we've seen the bus parking madrid
we've seen the counter-attacking madrid
we've seen the better side madrid

many of you think we surpassed our fears against them, but we all know mou and i wont be surprised if we see a very much defensive side against barca in the 1st leg

i know its soon, the team havent even made the required transfers yet but lets say we sign a better RB and CM/DM will we still be the "inferior" side in terms of possession/chances etc?


plus this time mou will face tito and not pep

Barca had 72% ball possession the last time we played them. Both sides had 14 shots. Tello had a bad game too, so Pedro will probably start.

I can't see there being much difference if we played them now. Barca would be dominating possession and we would be trying to hit them on the counter-attack.

Possession stats might not matter, be useless etc, however it's boring watching your team have only 28% of the ball. I hope we press properly without being aggressive.

And also if we sign Modric, he may play a part too, since he's good at keeping the ball.

im pretty confident, we typically have better preseasons than barca.. it will come down to fitness

and the fact that they have a new coach will be tricky regardless of what their fans say.. any minor changes that high up will influence players and that drastic of a change typically takes time to get used to.

Simply the best



.....better than all the rest

I liked the last one. Calm, composed and deadly on counters

The First leg is in Camp Evil... 2nd leg is at home

So if we get a draw there or even a high scoring defeat.. 3-2 ? we will have a great chance at home.. as we will have a massive away goal advantage.

So, a more attacking line up there, and a conservative one at home...

At Camp nou ...

........Arbeloa............Ramos..........Pepe..........Marcelo
.............................Alonso............Sahin/Grenero

........Di Maria................Ozil.......................CR
.......................Higuain.........................


At Home..

..........Arbeloa.........Ramos.........Varane............Coentrao
..................................Pepe.....................................
.....................Khedira..............Modric
......Di Maria......................CR...........................Ozil

Yeh we've done well at Camp Nou recently. Hopefully we play attacking there.

Kizu wrote:

Casillas
Arbeloa - Pepe - Ramos - Marcelo
Xabi
Modric --- Yaya
Ozil
Benzema ---------- Ronaldo

Bring back the diamond, Mou.

Be realistic, lets dream of either yaya or modric lol. Sahin and Khedira are both capable enough to run the diamond

Would have worked much better with Dani than Alvaro though ... May not be too late to sign a bombing RB