Man City v Stoke

MagicMarker

C'mon Stoke!!

Eire-Dearg

Bellamy benched.

He'll be off in January.

Average-Ro

Anyone got any working streams?

Or the City starting 11?

JerryHandbag

Bellamy wont be happy, has been outstanding from what I've seen of him this season.

redout

Average-Ro wrote: »

Anyone got any working streams?

Or the City starting 11?

Man City: Given, Zabaleta, Toure, Kompany, Sylvinho, De Jong, Barry, Robinho, Ireland, Petrov, Tevez. Subs: Taylor, Richards, Garrido, Vidal, Bellamy, Weiss, Boyata.

Stoke: Sorensen, Wilkinson, Abdoulaye Faye, Collins, Higginbotham, Sanli, Whitehead, Diao, Whelan, Etherington, Sidibe. Subs: Simonsen, Huth, Lawrence, Beattie, Fuller, Pugh, Delap.

Link: http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=59545&part=sports

Average-Ro

redout wrote: »

Man City: Given, Zabaleta, Toure, Kompany, Sylvinho, De Jong, Barry, Robinho, Ireland, Petrov, Tevez. Subs: Taylor, Richards, Garrido, Vidal, Bellamy, Weiss, Boyata.

Stoke: Sorensen, Wilkinson, Abdoulaye Faye, Collins, Higginbotham, Sanli, Whitehead, Diao, Whelan, Etherington, Sidibe. Subs: Simonsen, Huth, Lawrence, Beattie, Fuller, Pugh, Delap.

Link: http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=59545&part=sports

Thank you kindly.

Headshot

dammit

tuncay should have buried that

PHB

Interesting formation being played. I think its a 4-1-2-2-1 lining up like this

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Clear sign that Bellamy is considered purpose to requirements isnt that surprising since City have way too many strikers anyway, one of htem had to go.

IvySlayer

Average-Ro wrote: »

Anyone got any working streams?

Or the City starting 11?

Here

IvySlayer

PHB wrote: »

Interesting formation being played. I think its a 4-1-2-2-1 lining up like this

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Clear sign that Bellamy is considered purpose to requirements isnt that surprising since City have way too many strikers anyway, one of htem had to go.

Ahh you mean surplus? Bellamys been their best player all season, if only he could control his mouth as well as a football.

Kev_ps3

Hope Tevez can got a goal, or at least an assist;)

PHB

IvySlayer wrote: »

Ahh you mean surplus? Bellamys been their best player all season, if only he could control his mouth as well as a football.

Surplus is yeh what I meant.

Ultimately, there's Robinho who is as close to a striker a winger can get.

Then there is Tevez, Abenayour, Santa Cruz as well. If he is planning on planning one up front, which he might be, Bellamy hasn't got a hope. Beyond the fact that he's probably, at his best, not in the same league as Adebayour or Tevez can be [not saying they have been], he's not the right sort of striker to play at the top of that sorta formation or system.

Also he talks to much.

Kev_ps3

That'l do nicely

IvySlayer

2-0 Tevez, rubbish defending by Stoke.

Kess73

Just in case people do not know, this game is on Setanta Ireland.

Xavi6

Bellamy is on the bench for one game so of course he must be off :rolleyes: I won't be suprised to see him start on Monday in the tougher away game. Anyway, great half. The odd scare but it's been encouraging. Love that Carlos fella.

SlickRic

Xavi6 wrote: »

Love that Carlos fella.

closing in on Dunne as the buy of the season in the Premier League.

MagicMarker

SlickRic wrote: »

closing in on Dunne as the buy of the season in the Premier League.

lol

Kess73

Xavi6 wrote: »

Bellamy is on the bench for one game so of course he must be off :rolleyes: I won't be suprised to see him start on Monday in the tougher away game. Anyway, great half. The odd scare but it's been encouraging. Love that Carlos fella.

Ah sure if you don't want Bellamy, just send him back to Liverpool on loan for the rest of the season.


I don't see the big deal about him being on the bench though. It rests him for the away game, as you said, plus it gives the new manager a chance to show who the boss is.

If City win today, and they look like they will, then there will be notthing about it in the media tomorrow.

Have to say that it is going to be very interesting from next season onwards, once Mancini has had half of this season to settle plus bring in the players he wants in January and the Summer. I have a feeling that he will be the piece needed to turn City into a genuine top four team, and maybe in the coming seasons into a genuine title contending side.

Must be an exciting time to be a City fan.

Kess73

Great stop by Given

PHB

Any idiot can see that City have too many strikers to keep them happy. Combined with 3 of them being people who will complain to the press should they not get their way [Tevez, Adebayour and Bellamy], Mancini has no choice really but to sell one of them. To do otherwise would be the act of a poor manager, which he certainly is not. One of them is going to go I think, and I'd expect it to be Bellamy.

Kess73

Bellamy on to a great reception.

SlickRic

that's some reception for bellamy.

macari is starting to p*ss me off with his Robinho comments.

he's been injured for most of this season, was their second best player last year behind Ireland.

yeah he's made comments about Barcelona, but he hasn't rocked the boat as far as i can see.

lazy journalism; but probably more accurately just a utd fan wanting to stick it to a City superstar.

PHB

Classic example of why refs encourage players to dive. That was a definate penalty. If Bellamy had fallen over and not gotten his shot off, it woulda been given. But because he tried to stay on his feet he doesn't get anything.

Xavi6

Laughable how Bellamy doesn't get a peno yet Fuller gets a free for a disgraceful dive. Good start to the new regime anyway.

SlickRic

i know, and people want players to stop diving...

Xavi6

PHB wrote: »

Any idiot can see that City have too many strikers to keep them happy. Combined with 3 of them being people who will complain to the press should they not get their way [Tevez, Adebayour and Bellamy], Mancini has no choice really but to sell one of them. To do otherwise would be the act of a poor manager, which he certainly is not. One of them is going to go I think, and I'd expect it to be Bellamy.

Just to go back to this, I'm not sure why you think Bellamy is more likely to go than say Santa Cruz for example, who is also a mate of Hughes.

As for us having too many strikers, we don't really. We have two target men (Adebayor and Santa Cruz), two nippy lads (Bellamy and Tevez), one flair luxury (Robinho) and one 'if we're really desperate' (Benjani). It's not really than many when you play three forward players (of course you do have to include Petrov and SWP in the equation then).

The signs were all good yesterday anyway that Bellers is happy enough.

Jazzy

PHB wrote: »

Any idiot can see that City have too many strikers to keep them happy.

no way dude. if i was benjani id be having recitals of Grease in my gaff!


oh, who am i kidding. id be party hartying and playing Prince

but youtube has banned the master


i give to you, scarlet. powerful hit lads. be sure you dont overwhelm yourselves with emotion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7dyXfHcYw8