The absence of suspended Mikael Lustig on Sunday might convince Brendan Rodgers to go with a back three of Ajer, Compper and Simunovic, with Kieran Tierney and James Forrest playing wingback rolls. With Scott Brown, Olivier Ntcham and Moussa Dembele certain to start, and Tom Rogic looking very likely, Brendan Rodgers’ options begin to look straightforward.
He will pair any two from Scott Sinclair, Odsonne Edouard, Eboue Kouassi and Callum McGregor. Games against Newco seem to bring out the best in Scott and Callum, but both have missed out on selection recently. I understand the call for Odsonne to partner Moussa up front, but, given a choice, I would rather see us control midfield than worry too much about the top of the pitch.
The Ibrox surface suits Callum McGregor’s playmaking ability. Have him in there pulling the strings.
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Real 1 up. Ronaldo. Lovely football.
Mbappe will get sent off here.
RM young team, Ascensio and Vasquez, set up Ronaldo. Tie over?
was hoping that PSG would have scored …as it would have made the last 30 minutes more exciting … but you have to say that was a lovely goal …
and Ronaldo… the way he hangs in the air for his headers … Larssonesque!
Absolute quality goal
MiT
We have The Griff who imo is as good as anyone at hanging in the air, just a pity he doesn’t get that many chances to show it off :-)
HH
KEVJUNGLE on 6TH MARCH 2018 8:52 PM
Being selective ro suit you’re agenda rather than looking at the full story. A career with the Daily Record awaits.
Stay oot….. ;-)
Better team winning in France.
Great goal from Ronaldo from great cross and wonderful pass in the build up.
Wonder who PSG will get as a coach next year?
Maybe ZZ?
Our coaches should take note that even with great possession teams variation in passing a must.
Real have thrown a few long diagonals to Benzema and Ronaldo which has PSG’s defense stretched therefor creating a larger playing surface for the passing game to be effective.
Never mind aw that ,if we had got a CH in we could’ve been playing RM instead of psg:-))
FAIRHILL BHOY on 6TH MARCH 2018 9:03 PM
Nail on the head, Pedro oot :-)
HH
Ramos has been colossal.
parkheadcumsalford. nostalgia.com.
and then there is the other side of Ronaldo … he has developed this habit/technique … when he is in the box, and a defender closes him down, one foot trails and kicks the ground to make it appear that he has been tripped …. happens too often for it not to be intentional … cheating ….pure and simple.
I know someone is going to say that it is part of the game today …. maybe that is true … doesn’t mean that I have to like it.
I think juve will do the same to spurs tomorrow night:-))
Big boy Rabiots heads gone.
MIT
Liked the picture of Seamus
Looks a Top Bhoy :-)
Real have totally outclassed PSG, heads have gone in the home team, red card for Veratti.
When Real go back they do it with purpose.
Midfielders attack the space so create outlets for the defenders and leads to quick dangerous transitions as PSG overperzsue .
Verratti sent off for dissent.He was PSG’s one bright light tonight but frustration boiled over when he did not get the call.
1-1
TET-PSG are a fantastic team but tonight there getting schooled by a team that won’t win their own league,:-)))
1-1 Cavani. Probably too late and makes Veratti’s petulance even more costly for PSG
delighted for the psg roasters and hope neymar enjoys the next 20 mins ish
BIG PACKY,
Steam engines – magnificent.
On our trip the passenger carriages had a corridor on one side with compartments on other.
Not that we were realy bothered.
We were off to London for a long weekend. We should have been going to Paris but the Algerian Front were ‘bombing’ the city, similar to the later tactics of IRA here.
Cowie …
cheers pal. It is amazing how much I am already loving having him around.
tried to get a picture of him in the hoops on the weekend (his first game), but my jersey was too big, and he wasn’t having any of it!
I thought Seamus was getting big until I ran into a friend this morning who was walking his Leonberger puppy … massive!!! only 4 months, but almost 80 pounds already! apparently the males can grow to 180 lbs! it ate a whole roast (raw!) for breakfast this morning!
Was a bit worried it might swallow Seamus whole … but it was the loveliest, friendliest pup imaginable! I think Seamus and her will be great friends!
How are you and your gang keeping?
MIKE IN TORONTO
Spot on about Ronaldo’s cheating.
