They will want to get the first goal ASAP, and not concede first. That will dictate the way they play the 1st half. "My concern for us is...if Moura starts...we don't have any real threat off the bench if required." One of Moura and Son need to be on the bench. Both will be feeling good, and will fancy a good 30 mins (manager take note) in the 2nd half running at potentially tired defenders.
Why are people worried...they will win. End of. Last week was a fluke. Tonight the plucky underdogs who (since July 2016) have only spent money on... Mahrez £60m Laporte £58m Mende £52m Walker £50m B Silva £45m Ederson £35m Danilo £27m Luiz £10m Stones £50m Sane £47m Jesus £30m Gundogun £25m Nolito £16.5m Bravo £16.5m Will bravely battle on to win a stunning comeback on par with the 10 man City team coming back from 3 nil down v spurs in 2004. That is a total ... £522m...and I have not included a dozen or so who cost less than £10m over the same period. This ignores the fact that they already had a set of world class players such as Kompany, Silva, Aguero and De Bruyne plus some very very good players such as Stirling, Otimende and Fernandio. Yet if you bring this up in response to the"pep is great" narrative you get accused of being bitter. He inherited EIGHT very good players (4 were world class in my opinion) spends massively more that HALF A BILLION POUNDS and he is a genius? Mmmmmmm....
You are very bitter. I'd like to see the club you support, achieve what Pep has in the English league on such a restricted budget.
I've nicked this off SSC poster JimB, who sourced it from Blue Moon....it's Citeh fans after last week's game... Last night the WHOLE of the ground were singing and the noise was incredible. I hope we're able to generate a similar noise next week.... Yeah their fans we're very good yesterday. It helps having one huge, single tiered stand. All the noise started there, in one voice, which made it easier for people in other areas of the ground to join in.... Their fans we're brilliant yesterday and would have been close to impossible to generate that type of atmosphere at Wembley.... It was always going to be tough out-singing them last night - new stadium, conducive to atmosphere, fans bang up for it.... You couldn't hear yourself think last night in their stadium, I've got a banging headache and my ears are still ringing. At times every bugger was singing. The stadium to be fair is fantastic. The Cop end is a must at any ground, and its a long time since I heard a noise like that in any football ground.... They have a stand with 17k people in it. All in there starting songs off... We have 20 of us at the back of block 115. The stadium makes a HUGE difference.... I've never liked Spurs, but fair play, that stand is something else! 17000 in one stand behind the goal is awesome.... when the home fans are as loud as the sours fans where it drowns out away end.... That's why we needed to come home asap - it's a weapon.
We know most away supporters with their tribal hats off are going to say similar. New WHL probably has the acoustic equivalence of a 70K + capacity stadium. "That's why we needed to come home asap - it's a weapon." Three games in, and the crowd already sense they can be a "12th man" effect (as if being back at WHL was not incentive enough) . I suspect a CL SF tie, or the comedy visit of the Spanners, will see the volume dial set to 11 this season.
Paul Stewart I will be a Spurs fan for the evening. Good luck. I will be rooting for Ajax in the semis. Great to see a great club, which has always produced its own players, rising again.
I see the BBC Narrative is we're being exceptionally rude in standing in the way of The Sheikh Mansour Team Fairytale™...
#thfc team vs. @ManCity: Lloris. Trippier, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Rose. Wanyama; Sissoko. Eriksen; Dele; Lucas. Son. [Evening Standard] Oh lord... Trippier. Pass the bottle!
