 Yes, yes, how are we all doing? Welcome back to another panel show. It was only right that we assembled some of the panel together for the weekend that's in it. We've got Martin and Mulvier joining us to chat everything. Manchester, Derby, my favourite fixture of the season. It's the one I always look forward to the most. I love the Manchester, Derby and I hate it equally as much because anything goes. It's no Halls barred, isn't it? Four means nothing. It's that fixture where there's that bit more bite to it than just your average league fixture. We're going to hop into it all. Before we do, guys, make sure you do hit the like button on this stream and subscribe if you're new around here. All of your support massively helps. Get your thoughts in the live chat on everything Derby related. We want to see what you guys have to say as well. Let's hop right into it. Mulv, how are we doing? It's been a decent week. Luton beat Luton 6-2 and then we've got the small matter of the Derby look to look forward to. Yes, Hugh. Thanks for having me, guys. Yeah, feeling good, man. I look forward to these now. I didn't used to. I think I'm in the Hugh camp on this and I think we've got it right. The left side of the screen is looking forward to the weekend and the right side is. There's a good split there. The opinions. Reason being, yeah, these are rubbish now. So. Fightings are already with two minutes in and I love it. I used to have united. I won't call mates, but like acquaintances. Honest to God, not heard from in a decade. So I used to dread it because, you know, we used to banter that we used to get texts and that and used to see some of work even. But don't see him anymore. Don't hear from him. So there's really nothing. There's no, there's no banter that I'm anticipating. Like if we lose, you know what I mean? So yeah, I feel good. I feel like Luton was a great, a great way to set up the weekend in that. I don't think we were feeling that great about the way we were playing. We're getting good results, but I don't think anybody thought we were our best. The games were a bit nervy. I think you could sense that in the crowds, particularly what Chelsea and Bournemouth. Bit tight, bit nervy, but that's why Luton was such a great result and a great performance. Because I know they got it back to 3-2, but I don't think anybody thought we were going to throw it away. So I think all things considered coming off the Luton win, the clear win at Luton and considering how bad these are and how injured they are, I'm excited. Could be famous last words. I'm with you though. I'm excited, but I'm always cautious of famous last words with this fixture. Even look at years gone by, particularly under Oli. Even then, we were streets ahead of them on paper. For some reason, they just seemed to be able to pull out these results out of nowhere. You do have to be a little bit cautious, but Martin, you're always a very calm guy. When it comes to people overreacting or people worried or people nervous, did the Luton game make you feel good about going into the derby? Was that a performance you think we needed to see? I felt good about the performance. I think it matters not a job for the derby. Listen, you normally get cool, calm, collective, confident. I'm the opposite on derby weekends. Derby weekends are the one time that I go to bits, I go to bits at derby weekend. I saw that it's not just me. I don't know whether it's because a lot of my mates are reds, and I work with a lot of reds, and within 30 seconds of them scoring a goal, my phone will go zip, zip, zip straight away. I don't know what it's going to be, but I just hate them. I don't enjoy them. They're not games I enjoy. I just want to get them done out of the way, see you later. That is probably the only last old-school part of me left in that. That's the only thing. Listen, we beat these with Ben Gianni at the Swamp. So I never sit there and think, oh, look at the things Ben Gianni bagged. Ian Brightwell's bagged at the Swamp. So I'm not sitting there going, oh, great. It's just one of them fixtures that you don't enjoy, but Luton was amazing. It was proper cup game of football and to watch KDB. And for me, Erlin Harlan's best ever performance in a city shirt, and I do not underestimate that in any way. I thought he was electric. He did everything. That is the closest performance from Erlin Harlan. You'll ever get to a hurricane. Holding the ball up, coming deep, fighting off his defenders, spinning them off the shoulder. It was just unreal, alongside Kevin De Bruyne. So yeah, I love Luton, but does it mean nothing for the derby for me? I agree with your point on Erlin Harlan. You can definitely see the hurricane side of his game now. Over the past few weeks, you've seen him dropping deeper. I think this season he more so. You have seen him dropping a bit deeper and not just kind of like hanging around the box. Sometimes I've said, yeah, I get it. Sometimes I kind of just wanted to stand in the box and be a nuisance in there, but Luton kind of perfected the art. He had Mengi in the centre back. He had him on toes. Every time he got the ball, holding the ball off him, Mengi couldn't do anything. I think half the time Mengi was actually fouling him. Never got pulled on it. He probably should have been booked, but it never happened. And he was dusting him every single time. So it's good to see Harlan like that. And I think... I'm team Martin, by the way. Huge team Mulv. Let us know in the chat. Are you team Martin or team Mulv? Mulv's confident buzzing for the weekend. Martin's a bit like me and a bit nervous for the weekend. Shitting it, basically. And not really looking forward to it. It's a fixture that you look at and go, get