 Yes, yes, people. Welcome back to another stream. Um, hope you're all doing very well on this Wednesday morning. It's a Champions League week. Champions League Wednesday. City are back second leg of Copenhagen the last 16. We take a three one aggregate lead into tonight's game. So we are in a pretty good position. It's obviously a pretty crazy week all round, isn't it? I mean, we have the Derby on the weekend, a three one win there or yeah, three one, which is pretty good. And then we play Copenhagen start, then we go to Anfield on Sunday. So bearing in mind, everything, you know, outside the Champions League, there's probably quite a bit of talk about regarding to tonight, like, you know, rotation will pep have Anfield in the back of his mind. Um, will you want to get minutes and some players legs? Who's available? We're going to get into it all, et cetera, et cetera. Do us a favor. If you're just joining us now, make sure you've hit that big like button. The goal, if you're watching on playback or now is, let's try to get 200 likes. So see what it's on. If it's not a 200, you do your bit and help it get to 200 likes and subscribe if you're new around here. Hope you all enjoyed the panel show yesterday. Um, but Jordy Porty, it's been a while since we spoke. Haven't supposed to since since Derby. Yeah, obviously that Derby day was unreal as we, as we all know, uh, we can call kind of basking it still basking now. I mean, I'm like a turtle in prime sun weather, bro. I've got them lights on me. This light here, bro. I'm just basking it, bro. Like that, honestly, it's, uh, next level turn to have that United game in the bag to get it done. You know more how much I hate Derby day. Uh, cause I feel sick before it, but I, um, obviously went our way. So I, I'm, I'm buzzing absolutely buzzing and it was a good performance as well. Um, and it's crazy cause it was a good performance, but I don't think that was sitting our best. I don't think it was, uh, I don't think it was close to our best. I think we've still got levels to go to go to get them, uh, them realm of drip performances that we've seen last season in that. So, uh, it's exciting to think there's more to still come from this team, uh, other than just dominating, uh, dominating them. But, uh, like you say, it's an important week because obviously big fixture Sunday. We've got this, which is a big fixture. It's just we've made it less of a big fixture by putting in the groundwork in the first leg and then obviously we've got Anfield at the weekend, but this is still a knockout, get a knockout game. And that's why the question is in the air of is Pep gonna rotate heavily here because it feels like we've got the job done or does Pep go strong, kind of seal the deal, get a goal or two up or like try and then, um, then take the players off because it's, uh, it's an interesting one. There'll be people with different opinions on this. I mean, because we've had the Derby just gone by and the magnitude of Sunday is so big. Sunday is huge, man. It's biggest game of the season. Sunday is the biggest game of the season. Yeah. Huge that it's quite easy to, to look at tonight as just kind of a stepping stone. Like you're just, we'll do our job and that'll be fine. But you have to pay respect to, to Champions League. We've been stung by the Champions League plenty of times over the years and lost and been knocked out in positions where we shouldn't have been. Now I have full faith we'll do what we need to do tonight and something we've done very well over the years is being able to go from Premier League mode to Champions League mode and vice versa. Um, so I've no doubt that Pep will ensure that the, the players he does choose are in the right frame of mind. But like, I mean, look, Copenhagen have a tough task. They've, they've to come to the Eddie had, and if they want to knock us out in normal time, they've got to score three, don't they? And I hope we don't score at all. Do I think that's a possibility? Probably not. I just, I don't, I don't, I don't think it's possible either. I don't think, I just can't see it. I can't see Copenhagen, Copenhagen beating us three now. No, no. It's, it's, it's tough one really because like, look, they're a decent team. They, they proved that a bit in the, in the first leg that came through a group of Galatasaray, Bayern Munich and Manchester United. So they're here on merit. I just don't see a, well, I think it needs to be just a comprehensive professional performance from Manchester City. Like we don't, I would rotate, I would rotate if I was Pep. Um, but our rotation team or team with rotated players still has the capacity and still should do the job against Copenhagen. I mean, after this round, it's going to get a lot more serious. Bayern Munich have just qualified. PSG have just qualified and expect Arsenal to qualify. I would expect them to do their job against Porto. You've got Real Madrid. So I don't know after this game how many more opportunities we're going to get at all for the remainder of the season, unless you get maybe a Coventry or someone in the, in the FA Cup semifinal to, to rotate a little bit. So I don't know what you think about that. Is it, is it kind of full rotation mode? Are you going Sergio Gomez and them or are you going to just take a few key Donny's out and, and see how it goes? I think a few key players out, but I still think Sergio Gomez could be, could be getting, getting game time. Not sure though, because of how much, how, how little he has played. Um, I kind of want a mixed lineup in my opinion because we still need to, um, get the job done. I mean, it still needs to, if we go to hand with rotation and start, say you start starting like Mika Hamilton, things like that, like all the proper youngster players, if you start rotating that, then you're allowing Copenhagen, the, the, the chance that you are, you are basically handing them a lifeline saying, yeah, well, look, we've just fielded all of our youngsters. You go trying, uh, basically they'll have, they've got more of a chance to score against those and our full, our full strength 11. Um, I don't want us to go full strength because, um, ta, players are tired. Pep referenced it in his press conference that players are getting tired after these few games. Obviously Rodry's played a lot of football. I just think it will be the standard rotated 11. I think maybe with just a few of the key players out, you could rest, you could rest KDB, rest