Celtic - FC Barcelona | Champions League Group H | Tues Oct 1st, 2013

14:45 EST | 19:45 GMT | 20:45 CET

neymar - cesc - alexis frontline?

billy_gr wrote:neymar - cesc - alexis frontline?

I would play Alexis/Tello - Neymar - Pedro frontline.

Don't see why Neymar shouldn't be played as striker when Messi is not available.
However, I think Tata will go with what you said to give more minutes to Cesc/Iniesta/Xavi (hopefully with Pedro in for Alexis).

yeah I think it's the most probable.
In the last 2 games I am equally pleased with both alexis and pedro. If Neymar is a certain LW i don't mind who gets the right spot

I would play:

Valdes
Montoya - Bartra - Pique - Adriano
Song
Xavi - Iniesta
Alexis - Fabregas - Neymar

Hawky wrote:I would play:

Valdes
Montoya - Bartra - Pique - Adriano
Song
Xavi - Iniesta
Alexis - Fabregas - Neymar

Alves for Montoya and I'd 100% agree. Haven't been impressed by Montoya this season to be completely fair.

Your putting that nicely, Montoya has been horrible.

Maybe his crossing could come in handy, his overlapping runs. But defensively...he's struggling badly.

Don't know what happened to him. He was very good in the summer for Spain U-21.

I remember watching him a few years ago and thinking while he won't be Dani Alves, he'll do well to fit his shoes once the Brazilian retires. But this season hasn't been encouraging at all. He does not seem to be 100% focused, loses concentration, makes poor decisions etc. but I have a feeling it might be psychological.

Montoya has played 1 game. It's not fair to judge him on one game.

It's probable that he plays tomorrow, Adriano has a fatigued muscle.

Also judging him on preseason, where he looked so bad its been impossible for Tata to play him more than that 1 game.

Why not play Piqué as RB?

Spoiler:

The Franchise wrote:Also judging him on preseason, where he looked so bad its been impossible for Tata to play him more than that 1 game.

Oh, but preseason counts for nothing, at least that's what I've been told when I suggested Roberto should be given starts.

Yeah, I dont remember ever saying it counts for nothing so that surely doesnt apply to me. Its not everything, but it means "something" to me. And it surely doesnt apply to my opinion as I also want Sergi Roberto to play games and wouldnt of complained at all about him starting.

More importantly though, what else can Tata do? He saw Montoya play very badly against random teams from Thailand or something, we have played Atletico, Sevilla, Ajax, Valencia and a surprisingly strong Malaga to open up the season so obviously you dont want to use someone who cant even defend vs random players in preseason.

He got a chance vs Rayo and he again was bad.

Dont see where else you can slide him in given the level he has shown.

Adriano was worse than Montoya vs Rayo and he was facing mujica who is a great dribbler. It's just a one game, you can't judge.

Again, he was getting beaten by Thailand scrubs.

Adriano has had that one bad game all season, every other game he has done more than fine.

Plus what about last season when he came in for Alves injury? He was just as bad then.

----------Valdes
-Alves-Barta-Pique-Adriano
----------Busi
-----Xavi-----Iniesta
Pedro------------Tello
---------Neymar

Bench
Cex
Pinto
Sergi
Song
Alexis
JDS
Montoya

Tello against park the bus opponent?

I think we will probably be more attacking this year. I also think Barca will win by 3.

I thought Alves could use some rest, that's why I said I would play Montoya. It would be an opportunity to give him another chance.

Official line-up (eurosport.com):
Valdes, Alves, Bartra, Pique, Adriano, Sergio, Xavi, Iniesta, Neymar, Fabregas, Pedro

Going all-in .

I think Song will hand in a transfer request in January. I don't know why Martino does not like him at all.

Yeah, I was expecting Song to start as well. It's about time.

Dat all black.

Handful of comments so far:

-Why are Neymar and Alexis never tried as our 9? Cesc might know the position best, but he's definitely not our only option and he's not consistent enough in the position.

-Pique is not inspiring a lot of confidence in me.

- First good game of Iniesta in the season, so far.

As i expected, we suffer in front of their goal.