It's away at the Etihad so a difficult game, we might lose but it's about how we play and can we match them. Might get a win if they are not on their game.
Does seem like when we don’t have the ball need to force city wide - albeit if doku is on form going to be very tough game for TAA. When we have the ball does seem we need to go wide as that will be where the space are. Salah v gvardiol will be key one. We aren’t going to dominate the ball so don’t think we need to flood the middle of midfield as we won’t work the ball through that area imo. What we do need is a ref to actually be strong and apply the rules. If - sorry when - rodri commits a clear yellow card foul 5 mins into the game to stop a counter he needs to be booked and not allow him to get away with 5/6 of them like usual before getting a yellow on 80th min.
Agree, we need to hit the deck on those pull backs to ensure the ref can't ignore them. Sad, but that's what you have to do with weak officials.
if we send them wide we have to leave them wide. they only go wide to pull defenders out them play back into the gaps. defence of the width of the box only. let the ball come in and have vvd man mountain haaland if we can't win then imo haaland and rodri need to be out for 3 months
His Norwegian coach sa8d they'd be checking to get him out there again so I presume we need to go two footed into that ankle
Thought it was a list of injuries My head hurts lmao I don’t believe Haaland is even hurt The game is a dead rubber Norway just being nice to their players imho
we meed to male sure we tag him good. honestly going off his dortmund record he is really long over due a series of injuries.
Or he’s grown into his body now and as he’s not 19/20 where he was more susceptible to those injuries while still growing etc.
maybe. a lot of those were ankle injuries like kane used to get so there's a weakness there but if you don't get kicked it's fine for a while. kane hasn't had an ankle knocked since he told on vvd and twisted it as far as I recall.
