Alert: CL Round of 16. Real Madrid v. Manchester United, Wednesday, February 13th [R]

I think you are asking the wrong crowd. I am fully convinced that the members on this board are buncha jobless men who lives in attic or basement of their mom's home. Way too many spend way too much time on here during peak work hours or yall are the worse employees ever because they spend majority of the time on BS and on porn sites.

My prediction- 1-1

Just as long as Vidic does not start. I love the guy but I would hate to see him go one on one with Ronaldo.

 

says the man who has over 5K posts, posting here at minutes after 11 am on a Monday and seems to have intimate knowledge on the profile of BS posters. hmmmmmm

 

Like this... but put Nani instead of Danny.

 

From manutd.com

 

If Mourinho does his homework and gets his players to press us...it will be a painful nights football.

 

As long as the right players are out there and they stay compact, they can play around the pressing.

 

Well that would be the first time in 2 years. We don't respond well to sustained pressure by teams when we have the ball.

 

Ronaldo di Maria Alonso benzema or Higuain can't press as effectively

 

Nani, Carrick, Ferdinand, Evans, Kagawa, Welbeck, RVP, Scholes, Cleverley, Rooney etc can all play their way out of pressure provided they have an outlet.

It's up to management to:

1) Make sure enough of those guys are on the pitch and

2) Make sure someone always makes himself available for a pass

 

The bolded portion is the key. If we are going to play conservative, then we have to play on the break. That means Rooney alone up top, Danny and Nani on the wings and 3 in the middle. And then we have to hoof the ball. But if we want to play proper football, we have to ensure that our wingers dont collapse on our CMs and fullbacks and that if we play 2 up top, they maintain proper spacing.

We can cheat/half ass it by playing 1 winger as an outlet with the other more defensive and then have the two forwards split time as target and outlet so we'd have a fluid attacking 3 when we don't have the ball.

 

We press very effectively with the front four, but we don't press as a team. Against Barca, the front four will try and win the ball back to stop their defence playing it out from the back, and we are very dangerous when we do press like that. Then instead of pressing all over the pitch, the whole team drops back if the ball reaches the midfield, and we play on the counterattack from there. If we play the same way against you guys, expect a very tough first fifteen minutes.

 

As well as Bilbao did I meant

 

Yeah, we won't press all over the pitch like Bilbao, but we don't play a direct possession game, nor do we tend to man-mark all over the pitch like Bilbao. But we are far better than Bilbao, and although we're not in form we can still press and hurt you unless you play an optimum game.

That's not to say that there's a huge difference in quality between the teams - it's a case of which will perform to their potential most over the two legs.

 

It would be the height of incompetency if United can not get some away goal(s) at the Bernabeu.

 

You've gone too far in the other direction now. Their fans are crazy to expect to drub us but it isn't as though they have invalids in the back four (apart from Ramos who I will NEVER rate).

 

I am so excited for this tie. I haven't been posting often but I'll do today. I'll be stuck at work until 5 as most will be here in the US, I'll get my twin to record my stream from sopcast or acestream and then watch it when I get home with a nice warm dinner.

Either way it goes I am excited to see a good match personally, I want to know how we can be measured up in quality against the top. I am excited for the tactical battle between Jose and Fergie, and the battle between the players.

There are three players that will make a difference in the game it is Ronaldo, Rooney and Van Persie. I expect us to come away with at least draw. When we are the underdog we usually show up and take care of business.

There needs to be a runner on Xabi Alonso closing down the time on the ball, and someone following Ronaldo around switching flanks. Carrick will close the holes for Oezil. Nani can counter Marcelo's forward runs, although I'd prefer him attacking Arbeloa's flank cause he can destroy him literally. We need to be fluid in the front 5 bar Carrick who will sit in front of the back four.

COME ON UNITED!

 

Identical twins? If yes is he a soccer fan as well?

 

Girl, has one cap for Lebanon's women under 18 when she was 13, plays PES!

 

Here's a new Mourinho documentary that came out a few months ago, and I'm posting it here simply because it has quite a bit of Sir Alex in it, and it can help make the painfully slow clock until the first leg starts go a fraction quicker!

Loved hearing how when Sir Alex has a glass of wine with him after the game he smites Mourinho quite a bit

With the league lost, they'll be concentrating on the CL. They'll be fired up and come out hard, need to weather the first 15/20 minutes and then settle.

 

Rats! so I guess she cant go and stand in for you while you watch the game huh????

 

Best bit about the vid is in the opening few seconds I see what appears to be your average Spanish man in the stands wearing a Lassana Diarra shirt. You support Madrid and of all the names you could get on the back of a kit, you get "Lass"? LOL

 

lol I was like WOAH, a new guy who has been on the forum FOREVER!!! Then I read the sig...

 

cool. Keep up the rehab man.

do not underestimate the power of the wall.

Pretty much the reason I don't know if I'm left footed or right footed was a wall on the edge of a field near where I grew up.