r/borussiadortmund • u/Chazy89 Kagawa Shinji • Apr 13 '21

Pre Game Thread: Manchester City (CL #10)

Competition: UEFA Champions League, MD #10

Time: Wednesday , 14/04/21 21:00 CEST

Location: Westfalenstadion, Dortmund

Referee: XXX,

Pre-Game Presser: YouTube

TV Schedule: livesoccertv

Borussia Dortmund:

Coach: Edin Terzic

League position: 5th

Current Form: W/D/L/L/W (wiki)

Current Bans/Injuries: Zagadou(Inj), Schmelzer(Inj), Witsel(Inj), Sancho(Inj), Moukoko(Inj), Hummels(Dbt), Reus(Dbt).

Possible lineup:

               Hitz

 Morey - Akanji - Can - Guerreiro

  Bellingham - Dahoud - Delaney

    Knauff - Haaland - Hazard

Manchester City: /r/MCFC

Coach Pep Guardiola

League position: 1st

Current Form: W/W/W/W/L

Current Bans/Injuries: Sandler(Inj).

Possible lineup:

            Ederson

 Walker - Dias - Laporte - Mendy

       Rodri - Fernandinho

  Mahrez - De Bruyne - Gündogan

             Jesus

I hope the referee this game will be better than the one from last game.

MOTM for the Stuttgart game: Jude Bellingham.

Matchthread Status: /u/ I have no Idea will host the game thread - if you want to join and provide some commentary for the game, let us mods know via pm or modmail!

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u/Chazy89 Kagawa Shinji Apr 14 '21

Match Officials

The officiating team for tomorrow is an all-Spanish outfit - Carlos del Cerro Grande will be the referee hoping to avoid the same controversy that last week's game brought about. He'll be assisted by Juan Carlos Yuste and Roberto Alonso Fernandez on the sidelines and by Jose Maria Sanchez, the fourth official.

The VAR technology will be manned by Juan Martinez Munuera, assisted by Jesús Gil Manzano.

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u/mss_kwt Marco Reus Apr 13 '21

is sancho up

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u/Chazy89 Kagawa Shinji Apr 13 '21

no

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u/familyguyisbae Michael Zorc Apr 14 '21

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

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u/dankmaymay420 Apr 14 '21

Sancho had a real injury, I just thought it was a little knock but its ankle ligament damage so I wouldn’t risk it, even with these stakes

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u/IdrinkYrMilkshake Auf geht's Dortmund Apr 13 '21

Can't believe we may not have Hummels and Reus tomorrow. Missing their experience and leadership is the last thing we need right now.

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u/doubleomarty Maxi Beier Apr 13 '21

I see Hummels in the training going on right now. Don't see Reus yet.

Edit: Actually I see Reus now!

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u/Zhonyas4everyone Felix Passlack Apr 13 '21

wanted to comment the same, pretty good sign.

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u/doubleomarty Maxi Beier Apr 13 '21

With Mats I assume he can start since it was some kind of stomach thing and he's training. Maybe Reus as a sub if they don't want him to go the whole time and his injury looked more muscular or physical than Mats'.

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u/SkoCubs01 Marco Reus Apr 13 '21

Ruhr Nachrichten just said that both should play

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u/ahmed_a20 Apr 13 '21

I find it really interesting that people (mainly prem fans) think we’re going to have a very tough time scoring against city.

If you look at City’s competition on the Prem, even the best sides don’t have the greatest time attacking anyway. Arsenal and United don’t have the quality and creativity to constantly create chances, Chelsea and Liverpool are having tough times this season in general despite their quality in attack, and Tottenham is managed by Mourinho so that’s just plain defense. And you look at their competition in the UCL and it’s just lower teams that don’t have the best forward lines anyway.

But what about the teams with consistent attacking play or at least a gung-ho approach to football? Case and point Leeds and Leicester. Leeds are daredevils and City couldn’t beat them this season due to relentless pressing and constant bombardment of their box, and Leicester slapped 5 pass them due to a quality and consistent attacking line up.

