The European Competitions Thread

[RollingPapers 194]

[Cosmin 2,484]

//Sorry, RollingPapers is faster than me!

If their main defenders are as bad as they looked today, I wonder how good the reserves are.

[Beirut_Blues 306]

This shit is just too unpredictable, it's insane and quite frankly fucking madness. Bayern knock out Madrid from 2-0 down, we knock out Barca from 2-0 down. We ruin UEFA's dream final, Bayern get a home final, it's a crazy, crazy, crazy, CRAZY season. We have a big chance but they can rest all their players now, they will be really fresh and they will be at home so they are still favourites.

This is the final we wanted tho. What was Jose saying? Chelsea have no chance... who's in the final Jose, who's in the final? EXACTLY!

Can't we rest our players? Let's forget 4th place and win this fukken trophy...as well as the FA Cup... 2 games left for the season screw the league games.

[calculatingInfinity 1,472]

[Jase 43,479]

Can't we rest our players? Let's forget 4th place and win this fukken trophy...as well as the FA Cup... 2 games left for the season screw the league games.

Ridiculous suggestion!

[Ollie 4,400]

Can't we rest our players? Let's forget 4th place and win this fukken trophy...as well as the FA Cup... 2 games left for the season screw the league games.

I personally agree with you but we all know that won't happen although against QPR we should be able to rest some key men.

We should take a chance and rest players for league games. We have 2 cup finals, win them and our mission is more than complete.

[Jase 43,479]

I personally agree with you but we all know that won't happen although against QPR we should be able to rest some key men.

We should take a chance and rest players for league games. We have 2 cup finals, win them and our mission is more than complete.

IF we don't?!

We have to try and get that 4th spot via PL until it is totally impossible. Otherwise, we are taking huge gamble on it in the CL final, which is totally inadvisable IMO.

[HRiver 1,512]

[calculatingInfinity 1,472]

BREAKING: Barcelona 3-2 Chelsea (Ramos 90'+24 hours).

[francozola 2,040]

How important are Badstuber and Alaba?

[calculatingInfinity 1,472]

How important are Badstuber and Alaba?

Badstuber is pretty bad but... They got no other central defenders (Van Buyten and Breno wont be ready) so they will have to move a defensive midfielder down there. Contento is apparently really bad whenever he's playing, don't watch too much Bundesliga so wouldn't know but Bayern fans are not looking forward to probably have him start. With Gustavo gone too it also looks pretty thin on their midfield though, so yeah, they won't have too many cards to play just like us. A good guess on a line up from a Bayern fan :

Neuer

Lahm - Tymo - Boateng - Contento

Schweini - Kroos

Robben - Mueller - Ribéry

Gómez

[Justin_3d 1,140]

Messi gets no final you say?

Neither will you Ronalda!!!

[Blue Armour 4,439]

How important are Badstuber and Alaba?

Youngster, and has been in pretty good form recently. Should be a miss for them.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

How important are Badstuber and Alaba?

Alaba won't be too bad since they can move Lahm to LB and play Rafinha on the right. But Badstuber is their only fit CB and they were already playing boateng out of his usual RB position to cover at CB. They will probably play Tymochuck (no idea how that's written ) along side him, so both their CB will, hopefully, be playing out of their natural positions and will be easy prey for DD (here's to hoping).

[Fulham Broadway 17,312]

Ramos penalty in full

http://i.imgur.com/WKX8r.gif

[Beirut_Blues 306]

IF we don't?!

We have to try and get that 4th spot via PL until it is totally impossible. Otherwise, we are taking huge gamble on it in the CL final, which is totally inadvisable IMO.

It's definitely a gamble.

[Ollie 4,400]

Gotta take the chance, we can't let ourselves be tired and Bayern to be fresh.

1 game, all or nothing.

[diskoviolente 425]

We have to give Bertrand, Romeu and Lukaku a lot of game time in the legaue. Given the situation that we closed a game down and we can afford to take some players off, Bobbie has to do it in order to keep the legs fresh. These last 6 (?) games are soooo fucking vital to our future. Let´s start with a good spirited performance against the lousy neighbours and keep on going in the league. We still have Liverpool twice (for fucks sake, how many times do we have to put up with that Pointless Team. Lolapool) and Newcastle at home. So get in there.

Essien, Malouda and Sturridge all have to raise their game by a lot at this stage - again // for the first time this season.

The suspended for the CL final have to carry us through these last stages of the most dramatic season i can remember.

Just writing this, i am getting all nervy and excited again. Almost in a G-Nev sort of way

[capriccioso 2,545]

Can't we rest our players? Let's forget 4th place and win this fukken trophy...as well as the FA Cup... 2 games left for the season screw the league games.

3 of our key players will have no involvement in the final whatsoever, and one fairly important squad player won't either. There's no need to rest anyone, except for the trio of Mata, Lampard and Drogba who should be saved for the two games against the Scousers and Newcastle.

[Jase 43,479]

Gotta take the chance, we can't let ourselves be tired and Bayern to be fresh.

1 game, all or nothing.

Think we should all see what happen first this weekend and our game against Newcastle next week before deciding to concentrate on the CL final. After next midweek, we'll get a clearer picture of whether we can actually get the Top 4 spot.