Merely One week left to the first showdown.....Get it off your chests buddies

lets talk tactics and formation in this thread

as our preseason now have concluded we can safely take some predicition with the starting eleven based on the previous games and how Mou has decided to play, tactics wise etc

ill start with the current only injury:

At the moment sergio ramos doesnt look as if he will make even the 2nd leg as he will be out for 10 days which means he will be back on the 17th which is when the 2nd leg will be played, so we can safely eliminate him from any kind of discussion

Granero got injured while training in china, but was back in action vs tianjin teda so should be available from selection for sundays meeting

Sahin however hasnt played a single game with the team since he recovered from an injury to his left knee he sustained in his first training for us

International duties:

Ozil and Khedira have been given rest by löwe so we dont need to worry about them getting injured while for the NT...ace

Argenitina have cancelled their match so DiMaria and Higgy will be given enough rest hopefully

As we all know Marcelo hasnt been selected( which is just better for us) so he is safe, but the rest have all been called up unfortunately

barring any injuries on wednesday or in training during the week, this is the squad i am 100% will be selected:

Goalies: Iker and Adan(maybe mejias as well)

Defenders: Marcelo, Alvaro Arbeloa, Albitrolol, Pepe, Carvalho, Varane, Nacho

Midfielders: Coentrao, Granero, Xabi, Callejon, DiMaria, Khedira, Ozil, Sahin and Kaka

Strikers: Ronaldo, Benzema, Higgy and Jese

this is the formation i think we will start with:

lets all be a bit realistic when choosing formations shall we, like fo example sahin wont start even if Mou's life depended on it so no need to put him in there just for the sake of it

----------------Iker------------------
Robcop--Pepe---Varane---Marcelo
Khedira-------Alonso------Coentrao
CR7---------Benzema-----DiMagia

seems plausible to me, by that dimagia will be allowed to attack and coentrao will be tracking alvez's runs instead, they will make meat out of that side...

on barcas side, the only injury(ies) i know of is that of Puyols and afellay all others have already recovered. Sanchez has just joined the teams training same for Messi due to their Copa Ameirca involvement, however alves is still in brazil and should be back on thursday. Lol way to go letting them join the team when there is no games left to play to increase their match fittness before the game, but whatever works for them i guess

i think barca starts with this formation:

---------------------Valdez-----------------------
Alvez---Pique--March/Abidal----Abidal/Adriano
Xavi----------------Busquets-------------Iniesta
Pedro---------------Messi--------------Villa

i think its safe to say that villa will flop this game, he hasnt looked so good in preseason despite his two goals, messi has no game practise, xavi and iniesta have hardly played together and puyol being injured for a long period, who do you think we should be most scared of.

i dont think mou will take the risk of putting dimaria to the bench, we have to remember, away goals is our only downfall

he is using dimaria defensively

its on sunday this time round

ÖMARz wrote:

sportsczy wrote:The supercups all around are becoming more and more important. All you had to do was watch Milan-Inter and Man U-Man City... of course, the fact that they're rivalry games and you get to celebrate with a trophy makes it much, much sweeter than you average game.

I don't put it on par with the CDR, La Liga or CL obviously... but it's right after them now.

Serious game. Not preseason... truly a game.

This.

BTW, Have u guys considered that if we do happen to bring home the trophy...

Wouldnt it be such a nice thing to brag about because wed celebrate in barcas stadium, infront of their fans?

they will have the sprinkle guys on stand-by i guess lol

you really think he is injured, i think they just said that because they dont ant him to play in that meaningless friendly