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But he's been in some good positions with no defenders near him when Tadic has wasted crosses from out wide. Something to keep tabs on.

Miles onside.

Always do in the first half - conserves energy and allows us to continually improve our performance after halftime right up to the end of the game. Look at how many of our goals have been scored in the second half this season.

Near post corners statistically result in the most goals so I can always understand going for that. I think it's tactically smart actually. Extra forward player means our weakened fullback positions won't be able to get forward as much, leaving our 3 attackers to get past 2 DM and 3 CBs.

Nothing makes me angrier than a goal kick going straight out of play. If you can't kick it accurately enough to do that, just kick it down the middle.

F*ck sake Clasie...I'm a fan but you need to do better than that.

I agree, not talking about any "super fan" nonsense, it's fairly obvious there are people who just don't join in with various chants other than OWTS, come on you reds or (randomly) the Virgil Van Dijk one. What doesn't help is that that vast majority of people usually only sing one "round" and then give up. Keep the chant going ffs. Second half away to Arnhem with the Wanyama chant going for half an hour sounded epic.

If we move the ball quickly with one touch passing through the middle like we have at times, rather than just side to side and try to get down the wings, we can play round their press and maybe cause problems. Big if though. Boufal starting *could* be a masterstroke if it happens.

Best attacking player since MLT.

Yeah, the canal was great fun and a cracking atmosphere until a group of morons went too far and started lobbing bottles and glasses about, leading to people scarpering and the bars closing up pretty quick.

Naviglio was amazing...until bottles started getting smashed and every bar closed up. Now it's just OK, and we're making an early trek towards the ground.

Naviglio canal, few hundred there last night, should be more today.

Yeah, wasn't it a Jaidi goal?

Christ, really?

Agreed, just bizarre that so many of the airlines seem to just have no knowledge of the strikes - even when I suggested the person I was speaking to just simply google "Italian strikes friday 21st october".

So far this season Virgil has played Europa games, Fonte other cup games, I don't see that changing.

Looking beyond the opening times google have posted, there are articles claiming bars open from 8-11 in the morning so maybe we'll be fine. I think co-ordination on the day will be key - find a place that's open, post a picture on here, swarm to it and drink it dry before repeating the process.

Looking at the opening times for most places in Milan - all seems to be 18.00, 19.00 over and over again. Maybe the club were onto something telling people to go to Duomo.

Looked it up on the map - points me about 3 miles out of Milan!

How local is local though? I was in Marseille over the summer and walked for ages without spotting a single supermarket.

Christ, looks right out the way! Looking at that video, and the fact that most people seem to be planning on going to Piazza Duomo/there's only two bars there...getting a crate and heading there might be the order of the day.

Heathrow to Linate the evening before. We were planning on driving to Basel and getting the train across to Milan, but that died a death when we realised just how long it would take.

Rain forecast till about 2pm on thursday.

Indeed, only two that I can see - plus "the english football pub" a short walk away! Lots of empty space though. Shame they couldn't do an Arnhem.

Mental thread title. Absolute madness.