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Another Load of Waffle
City has a mini crisis upfront, we have temporarily lost the ability to score on a regular basis. We have it appears to have solved the leak at the other end and the resurgence of John Stones is a big bonus and will no doubt also resurrect his England Career.
Our problem lies upfront and we are no longer dead eye dicks when it comes to scoring goals and whilst fingers can be pointed at certain individuals we need to get back to basics of passing the player in a better position to score, but even more urgent is to take our chances when they come along.
The Baggies are in town, newly promoted to the Premier and these teams always save either their best for these games or are caught in the headlights like a rabbit, let us hope it is the latter case and that City can come through these games without incurring any injuries. Slaven Bilić who does his best on a limited budget and the Baggies are not an easy push over, this will be our 155th game against them having won 71 drawn 29 and lost 54 so honours slightly in City favour, but as always Pep will respect the opposition and that will be reflected in his team selection.
The match will be televised on Amazon Prime Video a pay subscription channel.
City Team News
Pep Guardiola, who has been advocating the use of 5 substitutes has been criticised for not using all his substitutes in the last couple of games, however, the adage of why fix it if it is not broken still holds good, but we did miss Sergio Aguero who will be doubtful for this match with a stomach bug (non-covid related) Eric Garcia is still out from the injury he picked up against Marseille
Beat the Pep
Ederson
Cancelo Stones Laporte Mendy
Rodri, Bernardo, Torres, De Bruyne, Sterling
Jesus
Match Officials
Referee: Peter Bankes.
Assistants: Ian Hussin, Neil Davies.
Fourth official: Anthony Taylor.
VAR: Martin Atkinson.
Assistant VAR: Stephen Child.
Next
Premier League Saturday 26th December 2020 - KO- 20:00 GMT (unbelievable)
Manchester City v Newcastle United
BT Sport (at least it is at Home but feel sorry for Newcastle, it is a long way to come, at least the fans won't be too miffed at not being able to travel)
City has a mini crisis upfront, we have temporarily lost the ability to score on a regular basis. We have it appears to have solved the leak at the other end and the resurgence of John Stones is a big bonus and will no doubt also resurrect his England Career.
Our problem lies upfront and we are no longer dead eye dicks when it comes to scoring goals and whilst fingers can be pointed at certain individuals we need to get back to basics of passing the player in a better position to score, but even more urgent is to take our chances when they come along.
The Baggies are in town, newly promoted to the Premier and these teams always save either their best for these games or are caught in the headlights like a rabbit, let us hope it is the latter case and that City can come through these games without incurring any injuries. Slaven Bilić who does his best on a limited budget and the Baggies are not an easy push over, this will be our 155th game against them having won 71 drawn 29 and lost 54 so honours slightly in City favour, but as always Pep will respect the opposition and that will be reflected in his team selection.
The match will be televised on Amazon Prime Video a pay subscription channel.
City Team News
Pep Guardiola, who has been advocating the use of 5 substitutes has been criticised for not using all his substitutes in the last couple of games, however, the adage of why fix it if it is not broken still holds good, but we did miss Sergio Aguero who will be doubtful for this match with a stomach bug (non-covid related) Eric Garcia is still out from the injury he picked up against Marseille
Beat the Pep
Ederson
Cancelo Stones Laporte Mendy
Rodri, Bernardo, Torres, De Bruyne, Sterling
Jesus
Match Officials
Referee: Peter Bankes.
Assistants: Ian Hussin, Neil Davies.
Fourth official: Anthony Taylor.
VAR: Martin Atkinson.
Assistant VAR: Stephen Child.
Next
Premier League Saturday 26th December 2020 - KO- 20:00 GMT (unbelievable)
Manchester City v Newcastle United
BT Sport (at least it is at Home but feel sorry for Newcastle, it is a long way to come, at least the fans won't be too miffed at not being able to travel)
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