Leverkusen (H) Thursday 18 April 8pm live on TNT
30 hours before kick off, might as well get this one started
Ex says Bowen, Areola and Phillips all returned to training today
Victor Bonifce started against Werder Breman at the weekend, replaced by Schick after an hour. Wirtz, Frimpong and Grimaldo came on in the second half
Ex says Bowen, Areola and Phillips all returned to training today
Victor Bonifce started against Werder Breman at the weekend, replaced by Schick after an hour. Wirtz, Frimpong and Grimaldo came on in the second half
Comments
Although it would look unlikely in normal circumstances I would have still held out some hope as I do think we paid them a lot of respect and I do know we can hurt teams when we take a match to them, this said with Paquetta, Bowen and Emerson out I just find it hard to see where the goals would come from. Nothing to lose now so all in from the first whistle to try and get an early goal to breathe life into the tie again.
I think we'll see:
Fabianski
Coufal Zouma Aguerd Cresswell
Soucek Alvarez
Bowen JWP Kudus
Antonio
Fabianski
Coufal - Zouma - Aguerd - Cresswell
Soucek - Alvarez - Ward-Prowse
Bowen - Antonio - Kudus
If Bowen has a sniff, he’ll start. Mavro looks doubtful & Emerson/Paqueta out. Alvarez back in.
It’s still not a bad side if that is the 11.
If a golkeeper trains (considering all the diving about etc) surely hes fit enough to be on the bench as I assume Fab ewill continue in Europe
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A friend applied to the BBC for tickets to some show (might have been Strictly), was unsuccessful but she was somehow offered tickets to one of the days of filming for the Christmas and New Year episodes of Top of the Pops at the end of 2008. They must have been filmed right at the start of December as I went off skiing for 5 months on about 5th December, and it was a few days before that. TOTP have been huge to my generation when we were in our teens, but it obviously declined with music channels like MTV and the weekly show had been cancelled in 2006.
3 of us went up, and we must have been twice as old as anyone else there 😂🤣😂. My sister was so jealous that I was about 10 feet away from Take That. Greatest Day was one of the songs they played; it always makes me think of that random day with a couple of great friends whenever I hear it.
I had a decently paid job but it was making me miserable so I decided life was too short and I quit (no family so no responsibilities other than myself). Sold the swanky apartment (with a big mortgage) that I had and that's how I could afford the extended holiday. Came back, worked the summer, and then went and did a second season which was the one I referenced above.
It’s a long shot so I don’t mind if we lose as long as we have a real go at them. Let’s not play it safe and go out with a whimper.
Fabiański, Coufal, Zouma ©, Aguerd, Cresswell, Álvarez, Ward-Prowse, Souček, Kudus, Bowen, Antonio
Subs: Anang (GK), Knightbridge (GK), Ogbonna, Ings, Johnson, Cornet, Mubama, Orford, Casey, Swyer
The dream is alive!