Arsenal v City

MagicMarker

Must win for City.

Nice thread.

Pepe LeFrits

Arsenal are in a city, I'll give you that.

// bah, too late!

monkey9

Very very City alright. Always bottling it!!




Sorry Arsenal fans.

MagicMarker

Thank you.

d22ontour

Come on Le Arse.

Professional Griefer

Gooooooner power.

Xavi6

Meaningless game really at this stage.

Silva out injured, Kun back from his sore feet, Balotelli to do something stupid and RvP to score.

1-1 draw

Dr.Winston O'Boogie

Silva not even on bench, strange as he has trained all week. Other than that full strength team. Even if they win I don't think it will matter in the grand scheme of things but would love to see City send out a message that they still give a **** and get a result today.

monkey9

Xavi6 wrote: »

Meaningless game really at this stage.

Silva out injured, Kun back from his sore feet, Balotelli to do something stupid and RvP to score.

1-1 draw

Would you still keep on Mancini next season?? I would. Sometimes it happens you get close to the title and then the following season, you finally manage to get over the line. It's all about the experience!!

amacachi

Based on some simulations I've been running over the last few days Arsenal should win by 5.7 goals with a standard deviation of 0.6 goals.

Xavi6

monkey9 wrote: »

Would you still keep on Mancini next season?? I would. Sometimes it happens you get close to the title and then the following season, you finally manage to get over the line. It's all about the experience!!

Like every other managerial job, there's no point sacking him unless there's a better replacement available. I include King Kenneth in that, and look at Wolves.

Second by some margin is still progress in the league.

Frisbee

Would be more than happy with a draw tbh.

Kylo Ren

Goooooooooooner power

Xavi6

Balotelli to be booked at 5/4 and a red card in the game at 100/30.

monkey9

Xavi6 wrote: »

Like every other managerial job, there's no point sacking him unless there's a better replacement available. I include King Kenneth in that, and look at Wolves.

Second by some margin is still progress in the league.

I do think City have made progress this season. People will point to the fact they were so far ahead and they have thrown it away to an extent, but i think it would be madness getting rid of Mancini!!!

I'm not his biggest fan, but i reckon if the owners stick with him and keep that stability there, he'll eventually deliver the title!!!

His track record in the Champions League over the years could prove to be his ultimate downfall, however!!

As much as I sometimes hate sky, they do a good intro sequence.

amacachi

Xavi6 wrote: »

Meaningless game really at this stage.

Fancy United to win everything other than the match against yous til the end?

Xavi6

amacachi wrote: »

Fancy United to win everything other than the match against yous til the end?

Absolutely, and even then they can afford another defeat. 34 points from their last 36 would back that up.

Also that means City would have to win every one of their games and that won't happen.

greendom

Silva is really not player he was earlier in the season. Has he been dropped ?

Xavi6

greendom wrote: »

Silva is really not player he was earlier in the season. Has he been dropped ?

Xavi6 wrote: »

Silva out injured,

Knee

J. Marston

City fans depressed even before kick-off in the stadium .

Leiva

Wanna know what City are all about ??

Today will tell us a lot .

WoollyRedHat

Must-win for Arsenal, they can still win the title race.

Xavi6

Mancini admits in the pre match interview that it's a must win game, a final if you will, and eight points will be too big a gap to close.

Lose this, game definitely over.

adox

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Must-win for Arsenal, they can still win the title race.

Pardon?????

DenMan

Come on Arsenal!

WoollyRedHat

adox wrote: »

Pardon?????

After today, it is mathematically impossible for Arsenal to win, so it's a must win.

adox

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

After today, it is mathematically impossible for Arsenal to win, so it's a must win.

That's bizarre reasoning. No one honestly thinks Arsenal will win the legaue(apart from you perhaps). More important to them in regard to automatic qualification for the champions league next season.

Pepe LeFrits

The skysports narrator guy is doing movie trailer voiceovers now... how odd.

WoollyRedHat

adox wrote: »

That's bizarre reasoning. No one honestly thinks Arsenal will win the legaue(apart from you perhaps). More important to them in regard to automatic qualification for the champions league next season.

They should play like they think they can, you must be of the Mancini school of thought.

Xavi6

Yaya you idiot, wtf was the point of that?!

adox

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

They should play like they think they can, you must be of the Mancini school of thought.

Well if that school is realistic rather than deluded than yes I am.

MagicMarker

Silly from Toure.

Professional Griefer

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

The skysports narrator guy is doing movie trailer voiceovers now... how odd.

Pretty sure it was a exclusive for sky, first time its been showing AFAIK.

They've been doing it a bit recently.

''Tune in to see the new exclusive tralier on Sunday before the Arsenal Man City game.''

GP

Will I Amnt

Well done ref,too many players think they can do what they want in the first few minutes.

WoollyRedHat

adox wrote: »

Well if that school is realistic rather than deluded than yes I am.

It's pessimistic, chin up

MagicMarker

Lol

amacachi

Technical difficulties :pac:

That_Guy

LOL @ the commentator

Professional Griefer

What the hell is happening, I'm getting no sound. :pac:

GP

fullstop

What the hell is happening :P

Will I Amnt

Ha,commentator in a fluster

ctrl-alt-delete

Haha classic, "what the hell is happening i'm getting no sound"

" i don't even know if we are going out or not"

irish_man

Cooking up a sweet omelette here on sopcast channel 6816. YES!

amacachi

Don't like the lack of players in the box so early.

amacachi

Need to get an early one while City's heads are down.

That_Guy

"Marotelli"

DenMan

Rosicky and Benayoun looking very lively so far.

Professional Griefer

Cheeky bet for Theo to score first. Come on!

adox

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

It's pessimistic, chin up

Yes I'm pessimistic to think Arsenal won't win the league this year. :rolleyes:

Good start by Arsenal.