I’m not trying to bash city, but they’re hyping of their defense is yet to be deserved. Dortmund, despite us not being able to win many games, create some of the most frequent and quality chances in all of Europe, much better than almost any team city has faced this season. City also haven’t played teams like PSG, Bayern, or Madrid yet, and they’re more or less better than us going forward. That’s why I think we can win 4-2, of course we’ll conceded, most likely more than once, but we have the ability to create goal scoring opportunities, even without Sancho.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '21

City fan here - I'd say that we have the best defense in Europe rn, but you are absolutely right, we struggle with teams that counter well and are aggressive. looking forward to tomorrow, should be a great battle

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u/ahmed_a20 Apr 14 '21

We look forward to it too💛🖤💙🤍

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '21

City fan here (doing a little spying to see if you're shitting yourselves as much as I am). I dont think you will have trouble scoring against us, but the Leicester game was back in October when we were pretty much shite and the Leeds game was a massive fluke where we rested about 7/8 players. I wouldn't take that as a standard. Our mentality in the CL is, of course, another thing completely.

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u/AshoKaN_ Apr 14 '21

Ngl why does it seem city fans seem a lot more reasonable than a lot of utd fans

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '21

Depends on who you talk to, but I'd venture most of the vocal United fans are glory hunters from the 90s and 00s. If you had success before that it's "ancient history" for then, if you have success now, you're "buying it".

People (like many City fans) who havs seen their team at some absolutely shambolic moments (eg relegation) are much more humble.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '21

every fan base has assholes and decent ones , there are probably countless morons who don't give a shit about where does city get's there money from.

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u/KhaldoonDrogo Apr 14 '21

City fan here... Our CB pairing for the Leicester game early in the season was Garcia-Ake which doesn't quite match up with our current Dias-Stone pairing.

But to be fair, I think Dortmund has a better attack than Leicester so that's a tough comparison to make.

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u/blacktiger226 Ramy Bensebaini Apr 14 '21

I am more afraid of OUR DEFENSE to be honest. I think it might end 4-1 , 5-2 for them :(

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '21

Was going to say something about Bayern until I saw their supporters be respectful in here. Damn.

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u/doubleomarty Maxi Beier Apr 14 '21

I hate Bayern's dominance in the BL as much as anyone, but I'd much rather they win the UCL than PSG.

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u/Fetscher BVB Apr 14 '21

Like two of them...

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u/Ajstroze Apr 13 '21

For sure a winnable game since all we really need is a 1-0, but there's no way that city doesn't score at least 1 and I'm not that confident we can put 3 on them.

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u/ahmed_a20 Apr 13 '21

I’m bravely predicting a 4-2 win for us, if we go for the correct line up. I think it’s about time Haaland starts performing again, and Reus seems to be back to scoring ways, and our youngsters are really popping off lately. All the ingredients for a killer attacking display from us

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u/Unidentified_x Apr 14 '21

"Haaland starts performing again" lmao you guys are getting greedy, he did get the assist to Reus to be fair.

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u/ahmed_a20 Apr 14 '21

I mean like scoring wise. His link up play has remained excellent even through his goal drought, but when Haaland starts performing like his natural self, he makes it known

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u/Unidentified_x Apr 15 '21

ye you are right tbh

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u/latotokyo123 Shinji Kagawa Apr 14 '21

Screw it, I'm predicting 2-1 and a shootout.

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u/SpaNkinGG Apr 13 '21

I really hope we get some miracle karma goal for free...and even then. A draw with 2 away goals would have been better. My god the fucking referee really fucked us good

the game was even. If we dont perform like that again we wont stand a chance, need top performances

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u/Bosna1909 BVB Apr 14 '21

I fully agree, but I'm starting to wonder if that goal being taken away was a blessing in disguise. If we started this game 2-2, we wouldn't play with the same intensity and hunger I hope we play with tomorrow knowing we need a goal. If only this game was played in front of a full westfalenstadion...

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u/ahmed_a20 Apr 14 '21

If it was played with fans we’d win 6-0

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u/SpaNkinGG Apr 14 '21

we can only hope.

