baystatebear
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It's such a shame that we let the game get away from us over there, I'd love to have gone into Thursday's game at Ibrox knowing - and having them know - that we had already taken their measure in Lisbon.
Enjoy..enjoyThanksgiving here on Thursday. I’ll take a bit of turkey with some Benfica sprinkled on top.
Any winning score will do nicely?Obviously but scoreline?
Top work as always fellaI've been having my early nosy on their forums and they are NOT confident at all.
"In the light I predicted 1-4 for Rangers. The post shot when Rangers won 1-3 could have sentenced the game. I think this benfica has no desire to win or ambition, so the Rangers are clearly a favorite."
"I highly doubt that we will get anything out of this game.
they have a good team and take this competition much more seriously, in addition to which Darwin is sorely missed."
"Fireproof or not, I don't see us bringing anything positive from here. Zero hope."
"But does anyone really believe that we will win this, on top of it without Darwin?
We will take the usual 3-0 in Glasgow, but this time it will be Rangers and not Celtic"
"Rangers may even have a 2x-3x lower budget than Benfica - without Darwin, they are already slightly favorites."
"I don't believe in victory."
"I have many doubts that we can even score."
"ZERO confidence for this game!"
Would go with Balogun I think. Helander struggles against the pace in the away tie. I’d probably add Morelos as he looked well up for it in Lisbon. Then Arfield and Aribo.I agree with you that Davis and Kamara are certs to start.
Other than them, McGregor, Tav, Goldson, Borna and Kent, I wouldn't like to call it.
4 places up for grabs imo, but the options for them are top drawer.
Would go with Balogun I think. Helander struggles against the pace in the away tie. I’d probably add Morelos as he looked well up for it in Lisbon. Then Arfield and Aribo.
And the best two keepers, best right back and left back.I think it was just a couple of uncharacteristic individual errors from Helander in Lisbon, as opposed to getting done for pace mate.
I would probably just prefer Helander to start, but I'm very comfortable with either of them.
We're fortunate enough to have the best 3 central defenders in the league.
McKenna was probably 4th best and he's done a runner from the sheep into the Forest.
Helander for BalogunAnother big game coming up on Thursday. What do we fancy?
I think Kamara & Davis will come in for Arfield & Roofe. I would keep Balogun in the side but Helander may possibly start in his place.
The conspiracy continues apace.Just seen on twitter that taarabt has tested positive
STV news stated as fact last night that if we win we qualify, is that actually true or does the other result need to fall a certain way as well? We’d be on 10 points but unless Leige beat Poznań, I’d say it could still come down to head to head in the last 2 games.
Every win is ca-ching!A win on thurs would be massive for us and will prob mean qualifying for knockouts with 2 games to spare meaning we could change a few things up and rest players for remaining 2 europa league games as the poets will be out on their arse come thurs and wont have the distraction of europa league
I agree it will be a hard match, but we really should be able to beat them at our place.Not surprised on the confident replies but this is probably the best team we have faced this season.
Another win would be remarkable but we need to be ready to prove when we do slip we can bounce back.
I would happily take a draw
I don't thinkso. If Lech Poznan beat Standard again then they'll be on 6 so if them and Benfica draw and they beat us by a better scoreline than 1-0 we'll go out if Benfica beat Standard and Standard beat us at Ibrox.
I think ...
thanks for clearing that up.......