RedDevil@84
Full Member
A loss here and talks of a sack will start pouring in the papers. The journos will be out ready to twist their knives. Some of them would have already started an article about it.
Who cares?
I think we will not win this one, I predict a poor 1-1
Galata has a pretty good team (Sanchez, Torreira, Icardi, Zaha, Mertens, Ndombele) and it will be difficult for us, especially when we can't create much.
Normally we should rotate for these games and win confortably, but I am sure it will be again a painful game to watch.
-----------------------------------------------Onana----------------------------------------------
Dalot--------------------------Varane-------------Lindelof------------------Amrabat
----------------------------------Casemiro---------Mount----------------------------------
Rashford--------------------------------Bruno--------------------------------Garnacho
----------------------------------------------Hojlund--------------------------------------------
Oo my name is El Manos and I have trainingThank feck I have training so I don’t need to watch another horror show
Onana
Dalot Varane Maguire Lindelöf Amrabat
Casemiro Hannibal Mount
Hojlund Martial
Onana
Dalot - Maguire (FFS) - Varane - Lindelof
Amrabat - Casemiro
Antony - Mejbri - Garnacho
Hojlund
Onana
Lindelof - Evans - Maguire - Dalot
Amrabat - Hannibal
Eriksen
Anthony - Martial - Garnacho
Casemiro definitely needs a rest here and wouldn't start Mount or Varane 3 games in a row so soon after injury.
I would play:
Onana
Dalot
Maguire
Evans
Lindelof
Amrabat
Hannibal
Garnacho
Eriksen
Pellistri
Martial
But ETH will not drop Bruno, and I very much doubt that he'll play that back line, as I imagine he'll stick with Amrabat at LB.
Ultimately it probably doesn't matter. They are in good form this season and don't concede many goals, and we're an absolute catastrophe.
I expect they'll win this, and if they do that's curtains for us in the group.
As if we play CL games without our star player and the captain. Not that I disagree with you. There’s a very slim chance Rashford is dropped, but 100% Bruno plays. My captain always plays.
I thought Zaha went to Saudi. Strange choice to park himself in Istanbul at 30 -- when he could have played at another PL club or gone for the riches in the Middle East.
- He's always liked to be a big fish in a small pond.
- Istanbul is a great city, decent night life too, it's very European in the way it looks/feels.
- He probably gets paid decent money there too.
- I suspect he's hoping to get some exposure from European matches etc and then maybe in a few years try a retirement league.
It's also a huge club. 52k capacity, European football, and the country is football mad.
- He's always liked to be a big fish in a small pond.
- Istanbul is a great city, decent night life too, it's very European in the way it looks/feels.
- He probably gets paid decent money there too.
- I suspect he's hoping to get some exposure from European matches etc and then maybe in a few years try a retirement league.
19y.o Big Willy Kambwala training with the 1st team yesterday:
Every defeat brings this ownership closer to the exit door, horrible sentiment but its the only silver lining at the moment, lose this one and it's going to be a struggle to get out of the group, unless it's into the Europa League and back to Thursday nights, tough times.
People worry about lineups and say "Don't play the kids, that's ridiculous we will lose", but does anybody have any confidence in our first team? We have lost to a worse team within the week?
I would genuinely want to give the squad a wake up call and go:
Onana
Dalot Varane Maguire Lindelof (Lindelof lucky to get game time as we don't have a fit LB)
Amrabat Hannibal
Pellistri Mount Garnacho
Martial
Drop Rashford, Bruno & Casemiro, show the team that you if you don't perform you don't get in, simple.
You could ask the same of Maguire who put in a decent shift last game and you are only as good as your last game, dropping Hojlund wasn't as much of a punishment as it was a rotation as he is starting to get the limelight and he is too young and at this stage I believe we need to give both game time so if one is injured the other isn't coming in from the cold. Pellistri has looked impressive at Bayern and OK against palace, he hasn't set the world alight but definitely plays more for the team and puts the work in than Rashford does, I wouldn't be against Antony coming in.What have Pellistri and Martial done over Rashford and Bruno to show they should start?
Rashford did 10 times more against Palace than Pellestri. And that's not me saying Rashford played well because he didn't but Pellstri offered nothing at all and frankly it was a shock he came out for the second half.You could ask the same of Maguire who put in a decent shift last game and you are only as good as your last game, dropping Hojlund wasn't as much of a punishment as it was a rotation as he is starting to get the limelight and he is too young and at this stage I believe we need to give both game time so if one is injured the other isn't coming in from the cold. Pellistri has looked impressive at Bayern and OK against palace, he hasn't set the world alight but definitely plays more for the team and puts the work in than Rashford does, I wouldn't be against Antony coming in.
Rashford did 10 times more against Palace than Pellestri. And that's not me saying Rashford played well because he didn't but Pellstri offered nothing at all and frankly it was a shock he came out for the second half.
Foot like a traction engine.
Ivan Kruzliak