Match Day Thread Rafa's Heroic soldiers vs The Vile - Semen inducing tactical projections and gentlemanly debate

Are you serious?? Man U could and should have beaten the league leaders; they also watched City fck up vs Southampton so still have a shot at 4th. They're very difficult to beat and Norwich have mistakes in them; the likes of Martial and Rashford live for mistakes. No, I think Norwich are the only ones I feel pretty confident are down. I mean, if Sunderland can do them at Carrow Road easily, Man U could smash them for 4.

 

When you're down the bottom, I think I'd rather have points on the board.

 

Man Utd are ****ing ****. Hence they rely on Rashford and Martial, who have barely scored more than Mitrovic, who we have all accepted is about as close to a goalscorer as Tony Hibbert.

They defend and keep possession well, but they are far from difficult to block out, hence the many many scoreless, witless games they've been involved in.

Norwich have players who can scuff a win against them, easily.

 

Well Spurs look good so hopefully they hold this and the foxes only manage a draw against Everton it could still be alive on the last day hopefully and keeps Spurs honest.

 

Yay! No Lamela or Dembele against us... They may struggle to field 11

 

I'm not watching the game, but reading it on the BBC live text. Loving the fact it is kicking off and that lots of players should be facing bans - only problem is they are playing Chelsea so no doubt the mackems are getting a boost too!

 

Toby Alderweireld and Danny Rose also injured and Dier will possibly face retrospective action for bad knee high challenge on Hazard.

 

Ha it's a funny old game

 

Would that be Toby and Danny who would like to go to the Euro's? Nice!!!

Dier got away with fcking murder on that last one, Clattenberg properly sympathised and that ain't right. That said, I think we have a chance against Spurs on the last day. Win vs Villa and it's looking ok.

 

Chelsea weren't really the guilty party. Ivanovic could have gone, but Clattenberg didn't yellow his first foul, so no retrospective action there. Costa could be upgraded to red for fronting up to Vertonghen, but mainly it was Spurs. Rose could have been sent off twice, Dier had 2 potential red offences, Mason absolutely cleared out Hazard from behind, Dembele had a go at someone and will get red, Lamela stood on Fabregas...
We should be playing their reserves if the FA take action!

 

Really hope we can beat Villa and then capitalize on this... Also really hope Kane was involved in the fracas at the end

 

Not sure how that game ended with 22 players on the pitch.

Best day of sport for Leicester ever with City champions and Selby now snooker world champion.

 

....and the tigers in the play offs.

Leicester sporting capital of the world????

 

Spuds should defo be missing Dembele & Lamela due to nasty off the ball fouls ( Gouging and stamping ) and already missing Ali. Could have one or 2 out injured also after the battle of Stamford Bridge where the Spuds had 9 players booked.
I would say the gods are hopefully with us and it's all down to us in these last 2 games.

 

Absolutely im hoping we beat villa and they lose to chelsa because they would be under severe pressure in their game in hand

 

Next year they will win the nba and the nfl

 

Perez to start for me over Mitro, but Rafa will obviously go with Cisse, as he seems to have a Cisse love equal to McClaren's lust for Sissoko....who incidently has HAIR now!!! When did this happen? I thought we had a new player on Saturday, then I realised it's just Sissoko with half an inch of fuzz on his head.

Cisse up front ain't such a bad thing, got his first goal for us against Villa, which is surely a good omen.

Shame De Jong seems to be getting the cold shoulder now, I'm sure we'd have a much more together team with him playing behind the striker.

 

I like SDJ as well, I think he's a better footballer than most we have offensively, but I wouldn't drop Sissoko as he's too much of a threat and a worry for the opposition, he intimidates. Ridiculous, but true. It won't happen, but I think Sissoko wide with SDJ in the middle would be better if we were in a position to experiment, which we're not. I still think Wijnaldum could do an excellent job at No.10, now Rafa is here, but again the time for trying it out is gone.

Cisse clearly has one remit - he is not playing 90 minutes, so he's told to go out and for one hour run, harry, hassle, harass the opposition defenders, unsettle and maybe even get a sniff of goal. Then we are supposed to turn up the heat with Mitrovic coming on for half an hour. It's basic, but it's clear. Thing is Perez could do the exact same job, but Rafa sees him as an alternative option if/when Wijnaldum fails to turn up!! What I think could seal the deal for the final two games is considering Perez as your in-your-face hassle striker for 60 minutes and have Rolando Aarons as the alternative to Gini. He's direct, pacey, likes the ball to feet. That would be my starting tactic;

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Then I would shift to this at 60 minutes:

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Your options for the final 15 are SDJ or Cisse for Colback, Tiote or Sissoko depending what's needed. You could go 4-4-2 if chasing the game, or just like-for-like with SDJ replacing Sissoko to be smarter in possession. Are you listening Rafa? If so, just ignore me and get the fcking points, yeah?

 

3 Points against Villa is a must, absolutely crucial

Then a Chelsea and a Man U win wouldn be a complete bonus. if that happens I will be nursing a very delicate headache come Sunday Morning! We wont be out the woods, but we will be very close and I didnt think id be saying that 5 weeks ago

 

I'd start with your 60min team