Urawa Red Diamonds (N) | CWC Semi-Final | Pre-Match Thread

[blumoonrisen]

Unless our lads suddenly remember how to do the basics (defence would be most welcome), that gorgeous Dreamliner will be leaving them back at Ringway much sooner than expected.

If we lose the semi we still have the 3rd place play off. So we're stuck there regardless.

 

[Newman Noggs]

Hopefully, this will be like a warm weather training camp with a couple of games thrown in. I'm keen for the boys to win it a) to lift morale and b) to annoy scousers and the media by being "indisputably" the best team in the world.

 

[bluemoon32]

Hopefully we will win this, no disrespect meant but with the standard of the other sides in this, it will be a bigger story if we dont win it.

 

[Len Rum]

Like yesterday I'd keep Gvardiol on the left wing and maybe go for Bernardo at left back.
Keep it simple Pep!

 

[bluethai]

Our opponents are already familiar with the weather, and they are ready to work their socks off. We cannot adopt a casual, strolling attitude, hoping they'll fold and give us a comfortable win as some comments here suggest.

 

[urban genie]

no european team has lost this in the last 11 years, for a good reason so to do so would be embarassingly poor form.

eddie
lewis
stones
dias
ake
rodri
nunes
foden
berny
haaland
grealsih

or

eddie
stones
dias
ake
gvadiol
rodri
foden
lewis
berny
haaland
grealish

for both games, a bit of consistency too in team selection would be good

 

[Fordyboy46]

Tonight feels like the shocking Brentford performance before the World Cup. And we all know how it ended last year.

There's a pattern with City's last game before the international breaks and now this, we never win them

 

[Fordyboy46]

no european team has lost this in the last 11 years, for a good reason so to do so would be embarassingly poor form.

eddie
lewis
stones
dias
ake
rodri
nunes
foden
berny
haaland
grealsih

or

eddie
stones
dias
ake
gvadiol
rodri
foden
lewis
berny
haaland
grealish

for both games, a bit off consistency too in teamselection would be good

You've jinxed it now mate, lol

 

[wattle]

I don’t get the negativity around this. It’s a privilege to play in it. I might be in a minority but I’m really looking forward to it. It so ‘Billy big bollox’ to suggest it’s beneath us. If we weren’t playing in it we wouldn’t be European champions.

 

[Haaland94]

Ederson, Stones, Akanji, Dias, Gvardiol, Rodri, Foden, Nunes, Bernardo, Jack, Julian.