Champions League Final - The Big Cup Build-Up Thread

[mpickard2087]

If they are so easy to practice defending why did the Anderson and Sheringham become so successful

That was 1990's English football. Opposition tactical analysis was still an unheard of concept and pre-match preparation was still 12 pints on a Friday night down the Dog & Duck.

You can practice them but how can you know where the ball is going to end up.

Have you got tonight’s lotto numbers please

That's ridiculous. Where in any passage of play do you know where the ball is going to go? As with everything though you practice, get into good habits, learn patterns of play, and for it to become more instinctive as to doing the correct things.

Teams with a great high press don't know where the ball will end up, but they have drills and pressing patterns and pressing traps they've worked on to reduce space/catch a certain player on the ball. A vast number of Man City's goals (often tap in's) come about not through scintillating individual play, but specific attacking plays and movements that have been drilled into them every day on the training pitch.

We're not going to eliminate goals conceded via set piece, but what I watch week in, week out, there's substantial room for improvement. Use the time before the final wisely.

 

[BigVic]

Am I the only one that has had the Champions League Song stuck in my head constantly for the last week?

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

After giving this much thought and proper analysis, I've come up with the plan for winning the final. You can thank me later.
The guys cannot get laid at all or see a naked woman or part of a naked woman (or man, for those of them who prefer that) before the final. Then Pochettino tells them that after the final they will have two accommodation choices in Madrid. If they win, they will each get a separate suite at Hotel Wellington, where their partner will be ready and waiting. If they lose, they'll have to share a dorm at Generator hostel. I bet you'll see them running 'round a bit and bagging a few goals.

 

[Nately22]

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

Liverpool fans in Felipe II Avenue apparently. We're in Plaza Colon. I've visited Plaza Colon, there's no bars anywhere around that Plaza. Let's see....

 

[lukadownthelane]

Liverpool fans in Felipe II Avenue apparently. We're in Plaza Colon. I've visited Plaza Colon, there's no bars anywhere around that Plaza. Let's see....

Sounds like a bit of a shafting there. We’ll just have to make our own area then!

 

[thekneaf]

Liverpool fans in Felipe II Avenue apparently. We're in Plaza Colon. I've visited Plaza Colon, there's no bars anywhere around that Plaza. Let's see....

Near the Prado Gallery, if we lose I recommend Goya's dark paintings

 

[Nately22]

Sounds like a bit of a shafting there. We’ll just have to make our own area then!

Yep. There's plenty of other Plazas nearby...Plaza Mayor or Plaza Santa Ana are decent with outside bar tables over looking the square.

 

[michaelden]

https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/ne...-live-screening-at-tottenham-hotspur-stadium/

Anyone going to the stadium?

 

[Woogie11]

Yep. There's plenty of other Plazas nearby...Plaza Mayor or Plaza Santa Ana are decent with outside bar tables over looking the square.

Yep, fairly certain i will be parking myself up at Plaza Mayor for the day

 

[JCRD]

Im going to plonk myself in a tapas bar four days and eat and tapass and drink sangria... proper cultured...

I am sure there will be a pop up or two - no way will they will risk fans going around the city drinking - theyd rather keep us contained like cattle.

 

[EastLondonYid]

This is gonna be the longest 18 days ever, i'm excited one minute,shitting it the next, proud, nervous,worried,happy,optimistic,pessimistic........fucking all emotions imaginable when i think of the game, and that's nearly every minute of the day btw,

Lose ....and i will still be so proud.
Win.....i can't even go there and how i will feel.

Alot of Alcohol will hopefully get me through that day.

 

[C0YS]

Liverpool fans in Felipe II Avenue apparently. We're in Plaza Colon. I've visited Plaza Colon, there's no bars anywhere around that Plaza. Let's see....

While there are only a few bars on the square itself, and there are bars on the square itself, there are bars, there are plenty of bars near plaza colon.

It's pretty darn central.

 

[wirE]

Our referee for the night https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48271220

Champions League final: Damir Skomina to referee Spurs v Liverpool


Slovenia's Damir Skomina will referee the all-English Champions League final between Tottenham and Liverpool.
The 42-year-old awarded Manchester United a controversial late penalty in their last-16 victory over Paris St-Germain in March.
PSG forward Neymar was later given a three-match ban after he called the decision "a disgrace" on social media.
The Champions League final takes place at Estadio Metropolitano in Madrid on Saturday, 1 June at 20:00 BST.
Skomina was in charge when United beat Ajax in the 2017 Europa League final as well as the Uefa Super Cup match between Chelsea and Atletico Madrid five years earlier.
He was fourth official at the 2013 Champions League final between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich and has been referee in four of the competition's matches this season, including Liverpool's 1-0 win over Napoli which secured a place in the knockout stage.
He will be assisted in the final by his compatriots Jure Praprotnik and Robert Vukan. The fourth official will be Antonio Mateu Lahoz from Spain.
The video assistant referee role has been assigned to Danny Makkelie from the Netherlands, who will be supported by countryman Pol van Boekel, plus German officials Felix Zwayer, and Mark Borsch.
Italian referee Gianluca Rocchi will take charge of Europa League final between Chelsea and Arsenal in Baku on 29 May.

