Manchester City vs Everton: Premier League – live | Premier League

2 mins “I hug myself,” writes Amanda Knight. That’s it, that’s the whole message. Is there another development in Vibes culture that has passed me by?

1 minute Everton, in their dark gray alternate jersey, line up from right to left.

“He had a silly early start to cricket“How’s the exhaustion, Rob?” asks Matt Dony. “Can we expect some fatigue-induced delusional entries? I don’t know if City are struggling to play coherently and score goals despite having a comedic goal machine up front? Or maybe Everton are solid and difficult to play against? This all seems pretty strange to me…”

I wonder how long you can get away with making this whole thing up. I remember an English lesson when England played Albania on a Wednesday afternoon in March 1989. One boy claimed he had a radio under his desk and we were all thrilled when word spread that England had taken an early lead. When they made it 4-0 after seven minutes, we began to doubt the reliability of our intrepid reporter.

A reminder to the teams

Manchester City (4-3-3 possible) Ortega Moreno; Lewis, Akanji, Ake, Gvardiol; Foden, Kovacic, Bernardo; Savinho, Haaland, documentary.
Substitutes: Carson, Brits, De Bruyne, Gündogan, Simpson-Pusey, Mubama, Alleyne, O’Reilly, McAtee

Everton (4-2-3-1 possible) Pickford; Coleman, Tarkovsky, Branthwaite, Mykolenko; Mangala, Gueye; Harrison, Doucour, Ndiaye; Calvert Lewin.
Substitutes: Virginia, Patterson, Keane, Beto, O’Brien, Chermiti, Broja, Lindstrom, Armstrong

referee Simon Hooper.

“LFC couldn’t score against Evo Because the game never happened,” writes Jon Dry. “I’m just saying…”

Did they score a goal, yes or no?

Pep Guardiola on the new world of Manchester City

“Is Seamus Coleman replacing Ashley Cole? in a starting lineup, a candidate with the oldest ever combined age for such a move?” asks Nick Smith. “Free sherry to anyone who can find an older field pairing.”

Ashley Cole? Are you sure there’s still sherry left? It’s a good question, though: Seamus Coleman (36) and Ashley Young (39) are 75 years old together. As with most age-related questions, the answer is probably Stanley Matthews or Kazuyoshi Miura.

Sean Dyche is one step away from using the V-word here. The day he starts talking about vibes is the day we know it’s over.

Pep Guardiola goes to Amazon

(How do you find your rhythm again?) I don’t know. Basically winning games. We can’t think beyond the next game; we will try.

I love the club, the hierarchy and the people, my life in Manchester. We have many problems, for many reasons, and the goal is to solve the problem.

When we’ve won everything in the past, we had almost a full team. We are now missing eight important players. When they come back they have to go straight into the team and with one game every three days they suffer another injury. We are in a cycle that we cannot get out of.

Kyle is not feeling well, Kevin and Gundogan (who are on the bench) have had flu in the last few days, Jack (Grealish) is injured. Football is unpredictable. When you think, “Oh, it’s going to be difficult,” maybe our form changes.

(On the transfer window) If we can, we definitely need to add players. However, I don’t know if it will happen because the winter transfer window is not easy.

Statistics Department City have won and drawn 14 of their last 15 games against Everton.

Barney Ronay on the city’s astonishing collapse

There is no obvious explanation for any of this. A team made entirely of aura and carrying its presence like a lance became an anti-presence, stuffed shirts, straw men.

As always, the explanations tend to divide into the macro and micro views of the story. Details always decide a game. But we remain addicted to our comprehensive narratives. So the more sober analysis says: Take the Ballon d’Or winner from any team, add one or two key defensive injuries, and of course there will be an exit.

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