Honestly we shouldn’t think about City too much. At least yet. We still have a lot of work inside. Potter hasn’t found yet the formula. His system hasn’t shown yet, which is normal as he just joined us a month ago and yesterday was only his second match. I kinda agree with him, more matches, better, as the team really needs to apply his ideas in real matches. Trainings aren’t the same.
I can’t watch UCL, so I will just find out the result later. But this is a perfect occasion for the team to show up. To start to implement Potter’s strategy, slowly but sure. So we saw some good individual performances last weekend, Auba scored a typical striker goal, James not as eyecatching as usual nonetheless very solid, Thiago Silva decisive, Kepa did not make any mistake, Gallagher can shoot… Not sure why articles were raving about Sterling, I found him bad & wasteful against Palace. Not intelligent at all, made bad decisions & slowed up our play.
So I would expect to keep the same players against Milan but Cucurella comes in for Chilwell who played real bad. Not sure about Jorginho, as Gallagher cannot provide the same defensive ability but I can see Gallagher taking over his position.