owns, you could rest Rodry. Um, Phil Forden, potentially gets a rest. It's, um, the lineup would be good anyway. I put it to the lineup anyway, because it's going to be a difficult one to choose. It is difficult one to choose because we're at that stage of the season now where you have to be really careful with your selection and take every little opportunity you get to rest players. Now, whether that means you start certain players and you try and kill the game off like, um, city fan with chat says, why not go full strength and substitute the key players for Sunday? That's the other side of it. That's genuinely the other side of it. Like people will agree with that. They'll start the start of the full jump team and then take them off. I, I think there's certain players that don't need to feature at all tonight. Um, Rodry for one, I don't think he needs to start. I'd happily play or Mateo Colvichage in the number six. Rodry after tonight, essentially has to start every single game from here on in. I don't know how many Premier League games is there are left. There's 11 or 12. Maybe is that what we're out of 11, I think one game we took is 11. He has to play every single one. Champions League, he effectively has to play every single one unless we win the first leg of our next round, three or four and ill. FA Cup, he kind of has to play every round or at least start against Newcastle and then see who we get. So I'm kind of saying maybe like Colvichage, he's playing quite well as of recently. So I, I'd have no issue with that. Um, I'd probably play Holland. Um, I continued to play Holland, let him keep getting himself up to fitness and keep improving on his form. De Bruyne, uh, I'm not too sure. I kind of left the idea of resting him for the weekend. I mean, Holland did the press conference. So that would suggest he's going to start anyway, doesn't it? I suggest he'll start. Yeah. Uh, but it could be one of them rare occasions where it's just Holland is in the press conference and doesn't start. Every year, there seems to be one, there's always one where they have a pre, most of them, if they're doing the press conference to play in the game, that's usually the Bible, that's the gospel for it, but it's not this time in it like, it's not been on a few occasions and I'd be really surprised if Holland started again. But then it's Pep, it's Pep, Pep knows, like Pep respects his competitions enough to, to play in the big dogs. Yeah. I personally, I just thought I'll visit play. I've got, I've got Holland's quotes here from the press conference. I mean, Holland never does this kind of stuff. Like he hates, he hates media. So it's kind of like, look, normally I don't pay too much attention to press conference quotes because they kind of are what they are. It's the same sort of shit said week in week out. It's kind of why we bend off the press conference streams really wasn't it because you're not getting a huge amount from them. But Holland, when he does them, it's kind of worth reading a bit through. I mean, the first quote here is, I came here and won it all. So he's starting off with a bang. I mean, I came here and won all. Look, the thing with Holland and these press conferences, the press don't give a fuck what he has to say about the match. They don't, they have no interest in what he's to say about Copenhagen. It's quite clear all they want to know about is his future of Manchester City. Like we have a hold of Erling Holland here. We have a golden opportunity to pick his brain and see what he's saying. And he does speak about it. He says, I'm 23 years old. I'm won everything and I got a taste of it. How it is to win and how I work is that when I feel this, I want to win it again. He speaks a bit about Messi. People say I'm good at scoring goals, but I missed the biggest chance. He knows that chance he missed against United is a pretty yeah. As a stinker. That'll haunt him at night, years. But as I said, the main thing that they want to know about how long was his thoughts moving forward. And here he is on transfer links. I'm really happy I'm in city, especially with the people, the managers, the directors, the board, a group of amazing people. Tomorrow you never know what the future brings. But again, I'm happy you can write this, but I'm happy. My focus is mainly now in the pitch. There's a lot of games to two days ago at Derby, now the Champions League Sundays Liverpool. So I think I should focus on that. Now there's not a lot to work with there, but the media found a way to work with it. I saw a lot of headlines and a lot of outlets running with Holland's not ruling out Real Madrid. Holland is not ruling out leaving Manchester City. Is he thinking about next season? And then you had Goldbridge saying there's no way Holland's going to be there in two years. And this is why we can't let the fucker do media because people just go ham with his quotes. Yeah, but they've been saying this, like what Goldbridge has said, they've said that about everyone, they've said about the shakes, they've said about Aguero, they've said about that with Sotheby. Everyone that's good that comes from Manchester City. Oh, no way they'll be there in two years. Absolutely no way. They'll go off to Real Madrid or Barcelona. There's no guarantee that happens. Harlem might love it here. I might absolutely love it and just be like, you know what? Don't see it, don't see a reason to go anywhere else. They said it was the same with Pep. When Pep first came, they're saying shit is style of football can't work in England. And then when his football does work in England, they say rightly, only going to be here two years, only going to be here three years. Do you know what I mean? He'll leave at the end of this contract. Like and look at him. He's eight years in. Like there's no, there's no guarantees. There's no guarantees that like it's not, it's not a yes. Harlem's going to leave in two years. There's nothing like that. And but I agree. I think I think Harlem on press conferences. It just maybe that's why we don't see it a lot because he's always going to get asked those questions and it's always veered away from actual football. You know, it's been ages since how has been on anything press conference wise because they're still talking about Ballon d'Or questions to him. So I think it's smart from city to just keep him out of that side of it. Let him focus on the game on his game. Sorry. And just kind of separate him a little bit