Manchester City v Fulham (Kick off: 16.10pm)

Xavi6

Inuries, injuries, injuries for us.

Benjani gone for the season (:D), SWP a doubt, Bridge and Kompany fecked.....

On a positive note, De Jong, Petrov and Bojinov should all be involvec (hopefully from the start).

A must win game really if we're to stay in contention for 7th spot.

Stephen Ireland will most likely be arriving at the COMS in his new motor -




Quality!

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edit thats not new just the colour has changed ?


2-0 Fulham

mike65

Man City (4-2-3-1) Given; Richards, Onuoha, Dunne, Garrido; Zabaleta, De Jong; Etuhu, Ireland, Petrov; Bojinov.
Subs: Hart, Robinho, Elano, Fernandes, Evans, Sturridge, McGivern.

Fulham (4-4-2) Schwarzer; Pantsil, Hangeland, Hughes, Konchesky; Davies, Etuhu, Murphy, Dempsey; Johnson, Zamora.
Subs: Zuberbuhler, Nevland, Gera, Kamara, Dacourt, Stoor, Baird.

Xavi6

Robinho dropped, Petrov returns, and Etuhu gets a start.

City: Given; Richards, Onuoha, Dunne, Garrido; De Jong, Zabaleta; Etuhu, Ireland, Petrov; Bojinov.

Unused subs: Hart, Evans, Robinho, Elano, Fernandes, Sturridge, McGivern.

Fulham: Schwarzer; Konchesky, Hughes, Hangeland, Pantsil, Etuhu, Murphy, Dempsey, Davies, Johnson, Zamora.

Unused subs: Zuberbuhler, Nevland, Gera, Kamara, Dacourt, Stoor, Baird.

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at home Robinho dropped wow

Xavi6

Well, I'd say 'rested' is the official line. Petrov needs game time and we may have to use him on Thursday.

Good decision imo.

x in the city

http://www.tv2free.com/ch1.html

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therecklessone

Xavi6 wrote: »

Quality!

Ya can't buy class...;)

GLaDOS

Nice to see petrov back

Xavi6

Superman!!!

Xavi6

therecklessone wrote: »

Ya can't buy class...;)

You're right. It comes for free through the youth system.

Xavi6

Happy with that half. They haven't troubled us and we've played some nice football.

Need a 2nd though.

x in the city

Xavi6 wrote: »

Superman!!!

please tell me thats not his car.. is he for real

redout

Ireland is the player of the season even though the bastards wont give him the award. Really ? who has even come close to hisperformances this season.

machiavellianme

redout wrote: »

Ireland is the player of the season even though the bastards wont give him the award. Really ? who has even come close to hisperformances this season.

Clint Dempsey?

Necronomicon

What a finish from Etuhu.

Xavi6

And once again we collapse at home to Fulham

That_Guy

Great goal by Etuhu for Fulham. Looked like a copy cat of Ireland's goal from the first half.

machiavellianme

in fairness Xavi, ye havent collapsed yet, Fulham have just started to play. City have been worryingly uninspiring throughout tho. Hopefully all that will change now and it'll become a contest.

That_Guy

Etuhu doesn't look too pleased to be leaving the field. City need to find something now.

Xavi6

machiavellianme wrote: »

in fairness Xavi, ye havent collapsed yet, Fulham have just started to play. City have been worryingly uninspiring throughout tho. Hopefully all that will change now and it'll become a contest.

Course we have. Since they scored we've created feck all, can't string two passes together, and are crap at the back.

Same shit different day.

That_Guy

Just proves that a lot of money can't produce a working team really.

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zaki would be proud of that miss

That_Guy

So close for Fulham. I think Given could've caught that.

Xavi6

Lol should've been 3

That_Guy

City have just been booting long balls forward and getting nowhere. They have the pace and talent to surely work something better rather than route one football.

Xavi6

They'll score again before we do.

EDIT: Ha ha and there it is

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dunne messed up badly there

That_Guy

That's it now. What a bad mistake from Richard Dunne. Surely City can't come back into this now.

Xavi6

I won't be shocked if Hughes is gone by this time next week.

That_Guy

Finally a real chance for City. Too little too late I'd say.

