Real Madrid (A) - Tue 9th May, 20:00 | Pre-Match Thread

[Keeper!]

Pep says the game will be won in Manchester, so not expecting lights out football from us tonight.

I will only go 4-1 to us over there.

Think positive for once!!

 

[Toffeedude]

Good luck tonight. I hope you go on and lift the trophy. This Toffee will be cheering you on.

 

[Keeper!]

That Venicious Jnr terrifies me.

 

[SouthernPlastic]

Just off the top of my head, he gifted Madrid their goal in the 18-19 tie at the Bernabeu, the 3-0 beatdown from Liverpool he was arguably responsible for both their goals bar the Oklade screamer from outside the box. I can't really remember the Tottenham tie that well but I know Laporte and Walker let Son run rampant.

I think there’s a stat where Walker has never made a direct mistake that led to a goal. It bet there’s not a single other player that can say that. Everyone makes mistakes, but Walker saves our bacon regularly.

 

[Manchester33]

a bar in madrid city fans meet before the match?

Go to Plaza Mayor - that's where fans usually congregate in Madrid.

 

[Haaland94]

That Venicious Jnr terrifies me.

Relax.

 

[Keeper!]

Relax.

The helicopter will take care, I would imagine Vinicius is having the nerves tonight, Walker is a ferocious competitor.

 

[JRockBlues]

Will we be getting the "Oh no's" from McPointyman on comms again tonight?

 

[stonerblue]

I can only remember one in the CL (the red card in the dead rubber group game against Leipzig).

Other than that where it wasn’t even a big game, Walker has probably been City’s most consistent big game player I can ever remember.

All his other shit games or moments have come in games like Wigan away in the FA Cup, Palace at home in the league etc.

i have pointed that out to him already but didn't seem to make any difference

 

[Sky Blue]

Long day, been up since 6:15. About 7ish tonight I'll start to flap. Draw will do fine.

 

[skillman]

Love this but in all seriousness, is he a blue?! Wasn’t he the Wembley 99 ref?

 

[dublin-blue]

While we've not been at our best over the last few games they've been terrible. If we step up like with munich we should take them apart. We should have rinsed them last year.

 

[Sky Blue]

Love this but in all seriousness, is he a blue?! Wasn’t he the Wembley 99 ref?

Yep, 5 minute Mark.

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Expectation is a close affair, one goal either way for me

Going 2-1 city, KDB with a rocket

 

[stonerblue]

Relax.

Yep. If i remember rightly he never got past Walker and eventually fucked off to the other side of the pitch.
Vinicius has also stated that Walker is the hardest defender he's come up against.

 

[117 M34]

Love this but in all seriousness, is he a blue?! Wasn’t he the Wembley 99 ref?

That'll piss Paul scally off.

 

[PhdWave]

Morning blues! Today is the day we crush those pricks (i hope)

 

[supercity88]

It's such a hard one to call. I'm nervous, as is usual with CL games. We've beaten them in three of the last four games. But we've only won one of our away CL games this season, the first group game against Sevilla and Real in the CL are just a different beast. Having said that, we've drawn the rest and I think being resilient away from home is fine, it would be good if we could try and score our penalties as that would have turned some of those draws to wins!

In La Liga they've only lost at home once, with several draws and they also lost at home to Barca in the Copa Del Rey semi final 1st leg so they're pretty solid. Their away form in general hasn't been great which is why I'm a lot more confident of our chances of progressing with the 2nd leg at home.

Fresh off winning the Copa Del Rey they'll be confident, but that wasn't an easy game so if we show the right energy levels and commitment we could punish them.

I'd be setting up to be defensively solid and looking to stop them scoring, knowing a draw gives us a big advantage at home next week. Play on the counter and look to stop them getting the ball into their midfield. Haaland had an off day against Leeds, if he gets a few chances tonight and takes them we'll have one foot in the final.

Real Madrid 1-3 City.

 

[the blue panther]

It's such a hard one to call...................................................
Real Madrid 1-3 City.

You lied!
It wasn't difficult to call at all!!!

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Behave you both! Madrid fans will be the ones waking up and worried about playing CITY....our time to add 'ol big ears' to the cabinet has come...... To be really honest I am more worried about the Toffees at the weekend.

They probably will. I think it’s fair for both sides to be wary of each other in games like this.

But games like this are exactly what it’s all about!