Milik back hahaha. He just had a serious injury. He wont be able to play a full 90 minutes fully match fit before the end of march or something...
Still should get a striker, we're probably going to ease him back like Sarri did with Insigne last season play Gabbs at Right Wing as a back up to Callejon and sell El Kaddouri
fukn rigged bs. How the ******** are we meant to score against Real Madrid? This isnt sunday league where insigne can hoof it over the sideline in a counter attack because he will get another chance 5 minutes after. we have to make great decisions in attack and take our chances. I'm confident we can defend against these if K2 is in top form....
imagine reina trying to save ronaldo or bales knuckle shots lol - doesnt matter how shit the shots are - we are ********ed
Real Madrid should have lost to Deportivo It is Real Madrid and they should never be underestimated under any circumstance, but we will play them tough I have no doubts, we can get an away goal on them if they defend like they did against Dortmund and Deportivo.
Benfica got BVB, I'd rather have had them over RM. Madrid had Roma this time last year and played like shit and still won 4-0, this isn't looking good
I don't want to be that guy but Roma have a reputation of bottling it in Europe, especially in CL. They should have won comfortably in Madrid, they completely outplayed them. Also if you are scared of Real Madrid's attack, Dortmund's is a way better attacking team this season than Real Madrid.
Which exactly shows the huge individual quality real have if they can still win whilst being outclassed. Give the likes of ronaldo bale benzema half a chance and you're toast. Heck even their midfielders (kroos,james) pose a massive goal threat. It would be a nice homecoming for albiol callejon and to a lesser extent reina so hopefully they'll be on top of their game
Honestly the only chance we have against this Madrid side is if we keep the game close going into Napoli. An away goal will be huge and I see us putting out a 4-5-1 type of formation with Reina Hysaj-Albiol-K2-Ghoulam Callejon-Allan-Diawara/Jorgy-Hamsik-Giac(He's the best we have defensively Milik Callejon makes runs forward, Allan does too and so does Giak. Possibly sub on Rog or Zielinski later on in the match as their midfielders will be tired too and one or both of them will probably venture forward as well.
gotta go with the usual suspects because if you go too defensive Madrid will score, you have to be able to scare them in attack too hope Milik is ready for this tie!
Real Madrid are playing in the Club World Cup in Japan tomorrow and probably on Sunday . Hopefully that saps some energy from their season. I'm concerned about the left side of defense with Ghoul and K2 being worn out by AFCON. Algeria and Senegal are in the same group along with Tunisia, who are a decent team historically. Maybe one can get knocked out early. The final is on Feb. 5.
15th February, a month and half away. I found a weird statistic, we've had the most corners in the group stage this year, 56 in total. Interesting to say the least