because like you say media circus just goes wild as soon as he says anything. The fact that he says, of course, just for people like the newspapers is not ruling out Real Madrid and that it's not really not Real Madrid, right? It's not going to burn his bridges say, I fucking hate Real Madrid. Me. I'm never going there. Imagine what do you think about going around with it? Nah, dead dead club don't like it. Right, bro. Why would you do that? It doesn't make any financial sense. No, you're not going to get any player in world football coming out and saying midseason. Nope. Nope. Nope. Never go in there. Likewise with a manager, like then they're never going to just shut down anything really. It's always the same answer and focus on right now and focus on the next game. And it just gives fuel and ammunition. I mean, look, Holland's in this really elite category of footballers and and and profiles that when they do press conferences, they go a bit wild and the press are just they're like vultures. So you have to protect them as much as possible. Like Mbappe rarely does press conferences. Ronaldo rarely did press conferences. Messi rarely did press conferences. Like, you know, pretty much stuff like Champions League, random Premier League games, because it was just it's just a nuisance for the player and for the club and the attention to the tracks. Now he they're probably and he's probably contractually obliged to do like a minimum amount. So he's probably just feeling his contract contract. Yeah, the quota and yeah. Yeah. So I think you won't see Holland on a press conference again for a long time because yeah, yeah. I agree. It's just a nuisance, man. We don't he doesn't need that. We don't need that. Pep doesn't need that. My personal opinion is I believe look, do I believe Harlem will stay forever? You don't know. You never know. But I believe both him and Pep will sign an extension of some sort. How long what the terms of that extension will be. I have absolutely no idea. And as I always tell you people, I'm not itk. You don't have to take anything I say as gospel. I just tell you what I hear through the grapevine that city are trying to open up or advance with talks with both of them. Don't know how far along don't know what the terms are. Don't know anything about it. I just know all parties involved are are happy to at least talk about it. So look, there's positives. Do I mean, don't don't worry about what people say. People are going to talk regardless. People want to see the back of this guy. People want to see the back of us. So it is what it is, man. And let's get back to the game. Make sure you've all hit the like button. Nearly 200 in the building. As I said, the goal is 200 likes on these streams. That's the new thing. 200 likes, man. And you can't make it possible. Well, most of these people can make it possible right now. I mean, there's many people in it now. You hit that button right now. We can get close to our goal of 200. How do you feel about the I suppose the running we're on now, but more specifically with a Champions League focus? Obviously, I would imagine that a full face will get past Copenhagen tonight. Then you're into the quarter finals where we see our roots to the to the final, hopefully. And you throw in the Premier League complications with that as well, the pressure of trying to win that. How do you feel about the Champions League as a competition? Is it is it your priority? Is it one that you're like, do you feel better about when the Champions League than do the Premier League? Like, where's your head up? So I had a good conversation with Big Steve about this. And he said he'd push it with Champions League this year. I was like, last night with Martin, more than Joe, they all said they'd rather the four people. I'd rather the four people. So no. But then Big Steve's argument for the because obviously I don't have an I don't I don't I don't I can't to play Big Steve's role in this, like where the Devils advocate. He you say in Champions League, you said because people remember about about Champions League more than they will. Four Pete, you said if you get a four Pete, don't like no one cares, said give it a bit, no one cares, said back to back Trebles. It's it's the Champions League. Massive. See that people know. But for me, I don't I want that four people. I watched 38 games a season. I want to win that trophy. I look at the Champions League. I love the idea of winning the Champions League back to back. I think it's incredible. We're fortunate to be in a position that we can talk about going and doing both. We can talk about the idea of winning the Champions League and win the Premier League. But if I had to choose, I'd 100 percent be choosing the Premier League. I think after this Premier League should we win it? My mind would probably flip to full Champions League mode. I'd be like, I want to start racking up European Cups, racking up sense, such an arrogant term. But I want to start, you know, building up that European pedigree further. But this season is like, look, you have the chance to do something no one's ever done. Clubs have one back to back Champions League. Liverpool in the forest, the one back to back Champions League. Real Madrid have done back to back Champions League. Clubs have done it. I mean, did Real Madrid do the three-peat of Champions Leagues? Three-peat, man. Three-peat. Is it that? Is it that? I mean, yes, it's special. And it is. Everyone knows that Real Madrid did that three-peat of the Champions League. So it does hit different. It does hit different when you win if you're back to back or three-peat of Champions League. But nobody has ever done a four-peat. Nobody ever will. Yeah. Four. Yeah. Four-peat for me. If we win four in a row this season, it will never in our lifetimes be done again. It's such a rare occasion in the Premier League because the Premier League is such a difficult competition. Exactly. Exactly. And it is always so much competition and there's always cycles starting cycles ending. So look like we are in the fortunate position where we can do both. But we've got to get over Copenhagen tonight. I mean, look, if if Pep does choose to rotate, which I believe he will, in some shape or form, we don't know how much or how little there's a real opportunity. There's a real opportunity for some players to put down a marker. We talk a lot about players taking their opportunities and those who haven't, not many haven't, prefer