Rival watch: City vs Chelsea match thread

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This is the official VTL match thread for City vs Chelsea for rival fans to discuss the game.

Injury News:

New Chelsea signing Marko Marin will miss the Community Shield against Manchester City on Sunday.
The summer signing from Werder Bremen has been suffering with a hamstring injury for several days and will sit out the curtain-raiser at Villa Park.
Chelsea have no other injury concerns for the match.

Gareth Barry and Micah Richards are ruled out of the Manchester City squad due to injury but Vincent Kompany is expected to recover from a calf injury.
Midfielder Barry, 31, has failed to recover from the hip injury that kept him out of Euro 2012.
He had a hernia operation last month and is hopeful of being fit for the start of the new Premier League season.
Defender Richards hurt his ankle in Great Britain's Olympic quarter-final defeat by South Korea.
Kompany was forced to fly home from his club's Far East tour with a calf complaint.

What the managers say:

Manchester City go into the traditional season curtain-raiser as champions for the first time in 44 years and boss Roberto Mancini has his focus set on the Premier League opener against Southampton.
"If in the end we win the Premier League it is better we lose against Chelsea, but it is important that we try to win because we have not won this cup for a long time and we want to start the season with a victory.
"We know it will not be easy. Chelsea are a strong team."

Chelsea boss Roberto Di Matteo is keen to claim more silverware following his side's Champions League final win over Bayern Munich in May.
"There are plenty of trophies to win this season," he said. "We have a very driven team of players and they are never satisfied with what they've done in the past.
"It's a fresh start for us. It won't be a problem from that point of view. There are a couple of trophies our players have never won, and challenging for the Premier League, too.
"We finished sixth last season and I don't think anybody is happy with that. We certainly have to do better."

Rules:

-Saying United have no money will earn you a yellow card
-LALing will see that card rescinded
-Laughing when Torres touches the ball is encouraged, and if he scores remember the laws of physics state it has to happen at some point so it isn't a big deal.
-Mentioning RVP will get you a yellow card


Myself for mentioning RVP
henrykamp - Giroud is awful (U8418) for mentioning RVP
gunnerthru (U6675) for being a spoilsport
Albert Morgan (U1655) for implying RVP
When the ball hits the net, off his foot then his head, it's Hernandezzz (U10633) for calling the op a



Line ups:

Manchester City:

Hart
massive headed


Massive Argentinian


Chelsea:

Funny hat
biggest ever second biggest ever

should have chosen Utd


My predicition:

2-1 City with to score all 3