Champions League Final - The Big Cup Build-Up Thread

[kannanmothalali]

I just want this game to be over. I don't think my heart can take all this excitement.

 

[tototoner]

Isn't it a fairly new stadium, cannot see the changing rooms being too shabby

 

[hellava_tough]

The final is on BT Sport and is free online and also on Smart TVs if you download the app:

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/sport/2019-05-11/champions-league-final-watch-stream/

I think that's right; happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.

 

[fletch82]

Basically UEFA and the Spanish authorities have no clue on how to handle this. They still believe it’s the 1970’s/80’s and the English scum are there to be herded around an treated with disdain.

Keeping the fans separated on the way to the stadium...what a load of bollocks. There’ll be Tottenham and Liverpool drinking and partying with each other in the days leading up to and also on the day/night itself. I’m meeting up with at least 6 Liverpool fans I know for a session when there.

This isn’t Tottenham - Chelsea or Liverpool - United. All those in control seem to be doing is trying to cause grief if anything!

Thats Horse shit dude.
Every feckin final they have been in dippers fans have been shocking.
They was even stabbing each other for tickets in Istanbul.

They are not great fans loads of them are utter scuzz buckets and they will be there ticket less in droves trying to find anyway legal or not to get one.

 

[Saoirse]

Win it and we can add the UEFA Super Cup and World Club Championship before the decade closes.

There's no Club World Cup this year. The tournament as we knew it is effectively scrapped to be replaced by the new, 24-team version once every four years starting in 2021. Just by reaching the final we probably qualify for that - provisionally it will feature 12 European clubs, those being the Champions League finalists and Europa League winners from the preceding four seasons - but there's an ongoing threat of a boycott from European teams who aren't happy with the scheduling. It'll take place from the 17th of June to the 4th of July, so slap-bang in the middle of the summer break for us.

 

[SugarRay]

Thats Horse shit dude.
Every feckin final they have been in dippers fans have been shocking.
They was even stabbing each other for tickets in Istanbul.

They are not great fans loads of them are utter scuzz buckets and they will be there ticket less in droves trying to find anyway legal or not to get one.

Leave off mate, every club has a small percentage of knobjockeys. Not even The Sun would conjure up such sensationalist stuff!

 

[fletch82]

Leave off mate, every club has a small percentage of knobjockeys. Not even The Sun would conjure up such sensationalist stuff!

And some have more than most

 

[JCRD]

Apparently we are in the Plaza Colon

Plaza COLON - Heads are going to roll

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

Apparently we are in the Plaza Colon

Plaza COLON - Heads are going to roll

Excuse me for being blunt, but what the heck are you talking about?

 

[JCRD]

Excuse me for being blunt, but what the heck are you talking about?

haha - man im insane

Jokes - its where the spurs fans will be put in Madrid...

 

[nedley]

There's not an hour in the day that goes by when I don't think about this.

Still hasn't sunk in.

 

[Lighty64]

We say the players have three weeks 'rest' to look forward to, but I suspect a few of Poch's triple training sessions will feature before the final.....

One thing I hope we use this preparation time to work on is defending at set pieces.

defending set pieces must be one of the hardest things to practice. 1 you never know where the balls going to go to, at what pace, or which Liverpool player will appear once a kick has been taken. I very much doubt watching videos of the opponents will help, because I'm sure they won't all be the same. we know they will most probably at the odd corner over crowd the goal line and block the keeper.

the only thing they can do is make sure they know the man they are due to mark, and don't put Trippier on VVD

 

[Lighty64]

Security reasons due to where fans are supposedly. It doesn’t matter anyway, it’s hardly a big deal. The away changing rooms are crap most places we play at I’m sure

the home are very similar lay out as ours, and the away at the new stadium isn't as cosy. don't matter what the changing rooms are, it's what you preform on the pitch, lets hope Liverpool are laughing at us now, but crying after

 

[lukadownthelane]

haha - man im insane

Jokes - its where the spurs fans will be put in Madrid...

Out of interest where are the Liverpool fans being put. I get the feeling we might be getting shafted on this front too.

 

[Lighty64]

Win it and we can add the UEFA Super Cup and World Club Championship before the decade closes.

do they still have the World Club Championship? I know they do the super cup, but thought the other had faded away

 

[Snarfalicious]

Going to get so drunk prior to the match so that I feel nothing. I need to work on my coping mechanisms.

 

[JCRD]

Out of interest where are the Liverpool fans being put. I get the feeling we might be getting shafted on this front too.

Plaza Felipe

A bit more glamorous sounding haha

Dont think there are any fountains though

 

[Lighty64]

To be fair the away dressing room may work in our favour. We know what it’s like as we were there last year so there will be no surprises.

we didn't play A Madrid last season, we played R Madrid

 

[mpickard2087]

defending set pieces must be one of the hardest things to practice. 1 you never know where the balls going to go to, at what pace, or which Liverpool player will appear once a kick has been taken. I very much doubt watching videos of the opponents will help, because I'm sure they won't all be the same. we know they will most probably at the odd corner over crowd the goal line and block the keeper.

the only thing they can do is make sure they know the man they are due to mark, and don't put Trippier on VVD

You can get into good instincts. Blocking players (legally), how you mark both zonally and man to man, making sure those who are patrolling zones are attacking the ball etc and not waiting for it. There are far, far too many occasions, not just goals, where we don't do a good job. Whether it be a free header, our players not attacking the ball and getting beaten to it, markers losing their men or getting caught ball watching, consideration of the men lurking on the edge of the box/for the second ball...... Most of what we do isn't good enough, especially for what has been a 'big' team in recent times, and whilst you will never eliminate conceding from set pieces these type of goals have had a nasty habit of fucking us at key moments in the last few years. I'd hate for that to continue on the biggest stage of them all.

 

[stormfly]

we didn't play A Madrid last season, we played R Madrid

Then I’m talking complete rubbish. For some reason I thought we were playing at Real’s ground. Message deleted.