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Mendes will pocket Palmer

Football neophytes.

Mendes will pocket Palmer

However, the attack is spot on.

Enzo5:
guy calm down look at you mentioning two different wings, how can gusto play against both lw and rw

Reason well before you quote mates. Both wingers dey switch positions within the course of the game.

raumdeuter:
Buhari died in 2017

Jubril El Sudani finally died in 2025

Nobody died now. Death has happened a long time ago according to your friend Nnamdi Kanu

Either way, true or false, Kanu has something to talk about inside Kuje.

diggz:
Ireti the kitchen practical.

Strength of character

That’s awara. It tastes like cr@p.

Emaprince:
They might be better than last season...but those players are still mid table players.

The club itself doesnt inspire winning mentallity

It’s about quality of those players and I doubt they’re actually mid table players.

Kudus and Morgan won’t have problems playing for any of the top teams in the PL. Look at City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal, their are couple of players there they can dislodge from their positions.

Thomas Frank is low-key building a tough team with Spurs.

After securing the transfer of Kudus on Thursday, they’ve launched bids for Morgan-Gibbs and Palhinha. If they join they’ll be a very different and solid side, then you have Thomas Frank who is a tough nut to crack.

Enzo5:
PSG defence is something else, compared to ours and our gk

Pacho has not done better than Colwill in this competition.

Skimpledawg:
I think am too senior man.

But, Maresca can just make us go mad by starting James in midfield.

I cannot can.

Then the positional indisciplined Gusto starts against Kvara and Doue?

Mbanu!

Enzo5:
some are removing either of the three but all three need to start

Very true.

timbros:
..................... Sanchez.......................

James... Tosin... Colwill... Cucurella

........... Caicedo....... Lavia..............

.... .................. Enzo...........................

.... Palmer....Joao Pedro... Neto....

If Lavia is not fit, play Santos.

Anyone thinking Enzo will be benched in this match is just deceiving himself. He is one of the first names on game day team sheet, unless injured or suspended.

Palmer's pass, JP's link up play, Neto's pace will be crucial for the route 1 counter attack football we gast deploy today

Replace the unfit Lavia with Santos and you have nearly my idea. Perfect!

Skimpledawg:


Matter wey make even Griffon to come online come dey discuss

I don over reason am, e no gree me.

Na so I run come to suggest Santos starting, you can never tell if Maresca visits this thread

Skimpledawg:
Omo, you guys are tensed.

All these epistles na just expressions of tensions.

Lord epp us!

AirBere:
You beat me to this that's why when analysing, context matters alot. PSG didn't need that game. As for Santos, I like his style. If the coach decides to play him, I'll be happy.

In fact, whichever way sha. In the voice of Scolari when he was here--"We have to win"

Didn’t see the game but I knew very well his stats from the game were outstanding.

Enzo5:
a psg midfield that has only joao neves out of the main three starting, with nothing for psg to lose

you don't beat people at their own strength you play them according to your own strength

psg are faster right, then outrun them? will that happen over night, look inter had a full three combative midfielders didn't psg by pass them unlike barca and pedri that pass through them to yamal and co.

What you should be saying is chelsea should not use a tactics that makes cucurella overlap a lot, meaning cucurella shifts into midfield alongside caicedo, the usually 5 man pyramidal and wall, then palmer and enzo the double 8 press from the front and receive passes. not starting palmer in midfield may cost us the game, palmer should preferably have a free role, they have been playing together already to understand each other, bringing in santos and expecting a lavia liverpool miracle may not work, we can bring in santos and even essugo later on, but we need to score as usual in that first half. And that means we need high technical forwards who can receive passes from midfield and lay it off or receive a cross from deep and not lose it. neto can hold that rw on his own, palmer may not, expect you don't want palmer to start.

I can understand a situation where kvara takes on James and caicedo also tries to help and there's space in the middle and palmer and enzo have to support the space that opens up because of vitinha and dembele. Well that's why maresca should not risk using a high line lol. Offside traps can fail. Don't be too focused on their midfield and lose track of the threats players like kvara or hakimi and doue can cause on the flanks

Cucu and James have no business overlapping tomorrow.

