Manchester City (H)..pre match thoughts...

[Steve Earle]

Same XI if the physios ok that. Only Harry, Wilf & Hamza have played the full 90 of the past two. Hamza can be rotated out v Cardiff. 

If they’re without Fernandinho & D Silva we have a chance. A snowball’s, but a chance.

[Leicester’s Jester]

22 hours ago, Mark_w said:

They'll rip us to shreds.

Have you not heard of the hamza effect my friend ?

[Foxxed]

He going to play Evans or Soyuncu? Morgan had a great match but is 35, played within the week and never the quickest.

 

Ric Eva Mag Chil

Hamz Mend Ndid

Albri Vardy Madd

 

Some tires legs on Hamza and Ndidi though and I'd perhaps play Simpson and bring on Ricardo later.

[bfox]

3 hours ago, Dorkingfox said:

if Liverpool win at City in a week's time - in a game you can see live on Sky Sports Premier League - it is all over.

 

On comission? 

[That_Dude]

It all depends on Fernandinho. Man City are a whole other animal without him and it's the area where they actually fall short. Should he not play we have serious chances to get something at home. If he plays we'll definitely lose.

[CosbehFox]

Vards looked completely shattered at Chelsea. Hopefully that was match fitness rather than the groin but Stowell was berating Puel about keeping him on 

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

On 22/12/2018 at 22:08, Anglodanglo said:

I agree. Hard to see this game ending any way other than a win, draw or defeat

 

 

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

On the back of us beating Chelsea and them being dumped on by Palace, I'm going for a good solid 6-0 Man City victory

 

In all seriousness though, we've had some great results against these in the last few seasons, if Vardy plays and we play anywhere near as well as we did 2nd half against Chelsea a draw wouldn't surprise me

[foxinsox]

16 hours ago, siraaj_lcfc said:

If Fernandinho is not playing, We've won. City are against the ropes right now. I reckon if we play like we did against Chelsea, we can out-fox them.

Ues, they can look fragile when under the cosh. 

 

Though Boxing day games are often a bit sluggish. 

 

[Hanan96]

Hmm

 

Man city win will be good. Puel did bad. Time to go 

Draw means we are very lucky. We can't be lucky for every match. Beat the coach

We win? The player were ignoring the coach and played their own way. Get the coach out and promote morgan to player coach role

 

[volpeazzurro]

They will be gagging to get their Palace result overturned and realistically we're going to understanably be the underdogs. It's not going to be an up and at em game from the kick off is it. If we do lose it would be nice to just accept it if we put in a decent performance and not have all the vitreolic anti Puel nonsense. Whilst Christmas miracles can happen, it's usually the team with the better players that wins ... and they have them. 

[HighPeakFox]

4 minutes ago, volpeazzurro said:

They will be gagging to get their Palace result overturned

Despite knowing what you meant here, I cannot resist being a pedant about it - but are they appealing the defeat???? 

 

Game's gone mate...

 

[volpeazzurro]

1 minute ago, HighPeakFox said:

Despite knowing what you meant here, I cannot resist being a pedant about it - but are they appealing the defeat???? 

 

Game's gone mate...

 

Haha see what you mean, however if it was remotely possible I'm sure Pep's the sort that would try ?

[siraaj_lcfc]

3 hours ago, foxinsox said:

Ues, they can look fragile when under the cosh. 

 

Though Boxing day games are often a bit sluggish. 

 

Slabhead ate all the pies.

[jayfox26]

Great result against Chelsea but i fear a backlash after they lost to palace. No way are city losing 2 in a row so a sneaky draw would be our best bet. Can see us losing by 2 or 3 though if City turn it on. Alot depends on whether Claude gets his tactics right. 

[jayfox26]

4 hours ago, Hanan96 said:

Hmm

 

Man city win will be good. Puel did bad. Time to go 

Draw means we are very lucky. We can't be lucky for every match. Beat the coach

We win? The player were ignoring the coach and played their own way. Get the coach out and promote morgan to player coach role

 

Is this a joke? Never quite sure on foxestalk these days...

[Hanan96]

2 hours ago, jayfox26 said:

Is this a joke? Never quite sure on foxestalk these days...

More like a satire sir

[smr]

Probably already been said but I was thinking about this the other day driving along, we've got to play exactly the same team as against Chelsea and the same game plan. Obviously a winning strategy so I think we've got to keep to it, I'd like to see us have some sort of consistency now and get into a rhythm with the team we fielded on Saturday, the more they play together the better they should gel.

[LCCFox96]

Unchanged team and do our best to do the same again. Keep it tight at the back, press them, get in their faces and make it difficult and we might be able to get something. Getting a point would be an absolutely fantastic result.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

Home game so we shouldn’t be afraid to have a go

 

Puel tactics seem to suit us better away usually though ? 

[l444ry]

By luck, good judgement or both, Puel has stumbled on a system that works. This is a free hit so if he keeps everything the same and with the same players then we have every chance. If he makes too many changes there will probably be only one winner. 

[BenTheFox]

Just give them a game. That's all I really care about. Caught in two minds whether we should rest a few for this one and put our strongest team out to beat Cardiff, or put our strongest team out for this one and have enough faith in the squad players to beat Cardiff. 

[Izzy]

[Kasey Keller]

2-2 

[Tuna]

I'm feeling confident...Lawro's predicted 2-0 to Man City.