Jase 43,479 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 City's home form:P - 14W - 14D - 0L - 0GF - 42GA - 6Yikes!How about this?Man City's PL home record since losing 2-1 to Everton(December 20th 2010) - P24 W23 D1 L0 F67 A11 CS16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdog 2,084 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 City's home form: P - 14 W - 14 D - 0 L - 0 GF - 42 GA - 6 Yikes! Weren't man shitty unbeaten when they came to the Bridge?? They can be beaten, you are right...looks like MiddleEastland is a fortress. UTC!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,489 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Weren't man shitty unbeaten when they came to the Bridge?? They can be beaten, you are right...looks like MiddleEastland is a fortress. UTC!!!At the bridge, v tuk in wave aftr wave of manc attacks early and got lucky with only a single goal conceded....cant afford that here....high tempo from start Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHOULO19 24,332 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Pre-mtch conference: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 http://www.redcafe.net/f7/el-plastico-city-v-chelsea-350491/Lovely isn't it from those scumbags..! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHOULO19 24,332 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Full prematch conference: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beirut_Blues 306 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Di Matteo's so cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulsterchelsea 3,221 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 http://www.redcafe.n...chelsea-350491/Fucking wankers, I detest the lot of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misschief 24 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 2 words - "shitting it" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corazón De León 58 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Defence should be Ivanovic, Luiz, Cahill, Bertrand/Ashley Cole. JT won't play Hope we win... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran. 6,317 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Drogba has to start, but I wouldn't mind Nando out there with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingofchelseadom 41 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 How many times have we all said this then we came out with the result.Did you say that against them the first time? What about Napoli. Man city are not exactly underfeatable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingofchelseadom 41 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Unfortunately i think we're playing them at a bad time. I know we're confident atm winning 4/4 but this is a completely different test and seeing that city are now plying catch up and have been on a very bad run lately, i can see them getting the job done against us. Any slip up for City now given Utd's run in will be very costly so i'll go 2-0 city.Well lets continue the bad run here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingofchelseadom 41 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Winning brings confidence, it's much better for us to be going into the games with City and Tottenham on the back of 4 straight "unimpressive" wins, than with stupid draws like we've been doing all season.Look at Arsenal for example, during their current winning streak they have had games where they didn't play their best, and were lucky to win.But the fact is they keep winning, and this is what we have been doing, and hopefully we can continue doing so.eactly. Since when are City and Tottenham not beatable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmessy 139 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Soak up pressure then counter.4-4-1-1 (4-4-2 on offence)CechIvan - Luiz - JT - ColeRamires - Essien - Lampard - MataDrogbaTorres/Sturridgewanted to play like this all season...but flip flop torres and drogba... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranklyFrank 103 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 El plastico? At least we don't call 37 year olds out of retirement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
English Freak 456 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 I think it'll end in a draw but you never know, maybe Sturridge can score the winning goal against his former club! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capriccioso 2,545 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 I think we'll have to be a bit Napoli about all this and try and hit them on the break. For that reason Sturridge's got to play, regardless of his recent ordinary form, he's probably the fastest attacker we've got.It would be interesting if we played Sturridge as the striker and Torres on the wing. He's been craving for that role all season. Anyway if all goes wrong we can always throw on Kalou to score one of his trademark tap ins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Armour 4,439 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Di Matteo: Drogba and Torres can work (Source:http://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/12/03/20/SOCCER_Chelsea_Di_Matteo.html&TEAMHD=soccer&BID=165)Roberto Di Matteo has revealed he would consider changing Chelsea's formation to partner Didier Drogba with Fernando Torres.Torres has given Di Matteo a selection headache for Wednesday's Barclays Premier League game at Manchester City after finally breaking his long goalscoring drought in Sunday's FA Cup thrashing of Leicester.Drogba is still expected to get the nod at the Etihad Stadium but caretaker-manager Di Matteo has not ruled out pairing Torres with the Ivorian in future.The duo failed to perform in tandem under Carlo Ancelotti last season, while Andre Villas-Boas did not even try to do so, always preferring to start with a lone striker.But Di Matteo was adamant Drogba and Torres could play together.Asked if he would change the system to accommodate both, he said: "If the game requires it, yes."We tried it in the Napoli game."Di Matteo, whose four games in charge have seen him use a 4-2-3-1 formation, welcomed Wednesday's selection dilemma."It's great for this football club, isn't it?" he said."To have that firepower in the team, it's fantastic. And we will try to do our best to try to exploit the good form of both."It's going to be tough on anybody I leave out."We have a fantastic squad and it hurts to leave players out of that calibre. It's really difficult."I can only field 11 positions and the ones on the bench."Daniel Sturridge also covets the centre-forward role at Chelsea and appeared reluctant to pass to Torres from his position out on the wing on Sunday.Di Matteo said: "I wouldn't think it's difficult to play for the team."Every player has to put his individual qualities within the team for the benefit of the team."He added: "We forget that he's a very young player, a very young man, and really this is his first full season with his club."He's still developing if you think about it for his age and how many games he's played."There is certainly some incredible talent that you can improve and he can make the team help and win more games."I think he could play down the centre."He has the ability to play in both positions."Meanwhile, Di Matteo is confident captain John Terry will be fit for the rest of Chelsea's nightmare schedule of matches after ruling him out of Wednesday game.Terry has been struggling with a calf strain since his second outing after his remarkable comeback from knee surgery.Di Matteo said: "He did very well to come back from his operation and he's then played two games in a very short period of time, very intense games as well."He's fine for Saturday." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran. 6,317 Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Di Matteo: Drogba and Torres can work (Source:http://www.sportingl...=soccer&BID=165)Interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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