Hamburg beaten 5-1...

[Tktd]

rested 4 players.

This is the team that we played last thursday...

Frank Rost     
Joris Mathijsen     
Jerome Boateng     
Guy Demel     
Ze Roberto     
David Jarolim     
Piotr Trochowski     
Dennis Aogo     
Jonathan Pitroipa     
Ruud van Nistelrooy     
Paolo Guerrero     

Substitutes

Wolfgang Hesl     
David Rozehnal     
Tomas Rincon *     
Robert Tesche     
Mladen Petric ** 
Tunay Torun     
Marcus Berg 



this is the team that lost today...


Frank Rost     
Joris Mathijsen     
Jerome Boateng     
David Jarolim     
Piotr Trochowski     
Jonathan Pitroipa     
Dennis Aogo      
Robert Tesche     
Tomas Rincon     
Mladen Petric     
Marcus Berg     

Substitutes

Wolfgang Hesl     
Bastian Reinhardt     
Henrik Dettmann     
David Rozehnal *     
Tolgay Arslan **   
Soren Bertram *** 


The ones in bold are the ones who played both! Guerrero and Van Nistelroy weren't even on the bench. Should be even more interesting come thursday!

[Jimpav]

So the defence was the same?

Can't wait to see BZ let of the leash on thursday.

[Tktd]

So the defence was the same?

Can't wait to see BZ let of the leash on thursday.

Defence and half of midfield! So wingers and defence.

[Whiteroom]

Encouraging stuff. I think that means that we will almost certainly beat them by a bigger margin.

[Jimpav]

I only football was that predictable White room!

[Admin]

Put it this way Whiteroom, this will be the most hardest, most nervous and tricky game out of all the ones in the competition so far. Both teams will not want to make a single mistake as a cup final is at stake here making both sides very, very cautious.

Yes, we have the home advantage but Hamburg know that if they get an early away goal then they will have us on the ropes from the off. I can see Hamburg pushing for this in the early stages of the game and if this does happen, we will then have to score twice. Tricky!!! This game won't be like Juventus with us scoring 4 goals so don't set youself up for it.

Hamburg can punish us at any time with the quality they have so Fulham will have to be at the top of their game. I'd love us to go through and I think we deserve to BUT....this is a semi final and anything can happen.