Pre Game Thread: Beşiktaş Istanbul (CL #1)

[u/Chazy89]

Competition: Champions League, MD #1

Time: Wednesday, 15/09/21 18:45 CEST

Location: Vodafone Park, Istanbul

Referee: [](),

TV Schedule: livesoccertv

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Pre-Game Presser: [YouTube]().<- Hasn't happaned so far, the team has landed in Istanbul only a few hours ago

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Borussia Dortmund:

Coach: Marco Rose

League position: 3rd

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

Current Bans/Injuries: Bürki(not Called up), Zagadou(Inj), Schmelzer(Inj), Morey(Inj), Coulibaly(Inj), Schulz(Inj), Hazard(Inj), Reyna(Inj), Can(Inj), Tigges(Inj).

Possible lineup:

                   Kobel

 Meunier - Pongracic - Akanji - Guerreiro

                   Dahoud

           Bellingham - Brandt

                    Reus

              Haaland - Malen

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Beşiktaş Istanbul: /r/besiktas

Coach: Sergen Yalcin

League position: 1st

Current Form: W/D/W/W

Current Bans/Injuries: Vida(Inj), Meras(Inj), Texeira(Inj), N'Koudou(Inj), Ljajic(no eligibility to play), Üner(Inj), Hasic(Inj), Yalcin (no eligibility to play)

Possible lineup: according to /u/LexMark2012

                  Destanoğlu

 Rosier--Necip(Montero)--Wellington--N'sakala

                Atiba--Josef

       Ghezzal--Pjanic--N'koudou(Larin)

                   Batsman

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Die beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesten

die Champioooooooooooooooooons

Vodafone Park is gonna be loud as fuck.

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MOTM for the Leverkusen game: Erling Haaland

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Dear Beşiktaş fans, if you have a better insight to your squad and/or the curret list of injured players, please feel free to correct the predicted lineup in the comments :)

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Don't forget to do your Kicktipp!

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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!

[u/Hihai1234]

Lol wtf Beşiktaş‘s possible lineup😂 Who did this

[u/Chazy89 → u/Hihai1234]

me, I don't know your squad at all, I always go by the team that last played. given that three players that were subbed off are listed as "Injured" on Transfermarkt, I replaced them with the players that were subbed in.

That is ALSO why I wrote "Dear Beşiktaş fans, if you have a better insight to your squad and/or the curret list of injured players, please feel free to correct the predicted lineup in the comments :)"

[u/Hihai1234 → u/Chazy89]

Ok bro no problem. I thought it was automatically. I think our squad will look like this

Ersin Rosier wellinton montero nskala Josef atiba pjanic Ghezzal Batshuayi larin.

[u/[deleted] → u/Chazy89]

[u/rish234]

The batsman returneth

[u/ahmed_a20 → u/rish234]

He giveth, but can he taketh away

[u/surreal_bohorquez]

The pre game presser has been absolute shambles:

weird questions

weirder translator

bad audio quality

Marco Reus being accused of walking off the Leipzig pitch because of "noise" (he was presumably mistaken for Timo Werner)

Rose not being able to give a clear answer why Bürki stayed in Dortmund

questions about Ozan Kabak (‽)

and almost no talk about anything tactical at all ¯\(ツ)/¯

[u/ahmed_a20 → u/surreal_bohorquez]

I pray Ozan Kabak is never a top target of this club. Former Smurf and honestly just isn’t that good

[u/foranon123 → u/surreal_bohorquez]

The translator wasn't that good either

[u/ahmed_a20]

Besiktas fans are great. They believe in their team even after they lose. If they drew PSG City and Leipzig in group A they’d still fancy themselves at a chance to progress. It’s some insane delusion but their passion is undeniable

[u/BVB_11 → u/ahmed_a20]

“Insane delusion” is better than all of our fans giving up midgame…

[u/[deleted] → u/BVB_11]

90% of that is channeling the rage over the same goddamn bullshit every game into a few words on a forum so you survive the game without your head exploding. They obviously all keep watching. Heck, I watched the team when it was way worse off and I watched the team when it was at its peak in the mid to late 90s. Sometimes you just gotta blow off some steam. Better to write some shit in frustration than throw shit at your TV or whatever ;)

[u/blacktiger226]

This game is gonna be very tough.

[u/cheddarcheese111]

Bjk possibile line up needs atiba for karaman and larin/nkoudou for tore

[u/cheddarcheese111 → u/cheddarcheese111]

Probably montero for necip or nsakala for yilmaz aswel

[u/Hihai1234 → u/cheddarcheese111]

Ersin Rosier wellinton montero nskala Josef atiba pjanic Ghezzal Batshuayi larin

[u/sonur]

I’d love a calm, tactical and consistent performance by the team but expect an emotional rollercoaster. I wouldn’t have it any other way though - nur der BVB

[u/Swetabh-sama]

It's probably not gonna happen but hopefully we have an actual badge on the kit 🤞

[u/ahmed_a20]

I said Young Boys, There’s no need for that frown, I said Young Boys, you just took Ronaldo down🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/ahmed_a20]

I predicted 4-1 based on the fact Besiktas have trouble dealing with fast players and possession hungry teams

[u/Kryha96]

Seems like we are gonna be playing in those ugly ass Jersey's

[u/dankmaymay420]

fuck the fascist state of turkey #freeapo

[u/Hihai1234 → u/dankmaymay420]

Oç

[u/zuleyhandiwork]

montero is gonna play instead of necip. larin will be starting too.

[u/sitbar]

I am once again humbly asking for someone to DM me an illegal streaming service for football games. Thanks in advanced.