Newcastle United 0 - 2 Man City - *Highlights* Leicester drawn in the next round

Goals from Negredo and Dzeko in extra time were enough to secure victory at St James park, the win has set us up for an away tie to Leicester in the quarter finals.

The game was quite poor to watch tonight, we were lacking creativity and desire, we looked like we were playing a training game at times. When we did produce some good movement and passing we scored two goals and it took us until the 99th minute to do that.

As far as Newcastle are concerned they didn't put in a good performance either really and looked very unconvincing, they did create a few chances though, some were poorly executed, some well defended and some just unlucky, I would certainly understand their fans going away from the game thinking that they should have scored a couple of goals.

The best way to describe the result is 'job done', there wasn't really any positives to take away from our performance apart from maybe Pantilimon's decent showing in goal, which included one really good save to keep us in the game.

Most important thing is that we are through to the quarter finals and only a few games away from a final appearance, although to get there we will have to play a lot better than we did tonight.

Apologies for the quick post match, work beckons in the morning unfortunately.

Highlights.

Newcastle United vs Man City - Weds 30th Oct 19:45 pm

The games are coming thick and fast, our next game takes us to Newcastle to face the magpies in a league cup tie.

The league cup is generally viewed as a nothing competition these days, managers will give players that have been sitting on the bench for a while a run out and throw in the odd youngster here and there. I am half way when it comes to this because although I like to see a youngster or a fringe player coming in to an extent, I still think it should be taken seriously because any trophy is an achievement when all said and done.
Luckily for us rotation means replacing class players with more class players, so we do have the luxury of being able to rest key men, it is still important that whoever does come into the team is eager to impress because there is a quarter final of a cup beckoning.

There were easier ties that we could have been handed than a trip to St James park, however I am not overly concerned about the threat of Newcastle and I don't mean that in a disrespectful way, I just think our squad is strong enough to compete and perhaps win the game.

Tomorrows game could well see a hangover from the league, we were beaten in a game that we deserved something out of and Newcastle lost to their rivals. I am sure there will be a lot of frustration within both camps that will need to be relieved, which is what I am most worried about. Newcastle do have some really good players that can hurt teams and in front of their own fans they will want to make amends for the defeat to Sunderland, I just hope that we also want to prove a point and perform well because I really want us to win this competition.

Man City Team News:
Vincent Kompany is our only notable injury concern, he is said to be training again after suffering with a thigh injury but it is doubtful he will play a part against Newcastle.

Newcastle United Team News:
Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa is available after missing the game against Sunderland because of suspension,  Coloccini (groin) and Steven Taylor (hamstring) are doubts, Gutierrez may still be missing for the home side due to personal reasons and Ryan Taylor will miss the game after undergoing a knee operation.

Possible Man City Line Up: Pantilimon, Richards, Demichelis, Lescott, Kolarov, Milner, Navas, Fernandinho, Lopes, Dzeko, Jovetic.

Possible Newcastle United Line Up: Krul, Debuchy, Williamson, Yanga-Mbiwa, Santon, Gouffran, Cabaye, Tiote, Ben Arfa, Cisse, Remy.

My Prediction: Newcastle 1 - 3 Man City.

Worth A Bet: Stevan Jovetic scores the first goal in a 1 - 3 Man City win @ 45/1.

Man City 5 - 0 Wigan Athletic - Goals and Highlights

Another game and another win, a very comfortable 5 - 0 victory was secured with goals from Dzeko, Jovetic (2), Toure and Navas.

Our 'second choice' eleven breezed through to the next round of the cup, we played well tonight but the team certainly didn't have to overly exert themselves to secure the victory.

Although this wasn't our first eleven tonight with Marcos Lopes the only youngster in the starting line up, we still had a strong team. We won very comfortably at five nil but it could of and probably should of been at least six or seven, we wasted a lot of good chances.

If I were to analyse the game it would just be for the sake of writing words, there was nothing special about our performance as such, we just did our job and did it well. If there was anything to highlight it would of been the performance of Lopes, he is still only a kid but he looks very good and confident to boot, hopefully we will start seeing him around the first team a bit more so he can keep developing because he is far too good to be playing with his own age group.