that over with and hopefully that we win it and we can be buzzing about it. Let us know in the chat which team you're on. I'm the exact same for the weekend. I don't think fixtures matter beforehand, but it was nice to see us play that way against Luton. Do I think any way we played the game before Diaby is going to translate into that? No, because Diaby Day, both teams have been well up for it. I think it's kind of like a standalone occasion Diaby Day. It's a form goes out the window situation for me. I mean, logically, they should not be coming to the area on Sunday and getting anything, shouldn't they? I mean, I know footballing played on paper and footballing played on form and form was at the window for the Diaby, but I mean, come on. If we're at the races on Sunday, like I believe with this game, we're our biggest, we're our own biggest obstacle. If we turn up to our own level and play our game and don't drop down to theirs, don't let their low block, which is inevitable. They're going to play with a low block and hit us on the counter because it's the only proven formula they've ever had, or they've had in years that's had success against us. As long as we're at it, logically, come on, man, let's use our brains here. They shouldn't be coming and getting anything. The only thing that stopped us against them or tried to stop us against them lately is the referee. We lost 2-1 at Old Trafford. Offside. Yeah, that offside that never was, or offside that. We're not better over that at all. Yeah, not at all. It's funny how we all still call it offside. We're all the Rashford offside. Not the Rashford onside. It's always the Rashford offside because we believe it. The only chance they got in the FA Cup final was a dubious handball on Jack Grealish, right? Nobody ever remembers how they scored that goal. I don't think. But it was... I forgot that to be fair. And Grealish jumps for it, hits his arm, and they got a penalty. Yeah, it was a bit hard, done by his arms on the way down, isn't it? It was hard. He got on the way up to it. His arms on the way down to go by side. I'm with you logically. We're streets ahead. But, you know, weird things can happen. I will admit that. Just as long as we don't self-destruct, we don't have Rodri grabbing anybody by the throat, or the referee doesn't have a nightmare. I think we're... Can I say one more thing on Martin? I was uncomfortable with what Martin said about Erling Harlan and Harry Kane. He said, that's the closest he'll get to a Harry Kane performance. The difference is, Kane's not getting five in that game. No chance, because Kane doesn't have the pace to get in behind and score a couple of the goals that he got there, or to make that quick burst to get... He did it on a couple of occasions. So, while I agree with you that the hold-up play was very Kane-esque, right? And that's great, because that's the piece that he's missing, Harlan, that is. But I would argue, Kane is missing a couple of the finishes that Harlan had in that game, so... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm talking more than... Because there's only one Erling Harlan's finish. I am talking about the overall hold-up play and everything else. By the way, it's Michael Oliver. Okay. Is it Michael Oliver? Someone in the chat would say it's Andy Maddley. Sure, it's Oliver, yeah. I'm not showing a little chat now. No, mate. No, it's Maddley. No, mate. I'm going to complete another wrong mate. No, I just... Do you know what it is to me? I want to score early. He's going to be so important on something. Get the goal early. Because you know what United are going to do. They're going to do what every other team does this season. Come and just... Back 20. Don't move. They can't even have 20, but it feels like a back 20. It just feels like, you know, everything. And especially with all their injuries. And they just... I just think they're not going to come and do anything. They're going to try and catch us out on the break again. All the time. Which, under Solskjaer, they were very good at. Because it was one ball, Rashford or Marchielle, and they were in every time they came to the air yard. Dan James. It was one ball every time. And you're like, God's sake. But it's one of them. It's one of them. We get an early goal, settle the nerves down. You know. We can be four up again at half time. That would be nice, but... I mean, I've got a question. I've got a question for the United fans at some point in this stream, by the way. Because they are watching. They are watching. If you are, make sure you've hit the live button. Hit the live button. Come to the shot. Let us know. It's like everybody's welcome, and you're being relatively respectful. And you're bringing good vibes. But everybody, make sure you've hit the live button. It's 200 of you here. I do want to go back to the Erling Haaland conversation slightly. And talk a bit more about him. Because there was a period there. It seemed like for a long time, but it was only a week, really, where we played Chelsea, Brentford and Bournemouth. And he got one or two goals in that period. But he did, obviously, miss quite a few chances. And people were starting to lose their heads. To count people down a bit with Haaland and realise that he knows their chances he should have scored. And he's too good for him to have just fallen off a cliff. And Erling Haaland is now one of these players who needs five, six chances to score a goal. I said it was only a matter of time before he hit someone for three, four or five. It turned out he hit someone for five the other day. For you guys, does it feel like this is happening at a good time? Like it's all happening at the right time? Because this is the first game