The Wembley Final ( MD Thread )

Thanks to you will be there, setting off from South Coast at 10.30, see u in Kingsbury

 

Some great stories already developing here and around the world. This is what football is all about - real fans!!
Excited as all of you are. I was at the FA cup final (and replay) and am feeling that exact same excitement of going to Wembley again with my team and fellow fans. I shall be looking for the smattering of QPR cars driving up on the M3 later and looking forward to the atmosphere the QPR clan will be making at the new Wembley. I hope everyone enjoys their day with their family and/or friends and we can all smile and celebrate when the final whistle blows!!

Come on you RRRRRRsssssss

 

All the omens were positive last time.

This time i woke up to water pouring in through the skylight. The random song that woke me up? Doom and gloom by electric six!

 

Oh well, no change there then!...

 

Good luck to everyone going to Wembley
enjoy the the day and dont get to pssd
before the game,make plenty of noise

 

Arctic monkeys Friday, Rsss going up Saturday. Cheers for this nines

 

Perhaps Roller can produce another one of his masterpieces as he did with the Man City game...

 

While there's two of us in henessey's so far!

 

Feels like Christmas Day today and I'm not allowed to open my main present (Q.P.R. Promoted) until 4:45pm ish.

Hope everyone who is going enjoys the day, and everyone who is watching it on TV/net, etc enjoys watching the game.

 

Just about to leave for Hennessy's, but have just enough time for a quick reminder of a snippet of what Olly promised us went we got relegated to division 3.

Everything we’ve lost, we will get back

Today is that day.

 

Couldn't sleep very well, so got out of the house at 06:00 down to the Gym. Walked in and there was another R's fan in blue and white...with exactly the same excuse.
Really nervous and excited....gonna leave soon to make my way down, want to enjoy and expierence it all...and hey the sun's just come out.

To all you guys , wherever you are enjoy the game (if you can) and lets hope its a good one...come on u R'sss !!!

 

Another positive R's vibe - I woke up @ 5:00am today and Paul Clement was being interviewed on the BBC World Service discussing the Champions League Final to be played later today.

He is definitely "the right sort" and would make a great R's manager down the road.

Real Madrid’s Paul Clement ensures team is spot on for Lisbon final
Real’s English assistant to Carlo Ancelotti bemoans loss of Xabi Alonso but feels club can still win Champions League final

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Paul Clement has his eyes on helping Real Madrid win their tenth European Cup on Saturday.

“Vamos chicos!” “Rápido.” “Uno, dos, tres …” It is a cold morning at Valdebebas and Real Madrid’s players are going through another drill, the ball passed swiftly round a small square marked out on the turf, one touch, then two, then three. In the middle, Paul Clement calls out the instructions. Preparation has begun for the Champions League final, Real’s biggest game in over a decade, the obsession that eclipses all else, including the final weeks of the league season, and they must be ready for anything. And, yes, that does include penalties.

It also means being Atlético. “We know them very well: they had the edge in the league, winning at our place and drawing away, and we had the edge in the Cup when we won both games. In training, we create situations that are similar to Atlético in terms of tactical approach, positioning, and movement,” Clement explains. “We put out two teams, one very similar to them in shape, and ask them to do things Atlético will do against us. Then we ask our team to do the things we need to break that down.”

Training sessions are not the only testing ground. Real have been building to this moment all season and it has been the sole focus for a fortnight. Against Espanyol last weekend, Real were effectively playing against Atlético already, emotionally, physically and tactically. A league game with nothing at stake served a dual function: to protect and to prepare. There were clues in the lineup and approach. There has been one particular point of intrigue: who will replace the suspended Xabi Alonso for tomorrow’s final in Lisbon?

“He is a big loss,” Clement, assistant to the Real manager, Carlo Ancelotti, admits. “But just having him around is important as well. He is such a settling influence, especially on the young players. There are a number of options we’re still considering and we have a good idea but no final decision has been made yet: it will be the last moment. That’s good, it keeps the players on their toes – not nervous, but making sure they train properly and feel they have that chance.

“We always prepare thoroughly but the attention to detail goes to another level for a game like this. We planned really carefully, especially after losing to Celta de Vigo [in their penultimate league game]. We knew that there would be nothing in it, in terms of winning the league, so we made sure we had two weeks’ prep for the final.”

While Real’s focus turned entirely to the Champions League, Atlético went to Camp Nou last Saturday and drew with Barcelona to take their first league title in eighteen years. The following evening, they paraded through the city on an open-topped bus. One man not on board was midfielder Koke: he hadn’t thrown off the effects of the previous night’s celebrations. Advantage Real, then? “I don’t know about that,” Clement says.

The Englishman adds: “There are two contrasting styles: they play with a very compact block in a four-four-two. They’re very rarely out of position, and they are very aggressive. [Diego] Simeone has done a tremendous job: congratulations to them for winning the league.

“They use the ball well too: they defend deep but when they get the ball they’re effective at moving the ball forward together, very compact in attack as well as defence. They don’t just punt it forward; they play little combinations and work their way down the field. There will be periods when they have the ball and there is space behind [for Bale and Ronaldo], but certainly not as much as when you play against Barcelona or Bayern. We expect to have to break down a tight block for the majority of the game.”

And if they can’t? Then perhaps it will come down to penalties. But they say you can’t practise penalties. “You have to practise everything that happens in a game: set plays, attacking, defending, periods of transition,” Clement counters. “We try to do all of it, including penalties. It is very difficult to recreate the pressure but we give the players the chance to repeat their penalties: repetition, repetition. Keep practising and feel comfortable. We practised them yesterday and we will practise them again.

“You have to account for substitutions, injuries, red cards, things that can happen in the game, but we have a good idea already of who would take them if it went to penalties. We have lined them up one to 11 and we [will then] make adjustments as needed.”

The last time Sergio Ramos took a penalty he dinked in a Panenka in the semi-final of Euro 2012, against Portugal, and he would do it again. It sounds like he has been threatening to do it in Lisbon. Clement grins: “Oh, God. It gives me a heart attack when he does that. I just say to him: ‘Sergio, no, no! Tranquilo! Calm down!’”

 

Enjoy everyone , really hoping its a massive day for our club . I have a feeling of a 3-1 win in normal time, Austin , Barton and Kranky

 

Come on URrrrrrrr's...

I am bat **** excited.

Currently working a late shift but I am sneaking off at 2am to watch the game.

I wish I was there with you all, I screamed and shouted so much in '86 that I couldn't speak for a week.

 

Anyone else already at Wembley? At gate E

 

Good luck to all of you that are going to the match, there'll be plenty more of us shouting from our armchairs

Wish I was down there with you all, soaking up the atmosphere, but posting on here and watching on tv is the closest I'll get

C'mon U Rrrrrrrrrrs, sure you can do it for all of us

 

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You speak for many of us Steelmonkey !!

 

Good luck today QPR and enjoy the expierence , especially rangercol and his son ... squeaky bum time gents .