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

[Eric Hitchmough]

Stones in midfield

Take BBC with a pinch of salt mate. They’ve got Ake at right back there.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Not on here. You’d think we were Curzon Ashton playing Brazil to read the negative shite on this thread. Can only imagine the match thread will be even more poisonous than usual…..

Don’t do it. It will be a joke

 

[kupest]

I am more on the side of lets shore up and protect that defense before doing anything, so this sort of is fine with me. Would have liked to see Marmoush somewhere but I get Grealish in there as well.

 

[Bluemoon115]

Well, a Pep special is better than a Kova/Gundo midfield.

 

[freshie]

 

[bluemoon32]

I can't be the only one who's happy enough with that starting line up

 

[the blue panther]

We've seen much worse teamsView attachment 146401

Happy days..................... NOT!!!
How lucky we are nowadays - never forget!

 

[01cravend]

Shite line-up.. Real Madrid don't have a defence at all though so hope remains

 

[Gundoggin]

Bizarre line up ???? Has pep overthought it again ???? Loaded the midfield ???? Akanji v Vini Jnr ????
At least we have a very strong bench for once !
CTID

 

[Claytop]

9 out of the 11 that started the winning CL final, crazy to think how far we are away from that year.

 

[King Jay]

Valverde will have a field day today and won’t mind to attack and shoot from Jupiter. He will easily catch Grealish during counters anyways

 

[.db.]

5 at the back? Can’t imagine we’re testing Gvardiol or Akanji centrally when we’ve just bought a midfielder to do that job.

John Stones got MOTM in the CL final in defensive midfield. Can see him playing there.

 

[calumdown]

This looks horrible

why?

it looks to me like a case of
we''ll score more than you.

pull your tampax out and enjoy the ride

 

[Claytop]

Don’t like the sound of that…

He’s usually reliable aswell.

 

[Gaz76]

Happy days..................... NOT!!!
How lucky we are nowadays - never forget!

Only this

 

[TinFoilHat]

5 1 4 works for me. HOOF IT.

Me too.

Pep's decided to go full English football.

:)

 

[stonerblue]

He played 3 days ago and was really good

He's made for this one.

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

If Nico's not ready I'm happier with Stones there than Kovacic and/or Gundo. Grealish over Foden is weird but also makes sense in a way.

Not what I saw coming but not bad either.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

I can't be the only one who's happy enough with that starting line up

If Pep and his staff are happy, I am. More happy then if the misery guts on here got their own teams out there, who know nothing about the squad like Pep does.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

if he's not injured then I don't understand Grealish starting instead of Foden
the proof is in the pudding and we will all have to wait and see how the game goes and the result

When has Pep gone all out defence in any game in his career ?
Stones will be Holding but 5 centre backs really ?? at home

Park the fucking Bus Pep

Foden isn’t great on the left and I think Pep has gone with Grealish as Gvardiol will push up as much as possible, Grealish is better at tracking back. In current form, I’d take Savinho over Foden on the right.