over the years. But like Calvin Phillips, you know what I mean? This is the kind of game where you've been looking at Calvin Phillips a year ago saying this is your chance to step up and improve something and, you know, try and get your name in the in Pep's mind for the run-in. So you're looking at players like, I don't know, Mateusz Nunez, Kowacic and who else is there? Maybe Oscar Bob, Alvarez even is probably in there now because he hasn't started a few times recently. It's a big, big chance for some of these players to put in a big European performance and get their names in Pep Guardiola's mind and earn some trust from Pep Guardiola because the reality is, look, even though we do see some consistency in selection in the last few weeks, you can kind of start to see what I call Pep's championship team being built, you know, his 11 men that he wants week in, week out. We're going to see injuries. We're going to see suspensions. We're going to see issues arise. So we are going to have to rely on while we're in three competitions a bit of squad depth. We're going to have to call upon some of these players and hope that they can do a good job. So I suppose it's just a great opportunity to see some of these players and see what minerals they're made of regarding these next few months because none of these guys have experienced what we're about to experience over the next two, two and a half months. The next two and a half months is grueling. It makes you feel ill. It's made me go gray over the years, taken years off my life. So what do you gray as well? Yeah, but you're you're actually won't bet on your age or age bet you, but you know what I mean? I know. I'm twenty nine forty two months. Forty two, forty two, forty forty. Yeah. Yeah, now I'm finding gray as man, stressful life being a city fun, but obviously we are blessed. We are blessed to follow this team. But I agree, I agree. Yes, it's great part of time. I do, bro. I agree. I agree. It's a big opportunity for players to to step up and show to show that they need to be in contention. This is around the time of the year where Pep finds he strongest eleven. So all three name out there man. And I agree. Plays Oscar Bob on that. Think they've they've got a chance to do that. Sergio Gomez not so much. Oscar Bob, though, definitely, I think it's a big opportunity for him. I'd I'd be looking at Oscar Bob tonight. Definitely I'd start. Especially especially with the new is obviously this was kind of like an out there one, one that we didn't really know about. But I think he's injured. Jeremy Duck who's injured. So I don't know what he's done, but he was missing in training. So we do have a free spot there if you wanted to rest someone like a Phil Ford and I'd be throwing in someone like an Oscar Bob if you don't want to play Phil Ford on the week. I'm a big, big fan of it. You know, I'm a big, big fan of Oscar Bob. I really really I think he's got really high ceiling. He does. He does. I think he's going to go very far on the game. And I think he's going to be one of those kind of players that makes it a Manchester City. I really believe he's going to make it. So look, tonight is another. I think he kind of has to play it, doesn't he? Unless he goes maybe Nunes on the left. He could. And that is that is a viable option as well because he did look good when he played off the left earlier the week. So much so that a lot of people was he was it. Well, he was in the conversation for playing on left against United. So it could just be a new Nunes left thing, which now I think about it kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of works. It kind of works for me now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Big up Lou back with the slip back. He's back. Lou back is back. Yes. Yes. I think we'll go very strong with only a few players getting rest who needed. Tep takes Champions League seriously, especially knockouts. That's why I'm not sure Lou on the level of rotation that was busy because pep has learned over the years. You do have to respect the competition and things can go fairly south. Like I mean, look, it's not what we're envisaging, but an early goal for Copenhagen and suddenly the tie is somewhat back on. You know what I mean? The tie is really, really back on and city have to up their levels and it's not a game where we can just cruise through and Copenhagen aren't going to do anything. Copenhagen have to come out. Do you know what I mean tonight? They have to come out from the blocks. They have to come out firing and they have to go and chase the tie. So that does work for them and they punish us early doors. We um that that's that's the thing. Thai MCFC makes a good point. Yeah, she's looking back on me for 16 months. I was back in my front dog. Give me one sec. Yeah. He's he's in demand. Thai you make a good point mate. Don't expect Copenhagen to roll over as pep will go strong and this is the thing that you've got to throw into it. Like I think he'll I think pep respects the competition as Lou says there. Pep does respect it and that's why I don't think it's going to be just all the youngsters playing. I don't think it's going to be a full rest a full rotation team. I personally think it's going to be a few key players just a few as Lou Beck says early back says I think it'll be a tax man coming after you. Yeah, guys not been paying his tax man is a he's going to get arrested. He's just been raided man. Um I think I think we can um we can expect to see players like Rodry be rested because I think pep trust coverage a little bit more now and I do as well. I think you'll do well in that in that CDM role. Um I think Rodry is going to be playing every game of the season like you said so there's not really much chance for him to get rest from now onwards. So I've been playing here. I've been resting Rodry. Kevin de Bruyne is a shout to be rested. Um he's a protective at all costs. Um and obviously we've still got full phone has been smashing it. So for me to be Rodry. Kev getting a rest. I think you could see John Stones get rested and I think despite early in Harlem then again I think he might just go with Harland. He might just go with Harland anyway because the issue that you've got is you don't want to go to you want you don't want to rotate too much. You rotate too much. It's not what's not peppy's not you'll respect the competition of it and I just don't see it. I don't see him full rotating at all. I don't I can't I