Inter - Barcelona (10 Dec 19) [1-2]

[Candreva Crosses]

I haven't watched much of them, but I believe half of your players in bold aren't starters. Fcbarca could tell us more

Rakitic may be a big fucking question mark but seasons before he'd start every fucking game, don't know about now though. Dembele is injured most of the time, hard to tell. Alba injured, Pique starts most of the time. Roberto maybe switches with Semedo? I still think Roberto starts more than him.

 

[Irequis]

Barca probable lineup:

Fati Suarez Griezmann
Vidal Busquets Frenkie
Firpo Lenglet Umtiti Semedo
Neto

Very strong ideed. Each of them is starter/was good enough to start for Barca for quite a while, except Fati & GK. Dont see how we could defeat them with our B-squad 5 men midfield

No idea why Barca decide to field such a strong team prior to the away match against Sociedad (4th place in La Liga) at weekend and El Clasico at midweek after. I expected them to rest Suarez, Griezmann, Vidal, Busquets, De Jong, and Lenglet, but perhaps Valverde has a personal grudge in Milan and decides to screw us.

It will be very difficult to win against such lineup. Almost all of them can enter our starting lineup comfortably except Fati and Neto. We have to play like in Camp Nou first half, but doing it for two halves with Borja, Vecino, and fcking Biraghi. Fortunately Messi will be absent and Valverde being clown is our biggest advantage. Nevertheless, I have little confidence we can win against this Barca.

 

[Universe]

D'Ambrosio and Biraghi on the wings

 

[FCBarca]

This is the XI most fans would like to see IMHO but I am skeptical that Suarez will be on the bench if he travels:

Makes me wonder if Valverde will start a front 3 of Griezzman-Suarez-C.Perez and then bring Ansu on in the 2nd half, considering he only just got his medical clearance. Ansu is better on the left and Perez on the right & even Ernesto seems to recognize this as well

 

[armin_z]

Does anybody know where I can watch the game in London?

 

[tonyclifton]

This is the XI most fans would like to see IMHO but I am skeptical that Suarez will be on the bench if he travels:

Makes me wonder if Valverde will start a front 3 of Griezzman-Suarez-C.Perez and then bring Ansu on in the 2nd half, considering he only just got his medical clearance. Ansu is better on the left and Perez on the right & even Ernesto seems to recognize this as well

Please have mercy. I beg you to let us through to the last 16.

You can beat the crap out of us when we meet in the final.

 

[FCBarca]

Does anybody know where I can watch the game in London?

Only one other English team (Spurs) playing at 2100 but I suspect any pub will show all matches else BT Sport

 

[Devious]

D'Ambrosio and Biraghi on the wings

So no attacking solutions from the wings, also non from the midfield.

I expect a game of long balls forward and wish Lautaro and Lukaku figure it out themselves.

 

[sakera]

Please have mercy. I beg you to let us through to the last 16.

You can beat the crap out of us when we meet in the final.

the thing is that the last time they let us through, we beat them in the semifinal and won the cup

 

[ElDuccio]

Three "nil"

 

[militoscores]

Will be tough but lets give it our best. If we lose we look to getting 6pts before the winter break and we can still smile

Winning the europa would be nice too so lets not get too down if we dont make it through tonight

 

[Universe]

Against Slavia Prague and Torino, we had Valero as the play-maker in the center of midfield. He was sitting quite deep and he was flanked by Brozovic to his left and Vecino on his right. Against Roma, Brozovic returned to his usual position in the center with Valero moving out left as one of the box-to-box midfielders. Seems a minor distinction to make but personally I was very surprised to see the lack of positional flexibility and the resulting impact on our game, so it's more important than you'd think.

Different games, different opponents and different tactics of course. But it just seemed to me like Brozovic was very isolated in the center when Valero moved up as one of the two-way CM's. However, Valero was nowhere near as isolated when it was his turn to sit in the center and play as our "metronomo".

I could be mistaken but I think I preferred what I saw from a "Brozovic - Valero - CM" setup, as opposed to "Valero - Brozovic - CM".

