Champions League Final | Pre-Match Thread

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

“It means more than winning one”

Nice little dig at the dippers there Pep!

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

Play our game and we win .

 

[BluechesterCity]

If Chelsea play like they did today then we should roll them. Plus their heads will be battered after the defeat today.

Well done to Leicester!!

 

[City Raider]

Think today puts a little bit more pressure on them. They might have played more freely with silverware in the bag

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

We haven't heard much from the poshboy turned fake manc from Bramhall recently. I suppose he needs to keep himself in the news.

Does that twat Christian really believe that Leeds, Sunderland and many other places in the north will be cheering Chelsea. Should think it unlikely Spurs and West Ham will be up for them, but more significantly does he think we give a shit. Yes Terry I was cheering Chelsea in Moscow so f**k you pal.

 

[mccity]

So, based on this either

a) The team is set for the final (the one we all expect) and he's just thinking about tactics.
b) The team is not set for the final, and he has two possible teams to think about.

I assume it's the former, but if it's the latter, I wonder what the twist would be?

 

[Corky]

He is weighing up which new formation to play:

- 212122 or;
- the experimental 03332 no keeper variation

 

[babua_blue]

if foxes defeat chelsea again midweek , chels will have to play a full strength squad till last matchday ...while wo rotate and rest ..oh its all written in the stars isnt it :P

 

[bobom]

I'm not sure the FA Cup kids makes much difference. Had they won, they might have had more confidence and momentum. But on the other hand, yesterday will have hurt them. "Remember what losing at Wembley felt like and don't repeat it" will be their motivation. They'll throw everything at it.
Even if they lose to Leicester again and need to win on the last day of the season to qualify for the CL, I'm not sure it will harm them. Yes, they'll have had to play their best side. But then again, they'll have been playing together, whereas we'll have been rotating, and we may not be quite in the groove.

From our point of view, there's no doubt that if we play as well as we can, we'll win. But the fact that we've won the league and can focus on the CL final is also creating pressure for us. We are spending 3 weeks disguising on one march - I think that's less helpful than the "just think about the next match" approach.

Who knows, it'll be close each way.

 

[AshtonBlueMooner]

Wow. Some people really over thinking this. Pep knows his starting 11, we know his starting 11 and our winning mentality together with an unbelievably stronger team than Chelsea puts us as firm favourites. They can try and defend for their lives and catch us on the counter but with our best defence out, it's just not going to happen. We are standing on the edge of greatness. Watch and enjoy blues, watch and enjoy. This is our time.