20 May 2022 16:55:52
Hi all.

If fabs isn't fit how do we play vs Madrid. I'm feeling for a front four of diaz mane salah with Bobby behind them taking all kinds of liberties with casemiro in midfield alongside thiago and hendo. Back 5 picks itself with konate in there. Smoke them for 2 or 3 early doors and throw milly and matip on to shut up shop.

Thoughts?

20 May 2022 17:19:42
We will get destroyed. Modric and kroos will run shop with our two man midfield.
Lets face it madrid are sitting ducks for us if we press out of them. We need a midfield trio to harass them. And if fabs is out we have to go with thiago hendo and keita. Although i woudn’t mind if we play our player if the season joel matip in fabs place. That would be pep’isque.

20 May 2022 17:33:56
Matip in midfield? In a CL final?

I think there’s a lot better options before we get that desperate!

20 May 2022 18:02:45
Make no mistake Madrid are a very strong team. Will need to buff up our midfield and give all help TAA needs it when overlapping.

Will need to be at our best and play at a tempo and energy which Madrid ageing players will find difficult to cope. Coz if they're comfortable then they can easily hurt us badly.

20 May 2022 19:11:59
It'll be the same as last Saturday. Henderson holding with Thiago and Naby Lad alongside him.

20 May 2022 19:20:19
Fab will be fit.

20 May 2022 22:09:45
I think it is safe to assume that any team qualifying for the CL Final are pretty good and the playing down of the threat posed by RM probably doesn’t reach as far as the team and coaching staff.

I’d also suggest that the CL Final is not the match to pull an experimental ream formation out of your a*se.

Fabs will be fit to play, we will be ready and prepared and, as ever, if we play as well as we are capable of playing we will win.

20 May 2022 22:12:01
I agree. No way in hell that Fab will want to miss that game. As long as he's physically able, he's going to go all out to play. Same with Salah. His Ballon d'or credentials are at stake here.

21 May 2022 03:13:20
We need to give the our best pressing performance of the season against Real Madrid, with as little let up as possible as the game goes on. Physically, Madrid are a few tiers below us but they have masterful technical quality throughout their team, meaning that the early stages should favour us but the game will suit Madrid more as the game goes on and players are unable to press as effectively.
Salah and Mané simply have to be on their clinical A-game for us to win this. I don’t want to see any 6-yard strikes straight the keeper or ballooned over the bar, this is not Watford (H) where you may get 4-5 more clear-cut chances.