kellzfresh 7,229 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Arsenal are no City when it comes to scoring. I was just comparing arsenals defense with ours on current form when you said they had the best defense before meeting City.Aguero might be out for this one but Dzeko has been scoring lately too.Dzeko is slower. I was more worried about aguero's pace to go in behind our defence. You know well that aguero is more dangerous than Dzeko.And this thing about bigger teams attacking us and leaving space for us to counter is getting old. Every time that is said when we play the bigger teams and yet this doesn't really happen. Game always turn out differently.Its sure better than teams camping in their 18yard box. But you know quite well how we suffer when hazard is triple marked, it won't happen in this game for sure. Heck, if City is streetwise enough, they could let us attack them and counter us instead.Luckily we all know city won't do that Off topic: I heard toure will miss the game, is it true?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The only place to be 11,313 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Aguero being out of this one could be massive for us. To me he's been the player of the season so far and is part of that spine of their team which makes them so strong.Not going to try to predict the team for this one (not even sure I could guess the formation, although a 433 wouldn't be surprising) but I'd love to see him stick Oscar on Toure and just let him hassle him for 90 minutes. Ultimately though, we're going up against a team who are further along in their development than us so of course we're underdogs. Not getting a result isn't going to be the reason we lose the league, nor would winning make us favourites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushman 2,043 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Aguero being out of this one could be massive for us. To me he's been the player of the season so far and is part of that spine of their team which makes them so strong.Not going to try to predict the team for this one (not even sure I could guess the formation, although a 433 wouldn't be surprising) but I'd love to see him stick Oscar on Toure and just let him hassle him for 90 minutes. Ultimately though, we're going up against a team who are further along in their development than us so of course we're underdogs. Not getting a result isn't going to be the reason we lose the league, nor would winning make us favourites.Even someone like you should know Jose is going to park the depot on Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edetarod 2,155 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 my prediction: we will park the bus and screw up alot of counter attacks due to bad passing, decision making Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 I was just comparing arsenals defense with ours on current form when you said they had the best defense before meeting City.Dzeko is slower. I was more worried about aguero's pace to go in behind our defence. You know well that aguero is more dangerous than Dzeko.Its sure better than teams camping in their 18yard box. But you know quite well how we suffer when hazard is triple marked, it won't happen in this game for sure.Luckily we all know city won't do that Off topic: I heard toure will miss the game, is it true??Think when Araenal went into that game, they were doing well defensively and look what happened. I know we have been defensively sound of late but look who we played against. None of them were anywhere near the calibre and quality of City's attackers.City won't camp in their 18-yard box for the whole 90 minutes but they are certainly capable of playing on the counter with their offensive prowess and that is certainly a way to make a defensive team open up by letting them come at you and then hit them on the break.Don't think Toure is suspended. Why would he? Has only picked up 2 yellow cards in domestic games this season, from what I checked. kellzfresh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmarlow 458 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Lets do this! CechIvanovic - Cahill - Terry - AzpilicuetaRamires - MaticLampardWillian - Eto'o - Hazard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLion. 21,491 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 If you offered me 0-0 I'd bite your hand arm off and beat myself bloody with it. kellzfresh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushman 2,043 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Oh God. Chelsea 0 Citeh 0 ?I would frame it & hang it above my bed. LOL. CHOULO19 and kellzfresh 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didierforever 7,349 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 must not lose game.lose here and the title race is over, win/draw and we are still pretty much in it.the line up is going to be and has to be pretty defensive. 