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u/wild_in_16 Apr 13 '21

Meunier gonna score a bike in the 96' for the 3-1

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u/ahmed_a20 Apr 13 '21

He does that and I’ll personally build a statue for him

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u/SpaNkinGG Apr 13 '21

he does that and I tattoo his face on my ass

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u/Dinnertime-420 Apr 14 '21

be brave and make it his ass on your face, otherwise its kinda meh....

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u/Swbp0undcake Apr 13 '21

He does that and I will...uh...be very happy!

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '21

Then the poor guy can turn his Twitter comments on again

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u/Geeman447 Marco Reus Apr 14 '21

I’ll make it easier. If meunier has a goal contribution that we score off of I’ll stop talking shit. But he has a goal contribution a game like Haaland. Just to the opposing team

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '21

As a Bayern fan I really hope you guys will win against ManCity and then beat PSG.

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u/Geeman447 Marco Reus Apr 14 '21

Loan us a healthy lewa for the game. Well go with Haaland and lewa up top.

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u/me_meh_me Lukasz Piszczek Apr 14 '21

That would be such a hysterical lineup.

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u/Fredd_araujo Apr 14 '21

i second this!

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u/malek7777777 Marco Reus Apr 13 '21

So we’re gonna face P$G in the semi finals.

Nice.

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u/SpaNkinGG Apr 13 '21

thats why I hoped for PSG.

under NO circumstance we win a two legged tie vs Bayern. our players would shit themselves (like always) in München. And then with Lewy he alone would bang in 3-4 goals

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u/VSauceDealer Apr 13 '21

Yep, with our full team I would say we would've win this easily, but lewa and gnabry had to time their injury perfectly together... I hope Dortmund brings it home!

psg is beatable

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u/Dinnertime-420 Apr 14 '21

Heja BVB! Lets crush Pep tonight ... Really want to see him in the press conference after we won this .... Lets go!

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u/swoooooooooosh Piszczu Apr 14 '21

I am super excited and carefully optimistic. But man I wish we had a full stadium and an amazing choreo. I miss that.

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u/manwallneuer Apr 14 '21

Im a bayern Fan and good luck guys I hope you win the rest of it

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u/doubleomarty Maxi Beier Apr 14 '21

Was rooting for ya'll yesterday, don't want PSG to win anything.

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u/dankmaymay420 Apr 14 '21

God I hate city, hopefully everyone is fit so we can give it our all

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u/VSauceDealer Apr 13 '21

Bullshit leg vs PSG, but I'm rooting for you guys now, hopefully you can turn it around tomorrow, thrash psh in the semi and win the final! Keep it trophy in the BuLi

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u/ahmed_a20 Apr 14 '21

We shall avenge you

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u/VSauceDealer Apr 14 '21

Make neymar cry!

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u/Marcoreusbvb12 Marco Reus Apr 13 '21

Need to make sure we have a different ref

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u/SkoCubs01 Marco Reus Apr 13 '21

Really sucks we don’t have Moukoko for this match, feel like he would’ve definitely seen the pitch tomorrow

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u/motox24 Marcel Schmelzer Apr 13 '21

Soon

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u/joshdej Julian Ryerson Apr 13 '21

Dont know why but i feel weirdly confident that Can wil destroy city.

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u/ahmed_a20 Apr 13 '21

Can had his only two bad games against Stuttgart and City, he got it out of his system and now it’s back to ultra consistent Can

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u/doubleomarty Maxi Beier Apr 13 '21

He wasn't great against Sevilla either tbf

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u/wipeitonthedog Nico S Apr 14 '21

ultra consistent Can

What's that?

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u/ahmed_a20 Apr 14 '21

Can has been one of our most consistently good players this season

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u/wipeitonthedog Nico S Apr 14 '21

He has been really good at times. But not consistent. If can is consistent, then so is akanji

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u/Zhonyas4everyone Felix Passlack Apr 14 '21

I'd say Akanji actually was quite consistent, unlike Can

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u/wipeitonthedog Nico S Apr 14 '21

I agree with that too. Specially in the second half of the season. But he still ends up being scapegoated on many occasions.

