I bet Guardiola will do that: NEUER LAHM-V.BUYTEN-BOATENG-ALABA KIRCHOFF ROBBEN-SCHWEINI-MANDZU-THIAGO ALC.-RIBERY
Thiago won't start. He has already played 135 minutes of footy this week. Schweinsteiger will start, he was rested for both friendly matches. Kroos as well.
Lay off the name calling. We have a nice forum without people polluting this with garbage like over at the Real Madrid forum.
Götze will be in the squad tomorrow. Unsure if he'll play or not, Pep will decide at the last minute.
(I put Dhajj in my ignore list so game over 0-0 ok?) If somebody says that we play with a striker he never watched Bayern this season, repeat we play 4-6-0 or 4-0-6 but not 4-3-3- or 4-5-1 for example take a look at the last game with Gladbach, did Mandzukic play as a striker?????????????????????????? Nope-
I think Pep is determined to play Martinez as a CB. So, given the various fitness levels/form of the players, I think this is the best we can hope for. ----------------Mandzukic Ribery----Kroos-----Schweini--Robben -----------------Kirchoff Alaba----Martinez----Boateng----Lahm ------------------Neuer I would be satisfied with that.
My line up would be. Lahm (Dante/Martinez could careless who) boateng Alaba I think boateng is more of a lock on his spot lately, I would stick with him. Then I would try Piggy as DM Then robben Kroos gotze ribery Mandz I would sub Mandz for muller to give him time at 9 role Then who ever is fine I thinking having Martinez as lone DM and piggy ahead of him would be best against top teams, but for most BL teams I think our firepower alone can destroy any team.
Seems somewhat hilarious to me to spend 65 mil on world class Spanish defensive midfielders, sell the best Brazilian DM, drop the best Brazil central defender so that one of the world class Spanish defensive midfielders can play decent central defense, and then play (free transfer central defense cover signing) Jan Kirchhoff in defensive mid. But they say Pep is a genius so I better not question nothin particularly so early in the season.
You don't need to play your best 11 everytime. You got to switch it up to keep everybody happy. That said, I don't think we see Kirchhoff in this game but later in the season I could see Kirchhoff getting the start in DM for rotational purposes.
What's up bitches !! So I'm in Warsaw right now, but I'll be flying to Lisbon at the time of the game... But we shall win this confortably anyway... See ya !
Kirchoff isn't a DM, he's a CB. Martniez on DM and Schweinsteiger and Kroos in front of him. There's no reason to waste Martinez talent on CB, we saw how important a player he is the last season.
Will we really wear our CL kit today? Seems a little dark, too similar to FFM's dark red/black. We should debut our away kit