Yikes. Apparently Akanji out for the season. Rico/Nunes right back for the rest of the season doesn't fill me with great confidence. Maybe Pep tries Stones there if Nico slots into the six role.
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Thing is if we want to play stones, dias and ake in madrid then it’s a massive risk injury wise to play any of them at all on saturday and risk them being iut for weeks- surely both young defenders need to play tvus weekend
I thought Rico did well when he came on Tuesday night, my seat is in that corner so saw him close up - apart from being slower than Vinicius & Mbappe on a couple of occasions which there’s nothing he can do about that 🤷🏻♂️
Feel for Akanji. He’s not been brilliant centrally but we’ve fragged him to the absolute limit and now how he has a long term injury. He’s definitely better as an RB as we saw against Madrid.
Yeah agreed: it’s the repetition of the same weaknesses that turns me cynical for this season. Obviously we’ve been blessed with success these past few years and that shouldn’t be the norm, but the late-game collapses have been hard to watch
Oh no. Surely he’s got to? Stones the slowest of the bunch, but the other two being able to get there isn’t super useful if every one of their duals is a complete coin flip
Obviously unproven at this level and not in the champions league squad, but Reis could have the qualities to play there? Maybe too early for him though.
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Keep Stones in the middle with Nico.
I’m more confident about next year tho
What really annoys me though is the team is up for it & then we shoot ourselves in the foot again & again.
It's not like they don't care either
It's just the season of pain!
BTW I think it'll take 2 seasons, we need 4 midfielders.
My prediction is he will become a cult hero.