Man City 4-0 Saints - Match Thread

[pierreduvalle]

1 hour ago, berkshiresaint said:

I'd go with the following:

              AM, Bazunu  & Willy

           ABK DCC lyanco Salisu 

               AMM  JWP  Diallo

                         Che 

 

with this team we may be able to stop Haaland from scoring more than 6 against us. 

 

 

 

Is that Che playing in goal there? Interesting..very interesting. Putting the 3 keepers up front🤔

[Saint86]

2 hours ago, berkshiresaint said:

With this team we may be able to stop Haaland from scoring more than 6 against us. 

Such little faith in ABK. Tut Tut.

[saintant]

City could score any number of goals unless we are right at it from the first minute.

[The Cat]

If anyone is sadistic enough to want a ticket to this, my mate has 1 adult and 2 U18's available.

[craigthesaint]

I'd go with:

                             Bazunu

        ABK           Caleta-Car           Salisu

KWP              JWP              AMN           Perraud

                 S.Armstrong         Aribo

                                Che

        

[saintant]

8 minutes ago, The Cat said:

If anyone is sadistic enough to want a ticket to this, my mate has 1 adult and 2 U18's available.

How much is your mate willing to pay people to take the tickets off his hands?

[Saint Garrett]

In all seriousness, we have got to just go there with a plan and hope that it could pay off, Ralph hasn't done too badly when we've played against teams we know we just need to focus on defending against. Got two points off this lot last season, and although we're probably a worse side this season, we are "capable" of spoiling their afternoon, although incredibly unlikely. (yes I am aware they didnt have Haaland last season!)

----------------Bazunu

-----DCC-------ABK-------Salisu-------

KWP-------JWP---AMN---Diallo-------Larios

--------------Elyounoussi---

-------------- Armstrong----------

 

You could probably swap a few of these in and out, but maybe sticking in the City kids might make them go easy on us....

Armstrong up top on his own to do the "Long" job. Elyounoussi to try and be the link man if we can get hold of the ball at all.  It's a 1 off game, we're all expecting us to lose a minimum of 5-0 probably...one to keep the goal diff down and hope for the best.

 

[beatlesaint]

We are between 18 and 22-1 with various bookies to win Saturday if anyone feels so inclined 😇🤣

[Dusic]

I may be wrong but fairly sure some of our better results against them have come with a 4-2-2-2, theory being that if you play loads of defensive players and sit back with no counter threat it is just inevitable that they score.

[Saint Fan CaM]

53 minutes ago, beatlesaint said:

We are between 18 and 22-1 with various bookies to win Saturday if anyone feels so inclined 😇🤣

Ever hopeful Saints fan: "...so if I put £10 on at 22-1, that means I could win £220?!"

Realist: "...no, it means you'll win nothing." 🤣

[moorw003]

350-1 to win 3-0. That's where I'm throwing my cash🤣

[SNSUN]

Wow, can't believe some of the City fans think we will win this over on BlueMoon Forum!

 

 

...just joshing, they haven't even started talking about us yet...

[JRM]

3 hours ago, Saint Garrett said:

In all seriousness, we have got to just go there with a plan and hope that it could pay off, Ralph hasn't done too badly when we've played against teams we know we just need to focus on defending against. Got two points off this lot last season, and although we're probably a worse side this season, we are "capable" of spoiling their afternoon, although incredibly unlikely. (yes I am aware they didnt have Haaland last season!)

----------------Bazunu

-----DCC-------ABK-------Salisu-------

KWP-------JWP---AMN---Diallo-------Larios

--------------Elyounoussi---

-------------- Armstrong----------

 

You could probably swap a few of these in and out, but maybe sticking in the City kids might make them go easy on us....

Armstrong up top on his own to do the "Long" job. Elyounoussi to try and be the link man if we can get hold of the ball at all.  It's a 1 off game, we're all expecting us to lose a minimum of 5-0 probably...one to keep the goal diff down and hope for the best.

 

Interesting last season 0-0 draw we had Bednarek and Stephens centre back pairing and I think McCarthy in goal ....

[Pamplemousse]

Hopefully Haaland gets a few kicks from the Copenhagen players tonight

[Bad Wolf]

Surely it'll either be Ralph or a caretaker in charge for this. There's no way a new manager will want to start with this.

[fanimal]

Haaland scored already 

sofa time

[East Kent Saint]

24 minutes ago, fanimal said:

Haaland scored already 

sofa time

And again !

[verlaine1979]

City have won their CL game by half time. They'll probably give Haaland ten minutes in the second half to wrap up his hat-trick and then rest him for Saturday.

[suewhistle]

How about a quick GoFundMe to the Copenhagen players to Go Kick Him? He's scary!

[Appy]

Haaland subbed off at half time. 
 

He’ll be well rested 

[Turkish]

16 minutes ago, Appy said:

Haaland subbed off at half time. 
 

He’ll be well rested 

Ffs obviously keeping him fit for Saturday. 

[Noodles34]

3 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Ffs obviously keeping him fit for Saturday. 

He could be on fucking crutches and still score against us. 

[Chez]

35 minutes ago, Appy said:

Haaland subbed off at half time. 
 

He’ll be well rested 

lets hope they don't have the luxury of subbing him at half time against us. Wouldn't be surprised if they did. If they start with Álvarez I'll still be worried.

[Turkish]

17 minutes ago, Noodles34 said:

He could be on fucking crutches and still score against us. 

We need one of our spreadsheet known it alls to come out with a formula to stop him. 

