Real Madrid (A) - Tues 9th April, 20:00 | CL | Pre-Match Thread

[LesBleuMiserable]

Pulling out all the stops it seems.

Why close the roof?

 

[vanchi]

Why close the roof?

they want to make the atmosphere better, make it more loud.

 

[JGL07]

Why close the roof?

To stop ISIS dropping grenades in?

 

[Bill Walker]

Why close the roof?

Because they're crapping themselves and want the crowd to be noisier.
RM are shit scared of City chucking them out again so they will use any tactic to gain an advantage.

Love to beat these fuckers at their place. If I was Pep I'd play Bernado/Foden as false 9 and play Kova instead of Haaland.

Ederson/Ortega

Lewis
Dias
Stones
Akanji

Bernardo
Kova
Rodri
Grealish

Kdb
Foden

 

[BringBackSwales]

Why close the roof?

Surely we would have to agree?

 

[BringBackSwales]

Because they're crapping themselves and want the crowd to be noisier.
RM are shit scared of City chucking them out again so they will use any tactic to gain an advantage.

Love to beat these fuckers at their place. If I was Pep I'd play Bernado/Foden as false 9 and play Kova instead of Haaland.

Glad you’re not Pep tbf

 

[Bill Walker]

Surely we would have to agree?

Don't think so mate, it's their ground.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Let them close the roof if Tebas agrees to jump off it, head first

 

[lasereyes]

So it’s either Rico or Gvardiol tomorrow? Two seasons ago Walker’s injury cost us against Real. Hopefully it won’t be the case tomorrow. I’d guess that Pep will make sure Akanji is up against Vinicius Jr and if Lewis plays it will be be left back if Gvardiol is out.

It will be very tough match, we didn’t create a lot away last year but KDB bailed us out. We’ll need to create more and ride out any storm.

We have the quality but we need to be much sharper in preventing counters and must take any opportunities that come our way. Outside of Haaland, KDB, Foden and Rodri we don’t have enough goal threat. We need more from Grealish and Bernardo or Alvarez or Doku if they feature.

I remember us dominating the first 1/2 hour. Not a lot of clearcut chances, but we were clearly in control until Vinicius scored that wonder goal

 

[Elliot houghton]

Madrid likely line up lot more energy in that midfield without Modric compared to last season . Bernardo definitely needs to play Center midfield imo to counter the energy of Camavinga and Valverde. No courtois is a massive bonus for us even though Lunin has been pretty solid he still yet to be tested on the biggest games in which he could crack so hopefully we put him under pressure. Think a score draw is probably the most likely outcome again