Buzz Lightyear
Alert Team
The Blues travel to Rodney Parade to face Newport County, It will be shown live on BT Sport for UK viewers – you can also keep up-to-date with all the action via our Matchday Thread and of course you can also follow it on mancity.com and their Twitter account.
The FA in its infinite wisdom decided that fixture could not be swapped around in order that the smaller of the two clubs could benefit financially and this year will see that Newport will only benefit from actually winning the game as the result will be decided on the night, with 30 minutes extra before penalties to decide the tie in the event of the scores being even at the end of all the playing time available.
City will be without Claudio Bravo and Eliaquim Mangala, whilst Ben Mendy and Vincent Kompany remain on the doubtful list.
I have no clue as to what team Pep will put out with the European Champions League tie with Shalke04 coming up next mid-week and I shall leave it to the VMC members to conjecture on the make-up of the starters.
Match Officials
Referee: Andre Marriner
Assistant Referee: Simon Long
Assistant Referee: Sian Massey-Ellis
Fourth Official: Lee Probert
The FA in its infinite wisdom decided that fixture could not be swapped around in order that the smaller of the two clubs could benefit financially and this year will see that Newport will only benefit from actually winning the game as the result will be decided on the night, with 30 minutes extra before penalties to decide the tie in the event of the scores being even at the end of all the playing time available.
City will be without Claudio Bravo and Eliaquim Mangala, whilst Ben Mendy and Vincent Kompany remain on the doubtful list.
I have no clue as to what team Pep will put out with the European Champions League tie with Shalke04 coming up next mid-week and I shall leave it to the VMC members to conjecture on the make-up of the starters.
Match Officials
Referee: Andre Marriner
Assistant Referee: Simon Long
Assistant Referee: Sian Massey-Ellis
Fourth Official: Lee Probert
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