can't see it. I think Harland will start. We're just saying who? Yeah taxman about time. Um we just say we're just saying then like what what plays do you expect to be rested? Rodry de Bruyne and Foden just those three other ones that I expect to be rested. I I was thinking Rodry. Rodry de Bruyne Stones. It'd be my three. I could see Stones too. I could definitely see Stones too. Um like Stones is one of those players that you have to be uh you have to wrap and bubble wrap as much as possible when you can because look it's brilliant as he is he's a very very injury prone John Stones and if we do want to fight on the front so we want to fight on we need John Stones and we need John Stones feeling good about himself so yeah I I think Diaz starts I think Vardio is back in training. Can we see him start? Vardio's fully back. Yeah. I wouldn't surprise me if he started maybe not left on side. You can have Diaz a kanji Vardio. I've seen a lot of people man not city fans and I prefer not city fans. A lot of people just throwing shade on Vardio like. Yeah people don't like him man but I mean I think you gotta give him time. He's young man he's really young and he's 21. He's 21 like he he's a baby compared to compared to most players in that squad. So you gotta give him time. I'm a big fan of Vardio and tonight's the kind of game that he needs. I mean another game where there's not ridiculous pressure because we have that that comfort of of a to-go lead and put a school one from to to keep working and keep developing a Manchester City. So we'll have to see I don't think Gomez real Mario. I don't think Sergio Gomez starts. I don't see I don't see it. I'm a fan of being I mean but his his career season it's a non-starter man like he's he's just kind of bad in his time. It's unfortunate. It's unfortunate work. Time to go. Yes. My G's mate Vardio and docushade is mad. It's year one pep tax. I agree. I agree. It is. It is. It is. If you're if you're if you're writing off city players and calling them flops after less than a year at the club, you don't know ball. You don't know Osmoides makes a good point. Rico Luis needs minutes. I feel like it's been a lifetime since we've seen him. Yeah. Yeah, I could see I could see Rico Rico over Walker. Rico over Walker Diaz a kanji Vardio. Yeah. She didn't she didn't she didn't 11. She just did 11 now. Makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well because we can do we can throw in a full 11 now a Prince 11 chat. And also if you don't agree with what we're doing, make sure you let us know so that we we can hold that L. We've been quite good this year, you know, bro. We have. We've been quite good. We've been one or two off a few on a few occasions. We've we've proved our ball knowledge this season. So we have we have proved it, bro. Let's FC you got land. Right. So as you know, we always just form I understand four, three, three, but we know the inverters and that really inverters. If we're going with Rico and Vardio, which one steps forward? Rico steps forward and Vardio plays left of back three. Yeah. Which stinks because I don't I don't see it happening. I think it'd be like how is he car walk and Vardio basically being left wing and right wing. It'd be like that. And but then you don't have a Rodriguez slot in that CDM that's a slide. That's not about role. Fahad says a bit of Fahad man. He says I don't see rest for the back four line for I don't see rest for the back line. So he thinks we're going to go with essentially the strongest back four that we've seen over the last couple of weeks the Derby Walker stones. Okay. Kimmy CDM real Mario. I'd love to get Kimmich. I'd love to get Kimmich. Don't want to be too reckless with the K changes as James as well. Yes. Yes. I appreciate it. It's so difficult man. It's so difficult. I think well we know that all take is going to be in there. Well we do. Do we know that all take should be in that is what I should say. Whether or not you will. I don't know. I'll take it will be but just a reminder we're only on a hundred likes now in this 250 in the building. The goal is 200 likes man. So if a hundred of you are that hundred and fifty haven't so hit the like button will hit our goal of 200. So make sure you have hit the like button and hit the like button screen. And or take a will play won't you imagine you play Or take a should play competent enough and it's more game time for him. I mean Edison is the better. I think it's it's a hard one to predict this one the hard one to predict as modus as Vario won't start it gets minutes later on in the game and that that is a show that is a show I think I think you're back, you're back to Diaz Akandji. I don't think the stones place. Yeah. Personally, I just rest stones, man. I thought if you got injured, I'd be gutted. Yeah. Like, think about a chat as much as you want to see the back four have some consistency. You have to be so careful with John Stones. You really do. The guy, the guy's not made of steel, you know what I mean? He may be called John Stones by name, but he's not made of cement by nature. Stones by name, not by cement by nature. That's funny. It's a bar. He's knocked out. You know what I'm saying? Like, we've learned the hard way with stones over the every season stones has bad injuries in them. So it will be quite detrimental for stones to pick up another bad injury now. I'd rather John Plaster. I'd rather he gets, I'd rather he has his injuries. He always has at the time he did. Now is not the time we need. We need John Stones at Anfield stepping into the middle this week being the extra man at Anfield. So arrest him, man. Arrest him. I see he's got a good line up there. He's got big Steven net. He's got me and you with Harland and Silver as their front line, which I think he'd be quite good. That bro. Yeah. John glass. Yeah. We've not had any game time yet. You know, I mean, it's about time we got picked. They don't fare really from pep. But it is what it is. Pep. I want to go. Lauren says I'll take it Diaz, a kanji, Vardiole Diaz, a kanji, Vardiole and Rico is what we was kind of saying then because then our K gets rest. It's still a strong back line. Rico is the guy you'll push up into the midfield. I think Rico Lewis starts. I think he does too. Lauren, that's free early subs there. Now I just want early sub for a big Steve. I don't think he's I don't think he's got that goalkeeper in. So then Vardiole on the left. Yeah. Then you get in stones and I K both get rested, which I think could be clutch. Walker gets some rest basically just to give Rico Lewis game time. I want to see Vardiole play left of the back three. I want to see Vardiole just play as a defender. I don't as an actual defender, not left wing mode. