Feyenoord (H) - Tues 26th Nov, 20:00 | CL | Pre-Match Thread

[halfcenturyup]

A clean sheet please.

Why? What did you do to the one on your bed last night?

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Bloody hell can these games stop coming so thick and fast

 

[sh249]

Ok but we cannot play Gundogan either. FA Cup only and for closing games down when we are a few goals up. I know that seems so far on the horizon at the moment but we will get back there, sooner rather than later.

Yeah, and I‘d be happy to see Wright given his chance. But just can‘t see it happening, and there‘s no chance Pep will play him against Liverpool. So I‘d try to see whether Stones and Gundogan might work as some kind of functional pairing.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Ederson

Akanji Simpson Pusey Ake Gvardiol

Grealish Nunes

Savinho Kev Foden

Haaland

We need runners in midfield. Grealish has the work rate and legs to run up and down the pitch, same goes for Nunes. It’s alright having players who can control a game but if they can’t run back, what’s the point of them? Pep won’t go for it, but I think Grealish could do a good job there and my thinking is look at him permanently moving into that position.

 

[Bluekiwi]

A clean sheet please.

Wednesday is the day my wife changes he sheets - as the CL game is played Wednesday morning NZ time we should be okay to honour your request.

 

[Gray]

A clean sheet please.

Not a cat in hell’s chance of that the way the whole team has been defending this season.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Surely we stick to the wings and pass the dutchies on the left hand side?

Or just go route one for a change.. Musical hoof..

 

[M23 Citizen]

A clean sheet please.

Even if it’s a 0-0? I’d rather win 6-5 than draw 0-0

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

Absoluteley buzzing for this game. Perversely love seeing how we get out of this so called "crisis" .

Bring it on

 

[CityPar]

TBH there was some elements of our game against Spurs that I liked and if we could do these parts for a full 95 minutes then I fancy us to buck the trend and win a game. That's my positvity over.

Walker is done for me as is Gundogan who's offered zilch since he's returned. I've got a 40 inch waist and could still outrun that guy in the middle of the park. And where is our press? It's been shit recently. As for clean sheets forget it. Defensively we're very easy to play against these days. We give up huge chances and invariably concede. Going forward if Haaland is not on fire we struggle to score. Savinho has talent but zero goal threat. Foden is a pale shadow of last season.

This team does know how to win and they will find the right ingredients to do so again. I just hope it starts tomorrow night because I don't want to go to Anfield on the back of 6 straight defeats because it will then be 7.....