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Joined: Mar '16
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I think that Manchester United will win this cup I watched a lot of Ajax games they play very nice football but their team is very young I do not think the old wolf mourinho will miss this opportunity he will certainly prepare a special tactic for this match
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ajax have very young team,but they play good in europa league!in their league they didnt have many chances with feyenoord,but its europa league they showed great games and they scored lot of goals!just hope that will be great final for watching!
There are a lot of headlines about Man Utd will lose 50m pounds if they lose the final and I know 50m is nothing for them as they paid twice to only but one player last season but they still have pressure about winning this game or it will be a disaster...
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yeah mourinho will prepare a "special" tactic for this game, it's not as if he is called "the special one" for no reason... and when the smoke screen disappears we will all have a chance to witness so called special tactic which will result in in a 4-3-3 with 3 holding midfielders (probably pogba, fellaini and herrera), and with lingard and mkhitarian more like wingers, in reality it's a 4-5-1 with rashford upfront... in other words... park the bus and hit on the counter... where did i see this before... wait a sec... oh right- whenever a mourinho team played an important match...
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He he pochui can be right, mose mou rinho is a very careful manager who always likes to play very much in defense, so anything can happen we can see Manchester United defending very much and only attack when counter attack is possible or ffom corners.
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so if man utd win in final,we will have 5 teams in champions league?so this will be too much!I know that few years ago,everton lost that 4th place because of liverpool,but that wasnt fair!now that england have 5 teams is crazy!
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yeah I read this somewhere too, 5 teams will not exactly be in champions league group stage, but sure will in the qualification round, i read about prospect of having 6 teams i Leicester would have won the champions league, but in that scenario 4th placed team would be sacrificed.
It will be nice to have the best league having 5 representative teams and I even think that if it will really happen then an English team will lift the trophy in next champions league's season.
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I don't think premier keague is the best keague in the world, hard to say if there is one best but teams from spaun always win many trophies in champions league and europa league. Teams from England in last seasons maybe few years look really not strong and play very boring game.
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for me its too much that we have 5 teams from one country!I know that some of them will be in qualifications,but still we could have 5 teams from premier league!and because of top leagues,some team from "small" countries will lose spot and this is not ok!its nice to see some team from eastern europe or any other part to play in group stage and to earn some money and develope football in that country!
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i cannot say it's too much, rules ar rules and if i remember it right regular europa league winners sevilla was the 5th teams on at least one occasion bringing spain teams in champions league count to five for that particular season, so nothing unusual here.
As it stands in our poll, Ajax is the favorite to win it and for those wondering about what are the odds from the bookies here is it ---> Ajax v Man Utd 5.00 / 3.60 / 1.83
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I know that rules are rules,but and that this is from start of season,but this only bring more places for rich clubes!ajax finished second in their league,but for man utd is great chance to back in champions league!
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i don't know if those terrorist attack change anything, it's not like borrusia dortmund who's bus was about to be blown up on their way to champions league home game if all went according to plan. bout the game- realistically i don't think mu are that big favs for ajax to have 5.00 odds.
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yeah,it will be interesting to see,will this attack in manchester affect on players!but there are lot of players from other countries and they should be professionals!its not same thing as it was attack on borussia dortmund players,on theirs bus!hope that will be good game!
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It was strange to me when i looked at odds on Ajax although the Ajax team is very young they did not deserve this big odds,they won the great Lion squad who in that period were in an excellent form, Manchester United have been so good ?I do not know but I'm sure it will be a great match
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Yes I too kike many people say here was a little surprised when I visited my local bookmaker ans saw that ajax is about 5 to win the final. This is too much I think, maybe some like 3, 3.50 is more correct, they are good side and uave nothing to lose, they are un champions league already.
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well have to admit that mourinho didn't surprise the footballing world with his "park the bus and go long" approach... i'm just a little bit surprised that he is really though of as a very tactically good manager yet he almost always in the important games goes with the same approach... defend deep, man mark most important creative players, tackle tough and somehow scrape a goal from set piece, and then sit even deeper and try to hit on the break... ah well you can't really judge winners.
