The 148th Manchester Derby Thread (May Include Score)

Xavi6

Sunday sees the 148th Manchester Derby take place at the City of Manchester Stadium. City go into the game as the form team coming off the back of two early wins while United have struggled with consecutive draws.

Sven Goran-Eriksson will most likely name an unchanged team for the game, although Geovanni and Valeri Bojinov are pushing for places having performed well as substitutes in both games. Kasper Schmeichel should again continue in goal after two successive clean sheets.

For United, Wayne Rooney (injured) and Christiano Ronaldo (suspended) are the biggest names missing, along with Gary Neville, Owen Hargreaves, Louis Saha and Anderson. Latest signing Carlos Tevez will lead the line up front.

Predictions?

CountryWise

United to win, when the pressure is on they produce!

Mr Alan

City to win.

Ferguson to get sacked.

Neville to be in the stands doing something really 'hard'

jobonar

gonna go with a draw i think

is Hargreaves still carrying that knee injury? whats wrong with Anderson?

PHB

United to win this, quite easily I think. Man City will attack. That's a stupid thing to do against United. Reading and Portsmouth have much better defences than city, and City's defence was carved open a couple of times by Derby let alone West Ham.
City will attack, United will score. City may well score, but I think United will score more

It's been a long time since I've been worried about a derby game with City, but this is getting much closer :P

county

have a horrible feeling city are going to do us,hope to god i`m wrong

Hobart

Draw or City win. Recent form can be fairly well thrown out the window with Manchester derbies, as is evidenced in the past. While city have a dodgy defence, the attacking options for Manu are quite limited at the moment.

Mossy Monk

Big losses for Manchester United while Manchester City are on a high. I will go for a Manchester City win.

The Rooster

Did City sign their new goalie - a swap deal with some Italian club (Livorno maybe) with Corradi and 5m going in the other direction ?

Whatever keeper city have in, it'll be huge pressure on them.

Be interesting to see if the new City foreigners have the stomach for a derby battle. You'd have to presume not until proven otherwise.

Fletcher to start for United, and he'll probably do well.

City 1-3 United

bucks73

Yeah can see United rolling out the dogs of war for this one and showing the citeh new boys what an English derby is all about. United to win 1-0.

Theboinkmaster

Pity we don't have smith for this one

It's unthinkable that citeh would win and put us so far behind so early in the season but I gotta say I'm not confident at all. If we do get anything out of the game I think it'll be without playing well - might just nick a draw or a win

Am very nervous - what's the story with hargreaves?!

Galvasean

I expect United to produce the goods. 2-1 or 3-1.

Jonny Arson

i'll plump for a draw, 1-1 maybe

this is probably the first Manchester derby in quite a long time where United won't be entering as overwhelming favourites, i hope that gives an extra edge to the derby

Zapp Brannigan

City will put up a fight, but people would be silly to write Utd off. (coming from a Liverpool fan)

Im_No_Superman

The Rooster wrote:

Did City sign their new goalie - a swap deal with some Italian club (Livorno maybe) with Corradi and 5m going in the other direction ?

Whatever keeper city have in, it'll be huge pressure on them.

Be interesting to see if the new City foreigners have the stomach for a derby battle. You'd have to presume not until proven otherwise.

Fletcher to start for United, and he'll probably do well.

City 1-3 United

I heard Sven say its very doubtful they will have a new keeper in for sunday so looks like Schmeichel Jr will be playing.

jobonar

lets just hope that City get the backlash from the last 2 games and we destroy them!!! wishful thinking i know but its what they need to do.

Mr Alan

bucks73 wrote:

United rolling out the dogs of war for this one and showing the citeh new boys what an English derby is all about.

have to admit, this made me chuckle a bit! dogs of war!

pd101

Cant see City being as defensive as Reading and Pompey so I think United will win 2-0. Hopefully.

KdjaCL

The 148th Manchester Derby Thread (May Include Score

Doubt it 0-0 for me.


kdjac

Peyton Manning

City usually go into these games on a poor run of form with nothing expected of them - so itll all be about how they handle this added pressure of being expected to get a good result. That, and who scores the most goals. Thats a bit important too.

KdjaCL

Archimedes wrote:

That, and who scores the most goals. Thats a bit important too.

profound man profound.


kdjac

Mr. Presentable

PHB wrote:

Man City will attack. That's a stupid thing to do against United.

That's just plain nonsense, and I expect better. Man City will hold, and allow Utd to come at them. A draw would be the "form" result.

Ask Milan - they'll tell you. Attack, expose their soft, yellow, underbelly.

Mr. Presentable

Archimedes wrote:

who scores the most goals.

Aaah, the wisdom of the Greeks.

PHB

nipplenuts wrote:

That's just plain nonsense, and I expect better. Man City will hold, and allow Utd to come at them. A draw would be the "form" result.

All of Man City's games so far have been quite open, can't see why that would change. United have lost points so far mostly because good defenses have been keeping them at bay, Reading worked incredibly hard as a team, Portsmouth defended very well, and despite United's domination, they kept them out. Do you think City's defense is that good? The reason The Younger Dane has been so impressive is largely because he's had a lot to deal with :P

I think the game will be open and attacking, and because of that, I think United are likely to win it.

