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citymancs => citymancs => Topic started by: Swiss on August 08, 2025, 18:07:44

Title: Palermo
Post by: Swiss on August 08, 2025, 18:07:44
Squad for tomorrow
James Trafford, Ruben Dias, Tijjani Reijnders, John Stones, Nathan Ake, Omar Marmoush, Erling Haaland, Jeremy Doku, Nico Gonzalez, Ilkay Gundogan, Bernardo Silva, Rayan Ait-Nouri, Manu Akanji, Savinho, Matheus Nunes, Rayan Cherki, Ederson, Nico O'Reilly, Abdukodir Khusanov, Oscar Bobb,Divine Mukasa, Rico Lewis

Kovacic, Gvardiol, Foden, Rodri & Echeverri deemed not fit to travel.

Phillips, Grealish, Ortega, McAtee left behind to find new teams.
Title: Re: Palermo
Post by: KunDB on August 08, 2025, 21:53:49
A lot surprised that Ortega had been cast overboard. Has served us loyalty and really well as the back up goalie.
Title: Re: Palermo
Post by: Swiss on August 09, 2025, 08:51:20
Decent no.2, but we don't need him right now so I'm not surprised
Title: Re: Palermo
Post by: gavin on August 09, 2025, 19:20:28
CITY XI: Trafford, Lewis, Khusanov, Stones, Ait-Nouri, Nico, O'Reilly, Bobb, Cherki, Marmoush, Haaland (C)

Subs: Ederson, Dias, Reijnders, Ake, Doku, Gundogan, Bernardo, Akanji, Savinho, Nunes, Mukasa

Trafford in net and Haaland is Captain.
Title: Re: Palermo
Post by: reddishblue on August 09, 2025, 20:13:50
I predict Stones to go off injured after 20 minutes.
Title: Re: Palermo
Post by: gavin on August 09, 2025, 20:24:06
Careless at the back already. Lucky not to concede.
Title: Re: Palermo
Post by: reddishblue on August 09, 2025, 21:02:38
1-0 City HT.

A disjointed performance. Khusanov impressed a couple of times though.
Title: Re: Palermo
Post by: gavin on August 09, 2025, 21:03:25
Half time one nil to City and City in control apart from the usual carelessness at the back. Erling scored, a nice finish in the end but I actually thought his first touch was not great and then it fell perfect for him. Maybe we should have had another but my main concern is that last year's errors are the back are still very apparent. Even though the culprits today weren't here last season.
Title: Re: Palermo
Post by: reddishblue on August 09, 2025, 21:17:42
To sum up Gav, we fuck around too much trying to pass out from the back when sometimes we should just hoof it.
Title: Re: Palermo
Post by: gavin on August 09, 2025, 21:21:29
Ten changes at half time. Only Erling stayed on.
Title: Re: Palermo
Post by: reddishblue on August 09, 2025, 22:03:33
FT 3-0 City. Unbelievably Stevie didn't predict this...
Title: Re: Palermo
Post by: gavin on August 09, 2025, 22:08:04
The reindeer looks awesome. Feed the Reindeer and he will score.
Title: Re: Palermo
Post by: Swiss on August 09, 2025, 22:15:07
Yeah, thought Tiji looked great, as did Khusanov when in tight positions
Title: Re: Palermo
Post by: Stephen Paul on August 10, 2025, 07:33:45
Quote from: gavin on August 09, 2025, 22:08:04The reindeer looks awesome. Feed the Reindeer and he will score.

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