<\/a>That is an absolute hammering and Mangala was given a 2.9 rating by the papers, the worst I’ve seen by a long mile. They have the worst recent away record in the competition and sit 16th when it comes to recent home form, which we can all agree is a bad combination.<\/p>\nHaving said all that, Manchester City are still Manchester City. They still have all the cast of quality players you can shake a stick at. They have ten players worth north of \u00a340 million and Ederson comes in at \u00a330 million. As it stands, De Bruyne, David Silva, Raheem Sterling and Ilkay G\u00fcndogan all have partial injuries but only the latter two are doubtful for the game on Saturday.<\/p>\n
In the past I would have said that we\u2019ll be lucky to escape with a point but given their recent troubles and the fact Simon Davies is manager (unless they quickly appoint), I think we can beat them. We\u2019re level on points with Burnley, so even a loss and a win for them at Watford means they would be just three points clear of us.<\/p>\n
We will go to the Etihad without fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This coming weekend we visit the Etihad Stadium in Manchester to face a City side in disarray. Just a few days ago with the club down in eighth place in the Premier League, the Citizens dispensed with the services of manager Pep Guardiola. After the latest round of results, in which the weekend ended with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":17735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248,259],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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