Pre-match: Time to invade Ze Germans - The 2012 CL Final Pre-Pre Match Thread

'the ******** does UEFA do with the other 35,000 tickets?

 

As a Yank in Notting Hill with a son who is a Chelsea fanatic -- well, res ipsa loquitor

 

Just read that Dortmund crushed Bayern 5-2 in the equivalent of the FA cup - was Bayern resting players?

 

We just can't get Dortmund out of our mind....

They are the bogey team for us, we can play like champions against any team in the world. When we play dortmund, we fall apart and break down..

We have a serious Dortmund syndrome ATM. 5 straight losses against them in the last 2 years.

 

Not up front, all current 1st teamers

 

I have never ever started a match thread, but thanks all the same

 

I'd feel a lot more confident about this game if we at least had Ramires. Sturridge and Kalou? Ugh.

Not a deep bench at all, either. Other than Torres, no one who can really positively impact a game.

 

Interesting from Beckenbauer. Very offensive midfield if he is correct in his assumptions that it will be Muller, Kroos, Ribery, Robben, and Schwein.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/s...bauer-bemoans-bayern-midfield-options?cc=5901

Important our defense holds down the fort and can launch the counter.

 

I was in Munich last Thursday. The town is going nuts over this. The fanfest will be by the Olympic Stadium. Someone thought it would be great to open up the old stadium and sell tickets for 5 Euros (or something like that) to watch on the big screen. The tickets now to watch on a big screen in an old stadium are going for 100 Euros by the scalpers.

 

This is probably the silly old romantic in me, but I'd like to see McEachran make the bench. I'm almost certain he's eligible. Don't see much point in having both Essien and Romeu involved.

 

Here is a link

 

No, but Dortmund was resting Götze

 

I wonder what they were resting him for.