Gonna need Herrera's shitehousery to be in full flow.
PSG vs Man Utd | Build-up Thread | Return leg Wednesday 06.03
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Agreed that they shouldn't be tired, but that does not mean that they weren't. They clearly looked knackered in the last quarter, Pogba especially, feck knows why. Absolutely need to rest some vs Fulham. Our schedule is brutal from here on in with very few chances to rest our key players. At least we capitalized on the easy games, burnley aside.
Honestly if we don't beat them I'll be disappointed...
Both Pogba and Rashford got knocks against Leicester, that's why they looked leggy. Herrera, Young and Matic had no problem lasting the whole 90. Lukaku probably just came from a bodybuilding show, so he was dehydrated and he looked dead after 5 minutes.
Let's hope Herrera can do a job on Verratti. Maybe even get the Italians temper to boil over a bit
Verratti back in training, it scares me more than Neymar, he can create chaos with his quick turns. But Herrera can be the right person to get him out of balance with some well-placed tackles, at least he seems to be in good shape.
I didn't say he isn't brilliant. I just think that his absence is being overplayed. PSG have a brilliant squad and aren't as reliant on Neymar as people suggest. They have high quality deputies who will still cause us huge problems. The team will do well to not be carried away with all this probability nonsense. A kockout tie has only two results - win or lose. Probabilities don't make any difference.
We will have a tough tie and the defense will need to be on the top of their form. The clean sheet against Leicester is clearly a good start on that front.
This is exactly my problem. Now - even if we best PSG, people will put it down to Neymar being injured.
It doesn't suddenly become an easy game because he is gone.
I was very excited to see how Ole deals with the Neymar problem and am well aware of his abilities. I still think he (and not Messi) was the reason why Barca came back in that CL tie against PSG from 4 goals down.
Neymar is their best player but every team has injuries....only losers are using injuries as excuse.
I don't know what any of that means.
What is going on here...
I can't imagine having a twitter dedicated to posting updates about one footballer.
He has invited 500 people in Paris yesterday night for his birthday
Dress code/theme: RED
For a 27th birthday? Jesus fecking Christ, what a pain in the hole this lad is.
What's wrong with celebrating one's birthday?
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Nothing wrong with celebrating it with a cake and maybe a few pints but inviting 500 people and having a dress code? He's an self obsessed man child.
It's a pity he's good at football, I doubt anyone would want to deal with his personality if he wasn't.
Meh, it's a convenient excuse to throw a huge party, something he probably enjoys. Nothing wrong with that.
27 is a bit of a random age to have a full on party like that. Unless he does it every year 
Is it a bad thing? I mean I see my cousins(female cousins mostly ) throw themed parties for their birthdays and whatnot. I've always thought them to be pretty normal.
27 is a bit of a random age to have a full on party like that. Unless he does it every year
Every year
Mbappe vs Young
On another note it's good to see OGS and Phelan in the stands preparing. Forget Poch I want these two to stay.
For all that has been said about Young he really got Hazard and Salah in his pocket in the last games. So I dont say it will be easy for him to stop Mbappe, but Im pretty sure he wont be destroyed.
The party was sponsored by Red Bull and Beats so no wonder the extensive invite and venue. Seems like a commercial obligation mixed with pleasure, win-win I suppose.
That's pretty much everybody's opinion unless they didn't watch the game. Neymar being injured is obviously going to be a talking point, it's as if Pogba was injured for Manchester it would make a big talking point ahead of a European clash. If United beats PSG, it will be obviously used as an excuse or reason why that happened, but who cares? I would like to see PSG win, and I don't think an injury to Neymar is a valid excuse for not beating this United side. While your team is in a good form, I think we all agree they have as much in glaring weaknesses at the back as PSG has in the middle. So I don't think anyone really can use any excuse. The only frustrating thing about the Neymar injury is that it's twice in as many years that he goes missing on the only real games that he's been bought for at a world record fee.
I don't think anyone thinks it's an easy game for either side at this point (although I thought PSG would smash United back when the game first was announced and the team was managed by Mourinho), but it's a shame that we won't see Neymar play at Old Trafford, the guy was crying (like he often does to be fair) about wishing for a new metatarsal on his foot and you can tell it kills him not to get to play. It's just a damn shame, but I personally would not use that as an excuse to get bounced out by that United side, even under new management.
PSG going into extra time against Villefranche. Can’t hurt us to have them playing the extra minutes
Verratti couldn't finish the training session with PSG then, he's a doubt for there weekend game with Bordeaux, Tuchel confirmed. They are not sure about his injury today they said, have to wait and see. One thing is for sure, he's not going to be fully fit for this game on Tuesday, no way. I hope we press the feck out of them at Old Trafford. Should be a great tie.
Just need Mbappe to catch a cold and we should be good to go.
Herrera will have a field day v a Veratti less midfield.
Bring this game on.
Could Lukaku some how be the answer to attacking their defense? He's a huge donkey and they won't be used of a striker his size.
No. Lukaku should be nowhere near the team. We should attack their slow backline with same pace and intensity that worked against Tottenham and Arsenal.
Isn't Silva rapid for a CB though?
Not like he used to be.
I think he was, but he's 34 now.
I think our actually quick and talented attackers will do more damage to be honest.
They’ll still have Paredes and depending on if they play 2 or 3 in midfield they’ll stick Draxler/Di Maria and/or Nkunku or a more defensive option in Marquinhos/Dani Alves.
Tuchel has never been that big on his midfield. They’ll still most likely have a solid 3 back-line with Kimpembe, Silva, and Thehrer/Marquinhos. Even if we win the midfield battle we’re going to have be incisive enough to penetrate that back-line.
I can see them coming here and going on the defensive which would be bad for us. We need to attack that defence with space and fast breaks, I think we’ll struggle attacking-wise if they sit back and the onus is on us to make the breakthrough.
Tuchel has never been that big on his midfield. They’ll still most likely have a solid 3 back-line with Kimpembe, Silva, and Thehrer/Marquinhos. Even if we win the midfield battle we’re going to have be incisive enough to penetrate that back-line.
I can see them coming here and going on the defensive which would be bad for us. We need to attack that defence with space and fast breaks, I think we’ll struggle attacking-wise if they sit back and the onus is on us to make the breakthrough.
So why doesn't he have a field day the rest of the games? Leicesters midfielders were better than him I felt.
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OT; Verrati not being fully fit and neymar out is a great time to face PSG, let's get as much advantage as we can this first leg. 3-1 will do just nicely.
If the question is 'name one player that definitely shouldn't be anywhere near the team', then yes, Lukaku is very much the answer.