Manchester City vs Arsenal| Saturday 17th October 17:30| Sky Sports

[Makingtrax]

No Luiz, Mustafi, or Sokratis eliminates penalties, rash tackles, hand ball and giving the ball away easily for a start off.

Midfield is about as strong as it gets without Partey, and up front looks tastey now Mikel has stopped with the Pepe/Willian play offs.

Good team, no crowd, going with a draw.

 

[TakeChillPill]

Hope Holding has brushed up on his Brazilian.

I hope Gabriel speaks good Brazilian too

 

[GDeep™]

Expecting a win given the line ups. No excuses. City poor at the back.

 

[EmeryCouldnt]

People saying the midfield is weak only because Partey isn’t starting? Or is it because they rate the Neny over Xhaka?

 

[greekgooner]

oh god this city starting 11 seems so strong i dont know from where this confidence for a good result comes from...

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Huge vote of no confidence for Luiz. Massive call.

Arsenal Mania told me last season they rather pay Luiz 24 M per season than watch Holding play.

 

[HollandGooner]

City almost full strength only missing de bruyne and people are confident we'll win

Most likely we will be ball watching.

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

Huge vote of no confidence for Luiz. Massive call.

Meaning we likely going back 4 for most of the game and we all now he crap at back 4

 

[Rex Stone]

Aguero

Are going with a four or five at the back? PL app saying it’s a four but I’d imagine Saka will play as a LWB rather than a CM.

 

[Manberg]

Minus Partey for obvious reasons, this is the kind of lineup most fans have been wanting. Can’t have any complaints.

 

[Pop Tart]

Elneny undeservedly dropped for not Partey, but Xhaka...this country, smh...

Is Pepe the striker...that could be game changing for us if he can adapt to that role.

Did he not play that role for lille? Thought he did given the number of goals he scored.

 

[HollandGooner]

Could be this guys...

We should just stop the 3-4-3 bollocks.

 

[dino bravo]

City almost full strength only missing de bruyne and people are confident we'll win

Big only though

 

[grange]

That City team sheet doesn't look impressive to me. I'm not expecting a win but we should be able to get chances.

 

[Gegen Pressing]

not 5-2-3. Not 442.
Looks like 4-3-3...
I'm gonna isolate and meditate on this team selection.

Looks like a 442 to me

 

[mujtabahijaz]

Just realized our front 3 is WAP HAHA

AWP is better. I think

 

[MikeVinna]

No Luiz likely means 4-3-3. Wonder who’ll be the third CM in that case..

 

[Manberg]

We should just stop the 3-4-3 bollocks.

How is it bollocks? It’s our best formation, as evidenced by winning two trophies against the odds.

Might be 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1, we’ve no way of knowing. I don’t think it matters too much since instructions will be the same.

 

[SingmeasongSong]

Love everything about this line-up but this Xhaka-Dani midfield.

It's just not good enough, no legs, no tenacy - why not just play Partey right away, cannot be worse than that and City is in a bad state.

 

[Big Poppa]

Very attacking line up from City. They’re going to totally dominate a midfield of Xhaka and Ceballos who are both slow and can’t tackle. Needed to have AMN at LWB over Saka and put Saka where Willian is. Other than that ok with the lineup.