Nerik

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Live stream of this morning's session, Can training with the squad and fully involved in all drills.

Long-way round but a charter plane or two are departing from here in Malta. 450 Euros return (leave Saturday 7am, return Sunday at 5am). There might still be space on one of them.

My wife was 8 months pregnant at the time. She was upstairs having a bath. I screamed so much when Gerrard scored at the death that she thought someone had entered the house and attacked me.

My daughter has her confirmation that same day and my wife insisted on booking a stay in a hotel for the night. I hate watching games anywhere but at home..........so I might actually drive back home to watch the game.

Was Dzeko offside for his goal? I thought so at the time.

Strootman and Perotti definitely out. Not in the 21 called up for the game: Alisson, Romagnoli, Skorupski, Pellegrini, Juan Jesus, Kolarov, Capradossi, Fazio, Florenzi, Bruno Peres, Manolas, Nainggolan, L.Pellegrini, De Rossi, Gonalons, Gerson, Dzeko, Schick, Under, Antonucci, El Shaarawy.

Pundemonium

Massive signing on fee to join Juventus according to reports. Bayern still in the running too.

Haha......missed the 4-3-3 bit of your post!

Strootman hasn't trained yet. If he is out Roma are rumoured to go for a 4-3-3 with Dzeko-Schick-El Sharawy up front.

Left ankle. Apparently injured it during the 1st leg.

Di Francesco's press conference today.- Perotti out for two weeks. Strootman not training, but he hopes to be back Wednesday night.

Not sure if this has been posted here before: "Non mi vergogno a dire che io ed un mio collega notammo Roberto Firmino su Football Manager, il famoso videogioco. Notammo le sue statistiche e i suoi parametri, erano molto interessanti e quindi decidemmo di presentarci alla sua squadra, il Figueirense, in Brasile. Offrimmo 4 milioni di euro. Tanti, se si considera che arrivava dalla seconda divisione brasiliana. Ci presero tutti per matti, probabilmente nemmeno loro si aspettavano un’offerta simile. La gente pensava che fosse un giocatore pronto vista la cifra spesa, si aspettavano che facesse la differenza immediatamente. Invece noi siamo stati pazienti, gli abbiamo dato il tempo di adattarsi alla Germania e al calcio europeo finché non è stato pronto per la prima squadra. Alla fine lo abbiamo venduto al Liverpool per 42 milioni più bonus, quindi penso che sia andata bene...” [Lutz Pfannenstiel, scout dell’Hoffenheim] Basically Hoffenheim showed interest in Bobby based on Football Manager. They offered 4m for him. Many thought of them as mad. The rest is history.......

Not necessarily this weekend but if we do get to the final and seeing our shortage of midfield options I'd give him a go in midfield vs Chelsea and/or Brighton.

We should try TAA in midfield with Clyne at RB.

Pruzzo and Conti can't get over 1984 http://www.calciomercato.com/news/liverpool-roma-conti-e-pruzzo-mostrano-il-dito-medio-dentro-anfi-11978

The story of Di Bartolomei is quite sad. He took his own life in 1994, ten years to the day from the European Cup final.

Roma play Spal tomorrow. Spal are in 17th place, 1pt ahead of the bottom three and Roma are in 3rd place but only one point ahead of Inter who are 5th.

Sturridge at his best was always a joy to watch. Top class finishing and technique.

Last time we played them was in 2002. It indeed was the day GH made his return to the bench. Litmanen (pen) and Heskey scored and we won 2-0.

Quite incredible as a stat. In the Serie A they have however played 16 home games. 9W 1 D 6L. Conceded. 17 goals in those 16 games. Champs Lge 3-0 vs Chelsea 0-0 vs Atletico 1-0 vs Qarabag 1-0 vs Shakthar 3-0 vs Barcelona.

First team to beat a Guardiola team three times in a season (not sure if someone posted this already).

Kompany should have known better. Running off the bench to rugby tackle a forward.