Claudio starting (perhaps) for Manchester City, as Kevin Keegan's side attempt to take points at Highbury and prevent Arsenal from going back to the top of the Premiership in the process. Kickoff's at 8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET (3 a.m. Melbourne time for me here). For the live TV, it's on PPV in the USA. I've got the game live here in Australia on Fox Sports 2, but I'm staying overnight in Ballarat (work-related), and I'm only going to see replays. So the PbP is up for grabs... Anyone who knows of any webcast links, feel free to post them here. News round-up coming right up...
* * *I'm William, and this is the news* * * Some items now, perhaps others later after I get settled down at work tonight... [*]Team News -- sportinglife.com [*]Keegan: Gunners' run will end -- sportinglife.com [*]City complete Van Buyten deal -- sportinglife.com Finally, a defender... even if it is a loan [*]Sibierski relishes reunion -- sportinglife.com [*]Match preview & form guides -- Soccernet [*]"Game of the Week" -- Soccernet [*]Match preview & OPTA stats -- skysports.com [*]Belgian relishing City chance -- skysports.com [*]Match preview -- premierleague.com [*]Match preview, complete with facts & figures -- The BBC [*]James shock at Man City rut -- The BBC [*]Keegan delighted at Van Buyten's arrival -- Yahoo's UK site, via AFP [*]Anelka predicts goal rush from City duo -- Yahoo's UK site, via TeamTalk [*]Match preview -- Manchester Evening News [*] City lose £2.9m -- Manchester Evening News [*]Van the man to stifle City's defence -- Manchester Evening News [*]Win will see us soar: Anelka -- Manchester Evening News
i can do some semi PbP - the game starts on RTL5 live in 20 minutes reyna starts ARSENAL 1 Jens Lehmann 23 Sol Campbell 3 Ashley Cole 12 Bisan Lauren 8 Fredrik Ljungberg 15 Ray Parlour 7 Robert Pires 19 Gilberto Silva 28 Kolo Toure 10 Dennis Bergkamp 14 Thierry Henry CITEH David James 1 Sylvain Distin 5 Richard Dunne 22 Sun Jihai 17 Joey Barton 24 Paul Bosvelt 26 Claudio Reyna 6 Trevor Sinclair 28 Michael Tarnat 18 Nicolas Anelka 39 Shaun Wright-Phillips 29
City have a very tough stretch starting today - Liverpool away and home vs. ManU and Chelsea coming up within the next 5 games.
Reyna sent Annelka through but Sol Campbell clears out for a corner. Reyna takes a short corner - comes to nothing - has a follow up cross - poor. Then gets down the line but loses it in the box out for a goal kick.
3' threatening anelka wins a corner, reyna takes... comes to nothing - returned to him for another cross, but it's poor on a third try reyna tackled out on the touch for a GK
Citeh are playing Anelka up top solo with Sinclair and SWP on the wing in close support. Whose on the bench for both clubs? Did Citeh end up signing VanBuyten?
City under intense pressure after free kick from Arsenal. Pires cross gets through a crowd but no one on the other end.
good day for a Reyna goal.Claudio would be considered a genuinely world-class player except that he hardly ever scores.How a guy that strong with that technical ability can't find the net is something I will never understand.
That radio broadcast is well lagged for me. Reyna got forward for a counter, but cross is deflected. Reyna tries to send Anelka forward, but he's knocked down - fouled.