We have to win this game if we want to proceed to the knock-out stages of the Champions League. It's not all in our hands though since Manchester City also have to beat Shakhtar Donetsk, a game that is being played at the same time. Starting lineups: (confirmed) Feyenoord: Vermeer; Nieuwkoop, Van Beek, Tapia, Malacia; Amrabat, Vilhena, Toornstra; Berghuis, Jørgensen, Boëtius Feyenoord bench: Jones, St Juste, Larsson, Basacikoglu, Diks, Kramer, Hansson Napoli: Reina; Maggio, Albiol, Koulibaly, Hysaj; Allan, Diawara, Hamsik; Callejon, Mertens, Zielinski Napoli bench: Sepe, Mario Rui, Jorginho, Giaccherini, Chiriches, Rog, Ounas
Man City starting XI in Ukraine: Ederson; Danilo, Adarabioyo, Mangala, Fernandinho; Yaya Toure; Gundogan, Foden; Bernardo Silva, Jesus, Sane A strong team. Foden is imo the most talented English youth player, I dont know who Adarabioyo is but the rest are familiar names who will likely fight for a step closer to the starting eleven.
No reason for city to play their best starting 11, and they fully expect this team to get 3 points as they're strong. As for our team, not a fan of zielinskis position. Why is it zielinski will probably play in goal before he gets to take hamsiks place for a game.
City 1-0 down. We are out. The Hamsik-Zielinski midfield effect... subsequently led to Sarri trying to fix things by tiring out our starting 11... Sarri is an idiot for never(!) playing Rog or Ounas. Credit where credit's due, critique when you fuk up - seems fair.
for the love of god just take mertens off. hopefully callejon gets injured he is not offering anything at all edit: other than diving and rolling around on the floor
Will Sarri learn from this experience in which his decisions have directly put us in a position of chasing from day one and now out and into the shitty EL in which he will cry about having to play on Thursdays? will he fcuk!
Diawara is looking more and more like the wilfried bony of defensive midfilelders. I dont see the talent at all. Seems heavy/slow, in bad shape, cant jump high, no agility, always about 20 minutes too late for every challenge consequently leading to him commiting a dumb freekick - where is the talent? He can pass when not pressured? well thank fhuck cause thats usefull. I say try Rog there.. but he doesnt have the hyped name does he?
It will be interesting to see Napoli, Juve and Inter fight for the scudettto this season. Finally we actually have a contest in Serie A this year.
Typical Napoli season. We just have no consistency. I hate Roma but they deserve respect. Took on the toughest group and qualified first. We are really pathetic. I love Sarri but his style of playing the same team does not work. If the team is not good enough he should speak rather than saying I work with who I have and then only play the same players. With ADL we will win nothing. I am not even upset. It is what it is.
I am upset we invested energy in this cup only to become Europe's laughing stock. We seriuosly rested players for a match against benevento only to see ghoulam, our player of the season, tear his ACL playing back to back matches against city with a game against roma (or inter?) in between.
Sarri takes no action. apparently you can play dog shit and do nothing for months and still walk right into Sarris team every week.
Sarri will play reserves in EL. My worry is more the embarrassment. A top team does not get eliminated in group stage.s
I am annoyed at Sarri for wearing the team out. But those who defended ADL in summer, should think twice. We just don't have enough quality.
Atletico and Dortmund will be joining us. I understand they had tougher groups but at the end of the day, it won't ruin them like it shouldn't ruin us. I'd like to think we're around the level of those clubs or just under considering both have made a UCL final in the past few seasons
This is pathetic. We had a very easy group. Those two teams had very tough groups and they have a proud history. For us it is the same every year.