Real Madrid (H) - Tues 11th Feb, 20:00 | CL | Pre-Match Thread

[Mancini’s Pastilles]

Wtf is that team. Any hope has gone. Just speechless

I think i said that exact same thing before chelsea final in porto

 

[Dax777]

I expect us to possess the ball predominantly and for them to hit at violent speed on the counter attacks whenever opportunities allow. We have to press hard to blunt their counters.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Shows where we are now in this comp. All any of these presenters and broadcasters say now is we are the two biggest teams in the comp. Colossus. Giants of the game.

Unbelievable really.

 

[Goater101]

Madrid will be licking their lips at that. We had to simply attack them tonight and try and grab a few goals. Fuck sake man

 

[mancityscot]

oh dear. Oh dear

 

[Ezy]

Why..?

 

[mosssideblue]

Pep: "Oooh, it's been 2 games since i overthought a line up.."

behave

 

[samuelyeboah]

why are people losing it? this is a completely fine formation. in fact I quite like it? what am i missing about the huge meltdown lmao

 

[sh249]

Looks like Stones in midfield?

Akanji—Dias—Ake—Gvardiol
———Stones—-Bernardo——
Savinho—De Bruyne—-Grealish
——————Haaland————

Or possibly Grealish with Stones and Bernardo in a 3?

Unexpected.

 

[super_city_si]

Pep doubling down on keeping the ball. We'll get no chance to test their defence as it will take us 15 minutes to get past the half way line. Could work though and we have firepower off the bench at least

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Stop with the negativity. Pep knows what he’s doing.

 

[Benarbia’s Backheel]

Oh Pep. You’ve Pep’d it. I thought we were over this?!

 

[chaddblue]

Porto re-visited

Pray it’s bollocks

 

[deano ou812]

Hmmm might lump a wedge of money on Madrid deary me pep ..

 

[calumdown]

Bizarre starting XI tonight. No idea what formation.

Ederson, Dias, Stones, Ake, Gvardiol, Akanji, Bernardo, Grealish, De Bruyne, Savio, Haaland

akanji dias ake gvardiol

stones

de bruyne bernardo

savio grealish

haaland

 

[mancityscot]

Grealish in to rack up the Madrid yellows

 

[super_city_si]

Gonzalez in the subs?

 

[Goater101]

Grealish hasn’t played for fucking months and he starts tonight. Unbelievable.

 

[alexmcity]

Gvardiol will likely play in a more attacking role. Guess our tactics is to tire them out by letting them chase the ball. They are supposed to be less fresh than us due to the derby on Saturday.

Foden benched, which isn't surprising. He, Marmoush and hopefully Doku can contribute off the bench.

 

[samuelyeboah]

Grealish hasn’t played for fucking months and he starts tonight. Unbelievable.

he's played 3 days ago and was MOTM!