Draw this Friday at 12:00 CET.

Teams in the semi so far:

Chelsea
Real Madrid
Bayern Munich
Atletico Madrid

all tough teams, madrid should want to avoid chelsea. i prefer bayern in a one leg tie, the final.

athetico would be best draw for us.


but it wont be like copadelrey anymore.


i think us vs chelsea will be a fun 1.

Atletico or Bayern.

Why not Chelsea?

i'd rather we meet atleti.....i don't want mourinho getting into these players' heads, cos knowing their character (especially pepe and ramos), they may just let their emotions get the best of them in such a game

Bayern it is.

Another German team it is.......

#SaveusVarane

I quite calm about this one. Everyone in Germany wanted Bayern to get Madrid, let's give them what they asked for.

If Carlo makes use of Morata and Casemiro I think they will have an impact.

We'll need Marcelo back for this game.

FalcaoPunch wrote:We'll need Marcelo back for this game.

Agree, but I would start Coentrao atm considering he is in good form and Marcelo is coming back from injury.

Marcelo as a super sub wouldn't be a bad idea imo.

Zealous wrote:I quite calm about this one. Everyone in Germany wanted Bayern to get Madrid, let's give them what they asked for.

You know why? Because it promises two entertaining matches! No one wanted to have two matches Bayern vs brick layers again.

rwo power wrote:

Zealous wrote:I quite calm about this one. Everyone in Germany wanted Bayern to get Madrid, let's give them what they asked for.  

You know why? Because it promises two entertaining matches! No one wanted to have two matches Bayern vs brick layers again.

Haha fair enough

But I am sure there are some people who felt that Chelsea and Atleti had more of a chance to knock Bayern out than we do.

i'd rather coentrao played this game over marcelo....people will use the argument that coentrao offers nothing offensively. in these kinds of games neither does marcelo to an extent, and i'll be more comfortable with coentrao taking on robben than i would marcelo....its best our wingers help out the wing backs, cos ribery and robben would be tough to handle for 180 mins of football

I've lost faith in Pepe years ago, but this year I have officially lost faith in Ramos (since the last El Clasico).. I don't feel confident about anything anymore tbh

They're a goal or a penalty waiting to happen

titosantill wrote:i'd rather coentrao played this game over marcelo....people  will use the argument that coentrao offers nothing offensively. in these kinds of games neither does marcelo to an extent, and i'll be more comfortable with coentrao taking on robben than i would  marcelo....its best our wingers help out the wing backs, cos ribery and robben would be tough to handle for 180 mins of football

Marcelo was by far MOTM 2 years ago. They couldn't contain him in attack and owned Robben and Lahm defensively. If there's some who can make the difference in this match besides Cristiano that guys are Marcelo and Di Maria. Coentrao is the reason we don't have 10 UCL titles to date, by screwing us in the first leg in 2012. When the Brazilian is in form, there's no way to stop him. You need 2 players to contain him and even then it's hard. Besides that he has the ability to keep the ball and dribble better than any of ours players.

this isn't two years ago...bayern are a better team now, with better confidence having won the tournament last year... marcelo's inability to track back in these kind of games is of major concern to me. i however do not understand coentrao, he shows a lot of offensive fortitude for portugal, if he can bring that same attitude to this game, he'll be a much safer bet than marcelo....not to mention, marcelo will still ust be recovering from his injury (the guy has become quite inury prone of late, no?)

Coentrao is shite going forward and he is not that great at defending either. the last time he played against Bayern he got owned by Lahm and was the one to blame for the goal they scored.

we need creativity. we need Marcelo.

It might be a good idea to use both. Just sayin'

Zealous wrote:It might be a good idea to use both. Just sayin'

We're using Di Maria too though. I think that's overload. Di Maria can pick up Lahm.

Coentrao was good today. He's clearly better then marcelo defensively. But he doesn't have the confidence marcelo has.

Varane and another defender must play.
If we use both pepe and ramos, we are screwed!
Ramos and pepe suffer against teams that keep the ball on the ground, especially ramos.
We need Varane.
We need everyone to track back
We need to launch an early assault on them

I am hoping ronaldo misses this game, I av been waiting for years to see a clasico or a very big game without ronaldo/predictability in it.

I know some people would say we should look at what happened against dortmund second leg without ronaldo, but must I remind you that ronaldo played in the 4-1 drubbing against dortmund last season.
That shows that ronaldo's absense had nothing to do with our defeat to dortmund.
We all just got it wrong and I believe we have learnt our mistake
I predict a win for us if ronaldo doesn't play and then hopefully, he comes back second leg.

If you watch our matches very well, you would know that when ronaldo needs a goal, we suffer a whole lot cos he just becomes so selfish, shoots aimlessly, blames everyone, makes us play bad, probably draw or lose, and still doesn't get his goal.
That attitude is what we don't need against bayern.
We can afford it in the second leg but not in d first.