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Ake as defensive mid anyone? Played there a couple of times under Benitez if I recall correctly. I think that is the biggest question mark, who will pair with Mikel.

Get in! won and scored a last minute penalty equaliser in overtime!

Would play: Cech Azpi-Zouma-Cahill-Luis Mikel-Baker Salah-Oscar-Schurrle Remy With subs: Christensen (cahill/zouma), Ake (Baker/Luis), Drogba (Remy)

Would hope so as that would be beneficial for us, but would be silly by Pellegrini to do that only to try to annoy us. But still don't understand this, as they will need to buy a new midfielder come january anyway, since Lamps is off in february.

When does the mls season start? Wasn't he just supposed to stay til January and then join up with the New york city pre season? Seems very odd that he would stay with man city when he can train with New york? Cant understand why he would do that...

José seemed genuinely upset about Lampard in his post match interviews.

I doubt (and hope no one) anyone really see Lamps as a judas,the people who post that stuff are hopefully just in the heat of the moment. He did his job and we all know he can score important goals, that's why it's interesting to see where all the people who were so calm and assured that he would barely play a league cup game for city have gone. He saved an important draw for our rivals and that hurts because in the end, every point matter in the title race. But as I said, i'm not questioning his legacy here or anything like that, it just leaves a really bad taste in my mouth that instead of him getting to say goodbye in a testimonial at the bridge he ends up doing it in a light blue shirt at the etihad, while rescuing our title rivals from a defeat.

Such a strange sight...

Such a strange one..We did play quite well and disciplined, and went so close to winning..Would've been happy with a draw before hand, but now with Lamps scoring the equalizer makes it feel like a defeat...

The people who were so calm and didnt seem to care at all when he signed for City still feel the same? ...

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Ffs not Lampard....

GET IN!!

Big game! Come on you blues!

And to think yesterday utd fans were laughing at Liverpools defence ( which is terrible aswell)!

Dissapointing that we struggled so much in front of goal, not to worried though.

Come on! KTBFFH!

Unreal player! He just got that eye for goal that only a few have...

Unbelievable! So this is how it feels to have a world class striker.

What a goal! Such class...

Özil has been so poor today.

Arsenal have started quite well with high pressure and pace, but that City midfield has been very average to say the least.

What's funny is that Arsenals XI actually looks much better on paper than Citys...It's been a while since that last happened.

Comes to show that city are'nt really that strong when they are forced to play a 36 year old Lampard (in a midfield 2!) vs one of the top 4 candidates.

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