Altidore, Rossi - Dinamo Zagreb vs Villarreal 9/16 1PM EST

These are the 19 players who made the trip. One will not make the squad:

Goalkeepers: Diego López, Juan Carlos and Oliva.
Defenders: Gonzalo, Musacchio, Catalá, Capdevila, Marchena, Joan Oriol and Mario.
Midfielders: Senna, Bruno, Cani, Borja Valero, Santi Cazorla and Jefferson Montero.
Forwards: Rossi, Marco Ruben and Jozy Altidore.

 

I think it's safe to say that one of the goalkeepers will be left off. Hopefully Jozy gets some minutes.

 

Marca's expert believes that Ruben will start up top with Rossi; Gorky also found an article from El Periodico Mediterraneo saying the same thing.

 

I don't know, as a manager I'd sure hate to lose three keepers to injury and not have a fourth on hand to sub into the match.

 

Villarreal lineup:
[LINEUP-4-4-2]Altidore,Marco Ruben,Montero,Bruno,Senna,Cani,Capdevilla,Musacchio,Gonzalo,Perez,Diego Lopez[/LINEUP-4-4-2]

Altidore and Marco Ruben start up top, Rossi on the bench.

http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleagu...ive/index.html?matchday=1&day=1&match=2002919

 

come on jozy!

forza inter

 

Streams: http://myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=86422&part=sports and probably atdhe

 

I eagerly await the pbp telling me that Jozy is terrible and will never play again.

 

I'll be sure to translate

 

Huh?

 

If you reread the thread you'll understand. Altidore is doubling as the emergency back-up GK.

 

In his last match, Marca's PBP guy thought Jozy was awful.

I'll be following along via Marca.

 

Is Nilmar hurt?

 

No, just left at home for this match.

 

This is actually a fairly strong lineup Villarreal are fielding behind the two strikers, so hopefully Jozy should get some pretty good service today.

 

Decent Veetle stream in Croatian.

 

They just tried a long ball to Ruben that did not work out.

 

Jozy fights off a defender, cuts back and sends in a (left-footed?) cross towards Ruben that is cleared out.

 

Jozy appears to be taking this chance seriously.

 

ahh the extra officials threw me off

 

Jozy is so good at drawing fouls. Is he diving? I don't know. It always convinces refs.

 

that was a dive from Jozy at the 7th minute

 

Diving and embellishment are, in my opinion, too big a part of his game, but not that time. Legit foul.

 

Sounds like Zagreb is a decent side...