Lukaku and Weghorst we trusted.

 

[Gabriel Djemba-Bebe]

We beat them in January last time

I knew I should've emphasised the sarcasm more.

 

[mitchmouse]

We'll lose by less - City will get a couple of goals, then rest for the trip to Turkey

 

[padzilla]

Unless the FA charges against City are announced in the next few weeks I can't see anything derailing them at the minute.

 

[Murder on Zidane's Floor]

Inter, we've got zero bottle.

 

[davidmichael]

The fact that Darmian is a regular centre back for them, Mhkitaryan is a regular midfielder for them and Lukaku starts regularly for them says everything I need to know about Inter and I’d be surprised if City don’t beat them by three goals.

Us on the other hand have beaten City this season and when we’re at our best are a match for them, City have now got three games between now and the final with an eye also on the CL final so could be tired and distracted whereas it means much more to us than them so that potential desire could be enough for us.

 

[Belisarius]

The fact that Darmian is a regular centre back for them, Mhkitaryan is a regular midfielder for them and Lukaku starts regularly for them says everything I need to know about Inter and I’d be surprised if City don’t beat them by three goals.

Us on the other hand have beaten City this season and when we’re at our best are a match for them, City have now got three games between now and the final with an eye also on the CL final so could be tired and distracted whereas it means much more to us than them so that potential desire could be enough for us.

That's the key. If I was putting odds on each I would estimate:

Cheaters are 60 / 40 favourites to beat us in the FA Cup
Cheaters are 80 / 20 favourites to beat Inter in Champions league final.
Cheaters are 98 / 2 favourites to beat Arsenal for the league.

Therefore odds of Cheaters winning the treble are = 0.6 x 0.8 x 0.98 = 47%.

There is still a decent chance they will be stopped somehow. Most likely by us.

 

[daveskimufc]

Don't think Inter will trouble them at all

 

[Evonomist]

Can we stop talking about City for feck sake.

Who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe? Ferdinand Magellan. Everybody knows him he had the most important natural sea route between the Atlantic Ocean and The Pacific Ocean named after him(if you disregard the fact that the indigenous people probably had a name for it before he got there). Now who was the second person? Some bloke named Drake that nobody has ever heard of.
Being second to achieve something doesn't carry the same gravitas as being the first to do it.

I’d argue Ghenghis Khan is more well known than Alexander the Great, both being conquerors.

 

[Andersonson]

Nothing would be better than we ruining for them. City will be tired as well.

We have a fair chance if we turn up

 

[Yakuza_devils]

I think both Inter and us have a chance to beat City in a final. Both club are known to be capable of very high quality counter attacking football which is the weakness in City game.

If we go toe to toe with City we will get completely destroyed. If we play defensively and frustrate them with counter attacking football we have a chance.

City will play high and leave a huge gap behind. Any team that can exploit the gap will beat City. But we must play ugly and defend deep. We must be patient and focus to create rapid counter attack.

In final anything can happen. Red card, injury, luck and etc all play a part.

 

[Zed 101]

The return of Garnacho is huge for us, either gives a player who can impact from the bench or allows us to play Rashford as a CF so we do not have to waste a spot on Martial or Weghorst, if only we could get Martinez back.... in reality I think we will be lucky to get out of the final with any respect, with De Gea and Lindelof potentially at the back

 

[BerryBerryShrew]

Can we stop talking about City for feck sake.

Who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe? Ferdinand Magellan. Everybody knows him he had the most important natural sea route between the Atlantic Ocean and The Pacific Ocean named after him(if you disregard the fact that the indigenous people probably had a name for it before he got there). Now who was the second person? Some bloke named Drake that nobody has ever heard of.
Being second to achieve something doesn't carry the same gravitas as being the first to do it.

Magellan died before he could complete the circumnavigation so the the first to complete it was actually the guy who took over as captain of the voyage after Magellan snuffed it - a guy called Elcano.

I'm not sure how that ties in with your treble analogy though!

 

[RyRy11]

If we actually turn up then I think we'd give them a game at least. It's hard to know what United side will show up but if its anything like we've been playing for the past 2/3 months then we will be embarrassed.

 

[Dirty Schwein]

They might get the treble but we got the first one. Always in our shadow.

 

[Dannn411]

Neither. They are going to win the treble. Just make peace with it and move on with your life.

 

[Siorac]

Magellan died before he could complete the circumnavigation so the the first to complete it was actually the guy who took over as captain of the voyage after Magellan snuffed it - a guy called Elcano.

I'm not sure how that ties in with your treble analogy though!

Well, our own captain didn't make it to the CL final and got injured early on in the FA Cup final. Roy Keane = United's Magellan, basically. Except he didn't die.

 

[Fully Fledged]

Magellan died before he could complete the circumnavigation so the the first to complete it was actually the guy who took over as captain of the voyage after Magellan snuffed it - a guy called Elcano.

I'm not sure how that ties in with your treble analogy though!

I was a bit of a joke the fact that everybody knows who Francis Drake is should prove that I was talking lounge in cheek.

 

[lsd]

In Lukaku I trust

 

[Fully Fledged]

I’d argue Ghenghis Khan is more well known than Alexander the Great, both being conquerors.

I think they are both pretty big names. I would argue that Francis Drake is better known in the UK than Magellan is though. I wasn't being serious.

 

[Herman Toothrot]

Us. 100%. We beat them a few months ago, the same players should all be available and it's our biggest game of the season by a million miles. Why would we not have a chance?

 

[KikiDaKats]

We are a better team than people are giving us credit. Consistency was our issue and not ability.

This new 5 defenders and 5 attackers people are so busy drooling over as revolutionary will be exposed by us because Pep knows he will have to tinker with to handle our attack.

I strongly fancy us to beat City in the finals.

 

[Lost bear]

Watch them lose on sunday against the Chavs.

KDB twisted ankle.

Brighton school them on wednesday, and Haaland red carded for the FA cup final.

Brentford beats them on Sunday with Rodri hamstring.

Lose the title to Arsenal.
Lose the FA cup final to us.
And Inter beat them on pens.

Watch this space.

Your name is well chosen!

 

[Todd]

Neither, but I think Inter have a better chance.

We're in poor form lately, while Inter are in pretty great form. They don't concede goals as easily as we do. They have strikers that can score goals.

Of the two I think Inter will make it more difficult for City, but even then I don't think they can stave off City's attack for 90min.

 

[TheNewEra]

City will get the treble, but Uniteds will be more impressive because of the lack of financial doping

 

[Valencia Shin Crosses]

Us. We are better than Inter no matter how much people on here whinge about us.

 

[Loon]

I don't know about more trust, but I hope we put up a proper fight. Need Fergie to give them a team talk.

 

[el_loco_bielsa]

Neither. You’re both disastrously bad sides and city are currently an all-destroying cyborg.

Saying that, we beat an arguably equivalent Milan side (in terms of quality of personnel when comparing to city’s current first 11) with a turd side probably inferior to this inter side in a CL final, so I suppose anything is possible with a bit of luck in a one off game.

 

[Ayoba]

Neither

 

[ScholesyTheWise]

Can't the mods ban people who keep opening City-related threads? ffs.

(us, to answer the question. but we'll lose)

 

[el_loco_bielsa]

Can't the mods ban people who keep opening City-related threads? ffs.

(us, to answer the question. but we'll lose)

No, because the more of these threads we have, the more we can point out how the fecking Cnuts and their bald Cnut fraud coach have cnut-doped their way to glory using the blood of migrant workers as capital.