He is a fantastic footballer and humanitarian but his cynical cheating side has always tainted my opinion of him.
Always laughed at the way English commentators justified his gamesmanship at Man utd but reverted to calling him out when he left and reverted to being a cheating foreigner.
ahh borrocks, they’ve equalised
March 1981
Friday 6th
There was no priest in last night or tonight. They stopped me from seeing my solicitor tonight, as another part of the isolation process, which, as time goes by, they will ruthlessly implement. I expect they may move me sooner than expected to an empty wing. I will be sorry to leave the boys, but I know the road is a hard one and everything must be conquered.
I have felt the loss of energy twice today, and I am feeling slightly weak.
They (the Screws) are unembarrassed by the enormous amount of food they are putting into the cell and I know they have every bean and chip counted or weighed. The damned fools don’t realise that the doctor does tests for traces of any food eaten. Regardless, I have no intention of sampling their tempting morsels.
I am sleeping well at night so far, as I avoid sleeping during the day. I am even having pleasant dreams and so far no headaches. Is that a tribute to my psychological frame of mind or will I pay for that tomorrow or later! I wonder how long I will be able to keep these scribbles going?
My friend Jennifer got twenty years. I am greatly distressed. (Twenty-one-year-old Jennifer McCann, from Belfast’s Twinbrook estate, was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment for shooting at an RUC man).
I have no doubts or regrets about what I am doing for I know what I have faced for eight years, and in particular for the last four and-a-half years, others will face, young lads and girls still at school, or young Gerard or Kevin (Bobby’s son and nephew, respectively) and thousands of others.
They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal.
I am (even after all the torture) amazed at British logic. Never in eight centuries have they succeeded in breaking the spirit of one man who refused to be broken. They have not dispirited, conquered, nor demoralised my people, nor will they ever.
I may be a sinner, but I stand — and if it so be, will die — happy knowing that I do not have to answer for what these people have done to our ancient nation.
Thomas Clarke is in my thoughts, and MacSwiney, Stagg, Gaughan, Thomas Ashe, McCaughey. Dear God, we have so many that another one to those knaves means nothing, or so they say, for some day they’ll pay.
When I am thinking of Clarke, I thought of the time I spent in ‘B’ wing in Crumlin Road jail in September and October ’77. I realised just what was facing me then. I’ve no need to record it all, some of my comrades experienced it too, so they know I have been thinking that some people (maybe many people) blame me for this hunger-strike, but I have tried everything possible to avert it short of surrender.
I pity those who say that, because they do not know the British and I feel more the pity for them because they don’t even know their poor selves. But didn’t we have people like that who sought to accuse Tone, Emmet, Pearse, Connolly, Mellowes: that unfortunate attitude is perennial also…
I can hear the curlew passing overhead. Such a lonely cell, such a lonely struggle. But, my friend, this road is well trod and he, whoever he was, who first passed this way, deserves the salute of the nation. I am but a mere follower and I must say Oíche Mhaith.
RON BACARDI, as i posted to parkheadcumsalford earlier, nostalgia.com.
Bookies slash odds on Murty taking over at PSG.
And there’s yer dinner ?
As Hoddle says. game set and match. 5-2 to Real on aggregate. 10 minutes to go.
So, PSG went one round further than us in the CL for all that money spent?
Hmmmm. Perhaps we are not as badly run as some think.
I have always thought that Eamon Dunphy’s description of Ronaldo was spot on, The Strutting Peacock, summed him up for me.
HT @9:20
“Never in eight centuries have they succeeded in breaking the spirit of one man who refused to be broken. ”
One of the most powerful sentences ever written.
HT …. thanks for picking up from Ard Macha and keeping the tradition alive.
The two games between Real and PSG have been great indicators of how important the coach is in the modern game.
ZZ may have struggled in La Liga as teams there have an understanding of how to combat them but in Europe his tactics have been excellent.
Emery is not good enough at this level as last two seasons with a very good squad they have failed when faced with adversity.
Fan-A-Tic
You could be talking about Brendan re teams have it sussed how to play us :-)
HH
THE EXILED TIM
:-)
Strict adherence to one style of play makes it easier for opponents who have faced you a few times to nullify your system.
I think the possession game with constant short and square passing needs a rethink or at the least more variation.
Also more attention needs to be given to off the ball movement.
BILLY BHOY-they should have bought a centre half:-))