4-3-3 for mecechiva GC JT ACrambo mikel lampswillian etoo hazardpretty much what we did to arsenal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vybz Kartel 1,613 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 With the sell of Mata and De Bruyne suddenly our squad looks way thinner and weaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmarlow 458 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 With the sell of Mata and De Bruyne suddenly our squad looks way thinner and weaker it actually looks stronger to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmarlow 458 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I have never seen a set of fans not just overly confident of beating us but so confident that they will batter us and win by 4 or 5 goals!I really hope we can put them in their place on Monday, and bring their fans back down to earth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edetarod 2,155 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 i don't expec us to beat this city team with players in their peak, so i can only be positively surprised Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamon 103 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 The only hope you have is if he turns into *deflection-man* again. Like when he played us. The best striker you have available sits on the bench every week and the other is out on loan.Da da da da, da da deflection man!Seriously, you get beat. Deal with it. Man, a nearly 33 and semi-retired Eto'o shit-stomped you...But fine, you're an average team now; so let's think to good ol' times: oh, 2008/2009 season, Cristina, Tevez, Fat Boy Rooney, ah, what a team!But wait, a day is coming out of the mist: 2009, may 27... what happened then? Ah yes, a prime Eto'o still shit-stomped your amazing team.So yeah, being you, I personally wouldn't talk at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushman 2,043 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 As far as I am concerned current Chelsea team has no scoring punch. Defensively, perhaps they might hold Citeh to 2 goals only ?Offensively, Chelsea is far from scoring 2 or 3 goals against Citeh.In my opinion, that´s what is needed to win or draw on Monday.The solution if there is any, Jose will set up the lineup to defend only.Sometimes, I even feel anything can happen, but most likely Chelsea will get beaten. After all, Citeh are at home & they know, this is it for the PL title. We are talking about 6 points gap by Monday night between Chelsea & Citeh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmarlow 458 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 As far as I am concerned current Chelsea team has no scoring punch. Defensively, perhaps they might hold Citeh to 2 goals only ?Offensively, Chelsea is far from scoring 2 or 3 goals against Citeh.In my opinion, that´s what is needed to win or draw on Monday.The solution if there is any, Jose will set up the lineup to defend only.Sometimes, I even feel anything can happen, but most likely Chelsea will get beaten. After all, Citeh are at home & they know, this is it for the PL title. We are talking about 6 points gap by Monday night between Chelsea & Citeh. What? City are not great defensively and if they play as they have been they will leave us plenty of space to counter attack in, we can certainly score 2 goals past them! difference between our games at the Emirates and OT are that Arsenal and United were both scared of leaving themselves open to get counter attacked, so they never committed many players forward, but City on the other hand i can see being too over confident and committing players forward and leaving us space to hurt them on the counter. AswinR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushman 2,043 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 What? City are not great defensively and if they play as they have been they will leave us plenty of space to counter attack in, we can certainly score 2 goals past them! difference between our games at the Emirates and OT are that Arsenal and United were both scared of leaving themselves open to get counter attacked, so they never committed many players forward, but City on the other hand i can see being too over confident and committing players forward and leaving us space to hurt them on the counter.Citeh are unbeatable at home. Chelsea may not score two goals, then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didierforever 7,349 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 The only hope you have is if he turns into *deflection-man* again. Like when he played us. The best striker you have available sits on the bench every week and the other is out on loan.Da da da da, da da deflection man!Seriously, you get beat. Deal with it. this is coming from the supporter of a team that is languishing in... ummmm... 7th, is it?the team whose mid has some1 like cleverly playing week in and week out. cant hold the bloody ball for a sec if his life depended on it.dont u have enough worries already concerning united and 4th spot that u have to come here and troll??? beware stoke, hope they dont injure rvp again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AswinR 96 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 well we seem to be on a different level everytime we play a big team....all our woes are with small teams!!!! I am confident of monday...if their full backs think even for a min to go fwrd too much we will score...our back three is that good...as for our stiker...something to distract kompany hope mikel doesnt start...would salah be available for the match? :blue scalf: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hutcho 8,443 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 CechAzpilicueta - Cahill - Terry - ColeRamires - MaticWillian - Oscar - HazardEto'o I hope we go with something like that. Don't want Ivan at RB, as i think Azpi can do the job there, and crucially deliver a half decent final ball. Don't want us to sit back too much otherwise we will get picked apart unless we try to do the full Sit back job like West ham, but we aren't gonna go that far. Hazard can counter extremely quickly, and Rami can get up and down extremely quickly. I think we can win this. AswinR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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