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't need to see him doing his best impression of Jeremy doku. I want to see Vardiole doing what he's best at or what he's known for being best at, which is just out and out defending. So I'd love to see him be given the opportunity to just defend and let Rico we know Rico is good at stepping into midfield and being an extra man there. And because he's technically good enough for the understands the game very well. It's not for the whole thing. At least right now at this stage of his career to be, you know, moving forward and getting involved. So let the guy defend. I say, yeah. Let him defend man. I agree with that. Lou there says, does that take a play Champions League? I don't know if your breasts are starting to keep at this stage, which is true. And it is a fair point. And Edison. I wouldn't surprise me with Edison starts at all. But for me, I'm just throwing out a green anyway, just to get some more game time. And you are right. Three one isn't like some major lead. The game isn't over at three one, but it's near enough. It's near enough done. So the one goal, you just get a goal seals the deal and you could see that from their faces as well that went when we scored that third. And yeah, so I think we rest, but I think it's it's important to have. Still don't mean your big gameplay is in there like and you still basically it's hard because our rested team, our second team is still a very good, a very good team. And so CDM wise, personally, I'd say coverage. I don't think Rodry starts. I agree. I think rest, rest Rodry because Rodry has a massive, massive, massive two and a half months ahead or three months ahead. Doesn't he like, like I said, he kind of has to play every single game. He's going to play all the games. So it just makes sense to play coverage. Also coverage has been playing really well. So I'm happy for him to get another start today. And I trust him. So I, so do I would just slightly further ahead down the line. Would you start coverage in the Newcastle game? The Cup game? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Now the draw James is on the 15th, the 15th of March for the next round. Is it? I didn't know that. When's that next Friday? According to boss man. Freddie buy it is and see extra. Yeah, that makes sense. Oh, yeah, because you've got next week's fixtures to go ahead. I mean, next week you've got Arsenal, the games are they need to get their outcomes before we can get into the, the, the, the rest of it. Yeah. I'm not sure about playing Newcastle. Um, that made feel bro. I had a lot to do. My brain wants to rest. Feel forward to one of our time. Okay, we'll go, we'll go for this one anyway. We've got Kovacic. Bro, I think Alvarez might start in the midfield and how it plays up top. I think Alvarez Nunes for some reason or Alvarez Bernardo, Bernardo on the right wing. And I think Alvarez Nunes has going to stink. I think Kovacic and Nunes will play. I think Harland will play. I think Alvarez will play. I think Bernardo. I think you could see Bernardo in there. I think the front free will be. Will it be Oscar Bob? Is it too much to go Oscar Bob? I think the front free will be Oscar Bob, Harland, Bernardo, the midfield will be Nunes and Alvarez. Then that's how I'm not. That's what I'm saying. I've done a full 180 in my head. I've decided that the midfield is Nunes and De Bruyne. You can't rest everyone. No, it's far too much to just rest every single player. I think Nunes is Alvarez. So what you're saying, Nunes, Kev, would you not soon to play? Then again, Foden. I know Foden is all right, but... Then you're a front three. Bob, Harland, Bernardo. Bob, Harland, Bernardo. Obviously it's Nunes, Kev. Yeah. I'll show you. I'll put it in. I'll put it in. I'll put it in and we can visualize. I'm a visual learner chat. I'm a visual learner. Yeah, but Elder there, Alvarez, midfield, Harland, Striker. I agree. I think Alvarez, this would be the seventh game in a row or six game in a row that Alvarez hasn't started. Yeah, there's method to that. It's the fact that I think Pep's clocked that Alvarez ain't in midfielder. I just... This is it. I like it. I like it, but I think that... You know what you might actually see? I think you might see Nunes play that left wing spot instead of Oscar Bob and you'd see Alvarez in that Nunes slot and Bob doesn't start at all. Oh, damn. Which would be a shame. I think Nunes could play there. I think Julian Alvarez plays there. I think you could see that. And then, yeah, oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. No, no, no, because then Kev's in there. Wait, yeah, Kev's in there. Oh, shit. Yeah, Kev's there. So then... Yeah, no, no, Kev can't be in there. Kev can't exist in this. We're shit at this. We're shit. Kev can't... Kev will get rested, certainly. Like, well, I'll say so. I don't actually know, obviously. No, I'm not. Make your mind up for it. Alvarez, Nunes. I am lost in the sauce, mate. I forgot that. I forgot that thing. He's there. I forgot Kev's there. What could help? What could help out that midfield? If Kevneryne's not in there? Phil Forden? But then Phil Forden's got injured. He'd done his leg and I'd like to see him get a rest. I want Kev. But I had all silverworks in that midfield. Covers it's silver. Alvarez, but then I could just see the same as Covers it's Nunes. Alvarez and Bob on the left. Nunes right, Bob left. What about that? I'm like a kid in a sweet shop. But then you're playing Phil Forden, innit? Like, which is ham. I think we're going to have to play one of Forden or De Bruyne. Pick your poison. Yeah. What he's saying? Help. We're on 130 likes. So we're 70 off our goal of 200 and there's nearly 300 in the building. So 70 of you hit the like button will hit our big goal of 200 and then Jordan will pick 100 of you to give 100 pounds to. So hit the like button. Get us up to 200 and bankrupt. Bag of cash is ready to go, man. Ready to go. I can't spend it myself. It's there's a letter and it says Jodie Polly cannot spend. He's not in the country. Oh, he's not seen it yet. I'm not showing him and Freddie, I keep it away from him because he'll buy you'll buy off white clothes with it. No, it's