Sunderland v Manchester City, 4pm

Xavi6

I'm worried about this one.

We need a win to keep up with Spurs, to make Villa regret drawing yesterday, and to put extra pressure on Pool.

Queue a spectacular defeat.

PHB

This is a bloody big game for City. Will be interesting.

digme

City should be able to beat Sunderland today,after all, look what they did to Chelsea recently.
Should be a great game.

keane2097

Come on Darren Bent!

everdead.ie

Cana and Cattermole are both out for Sunderland so there is going to be zero competition in midfield unless Meyler has a unbeilevable game

digme

ANDY REID???

KittyeeTrix

Xavi6 wrote: »

I'm worried about this one.

We need a win to keep up with Spurs, to make Villa regret drawing yesterday, and to put extra pressure on Pool.

Queue a spectacular defeat.

Have a bit of faith man;)
Good things come to those who wait, well at least I hope so!!!

mike65

I suspect now that Bent is scoring this could be quite high scoring, Bellers and Tevez to start?

5 goals, not sure in whos favour

Eire-Dearg

Come on Sunderlan!

everdead.ie

Andy Reid still injured? Sunderland haven't looked the same without him

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Sunderland will be without suspended skipper Lorik Cana. The Albania international picked up his tenth booking of the season in Tuesday night's 4-0 win over Bolton and will sit out the City game and Birmingham's visit to the Stadium of Light next weekend.

Lee Cattermole is battling to shake off a hamstring problem, while Kieran Richardson (calf) and Jordan Henderson (ankle) are struggling. Andy Reid (hamstring) will not make the game, but David Meyler is available again after completing a three-match ban.

Manchester City defender Kolo Toure is pushing for a place in the starting line-up against Sunderland on Sunday after recovering from a knee injury. Toure had to settle for a place on the bench in the victory over Chelsea in the club's last outing. Emmanuel Adebayor is absent through suspension while Martin Petrov is injured as City aim to continue their push for a top four place.

Sunderland (from): Gordon, Fulop, Bardsley, Hutton, Turner, Ferdinand, Mensah, Kilgallon, Da Silva, Cattermole, Zenden, Richardson, Malbranque, Henderson, Campbell, Bent, Jones, Benjani, Meyler, Liddle, Noble.

Manchester City (from): Given, Taylor, Richards, Zabaleta, Onuoha, Toure, Lescott, Boyata, Garrido, Sylvinho, Bridge, Johnson, Wright-Phillips, Ireland, Vieira, Barry, De Jong, Ibrahim, Tevez, Bellamy, Santa Cruz.

...

Xavi6

Given

Bridge
Lescott
Kompany
Richards

Barry
De Jong
Zabalate

Bellamy
Tevez
Wright-Phillips

Headshot

11/10 city win looks good

Xavi6

Subs: Taylor, Toure, Sylvinho, Santa Cruz, A Johnson, Vieira, Ireland

JPA

Xavi6 wrote: »

Given

Bridge
Lescott
Kompany
Richards

Barry
De Jong
Zabalate

Bellamy
Tevez
Wright-Phillips

City should win but do you hate seeing a midfield three like that?

Xavi6

JPA wrote: »

City should win but do you hate seeing a midfield three like that?

Absolutely. Mr. Negative strikes again.

No need for Zabaleta in there. Johnson should be on the wing to make it a nice 4-4-2.

everdead.ie

Gordon
Hutton Turner Mensah Ferdinand
Campbell Richardson Meyler Malbranque
Jones Bent

That_Guy

Bloody mackems.

Come on City!!

JPA

Xavi6 wrote: »

Absolutely. Mr. Negative strikes again.

No need for Zabaleta in there. Johnson should be on the wing to make it a nice 4-4-2.

Or Ireland in the middle for a proper 4-5-1/4-3-3. I know he's Italian but he's more negative than you could imagine.

missingtime

l LOVE YOU SUNDERLAND. WOOOOO!

Le King

Think City will win this one 2-0.

Let's hope Campbell scores tho and sends Sunderland to victory!

That_Guy

missingtime wrote: »

l LOVE YOU SUNDERLAND. WOOOOO!

You have made a powerful enemy today. Now where's therokerroar when you need him?

Peyton Manning

FÚCKS SAKE JAMIE REDKNAPP STFU AND LET HIM FINISH HIS OWN FÚCKING SENTENCES! ARGH

That_Guy

Archimedez wrote: »

FÚCKS SAKE JAMIE REDKNAPP STFU AND LET HIM FINISH HIS OWN FÚCKING SENTENCES! ARGH

I usually have the mute button on when they're talking.

Xavi6

David Pleat?????

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:

everdead.ie

Have a feeling jones will score today

Mr Alan

no ireland again, he really does seem to be on his way out.

That_Guy

everdead.ie wrote: »

Have a feeling jones will score today

I hope not. Come on City!!!!

SlickRic

Mr Alan wrote: »

no ireland again, he really does seem to be on his way out.

it's quite funny really.

City's best player last year too.

he'd get in all the top 6 teams pretty much.

Mr Alan

if we were selling gerrard in the summer, he'd be a great purchase wit plenty of change if the figures for gerrard are to be believed. baffling from City.

Le King

1-0 Jones!

Mr Alan

great header.

That_Guy

everdead.ie wrote: »

Have a feeling jones will score today

..............................

whatawaster

everdead.ie wrote: »

Have a feeling jones will score today

qft

everdead.ie

everdead.ie wrote: »

Have a feeling jones will score today

Yes I haven't been wrong yet this weekend:D

JerryHandbag

Crikey. What a header

SlickRic

City's defensive formation certainly working then.

missingtime

missingtime wrote: »

l LOVE YOU SUNDERLAND. WOOOOO!

^^^^^

Peyton Manning

ROFL @ whoever tried that volley

whatawaster

city are really awful

everdead.ie

whatawaster wrote: »

qft

I'm just wondering what qft means been trying to figure it out for ages:o

Mr Alan

quoted for truth or quote for truth, something like that.

MementoMori

Come on Sunderland keep up the good work.

Mitch Connor

Mr Alan wrote: »

quoted for truth or quote for truth, something like that.

i always thought it was Queen's Fcuking Terrible. Never did get why people were saying it....

Roar

former cork city midfielder dave meyler starting for sunderland too.. haven't seen much of him so far tho..

everdead.ie

Is wayne bridge injured?

SlickRic

i know it's early in his reign and all, and the last game was a great away victory against Chelsea...

but i don't see Mancini lasting long.

Roar

everdead.ie wrote: »

Is wayne bridge injured?

yeah he's suffering from a broken heart.

everdead.ie

Thats a red card no over the top of the ball with his studs?

Xavi6

Bridge was carrying an injury during training this week and didn't complete Friday's session.

whatawaster

everdead.ie wrote: »

Thats a red card no over the top of the ball with his studs?

i think he was lucky he's so bad at tackling he caught the ground instead of the ball.