City v Palace

[KunDB]

Aguero and Bony up front!

C'mon City.

[KunDB]

    01 Hart

    03 Sagna
    04 Kompany
    20 Mangala
    11 Kolarov

    15 Jesús Navas
    25 Fernandinho
    42 Y Touré
    08 Nasri

    14 Bony
    10 Agüero

De Bruyne on bench.

[gavin]

Interesting selection. Kind of forced through injury but he could have started De Bruyne. Sat in legends lounge watching on telly. Smart bar. Come on City.

[Stephen Paul]

shite so far

[ebm1991]

Missing Silva already!

[KunDB]

Mangala wobbling slightly.

[Lekos]

Surprised KDB didn't start in the Silva position

[gavin]

Absolutely disgraceful. Sergio kicked out of the game. No intention of getting the ball. Yellow card. Where do they get these referees?

[clevblue]

Oooh, heavy stuff this.

[KunDB]

Typical Pardew tactics, if they are likely to break free in attack then SCYTHE them down.

[gavin]

Not a great first half for many reasons but hopefully class will tell second half. Andy Morrison says it was an assault on Sergio and a red card and he should know.

[clevblue]

Pardew never changes. Navas having a hard time on the right. I think we'll see a goal from De Bruyne before this is over in spite of a nervous few minutes at the start

[lee]

palace are thugs...it's like watching a sunday league match

[Rowley Birkin QC]

A few problems for us to over-come here in the second half. Palace are strong and very quick - so we're going to find out just how good our defensive improvement has been so far this season. The absence of Silva and Sterling adds another challenge.

Place are a typical Pardew side - full of bluster and very physical, hard working but short on real skill.

The challenge on Aguero was quite cynical and very nasty. Aguero had easily turned him, and he not only elected to deliberate scythe Aguero down - he went high for Aguero's knee. A absolutely disgraceful foul and a straight red any day of the week.

The new boy looks solid and composed.

We were a little more settled towards the end of the half, but I'm not sure how we're going to win this one at the moment.

[goat]

navas

just navas

[clevblue]

a bit dozy, Jesus!

[Rowley Birkin QC]

Oh dear - a very bad miss...

[clevblue]

What a cnut this ref is

[Rowley Birkin QC]

Nasri had a fair shout for a pen there. Might not be our day this....

[Rowley Birkin QC]

At least we're having a few shots. Pleased about that. One of these might stick.