Real Madrid (A) - Tues 9th April, 20:00 | CL | Pre-Match Thread

[SebastianBlue]

It’s Firing Foden time!

 

[Ken92]

don´t get benching De Bruyne if he isn´t injured.

 

[Crooked_rain]

It'll be very interesting to see whether it's Foden or Bernardo in the middle

Surely Bernardo on the right. It really makes no sense to drop Kev if you are not putting Foden more Central.

Plus, Bernardo played on the right against them last season and caused them hell

 

[SSL2]

possibly explains it

 

[pride in battle]

Fully agree.

I love Ortega he's a superb goalkeeper, Ederson does offer us something different with his range of passing, He's a freak in that sense.

All in all it's a massive night for Ortega to cement his place as No.1 for the rest of the season on the biggest stage.

But he can't hit a 70 yard pass, which tonight could be on.

 

[Chak19]

A similar result to last year in Madrid will do fine, we'll get them at the Etihad.

 

[DMA's]

Don’t like no kdb, not a huge fan of no ederson either. Pep obviously knows a lot more than me but they just seem very big calls!

 

[phargrave]

possibly explains it

FFS…

 

[YatesA]

possibly explains it

If that's the case then I hope still well enough for a brief cameo. Still probably our biggest match winner

 

[CC1]

don´t get benching De Bruyne if he isn´t injured.

Ill apparently

 

[DMA's]

I’d rather we go without haaland and play both kdb and foden centrally than bench kdb. Huge call unless he has a niggle

 

[Man-chester copperpot]

TNT Sports tonight :
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham
20yrs old
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham
20yrs old
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham

 

[CC1]

FFS…

So many stars missing for this game.

 

[Ken92]

Ill apparently

bad news ,Real line-up is pretty good ,not going to overrun that midfield this time.

 

[Deleted member 13905]

It’s Firing Foden time!

fucking right, brother.
this really is his night, it really is.

 

[alexmcity]

I've been thinking since October, when Bellingham was playing like a monster, that we'll play Real in the CL and Foden will perform better than Bellingham.

Let's see what happens tonight.

 

[Ashton Moss Messi]

Bernardo and Jack to provide cover on the wings for full backs.
Rodri and Kovacic cover for centre.
Phil and Erling to create and score.

But, then again, Pep is Pep

 

[Crooked_rain]

TNT Sports tonight :
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham
20yrs old
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham
20yrs old
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham
Bellingham

And in 3 years he'll be Foden's current age and still not as good as Foden is now.

 

[chris85mcfc]

Great line-up.

Kevin is a genius, obviously, but he's been a bit off in the big games vs Liverpool and Arsenal. We need more in terms of pressing and ball retaining.

Kevin and Doku to be subbed in in the last 25 minutes or so.

If the games tight, Madrid will surely throw caution to the wind in the last half an hour.

This team hopefully allows us to keep things close, and being able to bring Kev on for half an hour could be the difference.

There's no need to show all of our cards straight away.

 

[tregyblue61]

possibly explains it

That's why they're closing the roof. helps to keep him warm, sweat out what he has, by 67 minutes he's feeling refreshed, comes on and bags pair of thunderbastards.