Club Brugge (H) - CL - Wed 3 Nov 20:00 | Pre-Match Thread

[kanovic]

Interesting resting dias.

 

[discopop]

Totally understand Dias resting if Laporte is out, should really have enough there.

 

[kaz7]

Instead of posting tweets, which show up as unavailable could you please just post the info.

XI | Ederson, Walker, Stones, Laporte, Cancelo, Rodrigo, Gundogan (C), Bernardo, Mahrez, Foden, Grealish SUBS | Steffen, Carson, Dias, Ake, Sterling, Jesus, Zinchenko, De Bruyne, Fernandinho, Palmer

 

[lancs blue]

Hopefully Laporte has woken from his Saturday slumbers.

 

[lionheart]

Don't love that team.

Is there a betting market for Mahrez to score but only a penalty or when we're already 3+ goals up?

Looks fine to me. Expect Jesus, KDB & Sterling to appear on 65 mins if we are not winning. I have just bet on a 3-3 draw at 200/1 so it will probably finish goalless.

 

[domalino]

Looks fine to me. Expect Jesus, KDB & Sterling to appear on 65 mins if we are not winning.

Guardiola's never made a triple substitution after an hour in his life.

 

[ninjamonkey]

No issues with that, can be no excuses. Wish Pep would get off this foden false 9 role though. I understand he's the best we've got at it but he's nowhere near the best version of Foden in that role. play Foden on the left where he absolutely rips it up and find somebody else to fill other roles.

 

[SWPISHOME]

De Bruyne , Dias , Sterling , Jesus all in for Saturday then

Not necessarily. Foden, Grealish, Gundogan ect could all get 45-60 minutes tonight to be saved for Saturday.
Only one guaranteed to start out of those mentioned is Dias and Gabby imo

 

[wattle]

Not sure about that team. Not a lot of pace there. We'll see

 

[SWPISHOME]

Was hoping Ake would of started tonight ahead of Stones. Laporte is out of Saturday already so last thing we need is Stones getting injured.
Then again I can see why he's playing Stones to get minutes under his belt ahead of the game.

 

[Shaffer92]

Ridiculous that Cancelo continues to start. His agent 100% had a word with the club in the summer. I said it previously but Dinho all but confirmed it in a Brazilian interview over the summer. Can't recall exactly what he said but it was a bit ominous in regards to Cancelo.

Keeping Dinho an extra year and not finding a replacement is starting to look a silly choice. He's clearly not trusted to fill in anymore, and as we saw last year with Rodri, he hit a physical wall 3/4 way through the season as his performances just fell off a cliff.

Wonder if Sterling is starting vs United, or if he's officially in the 'dog house' with Pep.

 

[SWPISHOME]

Not sure about that team. Not a lot of pace there. We'll see

No matter what team we play it never has pace :)

 

[asahartford1]

Guardiola's never made a triple substitution after an hour in his life.

I think you may find Pep has made triple substitutions.. Unless you are being pedantic over the 60 minutes , he certainly did it at half time once

 

[Manc in London]

Resting KDB. Good to see us starting a game with eleven :)

 

[kaz7]

Ridiculous that Cancelo continues to start. His agent 100% had a word with the club in the summer. I said it previously but Dinho all but confirmed it in a Brazilian interview over the summer. Can't recall exactly what he said but it was a bit ominous in regards to Cancelo.

Keeping Dinho an extra year and not finding a replacement is starting to look a silly choice. He's clearly not trusted to fill in anymore, and as we saw last year with Rodri, he quite clearly hit a physical wall 3/4 way through the season as his performances just fell off a cliff.

Wonder if Sterling is starting to vs United, or if he's officially in the 'dog house' with Pep.

So, he is in the squad so he is available for pep, cancelo that is

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Dias rested, though Zinks might get a game at LB not a fan of both the left sided players being right footed along with Mahrez in the 3 up top. Very narrow, not much pace.

 

[domalino]

Ridiculous that Cancelo continues to start. His agent 100% had a word with the club in the summer. I said it previously but Dinho all but confirmed it in a Brazilian interview over the summer. Can't recall exactly what he said but it was a bit ominous in regards to Cancelo.

Keeping Dinho an extra year and not finding a replacement is starting to look a silly choice. He's clearly not trusted to fill in anymore, and as we saw last year with Rodri, he quite clearly hit a physical wall 3/4 way through the season as his performances just fell off a cliff.

Wonder if Sterling is starting to vs United, or if he's officially in the 'dog house' with Pep.

Cancelo will probably be gone next summer, he's never going to be good enough to replace Walker as RB and the club will buy a proper left back sooner or later.

 

[wattle]

No matter what team we play it never has pace :)

That's quite true. Oh for the days of Sane and Sterling flying down the wings

 

[Blue Til Death]

Need a strong reaction. I think we'll see 3 or 4 changes here.

Ederson
Walker----Stones----Dias---Zinchenko
Rodri
Bernardo----Gündogan
Mahrez---------Foden--------Grealish​

If this is the starting line up I shall be a happy Blue, same line up Saturday as well please Pep ..

 

[Shaffer92]

Cancelo will probably be gone next summer, he's never going to be good enough to replace Walker as RB and the club will buy a proper left back sooner or later.

I tend to agree. Think he puts the team in more bad positions than advantageous ones, personally.

Replacing Walker will be a TALL task.