Loss FA Cup 4th Round: Manchester City 1 - 0 Arsenal | Friday 27th, January | KO: 20:00 GMT | ITV

Play the kids and bin this. Don't show our hand until we play them Feb 15th.

Prediction

Man city 2-1 Arsenal

 

[Macho]

Anyone give a toss about this dead competition?

Most opponents I would feel like this, but this is the wrong time to throw a match if we are serious about the title.

 

[bonzka]

Just keep winning

 

[RunTheTrap]

Anyone give a toss about this dead competition?

No but for psychological purposes you can’t get hammered by your title challengers.

ESR-Trossard-Saka
Xhaka-Lokonga-Vieira
Tierney-Kiwior-Holding-Tomiyasu
Turner


I reckon City will turn up with something like this:

Grealish-Alvarez-Foden
Gundogan-Philips-Silva
Gomez-Laporte-Dias-Lewis
Ortega

 

[A_G]

 

[CaseUteinberger]

Does this play on any of the networks or streaming services available in the US?

 

[TH14shahriar]

Does this play on any of the networks or streaming services available in the US?

https://www.livesoccertv.com/match/4555554/manchester-city-vs-arsenal/

 

[Ripe Banana]

Play the first team. Wreck them.

 

[NieThePiet]

Go all in against them. Beat them and we are the strongest team left in the cup, so another good chance for a title. PL will be still very difficult, so we are not in the position to throw away possible titles.

 

[Squillaci]

It will be our strongest team and we are goingto slap them.

 

[PoleInGoal]

Watching Pep and Mikel's press conferences I think they are both going to go all out in this game

 

[TheGreatWright8]

Go all in against them. Beat them and we are the strongest team left in the cup, so another good chance for a title. PL will be still very difficult, so we are not in the position to throw away possible titles.

Liverpool United Brighton and am pretty sure there's other teams am forgetting.

 

[gunner4lyfe]

Liverpool United Brighton and am pretty sure there's other teams am forgetting.

The statement still stands

 

[Gooner Zig]

Most City fans on Blue Moon want strongest team possible to lay down a marker/get psychological advantage for the PL. I'm of the same mindset, need to go strong here and I don't doubt Arteta will, especially as there is an 8 day break between tomorrow and our game vs Everton.

 

[TheGreatWright8]

The statement still stands

Shouldn't be underestimating those teams though they are more then capable of getting a result especially Liverpool.

 

[Maybe]

And boy there were so many moments like that

 

[Hleb's Sirush]

Can't say I'm not worried about Partey if he plays. He is so important to us that we can't afford to lose him.

After thinking about this I realise my fear isn't based on any logic. When we playing 3 games a week for a stretch of games and the same player is playing in all of them, then yes, they're more likely to get injured. Fatigued players are more susceptible to injuries.

It has been 8 weeks since Ghana played their last game at the World Cup. Since then Partey has only played 5 matches (not counting the warm up games before the season restarted). Our next game is in 8 days, so if he plays in this game there is no reason why he should be at more risk from an injury. If he gets injured in this game, I don't see why he wouldn't have got injured against Everton if he was rested.

No need to worry about Partey for this game...we can leave that for when we have games coming thick and fast in the next few weeks and Partey is being wheeled out every 3 days

 

[boonthegoon]

 

[Henry boi]

The boys at bluemoon are more excited than we are lol

 

[Henry boi]

Lucky we only kept it down to 6, looking at that defense we should have conceded 10 plus

 

[Tir Na Nog]

Kolasinac played for us last season???