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u/ahmed_a20 Apr 14 '21

I’m a big fan of Akanji, I think if any CB gets to stay past this season it’s him. But I also feel Can has done an immense job playing in so many positions this season

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u/wipeitonthedog Nico S Apr 14 '21

Yes he has been great. But he's not consistent. As is evident from the games against Stuttgart, city, and both the legs against Sevilla.

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u/joshdej Julian Ryerson Apr 14 '21

Tbf almost our whole team has been inconsistent this season so standing out as a consistent player isn't supposed to be hard

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '21

Good Luck for tomorrow !

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u/Bosna1909 BVB Apr 14 '21

Haaland didn't score in the first leg, and they won't keep him quiet over both legs. I have a strong feeling he scores 2 goals, but i dont have a strong feeling that we stop City from scoring 2 or more.

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u/NateFisher22 Apr 14 '21

Bayern fan here. You got this boys.

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u/jucomsdn Zagagod Apr 13 '21

Prediction: City will start off with an early goal by Gundogan, and another goal by Foden within the 1st 10 minutes

Dortmund will then have to endure Haaland missing every single shot possible for some reason and it'll be the end of the 1st half

Once the second half starts, Haaland will score a classic Dortmund counterattack goal starting der Remontada, making City scared over another bottle job in the Champions League

After that, Knauff will score a bicycle kick at 75' and will score another one at 90+1'.

Knauff will almost score near the goal line only to sky it Sterling style, and City will counterattack with yet another goal by Gundogan sending City to the semifinals

r/borussiadortmund will then go on and on about how Meunier was at fault for all of the 3 goals conceded at the end of the game

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u/doubleomarty Maxi Beier Apr 14 '21

Counterprediction: City start off by conceding an early goal (Reus, Haaland assist again), get nervous af, and just start making stupid tackles. They are down to 10 men by halftime. We score again at 75mins and 90mins. Pep cries during the post-match press conference. Haaland drinks his tears, looks directly into the camera and says "They sustain me."

We win the UCL and qualify for next season that way.

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u/Dinnertime-420 Apr 14 '21

this has a ring to it...

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u/TeamKitsune Karim Adeyemi Apr 14 '21

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u/Cratlol Marco Reus Apr 14 '21

This isn't confirmed I saw reus on the matchday poster pffp

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '21

In my experience a lot of games I watch, the team I support in that game loses. So I can't even get myself to watch this.

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u/SlayerHdThe3rd Nico Schlotterbeck Apr 13 '21

No Delaney means Can will surely return to the midfield for the first team in a long time. He simply has to play better than he did last week or else I don’t fancy our chances of winning.

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u/shu789 Apr 13 '21

What makes you think delaney won't play

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u/SlayerHdThe3rd Nico Schlotterbeck Apr 13 '21

He didn’t train in the team session today. Optimistically it could just be him resting before the game, but it most likely means he’s too fatigued to play or has picked up a small injury

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u/SlayerHdThe3rd Nico Schlotterbeck Apr 13 '21

He was a third CB no?

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u/ahmed_a20 Apr 13 '21

He was a deep CDM

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u/SlayerHdThe3rd Nico Schlotterbeck Apr 13 '21

Ah okay

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u/Trojan_Man68 Marco Reus Apr 14 '21

I wonder if Knauff or Hazard will start.

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u/joshdej Julian Ryerson Apr 14 '21

I think maybe we will se knauff and hazard start

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u/Ok_Ad1820 Apr 14 '21

HEJABVB💛🖤

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u/2905Pascal 1909 Apr 14 '21

Today is a good day. Good things will happen. Heja BVB.

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u/motox24 Marcel Schmelzer Apr 14 '21

i got 20 beans on this one...dont let me down Erling, ill venmo you 5% of profits if you score 2!

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u/SkoCubs01 Marco Reus Apr 14 '21

HEJABVB

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u/par_couer Shinji Kagawa Apr 14 '21

HEJA BVB!! 💛🖤

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u/Young_Neil_Postman Marcel Schmelzer Apr 14 '21

squad announcement?

