Man City vs West Ham | PL | 20.12.25 | Predictions & Match Thread

[stubbo-admin]

I'll stick up all the usual match content a bit later, but thought I'd get the thread up:

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This weekend brings what has been in recent times arguably the most daunting match of the season 

Away at the ever fluent, ball-dominating Manchester City...a club that in previous times we had much in common with and a certain kindred spirit, but that in more modern times merely emphasise the difference that getting owners of means with a true desire for sporting success versus barrow merchants with no interest in the Club beyond buying it cheap, taking advantage of circumstance, and like house prices....doing just enough to keep it viable while watching the market trend see it's value appreciate.

We go into this game notably affected by the departure of two largely ever presents to AFCON.

AWB and Diouf are off in search of glory at the International stage. Füllkrug is unlikely to be risked with a move to AC Milan (!) seemingly on the agenda, and with January feeling as far away as ever our lightweight squad and it's meagre offerings take in one of the juggernauts of the North.

Predicted Line-up:

All eyes will be on the full-back slots, as well as if Nuno reverts to a 3 at the back.  Scarles is fit again.

Areola

Mavropanos   Kilman.  Todibo

KWP.     Magassa.  Fernandes.     Scarles

Paqueta

Bowen (c).    Summerville

Subs: Hermansen, Igor, Myers, Rodriguez, Soucek, Potts, Wilson, Earthy, Irving

Predicted Result:

Man City: 4 - 0 :West Ham

Can't see anything but a heavy defeat in this one after too much PTSD with the Sky Blues. Expect Haaland to run amok as usual.

Hope for the best. Expect the worst. But a 1-0 defeat would feel like a win.

COYI.

 

[fraser]

Paqueta is teally grinding my gears. So wasteful

He just tried to get us up the pitch were camped in our half 

[Sir Alf]

Paqueta is teally grinding my gears. So wasteful

[Helmut Shown]

Kilman writes on the West Ham website "Coming from non league football made me stronger". I have seen no evidence of this during this season

[fraser]

Twice a City player has gone down and the cսnt stopped play 

[Sir Alf]

Paqueta is a liability trying to play impossible balls forward 

[Mike Oxsaw]

It's sad to the point of being almost criminal the way that Sullivan - and only Sullivan  - has dragged the team down.

[Sir Alf]

Scarles is not quite quick enough for a PL lett back imo. Looks vulnerable 

[Sir Alf]

Kilman will lose his man at some point. Not sure why he’s back in. Paqueta is just too casual out of possession. Whole game is damage limitation as it would be under any manager with our squad in

[Any Old Iron]

This is such painful viewing. I really feel for those who make the trek all the way oop north.  
Thanks to the hundreds of millions of petro dollars thrown at Man City the gulf between the sides is huge.  

[claret on my shirt]

first goal was down to Ferandez!

[Keep dreaming]

But Nuno has made us so much more solid according to his delusional appeasers!

He has to go if we don't beat Fulham or Brighton.

And his replacement would pick what team?
Its naive to think 4 managers hasnt for us working just because they are idiots.

It's a team full of mediocre championship players

[Jasnik]

Genius tactic of not marking Haarland. 
 

[Come On You Irons]

But Nuno has made us so much more solid according to his delusional appeasers!

He has to go if we don't beat Fulham or Brighton.

[Keep dreaming]

And Kilman..... 

[Keep dreaming]

What other match could be watchable? This one has turned out to be just as bad as i feared.

Could be two already...

[boleyn8420]

That didn't take long, Haaland on his way to a hat-trick

[violator]

Didn't take long

[Keep dreaming]

L O L

[torino hammer]

Any real streams?
 

[Keep dreaming]

Im just fucking furious Sullivan hasn't been able to make sure we have a striker. It's diabolical.

Apart from that, IF Crapaqueta turns up (as he sometimes does), we could and should be able to score a goal or two.

But I'm afraid we will be sitting low, and losing 3-1

Fuck off Sullivan

[Massive Attack]

Wilson on the bench again..  

[threesixty]

After today it will be 6 games without a win and 3 points from 18, the improvement is immense, apparently. I hope I have to eat humble pie after this match but I probably have more chance of shagging Michelle Keegan than having to do that.

 

 

Not “immense” but there’s an obvious improvement unless you watch games with your back to the screen and just check the scores after..

I would be panicking if we weren’t playing far better football than under Potter. I think we are. I think we play far better football than under Moyes’ last 2 yrs, even when we won a trophy. 

City can go top today. We played well at Villa and they are 3rd. We aren’t a bad team if we are giving these teams a fight. Panick when we are getting battered by the teams around us and below the top 10. Not teams chasing the title 

[Texas Iron]

WOT…

No Soucek….???

[mallard]

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

You can watch the city match here 

https://Betisports.com

Beware of this poster lads. They only seem to post links to this site. It's probably dodgy as. Anyone actually clicked on it?

Yeah, I did once. Perfect stream. That lasts a couple of minutes. Then asks you to pay to keep watching.

Not sure why he gets allowed to spam this every game.