Xavi6

I can't understand all this talk about City having a weak defence. We're the only team that's played twice and hasn't conceded a goal! Dunne is usually lavished with praise on here and Micah is the best young defender in England. Add to that an England under 21 player (Onouha), a highly rated Spanish left back (Garrido) and a 9-times capped Croat (Corluka) and I think it's a pretty solid looking group. Far better than the Portsmouth or Reading back lines United have faced so far.

I actually think it'll be a 1-1 draw. We'll start ok and maybe nick one but won't keep it up for 90 minutes. It could go either way with Kasper. He play unbelievable or have a mare. The heart says a City win but usually it's a mistake to trust that with us.

PHB

Just look at the amount of chances Derby had for examples of how strong City's defense is. It hasn't really been tested yet.

adox

Two games into the season and all of a sudden City are favourites - ha ha.Tabloid reasoning at its best.

United to win.Tevez to score.Fletcher to start on the right.:)

Attractive Nun

IMO:

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Van Der Sar
Brown---Ferdinand---Vidic---Evra

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Carrick---Fletcher

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Scholes

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Nani

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Giggs----

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Tevez

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^Decent team, should be good enough to win.

besty

Good start from United. Near 70% possession.

Paul Tergat

working link anyone? can pm me please

Frank Spencer

Gooooooooal Giovanni 1-0 City

KdjaCL

1st shot for them, where was hargreaves Geovanni had too much room to come onto the ball.


kdjac

besty

Arsenal-esque stuff from United so far. We really miss some potency up front. Yet to display any killer instinct.

HT

kaimera

Excellent goal by City

zAbbo

Cmon Citeh

I can see Utd turning up the heat in the second half and winning, but the longer the score stays 1-0 the more difficult that will be.

Have Utd got no strikers ? at all, anyone who can provide a focal point up front.

Guy:Incognito

zabbo wrote:

I can see Utd turning up the heat in the second half and winning, .

Course. They'll win it 3-1 as usual.

It always looks like they are going to lose 1-0 then they end up winning 2-1 or 3-1.

Guy:Incognito

For a top class centre half, Dunne was badly caught on the hop there by Vidic. He was nowhere near beating him to the ball.

evad_lhorg

this is so disappointing. we are really lacking it up front. and having to bring on eagles shows that too.

Guy:Incognito

evad_lhorg wrote:

this is so disappointing. we are really lacking it up front. and having to bring on eagles shows that too.

Bet he scores.


Whats the deal with that other young lad (cant remember his name) being on the bench ahead of Fletcher?

zAbbo

JOS and Campbell are on.

27minutes left, plenty of time for a Utd goal, but City might also get something on the break.

Guy:Incognito

zabbo wrote:

, but City might also get something on the break.

Doubt it, they'll have to try get one of their breaks to get all the way out of their own half first.

Guy:Incognito

Are none of the City players capable of shouting "man on" or "house" when a Utd player is coming up behind a city player? gimps.

zAbbo

I'm not sure if the City players know each others names.

Dunne and Richards have been immense.

Guy:Incognito

WTF just happened there? :eek: :eek:

Jesus that was one of those that is better off just hitting off you.



4Mins? bit harsh.

Yeah credit to the 2 city centre halfs.

Hers a Vidic goal.

Guy:Incognito

Petrov thought the back of his shirt said Alonso there for a min.

zAbbo

Sventastic.

Great defensive display from City, Dunne was savage at the end, clearing everything.

Fair play to Man City.

Guy:Incognito

Sven for England!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1


Dammit Richard Keys says it as I type.

PHB

Dunne and Richards were immense.
United completely dominated the game, but could just not take one of their many many chances. It was like watching Arsenal play.
Jammy goal but it didn't really matter. A draw was just as bad as a loss, and United didn't score and couldn't score.
These last two games were huge tests for United and they have really failed them.

Gotta hope Liverpool do us a favour now, otherwise we are going to fall really far behind Chelsea, and 7 points could just be too much to overcome.

Raskolnikov

PHB wrote:

United to win this, quite easily I think. Man City will attack. That's a stupid thing to do against United. Reading and Portsmouth have much better defences than city, and City's defence was carved open a couple of times by Derby let alone West Ham.
City will attack, United will score. City may well score, but I think United will score more

You couldn't have been more wrong there :cool:

United missed Rooney and Ronaldo badly today. Nani was very poor, comfortable on the ball, but unable to create anything. Tevez was a complete disaster, worst game I've ever seen him play. City on the other hand were magnificent, Dunne and Richards were amazing at the back.

Sven is a management and tactical genius :eek:

Guy:Incognito

LOL at Casper Schmeichels accent. Has he ever even left Manchester?

Big Ears

Gonna be tough for United now , they've Spurs next and then a 6 pointer with Sunderland after that .

Richards and Dunne were man mountains for City today , and most days actually .