 

[Indacupfortottenham]

What the hell are we supposed to do for three weeks? Three fucking weeks!

18 days, 5 hours to go.
Not that I’m thinking about it much, never been so productive

 

[nicdic]

Our referee for the night https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48271220

Champions League final: Damir Skomina to referee Spurs v Liverpool


Slovenia's Damir Skomina will referee the all-English Champions League final between Tottenham and Liverpool.
The 42-year-old awarded Manchester United a controversial late penalty in their last-16 victory over Paris St-Germain in March.
PSG forward Neymar was later given a three-match ban after he called the decision "a disgrace" on social media.
The Champions League final takes place at Estadio Metropolitano in Madrid on Saturday, 1 June at 20:00 BST.
Skomina was in charge when United beat Ajax in the 2017 Europa League final as well as the Uefa Super Cup match between Chelsea and Atletico Madrid five years earlier.
He was fourth official at the 2013 Champions League final between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich and has been referee in four of the competition's matches this season, including Liverpool's 1-0 win over Napoli which secured a place in the knockout stage.
He will be assisted in the final by his compatriots Jure Praprotnik and Robert Vukan. The fourth official will be Antonio Mateu Lahoz from Spain.
The video assistant referee role has been assigned to Danny Makkelie from the Netherlands, who will be supported by countryman Pol van Boekel, plus German officials Felix Zwayer, and Mark Borsch.
Italian referee Gianluca Rocchi will take charge of Europa League final between Chelsea and Arsenal in Baku on 29 May.

Hopefully they aren't bitter Ajax fans.

 

[C0YS]

Yep. There's plenty of other Plazas nearby...Plaza Mayor or Plaza Santa Ana are decent with outside bar tables over looking the square.

Well they are doing events in Plaza Mayor so no way near enough space. Also Plaza Mayor is crazy expensive.
Colon is way bigger than those squares. There are plenty of bars near buy and a few on the square itself. I dont see this as an issue. I would say its liverpool who have been shafted into a shopping district further from town.

 

[rez9000]

I think I’ll head for Plaza Carril de Ciervo Blanco...

 

[Bulletspur]

Lose ....and i will still be so proud.
Win.....i can't even go there and how i will feel.

You share my feelings!

Would it be Karma if we beat Liverpool, as we were suppose to play them at our new stadium on 15th September but couldn't and was vilified by them, other clubs and the media alike?

 

[Lighty64]

That was 1990's English football. Opposition tactical analysis was still an unheard of concept and pre-match preparation was still 12 pints on a Friday night down the Dog & Duck.



That's ridiculous. Where in any passage of play do you know where the ball is going to go? As with everything though you practice, get into good habits, learn patterns of play, and for it to become more instinctive as to doing the correct things.

Teams with a great high press don't know where the ball will end up, but they have drills and pressing patterns and pressing traps they've worked on to reduce space/catch a certain player on the ball. A vast number of Man City's goals (often tap in's) come about not through scintillating individual play, but specific attacking plays and movements that have been drilled into them every day on the training pitch.

We're not going to eliminate goals conceded via set piece, but what I watch week in, week out, there's substantial room for improvement. Use the time before the final wisely.

There’s 3 set ups for corners and 2 for free kicks. Corners are zonal, man marking or both with men on the post. You can’t practice blocks because you don’t know where the opposition are going to reverse block. Your best options are to have a big man at the front that’s good at jumping from a standing position. You then need the middle to be good at jumping from a standing position.

How the hell apart from jumping can you practice something. Trippier could float 500 crosses, but doubt more than 2 would land in the same spot in a row, so how do you expect us to practice a corner taken by Trent Alex Arnold.

You can study them, and you can prepare for them, but if you have someone with the leap of there 2 dangerous CB’s you need to try and make sure your either there before them or your body prevents them. Our trouble is the best we have at getting high from a running position is Moura, but he definitely not the same build.

Prepare as best you can, practice something you don’t know what’s going to happen is ridiculous

 

[Spurs 1961]

Our referee for the night https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48271220

Champions League final: Damir Skomina to referee Spurs v Liverpool


Slovenia's Damir Skomina will referee the all-English Champions League final between Tottenham and Liverpool.

All I know is that we seem to have more decisions in our favour in the CL than the league where we get nothing so I am glad there is no chance of an English ref