of a massive, massive month. You look at the Premier League fixtures we have. I think having De Bruyne score, or the assist for Haaland score five, Foden, I did a video, or a quarter of Iran is going to come out later on tonight, I think, on the channel, giving him his praise that he deserves. For me, it feels like the team is clicking into gear at the right time. And people forget this thing, that timing with the Premier League, specifically the Premier League, because it's such a marathon, is absolutely everything. And it feels like, I hope it's one of those moments that we look back on at the end of the season and go, that was the day that City turned the screw. Do you think that would be a fair analysis move and maybe something we could be confident from? No, I agree with that, mate. I was actually... Remember that winning streak we went through? I don't know how many wins in a row it was on the trot. But I thought to myself, uh-oh, are we peeking too soon here? Because we do have a tough stretch coming up, and obviously the later rounds in the Champions League are coming up. And then it tailed off a bit. I think Chelsea, I'm thinking of. Just a couple of performances on either side of that, I thought, okay, yeah, we've doled off a bit. But the connection between Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Harland, which was on full display against Luton, if those two can peek at the right time, that's going to be so important for us. I think the worry maybe is some of the other players particularly, like I'm thinking on the wings, aren't in the best of form. But if the wingers could step up, I'm thinking about Doku and maybe Oscar Bob in the absence of Jack Grealish. Bernardo's even... I don't know what you think, but Bernardo's been just sort of off it for me. Thank you. Someone else assumed. Yeah. I don't like saying stuff like that because I'm not a great watcher of the game, to be honest with you. So the stats may prove me wrong, but I just think he's been a little bit off it. But if a couple of those catch fire and the De Bruyne and Harland connection keeps going, I think this is the time that we need to peek because this month is madness. So yeah, I don't think we peeked too early. I think the peek is probably coming. That's my point. I completely agree. I think it's such an important period of the season where we're involved in a lot of competitions. Obviously, FA Cup Champions League and Premier League, all three of them are in, especially the timing for us. It's not great. It's not ideal, the fact that we're playing all these teams, these big teams in a space of a short time mixed in with big knockout games. Fortunately, which is why I wanted the first leg of the Champions League to kind of kill the game off, which I think it kind of has done. There's almost a little lifeline, but I don't really see them beating us by one or two goals next week. I think that's proved to be a good thing that we've got them two goal advantage there because if it was a one-one or something really close in between all these big games, throwing a new castle there in now as well, I think it's a massive difficult period. If we're going to hit form, this is the exact time to do it. The exact time to do it. I think this is the make or break of our season. If we can come out of this period on top of the Premier League and still in them two competitions, and that is incredible. And honestly, if we get through the period on top, I think we win the pram. This is it. This month will determine it. Don't you think also fitness-wise, he's played it really well? I think it's just grilish that we're struggling with. Just grilish is out. Yeah. I mean, that's really well done by the whole club, really, to get to crunch time and have only one, probably gets in your first 11, right? That's missing. That's great. And Roger's done a great job of staying out of trouble. Yeah. Yeah. He's got his cool heads on in it. I put some eyes back on his head at halftime just to make sure. Yeah. I think that's a really fantastic point about fitness. And Pep, I think, has learned a lot about this himself over the years, through trial and error, about when to have the team, hopefully, if all goes to plan performing and in the best shape possible. You even just look at some of the decisions he's made in isolated matches in recent weeks, like giving Philip Oden a night off a couple of days ago. De Bruyne up being put on the bench or not playing a couple of weeks ago. He's not played John Stones in a game where we're probably saying, why didn't he play John Stones? And so on and so forth. Taken Alvarez out of the team when there's a lot of spotlight on him. And he's probably playing too much, particularly in the midfield. So you'd like to think that all this adds up to peak performance. And a point I made to you, Jordan, and on Joe's podcast was that, for me, when everyone was panicking about also not scoring enough goals and, you know, Arsenal are hitting people for four, five, and six. And Liverpool are hitting people for four, five, and six. I said, it's not going to get much better than this for them. And they're not going to sustain it either. Liverpool and Arsenal, they just simply won't sustain slapping teams for four, five, and six for the next three months. Whereas we're one point off top, unbeaten since the 6th of December. And we're playing unconvincingly, up until the Luton game, of course, that was. We're playing unconvincingly. You'd like to think that if we click into Geer Martin and start playing convincingly, like start to bring those performances like the Luton game and build off them. There's a lot to be got from that. And there's a lot to be excited about. Yeah, no, absolutely. I