Barcelona H CL Pre match thread {merged}

[Proelia]

Good to see some sensible and non-kneejerk opinions here, can't wait for the match thread.

Yea because playing a slow left back who doesnt defend in midfield is genius

You're right. I don't even think you should bother watching the match. Go and get a bet on a Barca win, quick before the rest of the world wakes up to your genius and the odds drop!

I mean, what does that Pellegrini bloke know about his players and the Barca players that he used to play twice a season for about 10 years, as a professional football manager?

Let us know how much you win on William Hill

Prefer betfair tbh

 

[CitytillIdie74]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpFITa9eYoQ

Great now to add to prematch nerves I have ant & dec singing in my bonse

 

[bluemonkey71]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpFITa9eYoQ

Great now to add to prematch nerves I have ant & dec singing in my bonse

hahahaha!

 

[MSP]

League Cup Final even more so. To have any players come back into the team too early and then miss Wembley would be a blow to both the league games and the final.

More important my ass. Ask SM did he buy City for Stoke game alike, or Barcelona one.

Trophies????....If you believe that earlier tweet it looks like Fernandinho might not be risked.

Beating Barcelona may mean trophy too and CL is what makes clubs big ones. If he is not ready he won't be rised, that's normal.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Can't understand how people don't have Navas as an automatic nailed-on starter for this. As a Spaniard on the edge of the national team which is going to Brazil, he knows that this is a stage like no other, a match broadcast in every single bar in Spain and Catalonia tonight — he will play out of his skin. My midfield would be packed: Garcia (in the absence of Ferny), the Yaya who played against Chelsea ( you get my meaning), Silva, Navas to start, maybe Nasri to replace him at about sixty minutes if Navas is not giving the performance I've just predicted. If that unit takes care of business, I believe the rest will look after itself. Oh, Beast up front. Orders to all the midfielders to not necessarily seek him out all the time, but let him do decoy runs. They shoot when they see the whites of Valdés's eyes. They all know how to score.
This'd be a lovely match to win over the two legs, but it's honestly no disaster for me if we don't do it. I just don't want us to be overrun the way we were against Bayern in the first match.

 

[Wio Gumflapdinand]

Line-up for me is

Guinness
Guinness Guinness Guinness Guinness
Guinness Guinnesss
Milner Guinness Guinness
Guinness
Subs:
Guinness
Coors
Coors
Wife's vodka
2 year Old bottle of Cointreau
Curry

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Can't stand kolarov left wing, hope this isn't true.

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

unfortunately I couldn't make the game tonite...however does any one know if the Blues that have are taking in fish & chips to the ground ???

Just to try and tempt Messi to make the move ?

 

[Chancy Termites]

Can't understand how people don't have Navas as an automatic nailed-on starter for this. As a Spaniard on the edge of the national team which is going to Brazil, he knows that this is a stage like no other, a match broadcast in every single bar in Spain and Catalonia tonight — he will play out of his skin. My midfield would be packed: Garcia (in the absence of Ferny), the Yaya who played against Chelsea ( you get my meaning), Silva, Navas to start, maybe Nasri to replace him at about sixty minutes if Navas is not giving the performance I've just predicted. If that unit takes care of business, I believe the rest will look after itself. Oh, Beast up front. Orders to all the midfielders to not necessarily seek him out all the time, but let him do decoy runs. They shoot when they see the whites of Valdés's eyes. They all know how to score.
This'd be a lovely match to win over the two legs, but it's honestly no disaster for me if we don't do it. I just don't want us to be overrun the way we were against Bayern in the first match.

At his best when we're under pressure too, giving us the opportunity to spring forward with pace when we win the ball back. You'd hate to be a left back facing him.

 

[Uptop]

Seen a stat that 19 out of Barca's last 27 goals have been conceded from set plays. Hopefully something we look to exploit with our height advantage.