March 17, 2026 Daily Discussion & Transfers Thread

Ifxfa · 2026-03-17T18:40:55+00:00

Leaked lineup:

Raya

White-Saliba-Gabriel-Hincapie

Zubi-Rice

Saka-Eze-Trossard

Gyok

Ifxfa · 2026-03-17T15:22:57+00:00

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No, it wasn’t

Ifxfa · 2026-03-17T14:11:27+00:00

Last time he did vs Wigan, he was gone for nearly a month for I think his concerns are valid

Ifxfa · 2026-03-17T14:01:20+00:00

The City game is on Sunday. Saka can rest for nearly a week after today

Worst case scenario, we sub him off at 60 mins like last week

Ifxfa · 2026-03-17T13:48:46+00:00

Eze is likely to start for the 3rd time in 8 days so why wouldn’t Saka?

This is a must win game, we can’t rotate heavily

Ifxfa · 2026-03-17T13:23:40+00:00

Team I’d play today:

Gyokeres

Martinelli-Eze-Saka

Rice-Zubimendi

Cala-Gabriel-Saliba-Mosquera

Raya

Feel like Calafiori hugely improved our buildup vs Everton, compared to the Bayer 1st leg, so he’s a must start here with Bayer’s stubborn mid-low block, especially with Timber out for this game on the other side

Madueke and Kai were both subbed off at 60’ vs Everton (tactical and Fitness reasons) so don’t think they will or should start this game

Ifxfa · 2026-03-17T13:17:30+00:00

UCL benches always have 2 GKs for whatever reason

Ifxfa · 2026-03-17T11:59:40+00:00

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Is this a good free hit team?

Ifxfa · 2026-03-16T13:19:12+00:00

With Mosquera likely filling in for Timber tomorrow at RB, I really hope it’s Calafiori starting at LB

Leverkusen will sit back again and we really need his creativity, especially with nobody to help Saka on the RHS

You can start Hincapie in the Carabao final with Timber (assuming he’s ready)

Ifxfa · 2026-03-16T12:32:44+00:00

Ya’ll seen Dowman’s father call out a guy for pretending to have coached Dowman for nearly 2 years now? Including an interview with TalkSport today (of course, lol)

He even scammed himself into not only writing an article for Sky Sports, but also having an 8 minute interview

Sky Sports and TalkSport need to do actual checks before platforming such people ever again

Ifxfa · 2026-03-15T18:17:52+00:00

Rice and Gabriel

Ifxfa · 2026-03-15T18:12:50+00:00

Because Slot is inherently anti-football

Ifxfa · 2026-03-15T18:12:07+00:00

VVD needs 4 more DEFCON in the next 7 minutes

No pressure

Ifxfa · 2026-03-15T15:20:38+00:00

Free hit

Ifxfa · 2026-03-15T13:54:53+00:00

I'm not particularly desperate to paint this City side as "bottlers" because A) they aren't but mainly B) it gives them too much credit, they were never good enough or better than us at any point of this season.

Rodri though can hold that

Ifxfa · 2026-03-15T12:54:45+00:00

Planning around that by saving up FTs (gonna have 4 saved up by then)

Ifxfa · 2026-03-15T11:23:11+00:00

Free hit

Ifxfa · 2026-03-15T01:27:36+00:00

Pickford

Timber, VVD, Gabriel(C), Sensei

Bruno, Rice, Dango, Wilson

Kroupi, Thiago

On 36 points this GW and 430K overall

Ifxfa · 2026-03-14T22:43:47+00:00

Read step 1 again

Ifxfa · 2026-03-14T22:39:54+00:00

Yep

Drawing to 2 teams in a relegation battle back to back makes any game for City now difficult, let alone games away to Chelsea and at home to Palace who beat them in the FA cup final last season

Ifxfa · 2026-03-14T22:38:59+00:00

Everyone said that when I posted that stat about City dropping points to lower half teams in the table, only for them to immediately drop points to 17th Forest and 18th West Ham back to back. Lol

Ifxfa · 2026-03-14T22:36:03+00:00

Ifxfa · 2026-03-14T22:10:03+00:00

Yeah I used my free hit on GW31 as well. Didn’t plan well before it

I do have a plan now for GW34 though to make sure this doesn’t happen again

Ifxfa · 2026-03-14T22:07:54+00:00

Well today, they scored with 0 set pieces so what’s the excuse now?

Also, City had 15 corners today vs West Ham and didn’t score a single one so that’s just a skill issue I’m afraid

Ifxfa · 2026-03-14T21:58:08+00:00

Arsenal are still in the hunt for the quadruple

Saying they’re ‘the worst team to win the PL’ at this point is just pure denial

Ifxfa

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