think Liverpool are running on pure emotion at the moment. Because there's not, I mean, and people hate me for this, and I think I'm going to go, they're clock kids, whatever you want to call them or Chris and they're more, whatever you want to do to make people want to, you know, they play Chelsea, let's be honest, should have scored in normal time. And they played Southampton. They haven't played anyone properly yet in terms of, right, let's see how good these kids are. I know they're going to need two or three, four plays back by the city game. They can't go out without 11 against those at Amfield. Not a kind of chance, because that is proper deep end stuff. That is right, deep end, you go. Because that is then you're at the title situation. You can't be then throwing your title on 16, 17 year olds. Not that many. You can get away with one or two, you're not going to get away with six, seven, eight. No way doing it. Arsenal doing very well at the moment. Arsenal, like we have over February, I've had a nice run of fixtures, still got a beat what's put in front here. But Arsenal, what I come to will soon, they've got the top, they've got there, now Plunder and Diab will be coming up, still got to go to United. We don't know where United will be in four or five weeks. United are a team where one week they're brilliant, or one week they can be absolutely crap and still get a result. You just don't damn well know what you're going to get with it. But with those, this is why I've been so confident is we're just like, we've just faded into the background. Everyone's ignored our run. We won like, what is it, 16 out of 18 now. Not lost again since the 6th of December. And it's mad to think it's so gone under the radar because people have been talking about the 4 and 5s, Liverpool and Arsenal are putting in and ignoring our 1-0 wins. But fine, we're still in third gear. Wait till we've got a fifth gear, like you said here, because they ain't going to do 5 and 6s each week. That's why I've not been worried about the goal difference. As long as we can keep there within the goal difference, I've been happy with it, because you can turn around 4 or 5 goals. One game, two games in your back. I've just been so comfortable, the Brighton game has now been moved for the Newcastle Cup game. So we've got a more different, for some reason it is always Brighton the way that I get shifted back to. Brighton and I are having a good spell at the moment. So you've got Villa coming up at home, we've got Palace away. It's just, at the moment, we've just got to take it game by game and see where we land for me. But I just, I don't know why I'm just so confident with it. I'm not in an arrogant way in a more pragmatic and know what I'm going to get from this team. I don't know what's going to happen with Liverpool. Liverpool doing, I don't know. They've got injuries galore, I don't know what they're going to do. Arsenal, I can't judge them properly. They're playing very, very well, but I'll judge Arsenal when they come to the AAD. It's an AAD one. But it's going to be exciting, but I've said it all along, it won't be three teams by May. It'll be down to two. Some teams going to drop by May. I don't know who it will be. Obviously I don't think it'll be us, but I don't think it'll be three. That's right until the end of May. I hope it's not us. I hope it's not us. And I generally don't believe it will be either. There's some super chats and member chats, so I'll pick up to Jake first for the 18 months, pick up mate. It says, go on, Molve. Yes, yes, Jake, mate. Doctor 40 with a 14, Zah. He says, treble, daddy, I'm on my knees for your big treble. Cheers, Doctor 40, mate. Whatever you do is what you do, mate. Muhammad with a two. Big up Muhammad. He says if CityScore early, United will open up. I agree with that. It's getting that first goal. Always opens up the team, helps us play out a little bit, rather than just sticking out a little bit. Oh, seconds would be nice. Yeah, repeated the Gundo situation. It'd be... Was it you, Molve? It could have been six seconds if Edison didn't hang around. Yeah. Pop it, Edison. It was a joke tweet, and then I had all the well-actually guys in the replies, like, well, first of all, it wasn't Edison, and second of all, they wouldn't have been in the positions that had been in. It was a joke, lads. It was just... I found it funny. Well, thank you, because it was supposed to be funny and not factual, so... It's a real stuff thing when you've got to now put context behind the tweet. Yeah. It shows underneath the context of what's going on and correct things. Someone needs to do that to your tweet, though. Yeah. Simo sucks with a 21 mubs. Yes, yes, Simo, mate. He says, I usually hate Derby Day, so he was team Martin with me. However, he's traded. He's gone to a team Molve this time. He says, after the performance from Katie B and Harlan the other night, it's impossible not to look forward to it. Let's smoke him. This is for me. Are you not fanning United fans being so weird at the minute? I'll take 4-0 now. No, you wouldn't. You're not really thinking that. As much as we were crap back in the day, I never went to the swamp and going, as long as we want to get to eat 4-0, I'm happy. You never went with that attitude. It's setting expectations, aren't they? Said was in our chat when we did the watch, and he was worried about the weekend. I don't believe it. I think they called them themselves. Yeah, because then if it happens, they go, I told you this would happen. I told you it ended up like this. I had a friend of mine text me today saying he'd be buzzing to lose 2-1, because it's a respectable score and they got to go and I was like, mate, shut up. It's such