FA Cup : Man City vs Aston Villa

matrim

Man City: Hart, Boateng, Richards, Kolo, Zabaleta, Kolarov, Yaya, Vieira, Barry, Balotelli, Silva

VILLA: Friedel; Herd, Dunne, Clark, Delph; Bannan, Petrov, Bradley, Agbonlahor, Delfouneso, Heskey.
Subs: Marshall, Pires, Reo-Coker, Walker, A Young, Downing, Albrighton

Helix

odd lineup for us

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Friedel

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Herd

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Dunne

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Clark----Delph
Bannan

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Petrov

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Bradley--Agbonlahor

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Delfouneso----Heskey

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hmmm

JPA

4 3 3 I'd say, fonz and gabby supporting Heskey.

Helix

dont think he'd play bannan (too lightweight) and petrov (too immobile) in a trio

viera!? no tevez!? dzeko on the bench as well? good to see michael johnson back in the match day squad though

matrim

I'd say it'll be more like

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Friedel
Herd --- Dunne -- Clark --- Delph;
----Bannan - Petrov - Bradley
Delfouneso

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Agbonlahor,

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Heskey

or

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Friedel
Herd --- Dunne -- Clark --- Delph;

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Petrov - Bradley
Delfouneso - Bannan - Agbonlahor,

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Heskey

Helix

matrim wrote: »

I'd say it'll be more like

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Friedel
Herd --- Dunne -- Clark --- Delph;
----Bannan - Petrov - Bradley
Delfouneso

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Agbonlahor,

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Heskey

or

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Friedel
Herd --- Dunne -- Clark --- Delph;

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Petrov - Bradley
Delfouneso - Bannan - Agbonlahor,

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Heskey

hopefully not tbh

if rather we're only playing one striker who cant play on the wing on the wing than two of them

JPA

Helix wrote: »

dont think he'd play bannan (too lightweight) and petrov (too immobile) in a trio

So instead he'd play an immobile petrov in a 2?
Nah, it has to be a 3 in the middle.

Helix

JPA wrote: »

So instead he'd play an immobile petrov in a 2?
Nah, it has to be a 3 in the middle.

not in a 2, in a 4

JPA

Helix wrote: »

not in a 2, in a 4

Sure he's never played Gabby in a 4 4 2 or Bannan out wide. Anyway we'll see in half an hour.

Helix

JPA wrote: »

Sure he's never played Gabby in a 4 4 2 or Bannan out wide. Anyway we'll see in half an hour.

yeah but hes hardly gonna play 2 strikers as wingers, that'll mean theres less actual width on the pitch than there would be playing a 4, and you cant play just 3 midfielders against city or they'll dominate with their 29 defensive mids gobbling everything up

if we line up with fonz and gabby on the wings we're gonna be absoutely destroyed

JPA

Helix wrote: »

yeah but hes hardly gonna play 2 strikers as wingers, that'll mean theres less actual width on the pitch than there would be playing a 4, and you cant play just 3 midfielders against city or they'll dominate with their 29 defensive mids gobbling everything up

if we line up with fonz and gabby on the wings we're gonna be absoutely destroyed

A similar line up played against Blackburn in the last round.

Helix

JPA wrote: »

A similar line up played against Blackburn in the last round.

similar, but not the same

we had walker who offers a decent attacking threat and pires who, although about as fast as a dead dog, can dictate things occasionally

but christ almighty you cant play against a decent team having midfielders playing as stand in full backs and 2 strikers on the wings

Warper

Looks like City are through to the semi-final of the cup.

Xavi6

A second one soon and it should be game over. Terrific start.

Hope MJ gets on.

Clanket

Warper wrote: »

Looks like City are through to the semi-final of the cup.

Early days. Plenty of time for a comeback

SEPT 23 1989

Lovely passing game from City

Warper

Villa surprisingly throwing out a makeshift team. They look like they will finish mid-table in the PL so i thought they might give it a good shot since they have nothing else to play for really.

JPA

Ridiculously good finish.

SEPT 23 1989

Too easy:D

2-0

what. a. finish.

Xavi6

Oh that is sexy from Mario.

Dr.Winston O'Boogie

Sweet, looking forward to what will hopefully be a comfortable cup tie now. You'd have to fancy them in the quarters against Reading at home then into the semi's. City have never gotten to a major cup final in my 12 years supporting them, I think I would wet myself. Even if it is "only" the FA cup final..

SEPT 23 1989

Great to see City playing like this:)

none of this sitting back crap

matrim

I'd like to see NRC and Young or Downing on for Heskey and Petrov at half time.

We're failing to create as we've no proper width and Petrov looks like he doesn't care

Xavi6

Lovely half of football. I'd take Mario off now with that knee.

JohnnyRyan99

Tidy finish from Super Mario... I'd also take him off now, he's looking a bit stiff after that knock... Just see this through and we've a great chance at the semi's!

JPA

Heskey off, Young on and Gabby up top is what I would do.
Albrighton or Downing for Fonz after 60 or so minutes.

ShamoBuc

Cushy night for city. villa not at the races, should be a handy second half unless city fall totally asleep.

Helix

when we start slowly we generally perk up in the second half, dont think this is quite over yet but id be surprised if city dont get through

matrim

Helix wrote: »

when we start slowly we generally perk up in the second half, dont think this is quite over yet but id be surprised if city dont get through

I can see us getting a goal but don't know if we have enough to get 2 and to stop city scoring again

ShamoBuc

Could have seen red there, been given in the past.

Doodee

Bradley making a few errors

Good to see Gabby and Richards go at each other

Clanket

Bradley giving the ball away too much. Hope he's a better player than what I've saw of him so far

ctrl-alt-delete

So Clattenburg receives the backing of the FA with them saying he took the correct action with the Rooney/McCarthy incident,

Then now he books Balotelli for that? strange

Clanket

Clark gets his yellow card.

He must be close to a ban

SEPT 23 1989

City are letting them back in:(

Doodee

Bring on a Sub plz Villa.

4-4-2 plz

SEPT 23 1989

c'mon city

SEPT 23 1989

yeeeeeeeeeeesssssssss!!!

silva 3-0, deserves it, had a fine match

matrim

And we wait for city to go 3-0 up before bringing on Young and Downing

KittyeeTrix

Luvin' da Citeh

Xavi6

And the man love for David Silva grows ever stronger.

KittyeeTrix

Be great to see MJ get on and would be great to see him score:)

yep get johnson on now!

SEPT 23 1989

jo:(

KittyeeTrix

Lescott usually scares the bejebus outta me but he's played a blinder tonight!!

SEPT 23 1989

fluffyorganic1 wrote: »

Lescott usually scares the bejebus outta me but he's played a blinder tonight!!

He has been solid

boyata now:( no johnson so

Xavi6

FFS give MJ a run :mad: