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

[Gorton_Tubster]

So nervous now. Tough tough game, PSG are v good away from home. I don't know if we'll do it but fuck me it's already been a fantastic season on so many fronts.

Go blues, Cmooooooooooooon city

 

[P-Nic85]

This forum is gonna either be the most euphoric it's ever been, or the lowest it's ever been later

This forum is gonna either be the most euphoric it's ever been, or the lowest it's ever been later on today.

Let’s hope for euphoric

Anyone else supposed to be working and wondering how the hell you're going to pass the next 8 hours? Can't concentrate on work at all and starring at bluemoon all day will drive me insane.

Just do what I do to pass the time on match day and try figure out Pep’s starting 11 and formation, be home time before you know it haha

 

[Sky Blue]

I'm pretty certain Rodri will start the game. Pep rates him higher than most fans on here.

When was the last big PL/CL game Rodri didn't start?

I think Rodri will start. As much as I love Fernandinho I worry that the diving antics of PSG may suck him in for an early red card. Those stray elbows worry me.

 

[Sir peace frog]

Very confident, I can't see a team that will beat this current city team, we dominate, we control and we win , we play our game and no one is close to us, 3-1 city

 

[SWPISHOME]

Hate this feeling, can’t get fuck all done at work thinking about it. I’d take a nil nil no bother

I hope it's as boring as fuck and the ball out of play most of the game.

 

[Blue Smarties]

One of those days where you kick yourself for not taking the day off.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

One of those days where you kick yourself for not taking the day off.

Best off keeping busy. I've just taken 2 hours off to go doctors and thought about sacking it off completely. I'd end up on the piss, no doubt about it. Going to 'work' till half 4 and keep my mind off it, somehow.

 

[warringtonblue]

Hate this feeling, can’t get fuck all done at work thinking about it. I’d take a nil nil no bother

That’d make the last 5 mins bearable knowing they need 2

 

[Didsbury Dave]

I'm pretty certain Rodri will start the game. Pep rates him quite highly.

When was the last big PL/CL game Rodri didn't start?

I rate him. I never thought that he wouldn’t start until he was left on in favour of Fern being subbed.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

I'm thinking 1-0 up in 15 minutes. They have to come out and play, exposing themselves at the back in the process. I think we will win the game 2-1.

 

[shevtheblue]

They're still in the title race in France so i think they pretty much played a full 11. Take them into deep waters, make them run like we did in the second half and take them out when they're knackered.

 

[willipp]

I hope it's as boring as fuck and the ball out of play most of the game.

Bernardo is gonna do a swamp and keep the ball in the corner flag for 90 minutes.

 

[willipp]

They're still in the title race in France so i think they pretty much played a full 11. Take them into deep waters, make them run like we did in the second half and take them out when they're knackered.

Think Mbappe sat it out as a presaution for tonight.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Anyone else supposed to be working and wondering how the hell you're going to pass the next 8 hours? Can't concentrate on work at all and starring at bluemoon all day will drive me insane.

My biggest concern is that my second jab this afternoon dosen't cause me the same rough as fuck reaction that the first did....I want to drink lots of beer later.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

They're still in the title race in France so i think they pretty much played a full 11. Take them into deep waters, make them run like we did in the second half and take them out when they're knackered.

The title race in France is one of the most interesting that it's been for years. Personally, I'm completely rooting for Lille (because, by temperament, I'm always for the underdog). They're a good, respectable club, with a long history, and the people in the north are mad about their footie. Anyway, it's a great scrap to watch from afar.
(Great scrap in Spain too. The ‘boring’ leagues have been the Bundesliga (tell me what else is new) and the Serie A. And I suppose, for many, the PL. Funny though, I can't find it in myself to be bored by what's been happening in the PL…)

 

[rabby]

One of the main jobs tonight is to keep Neymars involvement to the middle third of the park which we did successfully last week.Give him any opportunity in or around our box to hit the deck and he'll win a free kick or pen.
He's a master at initiating contact and seems to get a decision every time.
Fairly confident for tonight but don't want to be trying to play out time late in game,doubt the nerves could handle it.

 

[alexmcity]

I rate him. I never thought that he wouldn’t start until he was left on in favour of Fern being subbed.

Might be mistaken, but I think there are other logical explanations why Pep subbed Dinho. For instance, Dinho might be needed at some point vs PSG and has to be sufficiently fresh, whereas Rodri is young and can recover relatively quickly. Another possible reason to not sub Rodri is that we needed height to defend from set pieces and crosses in the box, Ake and Dinho aren't tall. Also, Dinho might have felt something, etc. etc. Again, might be wrong, but think people make too much from that substitution. Then again, Dinho turns 36 today and Pep might start him, but that's unlikely, imo.

Rodri is one of the first names on the team sheet together with Ederson, Dias and KDB, as shown by the fact he has started every big game in the PL or the CL this season, and last season as well.

 

[Markus83]

Goal, goal, goal fiesta
Its Stockports Iniesta

Out the flank, or in the middle
Plays your defence like a fiddle

His shirt is blue like heaven
Our number fourty-seven

 

[SWPISHOME]

Bernardo is gonna do a swamp and keep the ball in the corner flag for 90 minutes.

Haha that was fucking immense the funniest 5 minutes I've ever watched.

 

[GOULDYBOBS]

Goal, goal, goal fiesta
Its Stockports Iniesta

Out the flank, or in the middle
Plays your defence like a fiddle

His shirt is blue like heaven
Our number fourty-seven

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