We have had three good results on the bounce now and I am starting to get a bit excited about what this season could hold for us if we keep it up. I don't see why we cant go on to win the next ten games if I am honest, the team must be absolutely brimming with confidence at the moment and when you put confidence with class then you generally have a recipe for success.

Apologises for the short post but there is really nothing more to say about the game and I have unfortunately got work in the morning so bed beckons.

GOALS AND HIGHLIGHTS.

Man City vs Wigan Athletic live stream information

Up to now there are 18 stations that should be available to watch tonight's match against Wigan.

I know a lot of people are familiar with online streaming now but for those that are not, this should help.

If you go to the following link http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=221526&part=sports  then you will see the page that will display the links to watch today's game, the links to the streams will not be displayed until one hour before kick off.

Each link will be run via a different type of software for example you may just be able to click one that will load on your web browser or there will be some where you have to download software.

Each stream will tell you which software it is being run on for example if next to one of the links it says Sopcast you will need to download the Sopcast player software. All software is available via this next link http://www.wiziwig.tv/software.php?part=software .

The best streams to watch are the ones with the higher Kbps rate, so if one stream says 150 Kbps and one says 2000 Kbps then you choose the latter and this will also help you know which software to download so you can get the best possible stream.

A little heads up I always find Sopcast the best software to use, so it would probably be worth downloading that in preparation for when the game links are announced.

Hopefully this was helpful and not confusing. I think everyone should be able to understand once you explore the links, it is quite straight forward.

Enjoy, hopefully!

Man City vs Wigan Athletic - Tue 24th Sep 19:45 pm

The games and competitions keep coming and next up is the Capital One Cup third round tie against Wigan Athletic.

I am not going to be able to go into much detail about what this game potentially holds, with both teams expected to make at least a few changes to their starting elevens, but I will give it a go.

I have to say I am fond of Wigan, a Northern club who came all the way through the divisions to reach the top division, stay there for a while and then beat one of the best teams in Europe to win the FA Cup, what a brilliant story, saying that we owe them one and whatever team we put out I hope we smash them.

Wigan have had a patchy start to the season and have not really impressed, when I have managed to catch a few minutes of them here and there they have looked mediocre and the good brand of football they used to play under Martinez seems to have somewhat disappeared under what I consider to be a  terrible manager in Owen Coyle.

Earlier I was reading an article where Owen Coyle was moaning about having to play too many games in a short space of time and basically that this is going to force him to make changes to his team against City, I agree with him I think it is wrong. Teams shouldn't be forced to come and play a top team like City without any time to prepare after playing in Europe and domestically, the chances of them being able to compete are cut right down and it does not help to make these matches attractive.

So we know Wigan are going to ring the changes but what about our beloved City, well we are certainly going to make changes but fortunately enough for us we can replace class with class.

After working hard to secure a very important win against Utd, Pellegrini will be keen to give his first choice players a break as well as trying to ease people into the first team picture. The likes of Richards, Jovetic, Pantilimon and Lescott are expected to come into the 'weakened' starting eleven and get the chance to impress the manager.

It is going to be hard work to try and pick the possible line ups, I am hoping to see a few youngsters playing for City but I will mostly go with players from the first team squad for now, so bear with me.

Man City Team News:
Demichelis (knee) is out, Clichy and Silva (both thigh) have both been training but it is unclear whether either player will be quite fit enough to make an appearance, Rodwell missed the derby with a knock and may come back into contention.

Wigan Athletic Team News:
Long term injuries to Ivan Ramis, Gary Caldwell and Ali Al Habsi mean that they miss out, Grant Holt is struggling with a knee injury and is unlikely to take part, Marc-Antoine is struggling with a hamstring injury and Shaun Maloney is doubtful with a back problem.

Possible Man City Line Up: Pantilimon, Richards, Boyata, Lescott, Kolarov, Milner, Garcia, Rodwell, Evans, Jovetic, Dzeko.

Possible Wigan Athletic Line Up: Nicholls, Crainey, Garcia, Buxton, Mustoe, Espinoza, Gomez, Beausejour, McCann, Dicko, Powell.

Obviously a shot in the dark when it came to the two teams, please feel free to have your say on what the line ups could be.

My Prediction: Man City 3 - 0 Wigan Athletic.

Worth A Bet: Jovetic scores the first goal in  3 - 0 Man City win @ 25/1.