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The pragmatic approach is admit defeat and learn for next year, but I don't think this side of ours likes the taste of a punch in the mouth, so they'll want payback for the first leg at Bayern, then if we go out we go out with pride intact. It's out of our hands anyway, so it's just another home game - we should just play our normal game while Bayern may want to showboat but we can't for pride let them. Our normal game is to win.

Not much in the way of tactics from me for this one - just throw the kitchen sink at 'em and hope that Villarreal do us a favour. I have just read that Zaba and Kolarov are unlikely to play, so with that in mind, the team is likely to look like this -

-----------------------HART----------------------
MICAH-----KOMPANY-----LESCOTT-------CLICHY
------------YAYA----------------BARRY------------
-----MILNER--------------------------SILVA-------
-----------------AGUERO--------------------------
------------------------MARIO--------------------

...But I'd go with this -

----------------------HART-----------------------
MICAH-----KOMPANY-----SAVIC-------CLICHY
--------------------DE JONG----------------------
-----YAYA------------------------------BARRY-----
------------MILNER------SILVA--------------------
-------------------MARIO-------------------------

Push the full backs forward, using Nige as insurance. Barry and Yaya to engage the Bayern midfield as far up the pitch as possible, Milner and Silva harrying and creating, Mario scoring a hatrick with both shoulders and his arse. Simple!

BLOOVIC