Mark Garrett wrote:I would be playing Nastasic alongside Vinny. Demichellis is slow. Really not sure if we should go 2 up top or one up top in the home leg though especially after what happened against Bayern.
I think we should play Aguero and Negredo. Not only are they scoring goals for fun but with their backgrounds in La Liga they will have a real personal motivation to do well against Barca.
If you think back to the Munich game we allowed them to compress the space on the pitch, and I think Barca will play a similar high line.
We struggled to combat it due to our inability to use the tight space we had to get through and behind them. Having Silva will make a massive difference on controlling the ball in a tight space and I think with Navas we will have the ability to get behind them. If we can do this we will score goals.
As to the CB situation then I'm really worried. Demi has the experience but no pace and Nastasic seems to have lost what he had, and I'm virtually sure he won't trust Lescott in this game. So, the prospect of Messi and Neymar, or Iniesta running at us is a scary one. So, you either have to rely on us out scoring them, and put your strongest attacking team out or you have to change strategy and play more defensively and pad the midfield. This strategy might even maybe put Demi into midfielder but then sacrifice one of Navas, Silva, Aguero or Negredo.
My solution would be to trust our attacking instincts and go with our strongest attacking team, to tell Aguero and Negredo to work their bollocks off when we haven't got the ball (which our forwards didn't do versus Bayern), to continually try to get behind them, and probably give the vote to Demi's experience over Nastasic's youth.
