Paris Saint-Germain (A) - CL SF | Pre-Match Thread

[Scottyboi]

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Walker....Dias....Laporte....Zinchenko
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.........KDB.............Gundo............
Mahrez.........Bernie............Foden

 

[Parisian]

Both teams full fitness. What a cracking game this will be. If we can just come away with an away goal and keep MBappe and Tom Daley quiet that will do for me.

I wouldn't say "full fitness". Marquinhos is coming back from an injury and it will be his first game since. Same with Florenzi (i don't like him at all but whatever). Also, our most impactful full back is out for the season (Bernat). But yeah, it is as close as it is for PSG. We are used to have more missing players.

 

[Parisian]

What I have found quite surprising playing against teams from France in recent seasons, is how poor their fitness levels seem to tail off during the final 20 minutes?

PSG is usually "soft" in that matter too. Almost always the team with the less km covered in the game. Must be the way they play the game too because the opponents tend to run less than their usual self too.

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

Pep just mustn't over think it.
We can beat anybody on our day.

I’m more concerned about him under-thinking it due to his attention being drawn away so many people trotting out that same old tired old cliche about him possibly over-thinking it ;-)

 

[Cornish_Blue]

What I have found quite surprising playing against teams from France in recent seasons, is how poor their fitness levels seem to tail off during the final 20 minutes?

They’ve normally put the game to bed by then.

 

[blue wang]

I’m more concerned about him under-thinking it due to his attention being drawn away so many people trotting out that same old tired old cliche about him possibly over-thinking it ;-)

Over or under thinking, paralysis of analysis.

Just plain vanilla tactics tonight,. Nothing exotic should get the job done.

 

[wolviedinho]

This match is all about our mentality.

Stop the excuses.
Stop being afraid.
Stop feeling inferior.

Go out and impose our game plan correctly and it won’t matter who PSG have playing. If we go out timid the match will end in defeat. Time for our Yaya fa cup moment in this competition.

Come on City! You are the best team in the competition, now prove it.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

When I was growing up there were two games in the European Cup that especially impressed me. Celtic beating Milan in the final in Lisbon and Utd putting Eusebio's Benfica to the sword 5-1 away from home. They're the kind of stunning, smashing performances I want to see by City tonight, not the scruffy "let's get an away goal" result many on here are asking for. Time to make a statement that this is City's year, when a collection of highly talented individuals all play the game of their lives and become better even than the sum of their parts. And just as Celtic had little Jimmy Johnstone dazzling the Italians all those years ago I think tonight it will be Raheem Sterling doing that to PSG.

 

[Don Karleone]

Nerves kicking in now. Might nip out for a couple beforehand

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

Over or under thinking, paralysis of analysis.

Just plain vanilla tactics tonight,. Nothing exotic should get the job done.

If we win then he’ll have got it right, if we win well then he’ll have got it perfectly right, if we lose he’ll get slated for over or possibly under thinking it but ultimately, as we should all accept deep inside, whatever happens he’ll have done a better job of it than any of us expert guessers ever could.