Manchester City V Everton

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:

Knight of Thorgothshire wrote:Right before the game starts I am turning off my cell phone and will not follow the game on the BBC and on here - I am recording the game back at the house and will watch it tonight. I hope it's not for nothing.

gonna be a mega short match thread then

A chance for me to close the gap on KoT. I'm only 29422 posts behind him.....

Manchester City have no new injuries and midfielder Ilkay Gundogan could be involved after eight months out with a knee problem.

The game will come too soon for Benjamin Mendy and Fabian Delph, though both are close to being available.

Everton are set give record signing Gylfi Sigurdsson his debut even though the Icelander lacks match fitness.

Sandro Ramirez could return after missing Thursday's win over Hajduk Split with a heel problem.

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:

Knight of Thorgothshire wrote:Right before the game starts I am turning off my cell phone and will not follow the game on the BBC and on here - I am recording the game back at the house and will watch it tonight. I hope it's not for nothing.

gonna be a mega short match thread then

He'll still offer blow-by-blow commentary in case anyone is watching on delay at the same time as him.

Everton XI: Pickford, Keane, Jagielka, Williams, Holgate, Gueye, Schneiderlin, Baines, Davies, Rooney, Calvert-Lewin.

Substitutes: Mirallas, Martina, Sigurdsson, Klaassen, Besic, Stekelenburg, Lookman

Statman wrote:

Made 4 Gwladys wrote:

Knight of Thorgothshire wrote:Right before the game starts I am turning off my cell phone and will not follow the game on the BBC and on here - I am recording the game back at the house and will watch it tonight. I hope it's not for nothing.

gonna be a mega short match thread then

He'll still offer blow-by-blow commentary in case anyone is watching on delay at the same time as him.

Only if I am more senile than I think I am at times.

Super wrote:Everton XI: Pickford, Keane, Jagielka, Williams, Holgate, Gueye, Schneiderlin, Baines, Davies, Rooney, Calvert-Lewin.

So we are starting with the same 3-4-2-1 formation we had against Stoke, which was changed at HT to 4-4-2. It'll be interesting to see how this all pans out.

And Davies playing ahead of Klaassen. Not that surprising based on what I have seen of Klaassen so far.

It says a lot about the multi-cultural state of the Premier League that there are more Brazilians (3) in the Man City starting XI than there are English players (2). Raheem Sterling and Phil Foden are on the bench.

Everton are almost retro, with eight Englishman in their starting line-up.

Stuck at work - but will get home for the 2nd half

COYB

DCL with a shot, wide.

Schneiderlin booked.

Super wrote:Schneiderlin booked.

Already

City starting to dominate the game.

Davies with a shot, wide. Came from a quick kick from Pickford and decent hold up play from DCL

Davies booked for diving.

Tom Davies goes down under a challenge from Nicolas Otamendi around 25 yards out. It is a foul from the City defender, tripping over the Everton man.

Referee Robert madley blows his whistle to award a free-kick...

...TO CITY!

And to make matters worse, Madley gives Davies a yellow card for diving.

A shocking decision by the referee.

Nicolas Otamendi is getting forward from centre-back and again tested Jordan Pickford from outside the box.

It is pushed away by Jordan Pickford to the right, but Sergio Aguero closes in and dinks the ball over Pickford and towards the net...

...but Phil Jagielka is in the right place at the right time to head the ball to safety.

From the resulting corner, Otamendi heads wide of goal.

I hope we are still in this when I get home for the 2nd half and hope we still have 11 players on the pitch

City hit the post

YES Rooney 1-0

ROONEY!

Rooney. Get in!

Great tackle baines

Kyle Walker sent off

Walker Sent OFF

Walker off. Two yellow in two minutes.