We also have Mata who won the Champions League. But I bet he is forgotten now.
Manchester United vs Atletico Madrid | Build-up Thread | Return leg: March 15
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Juan Mata, Cristiano Ronaldo and Raphael Varane are the three in our squad who have won it while Edinson Cavani and Paul Pogba have been runner-up.
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Pogba has been runner up too with Juventus?
That'd be 0%.
Having said that, I'd still rather we got humiliated by Bayern in the last 8 than knocked out by Atleti in the last 16. But it's probably all academic anyway as I don't see us having any more than a nominal chance of beating Atlético.
Athletico must be shitting themselves.
Atletico are a decent side but I think people are overestimating them. Both Real and Barca are in transition and they’re below both of them in La Liga. This isnt the mid 2010s Atletico who’d be walking La Liga right now if they were teleported to this season.
I thought he was originally but it didn't show up on his wikipedia page whereas Cavani's is there so thought I might have got confused. Yeah he was runner up in 2015.
Yeah I know but he has been in finals though with Juve.
Also, why are people forgetting De Gea? He has CL experience under Fergie.
A large number of our squad has played in the CL
Exactly so they have the experience to navigate such a tie.
I don't think You have seen them play this season.
For starters they should have been out in the group stage and their form is not really better nowadays.
He’s already managed to get us knocked out of the fa cup… the competition we should of been going for and the best chance of a trophy. That should of been his first competitive one.
Truly think we will beat them and advance to the Elite 8...
Would be great for our confidence.
Would be great for our confidence.
Who genuinely are their current best and on form players? Felix, Suarez, Koke? Is Oblak still good? Godin is not their player anymore yeah?
They've been pretty awful this year, theyre not solid at all in defense allowing 33 goals in 24 matches which is an awful lot for a Simeone team. Still they have big name players such as Oblak, Marcos Llorente, Luis Suarez, Griezmann, etc. I see them as favourites over us since they tend to step up for the moment in big games, specially in the UCL. Lets remember they kicked out Liverpool 2 years ago, while we....well we shit the bed mostly.
Oblak's been appalling this season, he's only saved something like 2/13 shots he's faced.
I have seen us play though. That's enough info for me.
He will be, after our game. Where he will compensate for his dismal saves to goal percentage this season.
If they've only allowed 13 shots against them all season then we're in trouble.
I'm missing a "last" somewhere in my comment
Losing to Levante at home. If we bring our best we should get past them.
You've hit all
It's hard to single out when they're in such bad shape. Maybe Carrasco, Correa, Lemar
That's some next level anti-Mike Phelan there this Atletico Madrid.
They play the dirty side of the game so well, I wished me matched them in this respect. They fight like furious dogs for every single decision. That's a team.
One of their centre backs told the crowd to keep quiet as they’re 1-0 down , they are now booing him every time he touches the ball
Free fall for Atletico
They look so shit, so... we will lose to them.
We won't bring our best though will we.
Even a half assed Utd beats this. Especially over two legs.
They are actually worse than us.
Did they really lose to Levante at home?
I’d imagine atletico have a page on their site where they’re saying the exact same things we are.
Not expecting a lot of quality from either side in this one.
We've lost 1 in 13 in the league. They've lost 6 in 10. We're bad but not Atletico bad.
As bad as they are, I feel when the stakes are high, they can turn in a real performance.
They’re shite. I don’t care how terrible we are, this is a highly winnable game with Atletico more likely to self combust
I know. Terrifying! Shaking in my boots at the prospect of facing these.Did they really lose to Levante at home?
I'm under no illusion that we could very well go out to these but i don't share the pessimism on here that they'll destroy us. Looks a very even tie.
I feel like this is going to be Rangnicks 'Ole Vs PSG' moment. We play a team that have been great over the last few years/tough on paper but currently well below par, and we win. Gets made into a massive deal and in all the excitement we blow our load and make Rangnick permanent.