We need our defenders staying close together, and rejecting space between them.

It’s going to be a tough one for us in all.

Joezinho:
Their danger isn’t about outnumbering you in the middle,it’s the speed, unpredictability and movement from wide areas and quick transitions. You can plug the midfield all you want but once Dembele and others gets isolated or finds space behind the fullbacks, it’s game over… You should be more worrued about your CBs.

For this I’ll still need a three man midfield.

The general idea is to stay compact. A quick transition won’t happen if you’re pressing well enough, rejecting space and forcing pressure, and for this, you’ll still need numbers in the midfield.

Vitinha, Ruiz and Neves are the men at the center of this orchestration, leaving them to enjoy their game is the MAJOR reason you’ll be destroyed.

Dembele and co makes those timed runs into space knowing fully well those guys will pick them out with key passes.

Joezinho:
Baba, games aren’t always won in midfield especially not with a team like PSG. Their system doesn’t rely heavily on dominating the middle; they exploit width, pace and quick transitions. PSG go steadily bypass midfield congestion entirely and still hurt teams.

Starting Santos just to battle in midfield might not be necessary when the real threat is coming from wide areas. You can’t outfight them in midfield when they’re not trying to win it there they’re trying to skip it. Dem go leave midfield for you.

And it’s not suicidal enough to have just Enzo and Caicedo for those tracking runs and counters?

I wouldn’t buy that either. Unless you have decided to welcome an onslaught.

Enzo5:
is this team going to win PSG or just control the game?

I don't see maresca not starting neto in this cwc final tbh. Even if palmer is to play wings in other to accommodate santos in midfield Pedro can play 9 and neto wings, our goal is to win not control the game, a number 9 can come in later

Games are won and lost in the midfield. The idea of starting Santos is to try as much as possible to accommodate the triumvirate of Ruiz, Vitinha and Neves while hitting them on the break.

A pivot of Caicedo and Enzo can’t achieve that. They’ll be outplayed.

The last time Santos faced a PSG’s midfield, he delivered a panda shift. He can help Caicedo with those rough jobs.

Joezinho:
Mendes right now. 😂😂😂

Can Palmer hold his own against him? Yes he can.

Your thoughts?

Personally, I’ll start Santos in a three man midfield, then probably drop Neto. I don’t see the pivot of Caicedo and Enzo controlling the game against PSG’s midfield. They will be outnumbered and outplayed.

Neto has been impressive no doubt but sacrificing him to match Paris’ midfield will be Maresca’s biggest call.

Then an attack of Palmer Delap Pedro should cause problems.

Kudus is not talking to any other club at this point but only Spurs.

He’s set his eyes on the move. So we gotta look somewhere else for reinforcements.

Won’t be surprised if Madueke stays put and we miss out on both Kudus and Nwaneri.

xammax:
I’ll love a Chelsea vs PSG final.

It will be nice to beat psg in the final game.

Don’t even pray for that. We're not yet ready to match this PSG side.

We better hope Madrid gets lucky and beat them, then if we can win our tie, it’ll be easier to dream of wining the CWC because Madrid are 70% beatable.

nateevs:
If Chelsea qualify for the finals at the CWC, we would have made back the entire transfer values for Delap and Pedro.

Arsenal agreeing personal terms with Madueke but about to lose Nwaneri to us makes me laugh. 😀😀😀😀

Please make this happen. £50m + addons...... Then Nwaneri and Kudus.

What are our chances of having Nwaneri?

I’ll trade that boy for Madueke + £50m + One board member. All moving to the red side of North London.

Leyqute:
Enrique was outsmarted in that first half. He’s more experienced than Kompany. Expecting PSG to change tactics in the second half.

True that. Rookie mistake in motion from Kompany?

Thank you Dembele 💙

Jamal must have suffered a very serious injury.

Bayern just dey press PSG neck anyhow.

Direct football wey go Havard.

Fkj202004:
There might not be but there are people that can help out. Send me an email on fkj202004@gmail.com

Alright. Will do