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Home Match Day Thread +++ 25/9/18 OUFC v Manchester City Match day thread+++

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Well the time is here for our lads to put themselves up against some of the best players in the game. I can’t see us getting much less than a real caning if I’m honest as I think Man City will play a mixture of fringe and first team regulars. Expect to see Vincent Kompany and John Stones etc along with maybe Delph and Mahrez. I hope the yellows out in a good shift and hopefully take something positive from the game. Anyway plenty of money for the club. COYY
 
1-1 draw. Is it straight to penalty’s now without extra time?
 
Let's see. We are playing a side packed with internationals no matter who they play. We on the other hand have a defence that cannot defend, midfielders who cannot create or score, and forwards (sorry, forward) who cannot hold up the ball or score. And you hope for a 1-1 draw?

Oh how I wish you were right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:love:
 
Got a feeling come May we’ll be looking back at our season in two parts: before the City game and after. Turning point. A plucky loss that earns the players a warm round of applause from a sympathetic crowd come the final whistle, and a feeling of goodwill that will carry through to a win at Wimbledon on Saturday.

I think Whyte will put in a performance to make teams higher up the leagues sit up and take notice. The only player I can see causing them any problems.

I expect Foden to play and I’m looking forward to seeing him in action. Could be the #10 around which the England team is built for the next decade.
 
1-1 draw. Is it straight to penalty’s now without extra time?

Ah, special rules as it is our 125 year thingy.
1-1 after 90 minutes, then extra time. Still a draw, so replay at Maine Road.
Then 1-1 again after 90 minutes (with a Brock free kick). No more goals after extra time.
So we have a toss of coin to decide venue of next game … Roll out Ron Atkinson, (give him a chance to get it correct this time!)
We win toss so it is back to the Manor for a second reply, and a magnificent 2-1 win with a looping header.
Everton next round.
 
1-3
Obika to score, Robinson squares up with Guardiola and we give away a penalty.

Hard to decided which ones least likely to happen .

Same team as Saturday apart from Obika for Smith,it's all we got.

Let's hope for more anti Kassam chants,make our feelings known with national media there.
 
It's a one off cup game under lights in front of a sell out crowd....anything can happen...on paper we're in for a battering....just as well it's on grass (paid for twice by former chairmen, which should be deducted from any 'outstanding service charge' that the tax exiled slum landlord of the breeze block claims he's owed!), so we have a chance :cool::cool:..I can remember when OUFC as football aristocrats compared to the opponents we're embarrassed in cup games by Marlow and tonbridge angels !( Just praying it's not like cup game v Dorchester with the minnows, us tomorrow night, shipping 9o_O....cup matches can ignite a reversal of poor league form, which is much needed this season.... prediction? Hmmm, how about a three nil home win with beeks grabbing a hat trick? .... maybe thatd be in the realms of hopes, dreams n tombstones, there again ya never know:unsure:
 
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Tomorrow night, Man City are also playing in the Checkatrade trophy at Crewe Alexander.
 
Lots of predicted lineups amongst the Fanzines/Blogs etc , most of which vary quite a bit from each other. However there is some concensus that the MCFC line-up will include Foden, Mahrez, Danilo, Zinchenko, Gabriel Jesus, and not Fernandinho, Aguero or de Bruyne. Bravo is injured, so Pep has to choose between Ederson or 19 year old prospect Muric in goal. There is also some talk of putting Stones into midfield to cover for Fernandinho.

Composite line-up from all articles I've seen so far: Muric (GK), DAnilo, Zinchenko, Kompany, Otamendi (DF), Foden, Diaz, Stones, Mahrez, Gabriel Jesus, Sane

If so, then I'm confident (as long as some or all of the following occur: i) Kompany pulls up injured while marking Whyte who sprints away and scores, ii) Stones gets over cocky and tries some clever footwork while under pressure from Baptiste, loses the ball and Shandon strides forwards and scores, iii) teenage keeper Muric pulls a howler early on to give away a goal and does not recover his composure for the rest of the game, iv) Otamendi gets a bump to the head and goes back to being the hopeless player he was when he first arrived, v) STerling comes on as sub, and hogs every chance MCFC create, but fails to convert any of them, vi) KR forgets that one of the MCFC side is actually from Manchester, and lamps him for being a scouser and gets sent off, vii) the bump on the head turns him into a tactical genius and outwits Pep for the rest fo the game, viii) Tiger's new co-owner has secretly brought in Inter's top striker who comes on as a sub under the code name Slavi Spazov and scores loads, ix) the real Slavi Spazov is annoyed that he has to play under the name Charlie Raglan so scores one of his own when he gets on, x) Kassam accidentally drops his wallet in the home goal mouth so that there is no room for MCFC so squeeze the ball into the goal.)

Sadly, the excitement of victory is shortlived and OUFC are thrown out fo the competition for fielding eleven loan players in the starting, er, eleven
 
Got a feeling come May we’ll be looking back at our season in two parts: before the City game and after. Turning point. A plucky loss that earns the players a warm round of applause from a sympathetic crowd come the final whistle, and a feeling of goodwill that will carry through to a win at Wimbledon on Saturday.

I think Whyte will put in a performance to make teams higher up the leagues sit up and take notice. The only player I can see causing them any problems.

I expect Foden to play and I’m looking forward to seeing him in action. Could be the #10 around which the England team is built for the next decade.
but they players dont like playing at home
 
Muric (GK), DAnilo, Zinchenko, Kompany, Otamendi (DF), Foden, Diaz, Stones, Mahrez, Gabriel Jesus, Sane

If this is approximately the Man City side we face tomorrow, then best team we've played in a competitive game since......when?

My initial thought was Arsenal '03.....but there were some pretty mediocre players and non-entities in that team (Francis Jeffers, Sebastian Svard, Edu).

Leeds in '94?

Or is this such a good Manchester City squad, that you have to go all the way back to our First Division days?
 
Mitchell
Norman Nelson Mous Garbutt
Baptiste Ruffels
Whyte Henry Holmes
Obika

Don't think I've ever predicted us to lose on a thread before, but I'd really take anything less than a 5 goal loss. It's a shame we're in the state we are at the moment because I'd have loved to have seen a MApp team take on a big prem side. COYY
 
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