After Watching city tonight

[originaltrueblade]

A young man who represents Senegal will shock life outta em, I’m tellin thee Stonsee will wish he was in Penistone for neet. Trust me I can feel it in me wattar

 

[TCsLoveChild]

Does anyone know how many fit defenders we have in the club? Asking for a friend UTB

 

[JJBlade]

Then after 0-0 at 90 minutes, celebrate like we have won Wendy style.

Forget about extra time.

I think we should be given a handicap like in golf

We get a goal start for every million less than them we have spent

So we can start the game about 800-0 up

Mind you United would give 799 goals away with 5 minutes left to play just to fucking annoy everybody

 

[SUFC Guy]

4-5-1 and pack midfield. Ndiaye and Bogle to break from midfield when we lift it over them - they should attempt to play off of McBurnie.

Robbo to hammer in those long throws from both wings.

If we press them, we lose it early on so we pack the midfield and sit tight.

Keep the scoreline respectable if possible. We don't want to ruin their confidence for their prem run in


Fodders

Baldock Anel Egan Robbo

Bogle Berge Norwood Ndiaye Lowe

McBurnie



In all seriousness, I don't give a fk what the scoreline is. We are going for the day out and we are going to lose this easily so it will be nice going to Wembley again with zero nerves and zero expectations.

UTMB

 

[originaltrueblade]

4-5-1 and pack midfield. Ndiaye and Bogle to break from midfield when we lift it over them - they should attempt to play off of McBurnie.

Robbo to hammer in those long throws from both wings.

If we press them, we lose it early on so we pack the midfield and sit tight.

Keep the scoreline respectable if possible. We don't want to ruin their confidence for their prem run in


Fodders

Baldock Anel Egan Robbo

Bogle Berge Norwood Ndiaye Lowe

McBurnie



In all seriousness, I don't give a fk what the scoreline is. We are going for the day out and we are going to lose this easily so it will be nice going to Wembley again with zero nerves and zero expectations.

UTMB

I have expectations of a Wigan

 

[bornablade]

If city go 2-0 up and Haaland isn’t playing, I want them to bring him on. Fuck it, let’s watch the best striker in the world

Billy might be already on the pitch.

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

It'll be the single toughest game to watch in my history of watching united.

Full time - less than 20% possession. Maybe 2 shots on goal. 0 on target.

I'm not making a score forecast

 

[100% part time blade]

There were some horrible games to watch in that 2nd premier league season. Ethan Ampadu in defence, Lundstram in midfield, Burke with the attacking ‘threat’ …
Every opposition corner felt like a goal waiting to happen; we couldn’t make 3 passes from a goal kick without losing it.
Confidence completely shot throughout the whole team.

At times it really felt as though we were more like a league one side turning up for pre-season friendlies against top teams who just casually outplayed and beat us every week.

It can’t be any worse than watching those games on TV.

We’re a good championship side now - although missing Doyle/McAtee, and currently missing almost all of our left-side options of Lowe, Norrington-Davies, Stevens, Osborne weakens us considerably. Still, we’ve got to be able to give it a better go than we did in so many of those awful empty-stadium performances.

 

[Alex Cheeseright]

Sunderland did it, Ipswich did it, Southampton did it, heck even Swindon did it. They all beat top division teams at Wembley whilst plying their trade in the lower leagues. We won't be the first to cause an upset but it would be the biggest Wembley has ever seen. Bias aside, I'd not be surprised if the bookies have stopped taking money on Man City to win.

 

[nopigfansintown]

This thread is a monument to how people have been brainwashed by modern football mores. Not passing the ball out from the back is apparently now "long ball". If you play over a press you are "long ball merchants". It's much better to try to play through the five or six City players in your half with your vastly inferior players; you know like Bayern and Arsenal and Liverpool just did. Try to play Man City at their own game or you are an antediluvian troglodyte. And people wonder why they've had it so easy. Unfortunately this lack of commense sense is really pervasive.

 

[Bladesman]

Maybe they will think they are playing on Sunday and forget to turn up.

 

[Mattblade68]

Best tactic would be to try and get one of their players sent off.We may then have just a chance.Nose to nose and draw a headbutt maybe.

 

[Northyorksblade]

Best tactic would be to try and get one of their players sent off.We may then have just a chance.Nose to nose and draw a headbutt maybe.

Sorry, we're 100% more likely to get one of ours sent off. That would really muck up the end of the season a la Ched.

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

Craig Levein and his 3-6-0 tactical brain. Still to the day, no one has fathomed this genius decision in the football world.

Even more puzzling is the fact that nobody told him that you’re allowed to have 10 outfield players ….

 

[Champagneblade]

Our best chance might be to "park the bus", put everyone in defence and hold out of a 0-0.
To be fair.....when we put our mind to it....we're excellent defensively.
The defences only weakness is pace but if we constantly have numbers back then the lack of pace isn't an issue.

