Sporting CP (A) - Tue 5th Nov, 20:00 | CL | Pre-Match Thread

Match Result Prediction?

  • Win

    Votes: 193 51.3%

  • Draw

    Votes: 104 27.7%

  • Loss

    Votes: 79 21.0%
  • Total voters
    376
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Gone for a Burton said:
Better than all of the additional teams and many of the others.

Milan, PSG, Sporting are also ditto.
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Juve got beat at home in the last round to Stuttgart 4th or 5th in the Germany League and Juve are not ripping it up in
Serie A either!!!

PSG drew at home last round against a Dutch team, who we play at home next round :0)

So if we don’t get enough points from all of these games including Sporting???

Then we don’t deserve to go through to the next stage!!!

Cos we definitely won’t win it?? :0(

And my holidays will stop in Paris for this year’s Chumps League!! :0(

And we definitely don’t want that :0(

Munich or bust !!!???

Judith Chalmers :0)
 
ysmsa said:
Jesus fucking wept.

Lost his first game at Oxford I think, and then 4 years to win the Title.

I'd settle for that cos he would only last 2 next of a 4 year rebuild these days!
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7 years to win the title and the equivalent of half the value of the club in transfer fees.
 
ysmsa said:
Jesus fucking wept.

Lost his first game at Oxford I think, and then 4 years to win the Title.

I'd settle for that cos he would only last 2 next of a 4 year rebuild these days!
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4 years to win the FA Cup, SEVEN years to win the League!
 
yeah whatever !! said:
Seems this match is now City v united in the press eyes.
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It was always going to be this way. And if we lose, they'll focus on the positive tactics from Amorim that the rags can take heart in - having more resources at his disposal when he goes to the swamp.

The majority of people don't have a clue about him or his tactics, so this is a lovely way to hype up the game and pretend it has any relevance to the rags.

Would be lovely to give them an absolute battering. If Bernardo's on the pitch from the start there's a good chance of that.
 
supercity88 said:
It was always going to be this way. And if we lose, they'll focus on the positive tactics from Amorim that the rags can take heart in - having more resources at his disposal when he goes to the swamp.

The majority of people don't have a clue about him or his tactics, so this is a lovely way to hype up the game and pretend it has any relevance to the rags.

Would be lovely to give them an absolute battering. If Bernardo's on the pitch from the start there's a good chance of that.
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if they persist with the 3 4 3 we have to start doku and savinho as they will have acres of space out wide
 
mancboy said:
if they persist with the 3 4 3 we have to start doku and savinho as they will have acres of space out wide
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They're very good defensively, although arguably not that tested domestically. Their CL games have been Lille, PSV and Sturm Graz so not the biggest tests and they've only conceded once. Only 3 conceded in 10 games in the league as well.

But we're a different proposition if we play at our best. I think you're right, we want width to occupy their wing backs and then look to run the inside channels to drag their CBs out to give us numbers in the middle.

I'm just hoping for a much better performance than we've seen recently. Dominate the game from the first whistle to the end. Get the confidence back ahead of Brighton - and no fucking injuries ideally!
 
SWPISHOME said:
We'll never hear the end of it from the media of Sporting get a result against is tonight. They'll all be hoping for a Sporting win.

Come On City!!!!
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It's my usual mute technique and music while I watch away games on TV tonight along with feed on 3 mins before KO (where I do normally put the sound on CL games just for the boos).
 
supercity88 said:
They're very good defensively, although arguably not that tested domestically. Their CL games have been Lille, PSV and Sturm Graz so not the biggest tests and they've only conceded once. Only 3 conceded in 10 games in the league as well.

But we're a different proposition if we play at our best. I think you're right, we want width to occupy their wing backs and then look to run the inside channels to drag their CBs out to give us numbers in the middle.

I'm just hoping for a much better performance than we've seen recently. Dominate the game from the first whistle to the end. Get the confidence back ahead of Brighton - and no fucking injuries ideally!
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I've watched a few of their league games, a bit like City they are really susceptible to pace behind but he's made some adjustments for when they are out of possession this season. Been impressed with Trincao, moves well between the lines so someone we'll need to keep an eye on and Edwards is really good too.
 
Will be interesting to see if we get a reaction tonight to the rumoured long meeting the players and management had on Sunday.
Or if there is any improvement to the general flatness of our play of late.
 
Just looking at there stats in the Champions League games,

Sporting seem to face alot of shots on and off target against the opposition.

PSV:
Total shots - 18
Shots On Target - 6
Possession - 57%

Sturm Graz:
Total Shots - 11
Shots On Target - 6
Possession - 40%

Lille: (Down to 10 men after 40 minutes)
Total Shots - 3
Shots On Target - 2
Possession - 50%

You'd like to think if get so many shots away they'll hit the back of the net. Be clinical on front of goal and we'll win this game.
 
SWPISHOME said:
Just looking at there stats in the Champions League games,

Sporting seem to face alot of shots on and off target against the opposition.

PSV:
Total shots - 18
Shots On Target - 6
Possession - 57%

Sturm Graz:
Total Shots - 11
Shots On Target - 6
Possession - 40%

Lille: (Down to 10 men after 40 minutes)
Total Shots - 3
Shots On Target - 2
Possession - 50%

You'd like to think if get so many shots away they'll hit the back of the net. Be clinical on front of goal and we'll win this game.
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We'll need about 20 shots per goal based on current form!
 
Ortega
Akanji, Ake, Gvardiol
Lewis, Kovacic, Nunes
Savinho, Foden, Doku
Haaland

Would really like to see this tonight. Although Pep definitely needs to tell Kovacic to stay behind the ball at all times.
 
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