The last time we played Manchester City was the game that one Tom Davies burst onto the scene. How time flies.
That game was also Pep Guardiola’s biggest defeat thus far, and it came at the hands of a youthful Blues side treating the superstar-laced Manchester City as a training exercise. We ran rings around them that day, with Davies, Ross Barkley and Kevin Mirallas taking centre-stage.
We’re a different side now, however, as are City. There has been a buzz around City, an idea doing the rounds that all of a sudden they’ve solved all of their problems but I, in my infinite wisdom, don’t see that at all. They made that team seem like amateurs and there’s no reason why we can’t do it again.
I’m really optimistic for this game, and I don’t know why. It’s probably the fact that Jordan Pickford is the second coming and it could also be that Gylfi Sigurdsson is going to be spraying the ball about on Monday so we all have something to dream about.
Will he play though? Here is our predicted XI.
