Champions League Final | Pre-Match Thread

[oakiecokie]

Fuck me !! Four goalies ???

 

[kaz7]

Everyone goes , all supporting each other

 

[dom]

Rather nice not to be having our coach bottled and bricked by low life scouse morons for once

 

[dom]

Fuck me !! Four goalies ???

It’s our cunning plan for the pen shootout!

 

[Marklr]

Fuck me, this week is dragging!

 

[kun]

Fuck me !! Four goalies ???

I count 5

 

[David Silva #21]

5-0 city

I'm very confident right now

Now I'm nervous af!
I think Pep will surprise us with his line-up...
But at the end, I see that trophy in Fernandinho's hand

 

[burning blue soul]

That's a funny comment. I think everybody at this point, can pinpoint the Man City starting 11 that would be starting the final. You guys have a drop in quality when it comes to attacking players on the bench. That's not to mention that Chelsea pretty much played their weakened teams the last 2 times we beat you. The fact that Ziyech and Alonso (the two players who scored winners against you) are likely not to start the final, goes to tell you a lot about this Chelsea team. We have a bigger room for change in our starting 11.

The problem you have, and most other teams fans have, is that City do not play in a classic system that you recognise.
Strikers, midfielders, defenders.
We don't do that.... we play a holistic way (remember that getting laughed at in the Pellegrini days?)
We have the most players scoring goals into double figures than any other previous champion. Goals scored from everywhere.
We have one of the meanest defences in the league.
Your defense cannot target our striker, because we have 7 of them. Midfielders we have 10, defenders we have 8. And that isn't even mentioning the goalkeeper that has a bag of tricks like Paul Daniels.
City have rotated the players very intelligently (check our current injury list). If we change 9 players there will be a drop, but if we change 2 or 3 the change is negligible. Because, they play as a smaller inter-changable constituent part of a bigger machine.
Win or lose Man City will play our style. You may win playing your style (anything can happen in a one off game), but eventually, maybe 5 years from now, you will be playing the City way. The holistic way, that you, at the moment, can't comprehend.
We are the current under 18, Prem 2 and full Premier league champions 2021, your lessons will begin on Saturday night.

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Taking over my thoughts far to much, making it drag

Pep has managed to eradicate most ‘typical city’ from memory, in a positive way, I really don’t see Chelsea living with us at full throttle, however it is a final and forces bigger than performance can always be at hand...

An early goal to settle the nerves and we could strangle the life out of them

Going 3-1, Kev to dominate with a couple

 

[Sir John Terry]

I can only assume that although you may be a Chelsea fan you know fuck all about football and especially our team, if you think we have not much change from our previous two starting elevens against you.
Deluded springs to mind.

I think the main point here is, that you don't have much options to bring on if some of your main players are not performing to their best ability in the final. Ferran Torres, Aguero, Gabriel Jesus just don't have the quality to hurt us.