I haven't even seen the citadels in person yet so I can't speak from experience, but basically the citadel is just the 7's with a one piece toecap, flywire, and instead of a half rubber midsole with the lunarlon, its 3/4 lunarlon (hence all the color on the soles). Citadels are probably a tad thinner in the heel than the 8's but should still be pretty supportive. I just call em the 7.5's lol. if they didn't have that backwards swoosh i woulda copped those instead of the 8's just cuz I'm a huge fan of the 7's