an L-mantality. Where's the heads gone? Back you see. The great man United. The great man United. It's crazy. It is actually crazy. Over there in the Super Chat, with a £2. He says, JP, give me £10. You give me £10. There you go. What was your answer to that? Two dollars. So... I like the Super Chat from Muhammad a lot. And I think it opens up a conversation about potential ways the game could go. If you throw your minds back to the old Trafford game in October, I was fortunate enough to be there. It was just an unbelievable performance from City. We got that goal. It was so obvious the heads of the players dropped. The man United players dropped. They just gave up. They stopped playing. I think that if we score early on Sunday, there's a good chance we could give them a real tanking. Because this man United to you, I'm sorry, I watched enough of them. They have no character. They have no fight. But when things are going against them, they drop the heads and they turn into 11 red training cones. Early goal and I'm so confident. I'm so confident. Even first half an hour. Someone's clipping that right now. 11 red training cones. He's 11 training cones and I don't want to dig it. Yeah, man. Yeah, someone's saying that. He's setting himself up here. I love to see it. He is spot on. That's why I think the early goal is crucial. Because that's the United's game plan at the window. If you look at all the times we've got these 1-0, especially at home, it's because we've not scored early. The longer you go 0-0 at home, you're giving the away team all the advantage and all the confidence. Because their game plan is working. As soon as that goal goes in, their game plan has to sort of change. That's what I'm saying. That's what they don't want. So the earlier you can do it, it's like you listen to your nightmare and sit at the derby at Wembley. After 12 seconds, that was it. The game plan went out the window. They didn't know where to go with it. That's my game plan gone. 12 seconds. Everybody's got a plan until you get punched in the mouth. Yeah. I like that. I like that. They have a punch in the mouth. Our plan is to punch them in the mouth. That's what we've got to do in Wembley. Nah, I'm there. I want to give them a kick lower down. It is factual. I don't know if you guys watch them at all on a week-to-week basis, but whenever I do tune in, they don't have a game plan as it is. They don't have a style of football as it is. They'll turn up with the run of the mill. Give them a ball to get out, show them to run. That's the game plan. Yeah. Are you feeling better about our defending at the moment? Right. Particularly when it comes to them and their counterattacks. I'm worried going into pretty much all these big games on the sense of the high line that we're currently running. It does. It does mean that we can see chances. Now, Luton, I've got to say they were two very good goals. The second goal, obviously, Steffen, I'll tell you, I always do that. I'll tell you, did just pass it out, basically. But I do think that we're conceding a lot of chances, I'd say. I think Borm of Salanke had a chance as well in behind. I think it's I was actually going to ask this as well, whether we think we will run with that same system that we're going with now, just a high line, push quite high up and then it's almost, it's high risk, which is not usually what Pep likes. It's high risk because obviously you can see them chances. But I think Pep's trust, I think our offside track's been really good. He's trusting our defenders to do that and obviously it allows us to win the ball back earlier on and keep that pressure on the team. I think, I feel like there's two big decisions. One, who's going to play on the left wing and the second is Kovacic. Does Roger need Kovacic next to him in this or can you afford to play a more attacking play, like say Foden and De Bruyne together in the eights, or do you need Kovacic in there? I think Kovacic has been really, really, really good recently. I do too. But then also you could even say does Nuna deserve to play? He looked good through the night. Obviously really should be now. Yeah, people are saying rather than playing Doc, who left wing, who's not really been hitting right now and go throw Nuna's in there instead. It's not Nuna's to make, there's two Wildcats to make which base hopefully you'll understand what I mean. Gabbardio does he come back because Gabbardio comes back, you add us, you're going to play that line. Yeah, Gabbardio comes back your high line is guaranteed. And then the other one is Alvarez. Oh man, I don't know. I don't know. I'm going to bench Alvarez again. That'd be three in a row. Yeah, and that's what Alvarez or Kovacic, you can't play. Well, to me, it should be folding KD Bay, Nuna's and Bernardo. Is that kind of front line and then Highland is up top of that. It's the 4-1-4-1, isn't it? KDB the free roll, he can do the dirty stall. Bernardo can do the dirty stall. I've just this weekend needs to be balanced, controlled as we can get it. You put Alvarez in, you're going to have to kick somebody out. Folding then gets drafted out onto the wing, because you know where he's going. And I just think it messes. We become so unbalanced. So unbalanced. This team thrives on controlling possession and controlling the way that a game goes. We need to dictate play and the way that the game is going to be run. That's how we play football. It's a lot of patients involved in there and it's a lot of us mentally draining the other side passing the ball about left-right. That's why most people just call us boring all the time. When we don't have that we look lost and that's where both Chelsea games not the Spurs Cup game, the one where we