Headshot

Xavi6 wrote: »

I won't be shocked if Hughes is gone by this time next week.

writing has been on the wall for awhile now

Savman

I heard it was 1-0 to City and just turned it on to see the scoreline...

:eek:






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That_Guy

Surely Hughes has to go. He's had enough time.

Xavi6

Carbon copy of Thursday - Ireland scores first, we lose 3-1.

Xavi6

That_Guy wrote: »

Surely Hughes has to go. He's had enough time.

And money

Savman

That_Guy wrote: »

Surely Hughes has to go. He's had enough time.

Might as well wait til end of season, no advantage to changing managers now tbh.

daithijjj

City need a chap like sven...;)

Headshot

Roy Hodgson has really done a superb job at Fulham
id be suprise if he doesnt get a nomination for PL manager of the season

Xavi6

Absolutely disgraceful performance.

Shambolic decisions by the management, and yet again we're embarrassed.

Might lump on Hamburg to win by three on Thursday night.

Podge2k7

Be jebus 3-1:D C'mon Fulham.!

whatawaster

Savman wrote: »

Might as well wait til end of season, no advantage to changing managers now tbh.

if they can get someone in before the end of the season it would be a big advantage, would allow them to assess the players and start buying early in the summer.

Savman

whatawaster wrote: »

if they can get someone in before the end of the season it would be a big advantage, would allow them to assess the players and start buying early in the summer.

So you kick out an experienced PL manager simply because of 'convenience' to your summer spending plans? Nonsense. City don't have that luxury, 8pts off the relegation zone.

Hughes can get them safety then get some new guy in June or whatever.

Xavi6

Savman wrote: »

So you kick out an experienced PL manager simply because of 'convenience' to your summer spending plans? Nonsense. City don't have that luxury, 8pts off the relegation zone.

Hughes can get them safety then get some new guy in June or whatever.

I wish I had your confidence.

Savman

Xavi6 wrote: »

I wish I had your confidence.

Oh c'mon, he's well capable of getting a few more points on the board. Defo not the man for the job long term, though that won't really surprise anyone.

x in the city

Headshot wrote: »

Roy Hodgson has really done a superb job at Fulham
id be suprise if he doesnt get a nomination for PL manager of the season

Yeh, Hodge and Bruce also are top blokes. no messing around. if they play shoite they admit it and dont beat around the bush with BS comments.

JPA

So Xavi when did your opinion on Hughes change?

Xavi6

JPA wrote: »

So Xavi when did your opinion on Hughes change?

I didn't say my opinion had changed. I think he should be given til the end of the season and things be assessed.

I just said I wouldn't be surprised if he was gone by next week if we've no chance of qualifying for Europe next season. The owners are coming to town for the 2nd leg on Thursday so if/when we go out I could see something happening on Friday.

JPA

Xavi6 wrote: »

I didn't say my opinion had changed. I think he should be given til the end of the season and things be assessed.

I just said I wouldn't be surprised if he was gone by next week if we've no chance of qualifying for Europe next season. The owners are coming to town for the 2nd leg on Thursday so if/when we go out I could see something happening on Friday.

You just seem to be coming down harder on him then in the past. He deserves it though.
Sacking him before the end of the season is just pointless though IMO.
If they hope to get a big name manager in to replace him, they most likely won't be available. (Except Sven!)

PHB

Hughes really isn't getting the results to justify giving him a chance.

Xavi6

JPA wrote: »

You just seem to be coming down harder on him then in the past. He deserves it though.
Sacking him before the end of the season is just pointless though IMO.
If they hope to get a big name manager in to replace him, they most likely won't be available. (Except Sven!)

Bloody sure I am.

Before January there was the excuse that he hadn't had a transfer window to get in 'his players'. So he was given a stay of execution, despite some very questionable decisions and embarrassing defeats to West Brom amongst others.

Now we play with TWO holding midfielders at home when we have creativity sitting in the stands.

We take off our most effective striker for a Championship-standard 20 year old at 1-1.

We show zero ability to be able to defend crosses/dead balls.

We've been humiliated and played off the park twice in four days.

At some point you have to question to man at the top, and that time has come.