Manchester City Vs Tottenham: Match Thread

[guiltyparty]

Well if you can't get psyched for this game...

Travelling to arse end of Anglia to watch it with my dad at his place. He gets really excited when we're on BT as he doesn't have Sky. Already pumped and I'm not even past Essex yet

All feels wrong to me the media around it tho. We tend to win when framed as unexpected winners - rampant Chelsea, City on back of 5 straight wins - and not when we're more expected - flailing Utd. All this anti Pep stuff is sure to get a reaction too

Loss would be bad, as any is this season. Draw would be a decent result if you can remove your head from the media bubble. A win and it's on

 

[nedley]

I have a bad feeling about this match.

I don't.

And I'm mostly right.

 

[shelfmonkey]

Still think we're gonna get a backlash. If we can contain them for the first 20-30 mins, get the crowd agitated and quiet then I think we can win it, but, if they get an early goal and the crowd behind them, then I think we'll be in trouble.

 

[Dzejkob]

Still think we're gonna get a backlash. If we can contain them for the first 20-30 mins, get the crowd agitated and quiet then I think we can win it, but, if they get an early goal and the crowd behind them, then I think we'll be in trouble.

There is no crowd there dude. It's Etihad.

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

So it's off with the two youngest kids to watch local Footballing giants Phoenix take on Edgcumbe in a Duchy Premier league outing. We'll freeze our nuts off for 90 minutes, the youngest will go missing for a short period in the second half which will initiate a flurry of wide eyed, foul mouthed terror as I rush around madly trying to find him. I'll eventually find him behind the bonfire pile, poking a dead rabbit with a stick. Cue shouts as attempts to extricate oozing, gammy stick from his tiny, evil fingers are met with fierce toddler resistance. In the scuffle, rabbit essence sprays into the corner of my mouth and haunts me later than evening in the shape of ferocious diarrhoea.
Meanwhile, bored and slightly humiliated at my poor parenting skills, the eight year old lets off a salvo of nerf bullets right into my arse. I shout again, swallowing the rabbit essence precariously slithering down the corner of my mouth. We leave the playing fields a little broken and head home to watch the game on BT Sport. As with last week, I miss the game because human digestive systems really can't cope with rotting rabbit flesh. The three year old pokes me with a stick while I bark curses into the toilet.

 

[shelfmonkey]

There is no crowd there dude. It's Etihad.

There will be if they score early.

 

[npearl4spurs]

Chill. We got this.

 

[kaz Hirai]

Pep saying maybe he's not good enough.

Everything's set up for man city thrashing us and revitalising themselves.
It's hard to get out of that old spurs fan mentality of thinking that.

Regardless I shalt watch this one either , keep this streak going

 

[dondo]

Man City have some amazing attacking players but I can't see them being able to cope with our power and fitness with their ageing team 2-1 us

 

[ajspurs]

We have a lot of energy to bring on from the bench in Winks, Sissoko and Son too. I wonder if Janssen will make the bench also.

 

[Hazardousman]

I have a bad feeling about today, I don't know why but I just do, I watched Toby talking about formations earlier and he said "4 at the back, 3 at the back we are flexible" the context was Jan's injury.

Now I may be reading too much into it but I really hope that doesn't mean we are reverting back to 4 at the back, we have seen how well this current formation works, I think we need to be brave and stick with it and trust in our backup options to get the job done.

I don't know, I think it's just the nerves as today is such a huge game and will be the nail in the coffin for City I think in terms of the title and will take us to 7 wins in a row, the sort of run that would probably carry us very close, if not to the very title itself.

 

[Shadydan]

Now I may be reading too much into it

Yup sounds about right.

 

[LexingtonSpurs]

I have a bad feeling about today, I don't know why but I just do, I watched Toby talking about formations earlier and he said "4 at the back, 3 at the back we are flexible" the context was Jan's injury.

Now I may be reading too much into it but I really hope that doesn't mean we are reverting back to 4 at the back, we have seen how well this current formation works, I think we need to be brave and stick with it and trust in our backup options to get the job done.

I don't know, I think it's just the nerves as today is such a huge game and will be the nail in the coffin for City I think in terms of the title and will take us to 7 wins in a row, the sort of run that would probably carry us very close, if not to the very title itself.

3 or 4 - I trust Poch to get it right based on what he sees in training. My preference is 3 - but I am not watching them train.

 

[BSJ93]

It's gunna be close. I trust that regardless of which Spurs shows up - we're gunna be tough to break down and beat. It's just a matter of how our front players play as to whether or not we'll get a win.

 

[Dannyspur]

If we can pressure Bravo, that could reap rewards. High tempo and loads of pressing and we can keep the run going!

 

[The Apprentice]

If we're on it, we won't lose.

We need to be all over them like a rash. Toure can be smashed out of this game by Mousa and Victor.

 

[guiltyparty]

If we're on it, we won't lose.

We need to be all over them like a rash. Toure can be smashed out of this game by Mousa and Victor.

You can tell from the start if we're on it, and that is often what it comes down to. COYS

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Hope Swansea take points from the scousers

 

[Blackrat1299]

bindippers 2 swansea 3- 4 mins to go

 

[ajspurs]

Anyone know why it is that we use our home kit away to City but they use their away kit when they come to us?