If we score in the last 5 or 10 minutes then we have a chance of a 1-0.

We need to think back to how Luton Town played against us, they build a defensive wall and we struggled to create a single chance.
It would be a horrible game to watch for the neutral but think that is our only chance of winning, keep it 0-0 for as long as possible.

You make it sound so easy mate!

 

[Champagneblade]

Hoof the ball and hope for the best. Yeah, that'll work. It's a wonder the managers of much better teams than us haven't thought about that approach......

Playing a far superior team, can’t wait for us to adopt a tactic which will naturally turn the ball over easily!

We need to use the pitch size.

I’d almost play nobody centre forward and play Ndiaye and McBurnie or AN Other as additional wide options. Get space out there then hope one or two of the midfield can break to support.

Almost 5-5-0 or 5-3-2 but with the two operating wide and cutting in rather than through the middle. It would also then make their centre backs largely redundant and we could overload out wide.

Maybe something like this:

Red Card Wes
Baldock Anel Egan Clark Robinson
Berge Coulibaly Norwood Fleck Ndiaye

Which looks more like this in possession:

Red Card Wes
———— Anel Egan Clark ————
Baldock————————Robinson
——Coulibaly Norwood Fleck——
Berge——————————Ndiaye

 

[Hodgesleftpeg]

Does anyone know how many fit defenders we have in the club? Asking for a friend UTB

I think Enda is fit… them eyes

 

[brownblade]

I've barely watched England's biggest financial cheats 2008-2019 (charges to be fought by expensive lawyers for years) this season, but is there still a case for getting in behind them? Each ball has to be perfect though or you are just turning it over.

 

[ForgeBlade]

I think we should be given a handicap like in golf

We get a goal start for every million less than them we have spent

So we can start the game about 800-0 up

Mind you United would give 799 goals away with 5 minutes left to play just to fucking annoy everybody

Sheff Utd 800 - 801 Man City (Haaland (794), De Brunye (6), Grealish)

 

[Cappy]

Norwood comes back into form, pinging the ball around and dictating play

Shoutbox is suddenly…

 

[originaltrueblade]

As times gone on from watching city tuther neet having time to collect thoughts

We can do em

 

[buddy]

A young man who represents Senegal will shock life outta em, I’m tellin thee Stonsee will wish he was in Penistone for neet. Trust me I can feel it in me wattar

Wats tha know abaht Penistooan , wats in thi watter ? Hope tha reyt tho

 

[originaltrueblade]

Wats tha know abaht Penistooan , wats in thi watter ? Hope tha reyt tho

I maybe reyt Stonsey’s birthplace and if I’m reyt I will dance on roof at Wembley tha knows

 

[dazzlingblade]

I'm telling you now, we're going to shock the world next week.

We'll keep it under 3

Which half?

 

[derfblade.3]

Never lose hope. This was by far the biggest ever Wembley upset. Sheffield United are in with a chance. Wigan started as 1/16 favourites and were League Champions by a mile.

 

[originaltrueblade]

Never lose hope. This was by far the biggest ever Wembley upset. Sheffield United are in with a chance. Wigan started as 1/16 favourites and were League Champions by a mile.

You are absolutely correct UTMB

 

[Sheff de party]

This thread is a monument to how people have been brainwashed by modern football mores. Not passing the ball out from the back is apparently now "long ball". If you play over a press you are "long ball merchants". It's much better to try to play through the five or six City players in your half with your vastly inferior players; you know like Bayern and Arsenal and Liverpool just did. Try to play Man City at their own game or you are an antediluvian troglodyte. And people wonder why they've had it so easy. Unfortunately this lack of commense sense is really pervasive.

Exactly this. Burnley played a ridiculously high line and got absolutely rinsed.

We are not good enough to match them so why try. Do what we did against Spurs. Hang back, keep it as long as we can and boost it to McBurnie in the air or Ndiaye on the deck when we’re under pressure, lump it anywhere if desperate.

If we approach it right tactically, we have a chance. You never know in this game.

 

[originaltrueblade]

Exactly this. Burnley played a ridiculously high line and got absolutely rinsed.

We are not good enough to match them so why try. Do what we did against Spurs. Hang back, keep it as long as we can and boost it to McBurnie in the air or Ndiaye on the deck when we’re under pressure, lump it anywhere if desperate.

If we approach it right tactically, we have a chance. You never know in this game.

Exactly

 

[Shirty Blade]

They will be expecting an easy win. I hope we can draw them into a battle. Watch out for the mardies, diving and dodgy decisions if things aren't going their way.

 

[bornablade]

As much as the management and players are using the party line 'one game at a time', I am sure that behind the scenes Hecky, Macca and Jack will be working with the players who they feel will be starting and the system that will be needed to deal with this world class threat.

If we beat Cardiff on Saturday and are comfortable against Bristol City next week we may see this system adopted in the second half / later stages of that Bristol City game.