Manchester City v Newcastle United (Kick Off: 1.30pm)

Xavi6

City team -

Hart

Boateng Toure Kompany Lescott

De Jong Barry

Silva Yaya Milner

Tevez

Frisbee

Severe lack of AJ

Xavi6

Also lack of Andy Carroll apparently.

Benched

EDIT: Lack of Shay Given too.

EDIT again: Given IS on the bench. Official site had it wrong.

Joeyjoejoe43

I have a feeling this will be an end-to-end cracking game. 2-2

M5

NEWCASTLE UNITED: Krul; Perch, Williamson, Coloccini, Enrique; Gutierrez, Tiote, Barton, Ben Arfa; Nolan; Ameobi.

Carroll on the bench

SlickRic

why no Carroll?

seems retarded to go for a guy whose proven beyond a shadow a doubt that he is generally useless.

M5

SlickRic wrote: »

why no Carroll?

seems retarded to go for a guy whose proven beyond a shadow a doubt that he is generally useless.

my thoughts exactly :mad: would have Lovenkrands ahead of Ameobi. Workrate is far superior

Newcastle will miss Carroll in defensive situations

(slight knock perhaps?)

SantryRed

Ameobi has shown as much as Andy Carroll in all fairness this season.

M5

SantryRed wrote: »

Ameobi has shown as much as Andy Carroll in all fairness this season.

Ameobi has barely played..... (5 sub apps in the PL 2 starts in the LC) As mentioned above there is a lot more to Carroll than his attacking. He is immense for us in defense too.

SantryRed

Other than the hat trick against Villa he hasn't stood out that much at all. As much as he's a donkey I actually fancy an Ameobi goal today :pac:

Gonzovision

Carroll didn't do much against Stoke to be honest and Ameobi was quite impressive against Chelsea.

Beekay

No Carroll fecks up my fantasy football team too, not sure why Chris Hughton would go with Ameobi

M5

SantryRed wrote: »

Other than the hat trick against Villa he hasn't stood out that much at all. As much as he's a donkey I actually fancy an Ameobi goal today :pac:

Usually the way with Ameobi, scores when you least expect. But he had 2 against chelsea so i think we will be waiting for the next one....

Dont know how much of Carroll you have actually seen. Hes done a hell of a lot more than the hat trick.... His workrate and distribution are very good. But maybe thats a discussion for later on in the season...

Fancy we'll struggle today, although we seem to do better against teams who attack us.... We struggled to break down Stoke and to a lesser degree Blackpool

M5

gonzovision wrote: »

Carroll didn't do much against Stoke to be honest and Ameobi was quite impressive against Chelsea.

1st part true, i would say Chelsea were awful in the LC (at the back)

eagle eye

Lol @ all the FFers ragging on about Carroll not starting. He hasn't been doing it in the last couple of games. Good idea to bench him and give Ameobi a run and it might buck Carroll up too.

Xavi6

Ah ffs, David bloody Pleat is doing the punditry. Game ruined already.

M5

eagle eye wrote: »

Lol @ all the FFers ragging on about Carroll not starting. He hasn't been doing it in the last couple of games. Good idea to bench him and give Ameobi a run and it might buck Carroll up too.

dunno, from what i have seen of Ameobi in the last 10 years it rather have an off form Carroll. Was thinking the same about the the proverbial kick up the ars€ to Carroll though. Best to do it in a game where the odds are heavily against us i suppose. Might well be the case

Xavi6

G'wan Nigel! F*ckin stuck in already

EDIT: On the replay it looks like a bad one from Ben Arfa's point of view.

M5

Ah come on, Ben Arfas leg broken?

SantryRed

Xavi6 wrote: »

G'wan Nigel! F*ckin stuck in already

Did you hear the commentator? :pac:

''One thing we can say is that it was considerably lower than his tackle on Xabi Alonso in the World Cup final''

No. Fcuking. Way.

:pac:

M5

And Ben Arfa gets Newcastleitus, super

Beekay

Ah f*ck

JohnnyRyan99

You run that risk when you actually try win the ball against De Jong!

thorbarry

what a horrible tackle, scumbag

CR 7

Ben Arfa didn't roll around looking for attention, so the injury isn't bad....
:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Excellent analysis that.

JohnnyRyan99

thorbarry wrote: »

what a horrible tackle, scumbag

As horrible tackles go that was outrageously mediocre!

Xavi6

Pleat - "I wonder is that a shoulder injury from the fall...or maybe it's his left leg." It's going to be a long afternoon.

Jax Teller

Park Ji Sung wrote: »

Ben Arfa didn't roll around looking for attention, so the injury isn't bad....
:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Excellent analysis that.

In that case nani must be really hurt all the time
Poor lad hope he is ok

M5

thorbarry wrote: »

what a horrible tackle, scumbag

i would say unfortunate. good strong challenge, just a pity that Ben Arfas standing leg was caught. Absolute disaster for Newcastle. Creativity is something we are lacking. We sort that and in true Newcastle form he gets injured within 5 games. Deja vu

Xavi6

thorbarry wrote: »

what a horrible tackle, scumbag

F*ck off, it was a great tackle

M5

Xavi6 wrote: »

F*ck off, it was a great tackle

Sorry m8 but you dont break an opposing players leg with a "great challenge"

there is nothing great about it

Charlie

Xavi6 wrote: »

F*ck off, it was a great tackle

He went to take the leg out.

Chap is seriously turning into a horrible clogger of a player.

SantryRed

De Jong's tackle was hard and fair. Just unlucky that Ben Arfa got caught.

Redzer7

Bad tackle.

Xavi6

M5 wrote: »

Sorry m8 but you dont break an opposing players leg with a "great challenge"

there is nothing great about it

It was a robust challenge where he got the ball. Should be just ban tackling instead?

M5

Bollox ref

M5

Xavi6 wrote: »

It was a robust challenge where he got the ball. Should be just ban tackling instead?

My contention is with the word "great"

JohnnyRyan99

M5 wrote: »

Sorry m8 but you dont break an opposing players leg with a "great challenge"

there is nothing great about it

Ah of course ya can, people can be unlucky obviously, wich Ben Arfa was, De Jong won 100% ball but unfortunetly for Ben Arfa he came out the worst!

Charlie

FFS

Ref is a joke.

Ordinary man

De jong should be kicked out of football a long time ago

Eire-Dearg

"Oh my leg, it's broken. Great tackle though."

CR 7

Well taken penalty, but how could that not be a red card?

JohnnyRyan99

De Jong = Best DMC in the league

Edit: Barring Essien, i apologise

Xavi6

1-0 lovely

Shaka Hislop on Twitter is comparing De Jong to Karl Henry :rolleyes:

Xavi6

Ordinary man wrote: »

De jong should be kicked out of football a long time ago

Lol excellent post sir :rolleyes:

The Walsho

De Jong is a legend. And that tackle was fine. There was no reaction from the Newcastle players afterwards even.

Shocking decision for the pen.

M5

Go colo, bloody hell

Charlie

The Walsho wrote: »

De Jong is a legend. And that tackle was fine. There was no reaction from the Newcastle players afterwards even.

What foolish logic.

M5

Get in!!!!

Beekay

Woop!, great goal!