Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Champions League Tonight: Malmo FF vs Shaktar Donetsk

The tent is erected, the ring is raked. Send in the clowns, acrobats and tightrope walking area. Champions League circus is back in town.That it is in matches against Shaktar Donetsk the largest number of straws for Malmo FF to arrest was clear right after the group draw ended. In comparison  with Real Madrid and PSG appeared Ukrainians as relatively affordable. These would be this year's Olympiakos.

Now's not the Donetsk which a dozen gangs whatsoever. It is well only in group A can be counted as something pale. Regularly represented in this mästarcup, with a budget that gets Malmö piggy bank smelling marzipan and with sheer player that shows up far more than the so-called shining in their respective national teams.

We do not have old acquaintance Taison due to injury, he was replaced by Brazilian landslagsmannen Bernard on the left. But it is his countryman Alex Teixeira is the big danger. The offensive midfielder has so far been responsible for 16 of Shaktars 28 league goals.

The home team lacks notoriously suspended Yotun reimbursed by Pa Konate. Carvalhho has not recovered from the injury he suffered against Kalmar later and is out of the squad. No international strategic 5-3-2 formation is thus nothing to expect this time.


You can choose to talk up the team Malmö FF, the gains against teams such as Salzburg, Celtic and Olympiakos or fuel the legend of our Hexenkessel. Or one chooses instead to cushion hybrisen, take the dog position and allow the favorites be weighted in the Skåne soil of their own status.

It does not matter how you charge, just to do it. Loading. This is it.This could be the year's match. Again. This can be as magical as the dethronement of the Scottish and Austrian masters. Again. This may give points, perhaps even three. Again.

This is not the year's Allsvenskan, this year's Champions League. A tournament that has so far not only contained disappointments and defeats for our part. Here we still have a lot to gain. We're actually not even last in the group. Should anyone change his shirt, so it will be against visiting Bob Houghton's shirt. No one else outside the locker room sky is impressive enough.
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