Al Ain (N) - Mon 23rd June, 02:00 | CWC | Pre-Match Thread

Match Result Prediction?

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With Juve going +5 early today compared with our +2 against Wydad we need a chunk of goals in this otherwise a draw in the last group game will mean second place in the group.

Even though Madrid drew last night I'd still expect them to win their group so topping ours to miss them is imperative.

With talk of major Pep rotations it'll make the Juve game a proper game of football.
 
We have to beat them by at least 5-0 otherwise we could finish 2nd in this group. I had a nagging feeling that we should have scored more goals against Wydad.
 
Marvin. said:
We have to beat them by at least 5-0 otherwise we could finish 2nd in this group. I had a nagging feeling that we should have scored more goals against Wydad.
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I mean... does it matter? There's a big chance we end up playing Salzburg anyway, even if we finish 2nd.

But if it's Madrid and we lose then we come home earlier than planned and the lads get a proper rest.
 
Marvin. said:
We have to beat them by at least 5-0 otherwise we could finish 2nd in this group. I had a nagging feeling that we should have scored more goals against Wydad.
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I watched the RM v Al Hilal game last night, 2 very good teams. I would say both playing levels above the way we played yesterday. We will have to improve significantly to match them!

Inzaghi is managing Al Hilal, they were very confident and skilful, unlucky not to get a win against Real Madrid, they created many good opportunities to score. Their striker was out, you would imagine they will be more clinical with him playing?

Whoever is runner-up in that group will likely be a hard match?
 
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Plain Speaking said:
I watched the RM v Al Hilal game last night, 2 very good teams. I would say both playing levels above the way we played yesterday. We will have to improve significantly to match them!

Inzaghi is managing Al Hilal, they were very confident and skilful, unlucky not to get a win against Real Madrid, they created many good opportunities to score. Their striker was out, you would imagine they will be more clinical with him playing?

Whoever is runner-up in that group will be a hard match?

If Al Ain play to a similar standard as Al Hilal, it will be a much tougher game than Wydad.
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We were poor yesterday generally besides Reijnders.
 
Ortega
Nunes
Khusanov
Gvardiol
Ait-Nouri
Nico Gonzalez
Rodri
Gundogan
Bernardo Silva
Bobb
Haaland
 
Plain Speaking said:
I watched the RM v Al Hilal game last night, 2 very good teams. I would say both playing levels above the way we played yesterday. We will have to improve significantly to match them!

Inzaghi is managing Al Hilal, they were very confident and skilful, unlucky not to get a win against Real Madrid, they created many good opportunities to score. Their striker was out, you would imagine they will be more clinical with him playing?

Whoever is runner-up in that group will be a hard match?

If Al Ain play to a similar standard as Al Hilal, it will be a much tougher game than Wydad.
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Al Ain are in the UAE league, not Saudi. They're nowhere near as good as Al Hilal.

It was really fucking hot yesterday, and with that many changes I don't think we need to look too much into the performance.

The Juve game will be a better measure of where we are.

As for where we finish in the group. Win it and Real will come 2nd in theirs. Come 2nd and Real will win their group. We'll be playing them in the next round, we can't seem to avoid them!
 
supercity88 said:
Al Ain are in the UAE league, not Saudi. They're nowhere near as good as Al Hilal.

It was really fucking hot yesterday, and with that many changes I don't think we need to look too much into the performance.

The Juve game will be a better measure of where we are.

As for where we finish in the group. Win it and Real will come 2nd in theirs. Come 2nd and Real will win their group. We'll be playing them in the next round, we can't seem to avoid them!
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I thought we struggled with the pitch a bit, our passes tended to be short. I guess watering them doesn’t do much good as it’ll evaporate pretty quickly in that heat.
 
this goal difference thing aint helping us now. with Al Ain may be friendly club with Mansour I doubt we want to annihilate them with a huge scoreline like 6/7/8 goals.
they deffo looked way worse than Wydad.

Juve-Wydad game is sooner than our game vs Al Ain, so we will see exactly what we will need vs Al Ain in terms of GD.
albeit would be nice if Wydad can get a draw vs Juventus.:)
 
richards30 said:
Doku did well in parts and Ederson done ok with his distribution but nothing screaming one of the so called best teams in the world?
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Nobody is claiming the team that played, and taking everything about when the game is being played said it was one of the best teams in the world, it wasn't much more than a pre season game.
 
blueparrot said:
Nobody is claiming the team that played, and taking everything about when the game is being played said it was one of the best teams in the world, it wasn't much more than a pre season game.
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Them players were still good enough to have battered that team yesterday though?
 
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