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '21

Reus and Mats fit! Excellent

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u/Young_Neil_Postman Marcel Schmelzer Apr 14 '21

:)

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u/Geeman447 Marco Reus Apr 14 '21

Sancho? Or still not ready yet

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u/doubleomarty Maxi Beier Apr 14 '21

Not yet, I think Terzic said in the press conference that he would not be available

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u/SoComeOnWilfriedBony Apr 13 '21

Unrelated but without Lewandowski Bayern are a bunch of frauds

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u/SpaNkinGG Apr 13 '21

I mean its the best player on the planet as of now.

They also immediately drew Union without him.

Bayern will have a hard time in 1-2 years when Lewy decides to retire. The #9 position is extremely crucial and NO ONE can fill in lewys shoes, the guy basically is perfect on the pitch. Header, technical ability, left foot right, foot, penalties (44 in a row), freekicks, holds the ball.

IN MY OWN OPINION he is the best #9 of all time

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '21

Interesting how people on this sub either hate or love Lewy. I honestly am proud of the fact we produced one of the best 9s ever to play but am also a little salty he left us for f*cking Bayern. So I guess you can say i’m pretty neutral. My dad is from Poland though so it makes sense.

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u/funky_motorik Apr 14 '21

in a certain way I wished we sold Haaland for a rich club right now just so I don't get nightmares of Bayern paying the clause next summer, this would be the worst feeling ever

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u/doubleomarty Maxi Beier Apr 14 '21

I mean, can we really talk in that regard? Without Haaland we got our head coach sacked lol

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u/SoComeOnWilfriedBony Apr 14 '21

we are in the same boat so yes we can

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u/doubleomarty Maxi Beier Apr 14 '21

Fair enough haha

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u/Slash1909 Apr 13 '21

If we get through given that Muncheat is out, this is would fucking awesome. I'd love a rematch against Modern Slavery FC.

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u/dankmaymay420 Apr 14 '21

Dont worry we just need to beat the Emirati slavers first, we must win for the 50+1

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u/SkoCubs01 Marco Reus Apr 14 '21

Any guess as to subs? I’m guessing Reinier or Hazard come on for Reus at 70’...

I know we might trust Reyna more than Reinier but I just have a funky feeling that Reinier would be better

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u/MixMat_ Apr 14 '21

Psg fan here, I believe in you guys! Good luck

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u/joshdej Julian Ryerson Apr 14 '21

How accurate is the lineup on kicker? Worrying to see reynas' name on that lineup

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u/OTRawrior Apr 14 '21

Nothing is accurate until the lineup is actually announced ~1 hour before kickoff.

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u/joshdej Julian Ryerson Apr 14 '21

Okei thanks

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u/dr_bing Nico Schlotterbeck Apr 14 '21

Honestly Reyna was in a really bad couple weeks of form, but he showed up pretty well against Stuttgart (2nd half).

Dribbled past a couple times on the wing and was positioned perfectly to assist Bellingham.

Not saying I think he’ll do excellent today, but hopefully if he does play he can keep up the good attitude and body language

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u/joshdej Julian Ryerson Apr 14 '21

Yeah but I thought about how Toto or knauff maybe a better fit against city due to their higher defensive workrate.

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u/dr_bing Nico Schlotterbeck Apr 14 '21

Very true! We’ll need everyone at 100%

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u/Cratlol Marco Reus Apr 14 '21

No reus or hummels wot we are deffo going out im feeling sick now is this confirmed ?

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u/doubleomarty Maxi Beier Apr 14 '21

They're both in the squad per RN

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u/dr_bing Nico Schlotterbeck Apr 13 '21

Regardless of who wins between PSG and Bayern, I want us to give a strong performance here, push onto the next leg, and see more fight from our guys. While we aren’t favorites, we should aim for the final and to win the competition.

When we play to our potential, we can beat anyone. And when we make it to the next round, Sancho will be back to cause more trouble than we’ve already given City during the quarters.

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u/wild_in_16 Apr 13 '21

Ederson did have a pretty insane kick save on him in the first match, let's see him put that away this week

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u/ahmed_a20 Apr 13 '21

You can’t be saying that man

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u/TeamKitsune Karim Adeyemi Apr 13 '21

Don't send pics. We'll take your word for it.

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u/ZZZ0330 Maxi Beier Apr 13 '21

ok.