FC Copenhagen - Wed 6th Mar, 20:00 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[MCFC1993]

Kick off time 20:00 (GMT). Live on TNT for those in the UK.

3-1 up on aggregate.

Get it won, get players off and rested for Anfield on Sunday. Liverpool are in Prague on the Thursday so no reason to be more tired than them going into that one.

Pep will go strong, he always does in the Champions League but if I had to guess.

----------------Ederson
Walker--Akanji--Ake--Gvardiol
------------Kovacic--Rodri
Nunes-----------Foden--------Doku
-----------------Alvarez

Get 2 first half goals, get Walker, Ake, Rodri and Foden off ASAP.

 

[Gigant]

Ederson
Walker
Akanji
Dias
Gvardiol/Lewis
Rodri
Kovačić
Foden
Bernardo
Alvarez
Haaland

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Bernardo being played into the ground (and he naturally plays himself into the ground, by the way). Should be totally rested against Copenhagen. We should be able to do the job without him. We got 70-80% of the job done in Denmark. Kev and Rodri, too: in for the first half, get a goal, then get them off. Want them all fresh for Anfield.
Erling doesn't need resting. This part of the season is meat and drink to him. He can go on and on.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Play as weak a team as possible. Main focus is next weekend.

 

[imrebanana]

Give Kev a day off.

 

[Blu3m00n91]

Ederson; Lewis Akanji Dias Ake; Kovacic Nunes; Doku Foden Bobb; Alvarez

 

[mosssideblue]

Play as weak a team as possible. Main focus is next weekend.

You know very well Pep doesn’t see it that way

 

[Gorbachev]

You know very well Pep doesn’t see it that way

This.

He knows Liverpool have a relatively small squad at the moment and will likely have to play the near on the same team away in Prague on Thursday as the one on Sunday.

I think it will be the same team that started today but with Kovacic and Alvarez coming in.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

You know very well Pep doesn’t see it that way

He should because it's a dead rubber.

 

[blueparrot]

He should because it's a dead rubber.

No it isn’t and apart from a couple of players he won’t.

 

[richards30]

No way Pep takes this game lightly! Hopefully get another couple of goals and then rest players but he’ll go strong in this to begin with imo.

Ederson
Walker
Akanji
Ake
Gvardiol
Rodri
Kovacic
Foden
Bernardo
Alvarez
Haaland

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

Ederson
Walker Akanji Dias Ake
Rodri Kovacic
Foden Alvarez Doku
Haaland

 

[Goater=Legend]

Would love to see Bobb start this one

 

[chris85mcfc]

As long as we score a goal we will go through

Play full strength within reason, and make changes after 60 minutes

 

[mosssideblue]

He should because it's a dead rubber.

He won’t, and that’s why he’s the best manager in the world

 

[GX Blue]

Ederson

Lewis Akanji Dias Gvardiol

Kovecic Rodri

Bobb Nunes Doku

Alvarez

 

[LesBleuMiserable]

No it isn’t and apart from a couple of players he won’t.

Rest Rodri, KDB and Foden

 

[Shirley]

He should because it's a dead rubber.

It’s a knock out round of 16 no such thing as a dead rubber. Perhaps you mean we have an invisible 3-1 lead which should see us through. Hope so with the final beckoning at wemberlee…

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

It’s a knock out round of 16 no such thing as a dead rubber. Perhaps you mean we have an invisible 3-1 lead which should see us through. Hope so with the final beckoning at wemberlee…

You're right. I forgot it was a knockout round.

 

[Kinkys Left Foot]

Have some of you lot been asleep for 8 years? League Cup aside, Pep never, and I mean never goes light in knockout football, especially CL football. Nor should he. Some goons think we should go light. What like we did at Newcastle in the League Cup you mean? If we did and they score first or we get an unlucky early red card its fucking game on and were under pressure big time and would have to pull our tripe out to try and secure the game, leaving us fucked to play those feral cunts on Sunday.

Well go as strong as possible I suspect with Alvarez, and one of Kova and Nunes coming in. I suspect Kev is rested but may get a cameo.

The plan will be score first and early. Suck the life out their fresh legs and hopefully get a second before half time, winning the game effectively and then ring the changes. If we concede first somehow we will have the personnel on the field to put it right.