Brozovic can still contribute good amount of distribution playing as the LCM anyway, plus he's far more dynamic in that position than Valero. Valero is also the least mobile of our mids. Keeping him 'stationary' in a central position is probably safer than wasting his tiny gas tank running from box to box.

So for me it's gotta be LWB - Brozovic - Valero - Vecino - RWB.

Really hoping Lazaro starts because playing Biraghi and D'Ambrosio on the wings will be incredibly frustrating with their inability to attack.

 

[wera]

D'ambrosio is the type to step up and score a brace.


Probably not today though.

 

[Glass box]

Look at our back up players in midfield compared to theirs. We who need the win are more crippled than them. We need to reinforce in January.

 

[firmino]

The guys must give their all. They can be heroes for a night, this will have to give them all the sense of urgency you can have in this world.

 

[DARi0]

we should make it

It's true, generally speaking Barca never take a match lightly but under Valverde I have seen them far more pragmatic than any other time in last 20 years. Particularly when you consider the upcoming schedule & injury setbacks - still, I fully expect Leo to play. Start? We'll see

Leo left at home, Neto starting, let`s consider these gifts and take advantage. This ain`t getting better for us.

Conte got what he asked: There will be no live score from BVB-Slavia at the San Siro. So no Inter-PSV remake, Inter is only playing to win, no matter what BVB is doing, the players have not to think about that other game.

This is what fills me with confidence, no matter the injuries we currently have: Conte is NOT loser Luciano to play for a draw. I expect us to attack from the very beginning and hopefully score fast. With our high pressing will determine some mistakes on their side and we win it. Most important thing is that Barca don`t care for the result, so the team wanting more to win, will win. Home turf. Saved Roma goals for this evening. Let`s nail this.

We want to go throw cause by February it’s most likely we’ll have a squad that’s 10 times stronger than the one we have at this particular moment, then we might actually have the right to even dream. Inter now isn’t the real one, just a shadow of remnant past still lurking around with comical figures, but once we’re throw with the injury crisis and with getting right reinforcements, we could prove ourselves deservees of the qualifications.

We really need that CL money too. It’s deadly crucial.

It`s not just the CL money but also status + improving on previous seasons + avoiding that Europa League swamp. Last thing we need is to fly God-knows-where to play EL matches during the week, while giving our best in the Scudetto race.

So basically Vecino is playing to make sure we have money to replace him? :trolldad:

 

[Harpsabu]

Against Slavia Prague and Torino, we had Valero as the play-maker in the center of midfield. He was sitting quite deep and he was flanked by Brozovic to his left and Vecino on his right. Against Roma, Brozovic returned to his usual position in the center with Valero moving out left as one of the box-to-box midfielders. Seems a minor distinction to make but personally I was very surprised to see the lack of positional flexibility and the resulting impact on our game, so it's more important than you'd think.

Different games, different opponents and different tactics of course. But it just seemed to me like Brozovic was very isolated in the center when Valero moved up as one of the two-way CM's. However, Valero was nowhere near as isolated when it was his turn to sit in the center and play as our "metronomo".

I could be mistaken but I think I preferred what I saw from a "Brozovic - Valero - CM" setup, as opposed to "Valero - Brozovic - CM".

Brozovic can still contribute good amount of distribution playing as the LCM anyway, plus he's far more dynamic in that position than Valero. Valero is also the least mobile of our mids. Keeping him 'stationary' in a central position is probably safer than wasting his tiny gas tank running from box to box.

So for me it's gotta be LWB - Brozovic - Valero - Vecino - RWB.

Really hoping Lazaro starts because playing Biraghi and D'Ambrosio on the wings will be incredibly frustrating with their inability to attack.

Agree 100%, also having Brozovic higher up the pitch also means we have a long range goal threat. If a ball lands at his feet outside the box he could stick it into a corner. Where as if it landed at vecino, borja, d'ambro or biraghi, its corner flags we'd be looking at

 

[Provenzano]

 

[Wobblz]

Suarez, Griz and Vidal are enough to fuck us up...

 

[Batman]

Unfortunately true.

Gotta start checkig which teams we’ll probably face in EL.