Champions League Final | Inter (N) - Sat 10th June 20:00 | Pre-Match Thread

[guizza]

They seem always to play 3-5-2, but it is not park the bus EPL 3-5-2 and that's the reason I find them interesting to watch. It looks more like old school 4-4-2 where very often Edin/Lautaro keeps pressing quite high, which is not going to work against us...at all! On the left is is almost always Bastoni back on the left with Dimarco/Gosens in front of them. But they have this peculiar habit of kicking balls forward to the left, where Edin or Dimarco picks the ball pinging it back horizontally into the MF and then they all pile up and overload for through ball usually to Lautaro or somebody shooting from the edge of the box. And they have that Turkish lad with the most devastating long shot on Europe and probably in the world. It is gonna bi fun game to watch, I actually like Inzaghi as a manager, but even if we turn 60%, we'll turn them over. They don't play teams like us in Serie A and when they encountered Bayern, they could not cope.

I confirm that inter does not park buses. It is not a 4-4-2, it is a much more Guardiola-like type of soccer than you think. Bastoni often gets up in midfield to move a midfielder forward to support the attack. Di Marco is the more offensive fullback, which is why a lot of the action takes place on the left. Lukaku/Dzeko often drop down to move midfielders forward and uncover the opposing team. Inter uses crosses or ground ball, it has no preference.

 

[guizza]

Good points made! I feel a little less nervous now. Might try and watch that Bayern game if I can find it. If they press us we will hammer them.

No, in that game with Bayern it was a very different inter from today

 

[domalino]

I see several CL finals for City in the next decade.

Really we should be on our 3rd in a row now.

The minimum is now a semi final every year.

Looking around the state of European football I think Pep will expect a lot of success. We just have to get this one over the line, the first one is the hardest to win.

 

[rowarta]

it's done and dusted

 

[Tangled up in blue.]

No brainfart please pep, play the game not the occassion, leave everything on the pitch

Containing myself till i see the team news , i dont trust pep ! The madrid team please

I wouldn't put it passed Pep to try something different

 

[Bazzmand Show]

I wouldn't put it passed Pep to try something different

What I hope to see from him is not 'trying something different' before the game, but making the required changes during the game if things are clearly not working.

It's Peps one and only achilees heel, he sometimes relies too much on the pre game system and tries to back the players in.

 

[Tb1981]

Need to get in front of Edin at set-pieces and trying to bring Mkhitaryan and Latauro into play.

Need to play high, as I don't think they have anyone who can run away from Walker on the cover?

Keep them away from free-kicks and corners, and I think it will make life much easier for us.

Inter impressed me against Milan, but they really didn't have many questions asked of them defensively.

I genuinely think they don't come up against players like Erling and Kev much, and that's where we can make the difference.

They were beat by Bayern twice convincingly earlier in the season.
They beat benfica, porto and Milan to get to the final
They are a good team but I don’t think they have played many teams anywhere near as good as us

 

[SWP's back]

I am Italian, I think you don't know inter and Italian soccer very well. Inter played a very strange path in the league, in CL and Coppa Italia they showed a very different game. Definitely City is favored but you should not take the result for granted. There will be no bus, City always concedes something and inter's counterattacks are deadly.

City always concedes something?

You managed 42 goals in 38 games and finished with a Gd of 13.

We managed 94 goals in 38 games, conceding just 4 goals more in a much stronger league.

So not only do Inter concede as much, they score less than half as many also and lost twice to the German team we slapped out of the way.

I’m sure it will be a tough game, it’s a CL final, but don’t fall into the trap of thinking City have a soft underbelly. In four games against Madrid and Munich, we conceded twice, once to a dodgy pen and once to a 25 yard wonder goal.

 

[N1985]

This week is already fucking dragging.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Ederson for Ortega

That's it nothing more

It’s a tough ask , Eddie can’t win by himself .