[Sunglasses Ron]

Famous last words, but I’m hopeful that we’ll put in a reasonable defensive account if Ralph sets us up right and chooses our best defence.

You’d think that Salisu, CC and BK have enough about them to keep things respectable. 
 

Would feel more confident if we still had Romeu though.

[saintscottofthenortham]

Can we fix the grammar in the title, please? Turkish' lowercase use is giving me kittens. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

3 hours ago, saintscottofthenortham said:

Can we fix the grammar in the title, please? Turkish' lowercase use is giving me kittens. 

Our performances don't deserve upper case. 🙂

[Brissysaint]

I work with so many plastic Man City fans over here it’s infuriating, they’ve all been very nice to me this week though for some reason? Almost like they feel sorry for me.

 

im going 1-1 saints, ABK with a thumping header from a set piece.

[Hatch]

I don't think Haaland will play,   Pep will go for a  5 - 3 -1 -1 formation to counter our attacking threat from Midfield.

He wont have room for luxury players.

[NorthLondonSFC]

I have a ticket for this as cant make it due to train strikes, can meet in London for pick up if anyone wants it 

[Bad Wolf]

Presser at lunchtime as normal? Should be interesting.

[DT]

26 minutes ago, Bad Wolf said:

Presser at lunchtime as normal? Should be interesting.

1pm apparently. "Is this your last game in charge, Ralph?"

[Dman]

13 hours ago, Turkish said:

We need one of our spreadsheet known it alls to come out with a formula to stop him. 

Apparently he’s underperforming his XG…. Fucking rubbish is that Haaland kid 

[farawaysaint]

City are in rubbish form so fully expecting a win. 

[whelk]

0-0 is 33/1  V unlikely but mad odds

[Turkish]

2 minutes ago, whelk said:

0-0 is 33/1  V unlikely but mad odds

50% of that will be right.

[Dman]

13 minutes ago, Turkish said:

50% of that will be right.

If anyone is capable of losing 33-1, it is us….

[trousers]

Who are these two lads, as shown in today's 1st team training video? (apologies, I get the likes of Ballard, Dibling and Payne mixed up!) Cheers.

 

[Saint Fan CaM]

3 minutes ago, trousers said:

Who are these two lads, as shown in today's 1st team training video? (apologies, I get the likes of Ballard, Dibling and Payne mixed up!) Cheers.

 

I think that’s Ballard in the front and Payne behind?

[Saint Garrett]

4 minutes ago, trousers said:

Who are these two lads, as shown in today's 1st team training video? (apologies, I get the likes of Ballard, Dibling and Payne mixed up!) Cheers.

 

Sonnie Davis is one on the left.(Kelvin’s son) think the other is Dibling. 

[Convict Colony]

Am a bit worried I havent seen anyone practicing picking the ball up out of our net.

Hopefully no injuries this sat.

[waterlooville saint]

I'm not expecting anything except a defeat, and hope we keep the score down. However, there is the fact that they didn't beat us last season either home or away, so there is a straw to cling to ... for a few minutes at least.

Other straws include that we got thumped by Chelsea at home last season and beat them this season ...

[saintant]

Be interesting to see whether we manage to get through the first ten minutes without conceding. I don't think we will.

[davefizzy14]

2 hours ago, trousers said:

Who are these two lads, as shown in today's 1st team training video? (apologies, I get the likes of Ballard, Dibling and Payne mixed up!) Cheers.

 

Do you have the video from today's 1st team training. I can't seem to find it. 

[farawaysaint]

https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/06/manchester-city-erling-haalands-mind-blowing-weekly-salary-revealed-17518743/
 

So Haaland is on 900,000 per week. I appreciate he is a generational talent but football is sick and broken. I’m not sure what you do as a club in this environment to stand a chance against the super clubs.

[Lord Duckhunter]

13 minutes ago, farawaysaint said:

 I appreciate he is a generational talent but football is sick and broken. 

Behave. Sick & broken 🤣

[Vancouver Saint]

Really not sure what the point of this game is. Not so much a behind the couch game (too many like this these days) but under the couch. 5-0 to City. Ralph's farewell.

[farawaysaint]

33 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Behave. Sick & broken 🤣

One player is on almost half our annual wage bill.. I think broken is a fair adjective. 

[Turkish]

55 minutes ago, farawaysaint said:

https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/06/manchester-city-erling-haalands-mind-blowing-weekly-salary-revealed-17518743/
 

So Haaland is on 900,000 per week. I appreciate he is a generational talent but football is sick and broken. I’m not sure what you do as a club in this environment to stand a chance against the super clubs.

I remember the days when we were on an unstoppable March to the champions league with our team of academy graduates who would never leave us as they’d want to be part of our special journey. What went wrong?

[S-Clarke]

59 minutes ago, farawaysaint said:

https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/06/manchester-city-erling-haalands-mind-blowing-weekly-salary-revealed-17518743/
 

So Haaland is on 900,000 per week. I appreciate he is a generational talent but football is sick and broken. I’m not sure what you do as a club in this environment to stand a chance against the super clubs.

The finances in football have been going out of control for many years, the nonsense of FFP has just gone to serve the clubs who were at the top of the table when it came in. 

When you are owned by states, such as Man City, PSG, Newcastle, money doesn't matter. They just print more money back home when they want some extra fun. This is the first season where it looks like Man City are creating a bit of a mini league. They may have a dip, but to be honest no one seems to be able to touch them.

But saying that, they haven't played us yet. That'll be their biggest test.