not buying like shift in the city merch shop, like little tiny footballs and alarm clocks and stuff. If we're like this, remember he spent 300 quid a day and merch from the shop. Freddie spent 300 quid on this on a club shop. I didn't walk in with a full city track suit on, which is a shame. Um, yeah, phone has a knock, which is why I won't risk folding. Well, then care plays in my opinion. Care plays. What about goat mess left wing? No, I'd prefer Oscar Bodger play left wing than Sergio Gomez. I think you could see coverage over as newness in the midfield. Is that is that two out of is that two out there covered each over as newness? Yes, it might be it is. I think one of four under de Bruyne will play. You can't, you can't just go full ham and put out the full, the full compliment of, of substitutes. You know what I mean? I do. I do. So you're saying, but and pet will take this very seriously. Oh yeah. Craig party taxes. Recall Lewis in the midfield role alongside coverage worked a lot in the last game that they played Walker right back. What was the last game they played? I remember, but I think that was probably the last time we always played. He's not, he's not been there for time. That's why Rodri will start. If Rodri starts, you can, you can kind of allow a newness and you could, you could, you could play Rodri coverage. Well, the midfield could be Rodri coverage and Alvarez and then your front three can be newness, Harlan Bernardo. But how can we just keep playing? Rodri in every single game. How Walker playing all the time. Rodri has to rest, man. Rodri has to rest. It's a public appeal. That's Rodri. Rodri has to be able to the soldiers. Kevin De Bruyne's got the public appeal. Not as much because he had six months off, didn't he? Right. We're just gonna have to start pulling this chat. You don't have to help us out. You don't have to help us out. We don't have to start pulling it. Right. Who starts in midfield? Like in, in CDM, I should say Rodri or Covertix. Cause it's only going to be one of them too. Right. There you go chat. You have that. You vote. We're gonna, we can't sit on it forever. My brain is absolutely fried. We've both got five different ideas each. So chat help us coverage is 93% so far. I think coverage is definitely starting. I think he's number six coverage will be CDM mode. I think this is the team. Joseph Doc whose injury didn't train me. Yeah. And Alvarez. I don't know if we've seen Alvarez on the right yet. Nope. So coverage starts. Right. We can just allow this like instantly coverage is going to start. This is going to be a very interactive team line up there. The back line. I don't think anyone has got any issues with. No. Shouldn't sound with that. It's the rest of it. That's hard. Says when do we play for free? Yeah. This is just like the standard starting formation. Drop me. We do play like a bot formation. And well, if you want to see formation, you can start doing all this match you. There's our formation. Whatever. I don't know man. I don't know. Could you see Foden Alvarez midfield? Bernardo on the right. Could do. You could see Bernardo Nunes, Harlan, Foden, Alvarez, Covertich. We play a standard 2-8. Yeah. Are you a walker in the opposition box? Yeah, definitely. Yeah. The very traditional 2-8. Right. So we've come to the conclusion that Covertich is starting that midfield role. And then what you do is you go to make it simpler. Who plays left wing? Right, Bob. Which are Mateus Nunes. Right, this is going to basically determine a lot of things. Come on, Chapman, get involved. Make sure you hit the like button. Get involved in the poll. This is up to you now. Oh, that's decent Craig. Well, yeah, I'd probably say he wouldn't start this game though, still. But yeah, that's good to know. It's good to know that he's not actually just dusted. So you're starting Oscar Bob in this game. Or you're starting Mateus Nunes left wing. Yeah, the formation is more of a 3-2-4-1, which is right. Which is too. So if you could make that, you could, all it is is pushing Reco Lewis next to Covertich. Yeah. And then just slam the other ones in the midfield role. And so if it might help us pick. Like that. Yeah. Yeah. And then bring back Mateus Nunes and silver and so like and then push forward and thinking a little bit further forward and you've got like a flat line of the four. That is like the city formation. Yep. Okay, there you go for the OCD merchants. There's your, there's your. Take that OCD merchants. So in this, are you playing? So Reco Lewis can invert this Covertich, which I like. I like that. It'll work. Guardial statement of the Canyon Diaz like that. Can you be in there as well? I'm fine for, I'll say a good night. I'm fine for, could be Edison, but all in all. I'm not asked about that. I like this team. I think that could be it. Just sat there looking at it going, hey, this could be it. That's the only difference I could see is Bob for Nunes. Everything else seems normal to me. What's the poll saying for Bob for Nunes? Well, everyone's saying Bob. Okay, we'll give them Bob. We'll give you what you want, chat. We'll give you Bob, man. Hit the like button and you can have Bob. That's what Pep said. Pep said it himself. He messaged me just then. And right. So you've got your Covertich and Reco Lewis like inverted like that. You've got Bob. And also this is very, very, this is very fluid. You've got Bob in there folding there. Arv is in there. Bernardo Silver in there. And then Holland up top. Yep. I'm happy with this team. I don't think we need to think anymore. I think that's the one. Herbal said, James, I think we can go into this team in that time. Kidder, mate, everyone said this to us last time and we got it right. We got it right when everyone said this last time. Herbal says it's pretty decent lineup. Are we sure we rest Rodry yet? He was rested fairly recently and he's known for playing almost every game for us. Yes, but he's also said himself that he can't do that all the time and and I don't, I just, he's going to be playing pretty much every single game. This is it, man. Nunes can rap. We rap it also. Yeah, he's, I like the idea of Nunes playing. But I think ours definitely plays. I think Holland will play. Bernardo Silver playing. Phil Fordham playing still is giving me bad vibes. You can't have it all your way though, bro. You can't rest there. You can't rest Rodry Stones, De Bruyne and Fordham too much. I'm Walker. Yeah, there needs to be