If we come 2nd I'm worried about half the teams yea (Barca, Bayern, Man City and Real... if all 4 of them even win their groups that is). I think we can hold our own against Atletico and PSG and i favour us over any group winners of the other 2 groups
We shall see. Their group is tough, but last year they were not that bad in the CHL though they were often quite tragic in the league. With Conte they could actually challenge for the spots.
The should beat Dortmund for 2nd, it's not the same Dortmund that we had to go up against a few years back
Do you guys want to make game threads for the Champions League games or talk about it in here? Apparently Liverpool will be without Alisson and Naby Keita. We need this win
Agreed, I feel it's because 2/4 of our starting defenders are new and they need to learn to play with each other still and the fact Koulibaly hasn't looked 100% yet.
This is not a defense issue but how we play. Mostly cheap give aways, we physically don’t boss around midfield and are exposed on counters.
Maybe not, but we had some good traces of that, and we actually did very well in those moments. We just need to be able to keep it up for a longer period of time. There are situations when we have to take a risk and fly forward, and we have to get better at reading when such a situation has come and at waiting for it, for in the last game some of our players sts started turning around and lost the ball, which wasn't the situation that we had been waiting for and in that case we should have kept the ball close to our boots, waiting. We have young players in midfield and Allan is more a beast than an orchestrator. We need smn to do Hamsik's job properly, but I believe that we have such players, but they need just a bit more wisdom.
No Alisson for this game, I'd push Fabian wide left honestly, Insigne - Mertens Fabian - Elmas - Allan - Callejon Ghoulam - Koulibaly - Manolas - DiLorenzo Meret Elmas really impressed me against Samp
I was impressed by Elmas, Ziel, Lozano, and Mertens. The latter 2 were not that much of a surprise for me. Insigne now finally has real competition, and if he doesn't gear up he could end up sitting on the bench. The trident of Insigne - Mertens - Lozano in attack could be lethal in a 4-3-3 formation.
Typical Conte. Approaches a tournament with the same mindset of the season. He started the game with two defensive mids vs. the weakest team in the group at HOME
streams? I'm literally gonna kill someone soon. Everything is not working... for a funny reason it decided to do that today