drew all the games round that period it was very hectic which is not what I'm used to seeing from anyone's seen from a Pepside. That's what I don't want this weekend. We were going to previews and every week I just kept saying just get some control. Just control the game. Just control the game. That's all I was saying just because that's really what I wanted. Hopefully hopefully Sunday is it. I think Calver is in there you sacrifice a little bit of that control if you play in the midfield. He just keeps calling me out well card, well card. I'm like I don't know. Such a weird one. I know the team I want and I know the team that would work at least where the Pep will do that. It's Pep Vardiola. This is why I'm not as confident as maybe I should be because it's Pep. I think a lot depends on how he sees United as a side. Definitely like the Luton game. I think he knew they were going to be open. So that's why you saw all carriers FC. You saw Bernardo, Nunes, Kovacic all in there carrying the ball. It's whether he sees them as more of a low block type in which case the ball carriers probably go to the bench and other players come in like Alvarez. I just think we lose control with Alvarez. I just think he slows down the overall tempo of our game. People find our hearts differentiate between analysis and full blown slander of a player. I like Alvarez and I like him in the number nine role. If it was totally down to me, I'd just have him as the bench striker and you rotate him with Erling Haaland when needs be and when must be. If you want to take Haaland and give him a break, you can start Alvarez and I think Alvarez will do a fine job. There's no coincidence that we play our best football when proper midfielders are playing in midfield when proper wingers are playing on the wing. The cameos, the 20-minute cameos from Jack Greenish were seen against Copenhagen and against Luton. All of a sudden the team looks really fluid. Kovacic is a seasoned elite level midfielder and when he's feeling himself and he's playing well, all of a sudden Manchester City play him well. I really like the dynamic and the influence that Matteo Kovacic has on our team. He talked about backups for Rodri and it's been an ongoing conversation for ages now. I never wanted anybody to come in and be Rodri. I just wanted someone to come in and keep the tempo going, keep moving the ball at a good pace, chip in with a shot or a goal here and there when you can, but the main thing is just keep the flow going. Don't slow it down. And right now for me there's two players that do slow it down slightly and it's probably through no fault of their own and that's Alvarez because he's not a midfielder, he's not wired like a midfielder, he's not bred to be a midfielder and that's Jeremy Doku because Jeremy Doku is young, he's raw, he's a lot to learn. If you look at Jeremy Doku, there are times, surely if you're watching the games they're just saying the same as me where you're like okay, release the ball, release the ball, release the ball and he doesn't release it and this slows everything down. So with the midfield, I prefer Alvarez not to be there but Pep really likes to shoehorn him in when he can. And then I want to talk about the left wing, obviously Jack really is his injury is for me a massive, massive bow. As I just said, I think when he's in the team everything functions at a really nice pace and people are saying, obviously Dr. Fuddy here in the chat said Nunes Screamer, I've seen the script. I like Mateus Nunes. Obviously Jack really won't be available for the weekend. I don't know, how do you see the I suppose the front three lining up but more specifically the left side? Yes, so I'm going to answer the question I posed earlier which is how does Pep see United? Does he see him as an open team or more a low block? I'm going to bet on them low blocking. In which case you need locks picked and he needs to decide who is his best lock picker on the left if it's not going to be Jack Grealish. He's got I think three options Nunes Dockoo and Oscar Bob and personally I think the best lock picker of the three against the low block is Oscar Bob so it would not surprise me if he came in on the left I would say Bob Dockoo Nunes just Nunes Dockoo edges out Nunes just for the experience on the left wing but wouldn't shock me if it was Oscar Bob I kind of I kind of think it's Dockoo What are you saying? I want Nunes but I think Oscar Bob is a shell Oscar Bob is a good shell Oscar Bob is the in-between Dockoo and Grealish because he's grown up playing the Manchester City way Pep Guardi all the way he's grown up with this coming out with EDS playing that system he knows what he's doing he's like Oscar Bob coming down that left wing putting the ball across cuts him up but again it's the Gavadio that left hand side depends on who the money left back is there might not be a left winger there it might end up being Gavadio because that's the issue when Gavadio's there Gavadio becomes a left winger this is why I think it'll be Bob because that left winger I think is going to find themselves inside and find themselves centrally and of those three Nunes, Bob and Dockoo the player with the most ability in tight spaces is Bob and I think United are just going to pack that box it's going to be flooded with red shirts and Oscar Bob is the lock picker the best lock picker of the three of them I mean he did take Hakey off Tuesday I think I think Hakey starts the weekend I just think he's been solid recently and Gavadio did he play it against him at all? No He's not played at all since he's been injured I don't know if he's matched I just think it'd be a higher risk from Pep to throw Gavadio and now obviously he can't put it