Salzburg got back to winning ways on Sunday after losing 4-1 away to third-placed Rheindorf Altach immediately before the international break. The stats from that game are interesting. Salzburg enjoyed 60% possession but Rheindorf forced 66% more chances by playing on the break, scoring twice in the closing 10 minutes as Salzburg pushed for an equaliser.
A point on Thursday would be an acceptable result for Salzburg so they could be caught between trying to defend and playing their normal game. Either way it’s likely they will hold possession for long periods.
No team is completely dependent on one player but this truism is probably tested more by Salzburg and their talismanic striker, Jonathan Soriano, who has scored 26 times in 27 outings this season. Consider for a moment if we had such a prodigious striker………..
Salzburg coach Adolf Hutter must decide how far tp change his usual game plan. Salzburg’s entire strategy is to attack. They have scored 50 league goals already this season, twice as many as any other team, while their goals against record is within a handful of the majority of teams in the league.
My preference would be to tempt them out, have them fall between the two stools of playing their natural offensive game and the more cautious approach they may be tempted to play away in Europe. One note of caution, the Ajax team who beat Celtic comfortably in Amsterdam last season were shredded 0-3 by a counter-attacking Salzburg in the same venue a few months later.
Ajax failed to box clever, we can be smarter. Stop Soriano, closed-down space at the back and play on the counter.
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we could do with a Christmas present…
“Cereal Rangers haters”
Special KKK
All (Ralph) Bran(d)
WeetaRicksen
Honey Monster Munch
Quaker Goats
Ah’ll get mah coat……
BT
Already switched to the Barca game. :-) You going on thursday?
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Bada Bing
I am going to send you an e-mail regarding android box and what we do here in Malta.HH.
Bada,
Would be nice and I can see it happening but is that no the dude who started the rumour that gemmel was deid?
Not checked back, cos am lazy person. Reading all the euro trips was,and is amazing. My first trip across the channel was Ghent. Cannot remember seeing or remember entering Ostend. My wife was 8 months pregnant. But I had book my first euro trip. Trip and stop me. So there was I in George sq, with the Lisbon lions CSC. Belgic here we come! If any you remember how excited you all were, you will remember how I felt!. Don’t u go to sleep cos it makes you weak! Any how no sleep for me, was dying by the time we got to Ghent. If any lions are about, please say this is true! We arrived in Ghent about 11am, went to a pub called Jochiems, just of the main square? God how good are we…tic fans. Charged to a pol cAllenged Now I am rubbish at pool, but it was the way we would communicate with the local swally merchants!
Humped , if facted grannyed
BT
How are you and the family?
Weefra
Hospital Thursday. Maybe nip into bv for a beer before meeting Marspapa in club for game..
Hope to make it to a game soon…
LB- ta
Googybhoy- you need a good internec connection for a Droidbox mate
Googybhoy
All good here thanks. U?
Zico-Maltese Bhoy
20:20 on 25 November, 2014
If yourself or Bada could get my mail and forward that to me I would be grateful.
2-0 Barca. Messi. Now CL all time top scorer
Mike in Toronto and Tom McLaughlin .
cheers for yours responses earlier – got it sorted now, thank you.
Sanna
Hope Tbm makes club for Thursday too..
Stating the obvious, but Thursday is going to be a tough tough match…. We need everybody to bring their “A” game.
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Matthews. Denayer. VanDijk. Izzy
——-Brown. Johansen. Mulgrew——
Forrest———————————Wakaso
—————–Commons——————-
Anybody know how long Lustig is out for?
I presume …….ooft, Messi, the best ever.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
!!Bada Bing!!
20:22 on
25 November, 2014
LB- ta
Googybhoy- you need a good internec connection for a Droidbox mate
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Internec?? I canny keep up with the new fangled tech :O)
Apologies for posting a link concerning the character from that film,The Hills Have Eyes – however,interesting enough,if you care to read the article,you can see that the BBC’s England department,(unlike their counterparts in Scotland)don’t have an issue using the L word in relation to that dead club:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30196603
Liquidation.
HH.
Between the City, Chelski and Barça games the City game most interesting
Cavani offside for PSG goal – shurely?
Heart breaker again. 8)
Bayern score
Passed into the net
Sannabhoy
No problem. glad you got it sorted.
1-1 man c v bayern, justice as Aguerro just dropped for the penalty with minimal contact
Get in!
Forster for Hingland!
Harts positioning was shocking…game on.
Alonso does an Allan Thompson. Hart blunders like FF last night.
Bada Bing
Mail sent.
Despite all us supporters player preferences, formation preferences and how we should play, I think the manager now has his preferred line up and tomorrow night won’t deviate too much from it. Lustig & Guidetti not being available means he has two decisions to make. One is easy, Matthews for Lustig, the other is more difficult. Scepovic or Griffiths as a straight replacement for Guidetti? Stokes moved to centre and another wide player on the left? Shoehorn Commons in somewhere?
Personally I’d go Griffiths for Guidetti.
BT great mate.
Thought so as I can see from FB.
Cheers for all the Android TV advice Bhoys.
robinbhoy
20:08 on 25 November, 2014
Whit a day! Two hour delay in Glasgow. Missed my connection to Bangkok. Transferred to Thai Airways from BA, six hour wait for my next flight.
Watching Chelski whilst sipping Champagne life’s no so bad!
RobinBhoy
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Meanwhile…..in deepest dunblane…. I’m having pagen krisprolls and a cup of tea!
Enjoy!
HH jamesgang
Sorry just started my story
Grannyed but not swayed, wrong. Being a Tim yer mates don’t forget yer in a kitty! About about 5 pm . In comes the vansnished. With there pals to buy us drink…no no please, nae mare drink. But get it down ye englander!. So the story. Means , I’ll never get as drunk again on a European trip again..
Yes..
2-1 Bayern
Bayern score again
As I was about to say, any UK subscriber to Sky can share their account with other family members free of charge. Don’t know if you are all aware of this. My son, who lives in Finland, but has a UK IP address? (Wtf is that) and my daughter who lives in North Lanarkshire both get the full Sky package free of charge through their broadband using my account. Costs me a friggin fortune while they pay naff all. Dontcha just luv em. :-))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
They think it’s all over