26 Nov 2014 09:44:53
Okay, so if we played Bayern Munich tomorrow, do you think Mourinho would make us park the bus or do you think we'd take it to them?
And secondly, what would you do?
They have a couple of injuries in the defence, furthermore Benatia got a red card last night so personally I would take them on
I don't think we'd park the bus, but that we'd play reactive instead of proactive. They have so many weapons, so if you play expansively you'll get punished.
I'd tip them to beat us still, but in one game of course you never know
26 Nov 2014 14:50:21
I don't think they would beat us. The only team I'm scared of is Madrid.
We could go to a 4-3-3 and play Ramires over Oscar to make us more solid in midfield and that's it really.
Our defense is better than their's, and I'd much prefer Fabregas and Matic to Lahm and Alonso gives us control and power.
26 Nov 2014 15:17:02
I would expect something similar to the way we played city earlier this year. Give them initiative to come forward so we can get space to counter.
Its a difficult one considering so far this year we have played some fantastic possession football however I still think our counter attack is the strongest weapon at our disposal against the worlds top top teams i.e Madrid, Barca, Bayern I sill think the counter is our best option although in anther season or two when this team has fully gelled and is used to being winners I think we could go toe to toe with any of them.We are no longer that far behind.
I am sure we would beat Bayern. They would have ball possession but we would score. Bayern has problematic defence. But they would definitely dominate midfielder since they play 3421 or 361.Our counterattacks are much more dangerous.
I believe we are the best team in the country but my honest opinion is that we are still lagging behind Europes top sides.Any one can beat any one on their day but I just think we are a bit negative when playing the top sides. This season though I think we are playing the best football I have ever seen at the club so maybe tactics against these sides will be different. But after saying all that, I would take the premiership over any trophy every time.
I want us to return to winning ways in te fa cup tbh, I want the premiership becuase it has been too long, but primary focus is Champions league imo
No way the Premiership has to be our main goal winning the CL was great but you can't truly be best team in world until you win both the home league and the CL in the same season I would like to know how that feels lol.
I think we are a slightly better team than Beyern and we usually play them well as we did last year when Lukaku missed the penalty and this year's squad is much better. I agree with the poster who said that Real is the only team better. I also agree with NWBlue that tactics is the main thing that can hurt us against the better teams especially if we tantamount a lead. I feel that Jose gets too conservative too quickly against big clubs or sets up the team out of fear and it then translates to the players and we play stretches of matches on the back foot. I have yet to see us get punished for going forward to finish off a match under Jose, but I have seen us drop points in a few due to going negative and inviting pressure. Lastly, I believe that right now with the right tactics we can break teams down that sit back against us and we don't have to rely on counter-attacking as our only means of scoring as we showed against west Brom.