seniority, but then also they get a knock at the week. I know he's fine, but he did get a knock. Yeah. I mean, I'm fine with that chat. I know it's not going to be right. It's not, it's not going to be right. But would you be happy if that team came out? I would. I'd be gassed. I think, I think the thing is that's not the right question that because I think most people would be happy if that, if that team came out, but the, I think it will, will, will it be that team? I'm not sure. He went, nope. Nope. Nunes for folding. You could see that. Oh, but, but it made Mr. Murray says he doesn't why he thinks that phone is going to play. I just don't know how I feel about this. You're going to put Nunes in as well. I think it's too. I'm Nunes and coverage to put in the two. I'm, I think, I think Nunes and do bits in that team. Like that, that, that John Stones gets a rest. Nathan, aka gets a rest. Coworker gets a rest. Rodry gets a rest. Phil phone and gets the rest. Kevin De Bruyne gets a rest. Six players rested. I just don't see enough creativity in there. I don't see enough chief creators in there who are going to give service to the poor fellow upfront. There's not. Yeah. It's a lot of rest that he ain't resting six players. He's not. Oh, this is honestly, I never thought, right? The second leg of a game where we're winning three, one already would be the most difficult lineup that we've had to pick. Okay. Well, we have to submit something anyway to put to give. I'm, I'm happy to just submit. I'll submit this as well. And I'll submit it. You and Ollie can take the heat on the stream later on. Yeah. We're getting completely wrong. Yeah. Push the button. Submit it. Send it to pet. There you go. That's, that's just been printed and sent over to pet by the odds and he's going to play that tonight. So well done chat. Well, I hope you're happy. Who's it? Oh, I hope you're happy. Right. There you go. Chat. That's your team or take it. By the other kind of Diaz. Comfort, Rico. Bob Nunes, Alvarez, Bernardo and Eulene Island. So Eulene Island. There you go. That's the team man. That's the team. It's his decent. Joe Hart man. Pick up Joe Hart. Yeah. Not the other one. Joe Hart gives a big one. Right. Um, let's do some score predictions, man. Let's do some score predictions. Chat start getting your score predictions in the Chiat. Um, let's see what you guys are saying. What are you saying, bro? I think we win 2-1. In fact, that first leg, did we play arse in that first leg? No, we played very well. Did we miss chance in the first? Oh, was it just a matter of we played really well and then we got dusted because they scored? Yeah. No, we did. We played well and then it was like, for God's sake, we've played well because they've scored and made it a tight score line. It's not over. I'm going 2-0. I think 2-0. 2-0. 2-0. Keep clean sheet. And I also think that we won't go up to the heights of like a 6-1 like Craig Partytale or anything like that. Just because I think that in the second half we'll make changes if we go strong. Always 3-1 Osmodeus. Ah, right there. 3-1. We have a lot of 3-1s to be fair. We have a lot. I've got it in my head. I've got it in my head. There's going to be a 3-1. So yeah, that's kind of it really. It's all the time for talking is done. It's, um, Champions League time, man. We need to get ourselves in the hat for the next round and find out what the route to the final is or the potential route to the final is. Um, just professional performance city, get the job done and I'm going to move on to Anfield. We'll have loads of content for Anfield over the next couple of days. Lots to look forward to. Um, I'm going to an event on Saturday. I'm going to see the... Yes. I'm going, there's a trophy tour chat in, um, city of taking the trophies all over the world, obviously, and they're coming to Ireland this weekend. So I'm going to make a vlog and bring you guys along with me to, to see the five trophies in Dublin. So there's plenty to look forward to. Um, watch along tonight. Ollie's there, is he with you? Yeah. Yeah, boy. Two boys, Ollie Porty and Jordy Porty. Um, make sure you guys get in nice and early. Make sure you hit the like button. I'm setting the goal again at 500 likes and I will not rest until there's 500 likes and I'll watch along and take the classic JP with you. Take me. He said he hates Ireland. So he doesn't want to come. Ah, yo, don't do that to me. I love Ireland. Ireland's men. Ireland's men. The Guinness over there hits different. You don't get the watery Guinness that you get over it. I started drinking Guinness and Black Currant, man. It's mega Guinness and Black Currant. Yeah. You put like Black Currant, dilute it like a couple drops of it into the Guinness. It tastes unreal. Serious. Yeah, man. I'll put, I'm putting you on here. Write that down. All he tells me to get a nitro surge. No, no, no, no. No, no. Waste of you and all you gonna be fit it like this. There's nitro surge. Oh, where's Ali from? And like round in my ends. Where am I? Oh yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I give it one. I give it one. Say no more. Don't, don't try to Guinness me here, Ali. Yeah. You're not going to be able to do the gimmick, man. The nitro surge is a gimmick. Do it with Vimto, Jimmy Grimble. I'm gonna have to try that, man. I'm, I'm open to experimenting. But yeah, listen, watch it on tonight. You have Ali and Jordi Porti. 500 likes is the goal for that. I will do a review either on my own or with Joe straight after the game to give you my thoughts. And we'll talk about what we saw. Um, city documentary countdown. Yeah, be me. Um, we're also going to have content around that. Um, city documentary as well, whether we do like watch parties because you can do like Netflix, watch party things, I think. Um, so we have watch parties with the chat so we can all watch it together. Um, but we're going to have like episode breakdowns and things like that as well. Should be good. Yep. Let's look forward to really looking forward to that. Um, so yeah, listen, join the watch long later on big up to all of you. Hope you all have a very good rest of your afternoons and you're looking forward to watching the blues tonight. Um, just drop something until then. Goodbye. Bye. Bow, Bow, Bow, Bow, Bow, Bow, Bow, Bow, Bow, Bow, Bow. You're listening to the soothed sounds of Jordi Porti and Humory. This is city extra FL. Late night. Can I get it? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.