can't put it against Pep something that he wouldn't do if it happened it's just something that Pep does but I think Hakey will start so I do think it allows a little bit of freedom to whoever is on the left wing because I don't think Hakey will do a Gavadio job but I do agree with what Moe is saying I do think whoever is going to play on that left wing is going to tuck in we've seen it with Jack Grealish now it is very unfortunate that Grealish isn't available and he's re-upped his injury because he was looking incredible again and I was buzzing for him you can see him crying on the bench because he knows it's just another hit it's just another hit to his starting spot now it would have been perfect the game at the weekend I think we all said when he first got the injury that we was hoping that he'd be back by United to go through this month it's not to be so I think I kind of agree I think I'm leaning towards Ed says docus I just think that's what people do but what I want is someone who's a bit more versatile who can push up a little bit into the midfield like we see from Jack Grealish maybe he's at the car walking on the right who goes with Gavadio does Gavadio scare you that much? I hope it's four centre backs you know what it is with Gavadio and maybe it's May the way we can see goals is virtually rinse and repeat at the moment it's one ball for the guy over the top Gennacho's going to be their guide the same way Sterling and Nicholas Jackson was the guide for Chelsea now listen I don't think Gennacho's a great finisher but he'll play on the guy and make the run that's what he'll do so and that's all it is with me it's nothing like I'm worried I can picture it in my mind what's an eyes going to tell him to do I know what he's because there's nothing else he can do they've got nobody else there's no Rashford I mean the one bad thing today is Harry McGuire has been ruled out damn it was open he played yeah apparently he's out in there I've never seen that I know Bruno's been begging to get out of this fiction for the last yeah I'm sure Rashford was out I've read somewhere Rashford might be out for this so where was it I read it maybe I'm wrong it'd be a big loss from the way Rashford's out Bruno's tried but I just yeah I know what I want because my line is quite simple but he's I want stones and he's like he's gonna come back in obviously he's gonna go back out there's a lot of plays a minute who deserve to play who are gonna lose out obviously he does not deserve to go down to the bench but he's gonna come back in the rodra and then on the other side of my mind I'm going Alvarez, Alvarez, Alvarez I just can't get out my head 27 straight Premier League starts here yeah just on the United I saw 10 Hargs say that he's basically using the same squad he used against Forrest midweek so I think Rashford is in but what he's saying is none of the players that were unavailable at Luton will be back so that's one Bisaka, Marchelle Martinez, Luke Shaw Mason Mount Rasmus Hoyland and Mamba Tak and Mount still out as well has Mount ever been in? I don't think it's turned out this year he's got that 7th shirt come on now yeah the jinx so I'm just looking at who did because I'm not gonna lie I don't sit and watch United on the regular I'd rather go and you know jump through fire hoops and watch United every week that's it I'm fine is that a skillio's mind? that's my video we're doing since you had a nine of the lot Lindelof Varan, Amrabat McTominac, Kazemiro Anthony played Bruno played Gannacho and Rashford and on the bench they had a bunch of kids and Erickson Amrabat's not a footballer by the way oh Johnny Evans so yeah they've even got the yeah they've even got McTominac you know and Antna so yeah on paper United aren't a scary team in this life I'm getting more confident now you're going on your own come on one of us one of us the more you when you read out the plays that are going to be playing on the pitch I don't think United are a scary side to look at on paper I just don't see it it's just because it's Diabede my ass just falls out on Diabede so I can't really help it I'm sticking with this side the whole way but I do think it's going to be I hope it's going to be a good weekend obviously I'm expecting a big performance from us but it's one of the ones where I'll take a one now do you want to hear a story quick Rob how nervous I got Diabede remember when we played two or three years ago when Sarnay played Old Trafford did Sarnay score who scored and we had to beat them when we were going with Liverpool had to United with an up and out of silver yeah but I drove up into the hills to lose signal so I did not know the score hahahaha oh my god I literally went with no one and I couldn't get no info about the game and then I just put it on after nine minutes you know there's a thing on your phone there's a thing on your phone that I got you just put that on I literally get like nervous on Diabede I'm like no forget it hahahaha I hope you're going I hope you're going I hope you're going to the game I'm going to the game it was more of I mean I had a ticket as well I was like I just don't like them because I've not got a good record at the swamp I've never seen as I've never seen it as well I don't see superstition as well yeah I just I hate them this is the team I hate it's the club I hate the fan base that ruined my childhood absolutely ruined everything about my childhood bullied me I hate them I just I despise them this is one club that I cannot stand and that's why I get so nervous because I just hate them I hate them with a passion well they went to professional league by the way 10, yes yes bro if we're going to mentally drain teams controlling the ball is great