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

[hihosilva]

Grealish is playing for a reason tonight. 6 of their team are a yellow card away from suspension & he draws in the fouls.
Fully expect Gvardiol to get up & support grealish to give him options.

 

[bert38]

I m thinking more like 3 in the back with stones and jasko in the middle when with the ball but fall back for 5 in counter attack

yep-my thinking too

 

[WesthoughtonJohn]

150 million spent on Marmoush and Nico to try save our season . Neither start and Pep goes back to players who have been awful all year .

I'm utterly astounded.
Gone for ultimate control and we're gonna pay for it - unless it's the sucker punch bypass midfield ploy.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Half/half everywhere outside! Never seen so many tourists outside the ground.

Shit times mate, bring back 80's football, well the matchday experience anyway

 

[Bluewars II]

Decent team that, think we'll do em.

 

[urban genie]

most experienced team we could pick, just will we be quite slow build up in attack bar Savio.

lots of Gvardiol up high and high balls in for Haaland hopefully

 

[vanchi]

Christ, is that what they cost?

no, i think it was 175m for 4 players

 

[TinFoilHat]

Any chance we can start editing the thread title to show which page the line up is announced?

City

Jaws from James Bond

All our Centre backs

Prince Harry
Saveloy
Bernie Inn

Jackie Shithouse

Techno Viking


Real

11 shithousing cunts

Hope this helps

 

[malg]

Let's be totally fucking open and honest here. We've been wank this season. We can't keep a clean sheet. The cold hard reality is that Real are likely to pump us home and away.

So, the manager has gone with people he's trusted in big games gone by. It might go wrong, but regardless of 51.2% of people on here saying we'll win, in reality it would be good to still be in it before the second leg.

It's a hard reality given what we've seen over the last 4 years, but that's football.

Let's all get behind the team for an 1-1....

 

[Blue Bogey]

With the lineup think Pep is going for a positive home result in 1st leg and will then defend furiously in Madrid in 2nd leg.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

Half/half everywhere outside! Never seen so many tourists outside the ground.

Just hope it’s not a reflection inside the ground.

 

[pbueno16]

Jeez you’d think this was a post match thread after a 2-0 loss with all the doom in here

 

[sh249]

He is hoping for 1-0 or 0-0, I don't have trust in our defense to hold them goalless, this was our chance to go for speed against their weakened attack

Don’t be daft.

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

Can Wooney start a sentence without referring to his time with the rags?

 

[big gaz]

I’ve got a feeling we’re going to really miss the old Walker here.
He was always brilliant against Mbappe and Vini jr.

Always good with a pair of tits old Walker ;-

 

[Ric]

Feel like people are making too much of Grealish’s ability to win yellow cards. Three of the six Madrid players at the risk of suspension aren’t playing, and the other three will be given a lot of leeway by the ref I imagine.

 

[Norbert D]

Worth noting City have a good record in Madrid, last five away at this lot won 2 draw 2 lost 1 and the one defeat should have been a win.

 

[HorlocksWalk]

Thought it looked an OK team then saw I was looking at the subs

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

he's played 3 days ago and was MOTM!

He had a nice little confidence boost (I thought he ran the show) and when you see what sort of person he is you just know that Grealish thrives on that shit. It's all in his head. He's capable of running it tonight if he plays on the front foot, hope he's now got the balls to go at Real like he went at Leyton Orient.

 

[Bluearmy]

Not sure where to start with that line up. Doesn't trust the new signings by the looks of it…