MAN CITY v Sunderland – The PREVIEW: City’s Probable Team

1 Mar

Costel Pantilimon is expected to start in goal ahead of Joe Hart. Having featured in all but one of the Capital One Cup ties so far this season, the Romanian is likely to benefit from the more personal man-management skills and loyalty of Manuel Pellegrini, unlike last year’s ruthless demotion to the bench courtesy of Roberto Mancini in the FA Cup final. Equally, Joleon Lescott has played every single minute of the cup run so far and he is set to fight off competition from Martin Demichelis for a starting berth.

Samir Nasri is a tempting 10/1 to grab the opening goal of the game. Bet here with Paddy Power and new customers receive a free bet of up to £50!

Sergio Aguero has trained fully for the past three days and is a possible starter. Pellegrini may wish to give the striker an hour’s run out as he looks to secure match fitness ahead of the Champions League encounter with Barcelona, but equally, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see Alvaro Negredo and Edin Dzeko line-up together, with Aguero introduced from the bench.

City to win 3-1 with Yaya Touré to score the first goal is an astonishing 50/1 with William Hill. Bet with them here!

Here is the team Pellegrini could select:

Referee: Martin Atkinson

Prediction: MAN CITY 3 – 1 Sunderland – Away from the Etihad Stadium, we have struggled in recent years against Sunderland but with the spineless defeat to Wigan in last year’s FA Cup final still burning brightly in the minds of the players, there is a hunger to achieve an element of redemption. To that extent, I expect a vibrant, passionate City display with goals to be scored by Alvaro Negredo, Sergio Aguero, Samir Nasri and a consolation for Steven Fletcher.

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Edin Dzeko, City’s top scorer in this competition, is 33/1 to score a hat-trick. William Hill have plenty of cracking odds here!

5 Responses to “MAN CITY v Sunderland – The PREVIEW: City’s Probable Team”

  1. Fred Doe 01/03/2014 at 8:21 pm #

    City will win in JESUS name.

    • Blue Bullet 01/03/2014 at 9:39 pm #

      Navas will score?

  2. Glenn kavanagh 01/03/2014 at 11:12 pm #

    Very interesting to hear that Natalie pike likes a good hard tackle in the middle of the field (ii keep that in mind Nat) please pretty pretty pl eee ase first goal tomorrow, I’m really looking forward to it big time, mickey mouse cup my arse, not to me it’s not baby, show us the extent of your talent’s tomorrow boys come ooooonnnnnn yyyyoooouuu ccccccccccccccccccciiiiiiiiiiittttttttttttttttttttyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

  3. jac 01/03/2014 at 11:16 pm #

    City will cruise to a win, providing we treat Sunderland with no respect. Yaya will win it for us because he is a proven big game performer. Lescott is poor, I would not pick him.

  4. DÎÎÑKÅ LÔVÊ 02/03/2014 at 10:49 am #

    man city wine k.k.k.k.k. Aguero negredo yaya farnandino navas nasri man city black cats

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