Manchester City smile as Manchester United snarl
New Manchester City signing Gelson says that the people of Manchester are ‘clearly Manchester City fans’. As much as I’d like to walk down to the City of Manchester Stadium on Sunday and smack Gelson, I know better than to fall for such obvious baiting.
Prick-waving aside, there’s a genuine feeling of confidence running through Manchester City and many will see the game against Manchester United as a litmus test for the new side’s true strengths. Of course, beating West Ham at Upton Park doesn’t count at all…(it does, but the fans don’t seem to think so).
Manchester United have looked rusty and ragged in their first two games, although you know that Ferguson will have these players so fired up they’ll have fire breathing out of their nostrils and in the case of Tevez, out of his arse as he once again tries to back his way into a goalscoring position.
As much as I want to, I’m not convinced this season with United - it’s only two games, you say, but I know problems when I see them and at the moment it’s not Blackburn or Everton of last season where good chances were not coming off but more basic problems in incomplete/ inaccurate passes and basic positional errors when the opposition have the ball.
Ronaldo is out till September (and fined as well, apparently) while Rooney is out till October. Step up Fletcher? I’d prefer to see Giggs and Nani on the wings, with Anderson taking up Giggsy’s role in the hole behind Tevez. However, that doesn’t solve the midfield organisational problem we have and against City, who will be looking to attack, Carrick will have to sit back and play his old game.
I can’t see United ‘running away’ with the game but if the midfield problems sort themselves out then United have an excellent chance of winning this game - the players are fresh, angry and doubly motivated. The anger should help, and so should the talent…right?
And you can’t get away from talking about Manchester City without covering Simon Hattenstone’s latest ramblings - a Sigmund Freud - Sven Goran Eriksson conversation (worth the read) and earlier, his effusive praise for the Swede (yes, effusive).
Soccerlens Prediction: Manchester United to win - seriously though, what did you expect me to say here?
What do you guys think? Comments are welcome.
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Blah Blah Blah, Pro United bias fan talking s**t, why not get someone neutral in to cover articles like this idiot.
As much as id like to walk down Old Trafford on a match day & smack you Ahmed Bilal, i know better than to waste my time on an idiot glory hunting United fan with a not a leg to stand on cos Gelson is right & you know it lmao.
May be, but unless you can get your act together. Expect a draw at most.
Or prepare to lose.
City is as hungry as United, and we’re on a roll.
United has the tactics and flow going, but its just lacking the final ball at the moment due to some OLDIE wasting a space in the attacking spot. the attacking play always breaks when the ball lands at his feet.
so as you said and i fully agree. play nani and fletch on the wings and anderson taking up the supporting striker role. that will bring a totally different scoreline.
hope fergie sees this somehow or rather!
i think the major problem is our system!!! ahmed is completely correct to say so!!! iam sure united play better with 2 strikers and if some1 does an analysis of last season we would realize we play at our best when we have 2 strikers on the field!! the formation doesn’t matter!! like with rooney there must be another player upfront… last yr there was larrson, saha, smith, ole all filling in at this position… iam sure whn either ole or saha are back this problem will be gone…. n iam not sayin a out n out striker!!! i yet am convinced tevez n rooney upfront IS GONNA WORK!
and as for giggs he is better off starting from the wing n if he chooses he could…. move central!! as evra moves up so this is a possibility….
and for anderson n nani i would love to see them start but i would rather united go for hargreaves for the CITY match…
so it would look like:
VDS
brown rio vidic evra
fletcher hargreaves carrick giggs
scholes
TEVEZ
wat do u guys think… ???
iam sure fergie will play nani… i feel he isnt really ready… and iam sure anderson will need very very looong to settle…. but thats wat i think i could be wrong…
Yeah, the funniest thing about the article is you somehow suggesting that what Gelson is saying isn’t true.
Abdul
Your writing and Tevez’s football obviously have a lot in common. Just another load of pro-rag tosh.
Funny how all these City ‘fans’ have all surfaced now you’ve won a few games. You must have got bored of living in our shadow and now you’ve got some dirty money to spend you’re laughing like hyenas. Best Christmas present for me would be for Shinawatra to be arrested and deported to face trial, all his assets frozen and Manchester City liquidated to pay off his debts. Everyone knows there’s only one team in Manchester and the colour of their shirts is red. Piss off back to your council house stadium City fans, you’re just jealous that you’ve won feck all for decades and we’ve won everything. By the way, if any of you nuggets actually read what the auhor wrote, he doesn’t slag off City in any way, shape or form so what the hell are you crying about?
fuck you bloody man city noobs!..u guys talk crap..go suck a straw or smthing. MAN U ALL THE WAY!
Flecther is way to inexperienced.
NAni should play in Ronaldo’s place
giggs stay where he is
Anderson is just a bloody goner like all those man city fans!
Smack Gelson in the mouth? Well hadn’t you better get walking from London now if you are going to be there for Sunday?
Fergie should play anderson(if hes fit) and tevez up front,giggs on the left,nani on the right and scholes and hargreaves in the middle.but i know hargreaves someway would not be in the team so carrick should play the defensive role.and all the man city fans.wats the problem?you think man city are heading for success afta 2 games?trophyless bunch.
yeah! true..all of a sudden the fake mancity fans appear.oh what loyalty u have for your team,u cant even feel a40000 seater stadium,lets wait and c what u will be saying after the match.man utd to win 3-0
well i see u getting a lot of flack ahmed but city fans have to admit it its high time u’ve been living on past glory ala liverpool what trophies u have to show from the past couple of years and what gelson said is that city does not have many international fans which united have so that just plain jealosy speaking
That does’nt meant united dont have fans in manchester where do u think we get 70000 fans all round year in all the matches our friendlies have more crowd then ur premeiship matches so shoo off citeh fans and all sven need to blow it now is something to take care of his libido i am sure u remember his scandals.
anderson is still injured, hamstring it is.
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“As much as I’d like to walk down to the City of Manchester Stadium on Sunday and smack Gelson, I know better than to fall for such obvious baiting.”
But you write from India, don’t you? Unless you’ve learned to walk on water and started several weeks ago, there’s even more reasons you can’t do it.
Armchair…
Oh, and it’s called a figure of speech - or were you trying to be funny?
Well done!
You clearly know lots about football and are a balanced knowledgeable guy who won’t let partisan feelings impinge on your journalistic standards.
Yeah right!
Seriously do you write this tosh for money or just for ego reasons? Get off your soapbox and put some effort in, even die-hard rags were hoping for a draw as they could see the woods for the trees - you just wrote what you HOPED would happen and tried to dress it up as journalism.
I hope you have proper job ‘cos this won’t pay the bills.
Hang on you Red scum, you are filling a stadium now because of the glory hunters, you couldn’t fill it in the late 80’s when you were shit, you crawled out from under a stone and no doubt when you get relegated, your super loyal fans will trade their scum shirts in for arsenal, chelsea, liverpool or anyone else who appears to be winning shirts.