Closed Man City v Chelsea

[boshman 1,073]

I have a bad feeling about this. Somebody please help put my mind at ease.

[Viper22 2,418]

I have a bad feeling about this. Somebody please help put my mind at ease.

Yaya Toure's lack of energy, Aguero's constant injuries, no Negredo and Jovetic, half fit Dzeko and finally and most importantly... Demichelis.

[robdog 2,084]

I have a bad feeling about this. Somebody please help put my mind at ease.

Yaya Toure's lack of energy, Aguero's constant injuries, no Negredo and Jovetic, half fit Dzeko and finally and most importantly... Demichelis.

Also Hart is known to give gifts before xmas - remember the match @ da bridge last season? boshman, have some faith mate. No reason why you shouldn't.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

I've got a good feeling about this. Let's smash them. Boys are lives up for the big games.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

I've got a bad feeling about this game

Mike Dean awards City their third penalty of the game and then decides to send off a third chelsea player so the game is abounded

Good, somebody have to said it, so that it would never happen

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

I have a bad feeling about this. Somebody please help put my mind at ease.

Oscar will play, Torres at Milan.

[Milan 17,853]

Wonder what shirts are we going to wear. I would love to repeat last season with the all-blue kit. The black one with blue stripes or whatever that is is also on cards, though. Anyway, as long as we celebrate, I couldn't care less in what colors.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Well Luiz was great presence in midfield, big character too. Some sort of motivational leader. That was one of reasons for last years wins against City and Pool. But hopefuly we can still do the work in middle and not let city to overpower us.

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

God I'm so nervous. We need to play better defence than we've played at any point so far this season. I love our new offensive style but we should not loose the ability to win games 1-0 when needed. Tomorrow is the day to show we can defend properly cause if we don't we won't win.

[soccerfreak7 2]

Courtois

Azpi Ivanovic Terry Luis

Fabregas Matic

Willian Oscar Hazard

Costa

We should go with this, Drogba was awful, and Cahill is making too many mistakes atm.

[Mustafa 885]

I WANT US TO WEAR THIS TOMORROW!!!

[Amblève. 4,995]

Yaya Toure's lack of energy, Aguero's constant injuries, no Negredo and Jovetic, half fit Dzeko and finally and most importantly... Demichelis.

The greatness of Joe Hart, too.

[Kieran. 6,317]

Key battle IMO:

[DoubleO 192]

Feeling the buzz already... Cmon Chelsea! My lineup for today:

---------Diego Costa----------

--Hazard---Oscar---Willian--

------Matic--Fabregas--------

--Azpi---Terry---Cahill---Iva--

-----------Courtois------------

[different level 1,056]

Wonder if we'll use last year's strategy when we went at the Etihad or we'll take them on and start attacking them relentlessly. Either way, it's essential not to lose this one.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Wonder if we'll use last year's strategy when we went at the Etihad or we'll take them on and start attacking them relentlessly. Either way, it's essential not to lose this one.

City are the one team in this league we have no chance of beating if we go all-out attack, IMO. We have to be clever when playing teams as good as/better than we are, and I'm a firm believer in "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" - we have incredible success against the superior teams in the PL last season when playing a more sedate style of football. It was all about being a defensive sponge and soaking up all the pressure and then attacking them on the counter.

The City away game last season was a bit of a strange one because we completely dominated the midfield battle all the way through, and had by far the better chances on the balance of play - I quote Phil McNulty of the BBC: "This was no smash-and-grab tactical raid by Mourinho either, as his side hit the woodwork three times through Samuel Eto'o, Nemanja Matic and Gary Cahill. They could, and should, have won by a greater margin". My point is, whilst we didn't exactly park the bus in that game, we definitely didn't attempt to fight fire with fire, and I would be amazed if José opted for us to go all-out today. That's why I'm certain we'll see Willian and Ramires start this game.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

The pressure is on them, not us. We're playing away, and we already have that 5 point gap on them so we can afford to slip up. Plus, a draw would be good for us, while they must win. The pressure is all on them.

[bethos1 802]

We should be able to win this, they looked quite poor against Arsenal last week.