V Man City (away)

[blainehammer]

Possible team:

Greeno,
Foobar, Upson, Gabbidon, Illunga
Noble, Parker, Diamante, Jimenez
Hines, Cole

COYI

[harkes6]

it's either timkins or gabbidon alongside upson-- provided upson's fit. i hope behrami is fit enough to at least make the subs bench. i think diamante and jimenez are shaping up to very similar players and i like one or the other in mid.

personally, i'd go with

--------parker
noble---------hines
-------jiminey
diamante----cole

the reserves played a 4-3-3 the other day, though, so it looks like they're employing it down the entire team.

2-2 diamante & hines

[thetoffees]

found a couple of good football blogs previewing the West Ham game here (http://betting.betfair.com/football/premiership/premier-league-betting-manchester-city-v-west-ham-270909.html), here (http://bitterandblue.blogspot.com/2009/09/west-ham-preview.html) and here. (http://www.kumb.com/article.php?id=2708)

Its going to be a tough one but If you play like you did against Liverpool you could get a result - Zavon Hines looked like a good prospect, another one of the West Ham production line!!

[west_ham]

I think we saw our best midfield for 4-4-2 last season against Hull:

Green,
Faubert, Upson, Gabbidon, Illunga
Parker
Behrami, Collison
Diamanti
Hines, Cole

(Diamanti replaes Noble in this case). This gives us a midfield diamond, without the pace down the wings but with some good passing and possession in midfield. I don't think this will work against all teams though.

So my attempt at our best 4-3-3 would be:

Green,
Faubert, Upson, Gabbidon, Illunga
Behrami, Parker, Collison
Hines, Cole, Diamanti

Diamanti and Hines would give us some running in wide positions and if they get back alot then it kind of morphs between 4-3-3 and 4-5-1. Jiminez would certainly come off the bench in both formations.

The question is which one should we go with against Man City?

[hammermolder]

I've seen everything from 2-0 to 5-0,personally i dont think we'll win by that much,1-0 to the hammers!!!;)

[Footstomper]

On ESPN in high def. Yippee

[pething101]

On ESPN in high def. Yippee

Kiss of death ...

Heard on the ESPN podcast from last week that every match ESPN has shown ... the away team has won. I believe they said it was 9 in a row for the away team on ESPN matches.

Going to have to watch on the dvr, stupid meetings after school is out.

[Frieslander]

ESPN2 HD is gorgeous. I don't watch a lot of matches where I don't have rooting interest but I do like to watch these ESPN2 matches. I'm dvr-ing it myself.

[Footstomper]

Come on you Irons!

[Footstomper]

Handball by Carlitos

[Footstomper]

Dont break my heart Carlos Tevez. 1-0

[harkes6]

terrible marking (if you can call it that). classy move with the no celebration thing. wonder if mark hughes got into them :rolleyes:
i missed the first couple minutes...we're playing kovac AND da costa??? are we just throwing in the towel before it starts?

[Footstomper]

God we miss Upson

[Footstomper]

Cole!!!!!!!!!!!!!b
1-1
Come on you Irons

[harkes6]

gooooooooooooooooooooooooal!

[Footstomper]

Illunga mustard

[Footstomper]

shit

[harkes6]

why couldn't that guy stay injured?

[harkes6]

re illunga: very true. he's one of the only guys having a decent game

[Footstomper]

This would be a different game if Upson was playing