Real Madrid (N) - Champions League Final, Sat 28th May 2022 (8:00pm)

[3 Stacks]

How do you guys think Madrid will apprehend this? We've been conceding early a lot recently. Maybe they press us high in the beginning and then they go conservative for the rest of the game...

[Bobby Hundreds]

They scored 6 past city over 2 legs, that worries me. I make them huge favourites as I'm a shithouse.

[JohnnyH]

I woke up yesterday morning with a proper knot in my stomach for the first time. Nerves jangling and everything. But now, weirdly, I’m totally calm this morning? Not confident-calm. Just calm. 
 

I suspect tomorrow morning I’ll wake up terrified again. 

[an tha]

Will be interesting to see if they look to try and target TAA with Vinicius - he is a real threat and could be a massive supply line for Benzema.....By same token of course TAA could really give him a big problem.

 

Feel we need to help TAA down that side though which makes IMO the need to start our best midfield 3 of Hendo, Thiago and Fabinho all the more pressing....I feel we are less able to help him when we can't field that 3.

[elvis]

1 minute ago, an tha said:

Will be interesting to see if they look to try and target TAA with Vinicius - he is a real threat and could be a massive supply line for Benzema.....By same token of course TAA could really give him a big problem.

 

Feel we need to help TAA down that side though which makes IMO the need to start our best midfield 3 of Hendo, Thiago and Fabinho all the more pressing....I feel we are less able to help him when we can't field that 3.

Absolutely nailed on I'd say , win ball give to modric, ball into channel.

Rinse and repeat all night , it's definitely my main concern after watching mighty wolves pull it off repeatedly on Sunday. 

[johnsusername]

1 hour ago, elvis said:

Absolutely nailed on I'd say , win ball give to modric, ball into channel.

Rinse and repeat all night , it's definitely my main concern after watching mighty wolves pull it off repeatedly on Sunday. 

Wolves are a good team and would finish pretty high in La Liga.

[VladimirIlyich]

2 hours ago, elvis said:

Absolutely nailed on I'd say , win ball give to modric, ball into channel.

Rinse and repeat all night , it's definitely my main concern after watching mighty wolves pull it off repeatedly on Sunday. 

It depends which Trent we see,and if Hendo is given that covering midfield role which closes the gaps Trent leaves. I do think we need cover for Trent in the way Tsimikas covers for Robbo.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

37 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

Wolves are a good team and would finish pretty high in La Liga.

Also, I'd settle for the same result against Real Madrid.

[aRdja]

50 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

Wolves are a good team and would finish pretty high in La Liga.

I haven’t watched a lot of La Liga but I’m confident they’d make the CL if they were playing in La Liga.

[JohnnyH]

You'd have to imagine Thiago would need to train today to even have a chance of making the bench.

[Pidge]

1 minute ago, JohnnyH said:

You'd have to imagine Thiago would need to train today to even have a chance of making the bench.

We have 12 subs, if he can walk, he'll be on the bench.

[JohnnyH]

9 minutes ago, Pidge said:

We have 12 subs, if he can walk, he'll be on the bench.

Ok, I'll change that to "realistically available to use from the bench"

[TD_LFC]

Teams?

 

Alisson

 

Trent

Matip (toss of a coin, we either go with experience or try and cover the left sided threat with pace)

van Dijk

Robertson

 

Henderson

Fabinho

Thiago (Injury permitting)

 

Salah

Mane

Diaz

 

[TheDrowningMan]

We’re a better team than them - better players, better stats, won more games, lost fewer. Yet I simply can’t see us winning…it just feels as though it’s come at the wrong time.

[alles ist gut]

21 minutes ago, JohnnyH said:

You'd have to imagine Thiago would need to train today to even have a chance of making the bench.

The line on the offal is that he will travel with the rest of the squad.

[KMD7]

17 minutes ago, TheDrowningMan said:

We’re a better team than them - better players, better stats, won more games, lost fewer. Yet I simply can’t see us winning…it just feels as though it’s come at the wrong time.

Thanks mate I feel better about our chances now after reading that.

[The Midnight Rambler]

Some great flags in this thread.

 

 

[lifetime fan]

Just stuck £50 on Madrid.

 

Win tax.

[Aventus]

3 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

It depends which Trent we see,and if Hendo is given that covering midfield role which closes the gaps Trent leaves. I do think we need cover for Trent in the way Tsimikas covers for Robbo.

Yeah, I know Trent is incredible at what he does but it seems like people have just thought oh well Trent is unique we can't possibly have somebody else to rotate with him.

 

If we can find a little sleepy Greek lad that nobody has heard of to cover the left side, I'm sure our scouts are capable of finding someone with at least 75% of trents ability to cover the right. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, The Midnight Rambler said:

Some great flags in this thread.

 

 

 

[Jairzinho]

4 hours ago, johnsusername said:

Wolves are a good team and would finish pretty high in La Liga.

Probably about a point or two off 8th.

[3 Stacks]

Wolves were crap this season and they're not exactly the type of team where you could say that stylistically they fit the Premier League stereotype of big and physical side that would give a Spanish team a problem. They're not obviously better than teams like Betis, Villarreal, Bilbao or Sociedad. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Aventus said:

I'm sure our scouts are capable of finding someone with at least 75% of trents ability to cover the right. 

HIYA!

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

6 hours ago, elvis said:

Absolutely nailed on I'd say , win ball give to modric, ball into channel.

Rinse and repeat all night , it's definitely my main concern after watching mighty wolves pull it off repeatedly on Sunday. 

It's worth remembering that Wolves got fuck all from trying that trick.

[luxury_scruff]

In the press conference now, it's been revealed that it's a brand new pitch - it was laid yesterday...