Exeter Blue I am here said:
The customary overconfidence on this thread. I expect Roma to play very much as Napoli did against us, and a long old evening to be the consequence. We should win, but anyone expecting anything other than a real old dog fight is dreaming, even with Di Rossi and Strootman out
We don't and won't play like Napoli which was fantastic on the fast break, Cavani and Lavezzi' duo was superb in that regard. We can't play like that, it's not our style at all even if we're quite good at it, because besides Gervinho and Florenzi/Iturbe the rest of the team, especially midfielders, are averagely fast and dynamic, therefore the ball needs to run for us and in order to do that we need to control the game. If we pattern after City we will lose regardless of a great defensive system.
To win an high tempo kind of game against an English team we would need to outpace you, not happening since we're not used to, I'm not saying we're bad either but CIty are definitely better and it would be a suicide. However we could outrun you in a different way and wear you out with good positioning, accurate passing an a quick ball movement and that's basically why many here, included me, suggested playing a 3 men midfield,
I honestly believe we'll assist a very entertaining match, then of course we'll be more cautious than usual, I mean it's City you're playing against, I guess it just means we respect any opponent the right amount, which is basically the error CSKA committed. They haven't prepared scrupulously enough and came here underestimating us with the intention of playing a very open kind of match, not taking defence into account and they got burnt, happens all the time in CL.
Like my mate said yesterday "Shit happens" sometimes, you're never too careful.