but we need to back the goals to deflate their energy teams open up when we lead there's your 10 pounds old colt man JV hahahaha 10 dollars I know it was a fair with the 8 with the 2 on top of it it probably works out yes yes pie mate big up bro yeah obviously it's all going to have the possession in that you've got to score your chances now Harland off the back of scoring 5 goals I mean Hugh said yesterday probably could have been about 8 goals he had a few chances that he'd probably looked back and go should have scored that one as well but after back of scoring 5 goals I think he's going into the game in good form I know what you're saying like form and the team is out the window and that but it's good to have Harland scoring that and for me the connection of Kevin De Bruyne in early in Harland to get that fully flowing to the both on the same page I think that's quite important for them to have that good link up and I think it's something that we might see more of on Sunday that one where Harland didn't even look and the ball just appeared in front of him incredible magic Harland was playing balls through to KDB as well yeah he's doing it for each other now there was another chance as well where KDB I think ran inside the box and he went for the shot instead however on that occasion he could have passed to Harland as well just like he did on Harland's goal I think what made it 6-0 on fire more than anything yeah he had crowd I'm going to say this anyone who's sitting watching this no light show, no nothing stay blue moving on and let us do it let us do what we need to do because there you have it there's got to be rocking for a minute one on Sunday rocking I want them walking out the door again at half time yeah my question was quite, I was going to ask you I just want to know if United fans have bought a full ticket or a half a match ticket and they're all off out the door at half time because that's what I want again I want Hugh to look over it at half time and have nobody in that way end again it's a good feeling I've had it a few times it's a very good feeling 6-3 no light shows, no blue lights let us do what we need to do because we'll do it I agree there's been a few games this season where the atmosphere hasn't been good enough for the size of the fixture like the Liverpool game the half 12 Liverpool game we can't have a repeat of them but in Liverpool half 12 it was like a funeral procession like what we do in here it'll be good we need big energy man big energy because obviously it does impact the team as well I mean you feel that energy when you're in the stadium so I think that's crucial the final Ronaldo one when he went for Michael Ball when he tried to do ball with 2-3 the thing he got sent off as well was Pace's last one and we were singing Blue Moon as the players were in the tunnel I remember one of the players saying the stadium was shaking was shaking in the tunnel and he just couldn't wait to come out that's how it's got to be we need that again we need that again I reckon that's a good one I'm going to have no I'm going to have nothing I'm going to have nothing he's done he's done thank you man my wall is gone now is that enough I've done it that's what I will flip flippers this weekend goes on so will I so will I the thing is I'm going to turn straight away to United after that looting game I'm confident I'll back us to win I don't know how we'll get that done I don't know if it's going to be a confident performance or it's going to be a shy little 1-0 win or something like that but even my confidence in the team to go and get the three points does not translate to me to me not being nervous I will be nervous throughout now having this conversation I'm nervous already I can feel it best believe 10-15 minutes before a couple of hours before kickoff I'll be a wreck I'll feel sick why did I choose football that's just the way it goes that's the way it goes for Diabede you don't enjoy Diabede no family can enjoy Diabede you've got to be a special kind of creature to enjoy Diabede if you're going to skip and dance into the air at 3 o'clock or something straight in mate alright boys there's a thing alcohol that helps that process and helps people skip and jump that's very true it's the day of the year that I needed the most I don't actually drink are you married are you married I'm talking about your family no be in the south stand bar he's neither he's neither married he's too busy man you're就 45 minutes to get a point getting tower I've been there after a game after a game we'll see how the result goes but listen you can get 30ワwa in the car straight back to bed Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen, I reckon that's a good note to wrap it up on. It's been a really enjoyable show. Make sure you check out Mulv at Noisy Bar. What's that? Mulv's got a podcast coming out tomorrow as well, the Derby Day podcast. I'm not sure it's out tomorrow or whatever it is, but he does have a show tomorrow, definitely. So go check out Mulv. What's coming up with you, Martin, in the Mancunian way, pre Derby? Nine o'clock Derby Special. Yes, they said. I've got United, fellow. Oh, go on, Martin. Well, I meant to have. He might have let me down by now. I know, I'll see what he's doing. But if he's seeing new change size to the Confident, he's probably not going to say enough. I'm not having that. No, I'm not having that. Not bothering. Well, I'll have a sale. I think it's a mass cast to come on. So the cast. Oh, yeah. They said this stream, by the way, will that redirect to Martin's dreams? And then I've got loads, absolute loads coming up. I'll say wait and see in the chat loads coming up. 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