Match Thread | Real Madrid vs Man City (09/05/23)

[HelloCity]

Grealish needs to stop reacting and getting involved with shitty arguments. Happened in several of the last few games now and it seems he’s being targeted because they know he will respond.

 

[Shaffer92]

Im gonna say this again but KDB.... come on mate turn up in the CL... please?

Be careful on here... You'll get attacked for such opinions.

The reality is he's had as many bad performances in big games for City in CL as he has good ones.

 

[daveiw01]

Real Madrids 12th man is not up on the sky...its the twat in yellow. Come on City. We can do this.

My thoughts too, the second I heard it. Spanish rags, loathe them, Barcelona rent much better though.

 

[Damanino]

Second half we need to have a go at them.
KDB, Bernardo, Haaland please wake up and do some damage on them please.

I want Haaland to destroy Rudiger not to be pocketed by him. KDB and his crosses went to no mans land. Bernardo seems to be scared vs Camavinga.

before the goal we opted some really slow passisng, standing around, taking up the the ball in walking spee like Dias only to be caought up by Vinicius at our box for them to run a counter.

our early dominance only resulted in some mid weak long shots. if we do long shots, do what Vinicius did today or Rodri vs Bayern. make it real make it count.

we are so much better than this half.

 

[DTKOAG]

The referee from last year is the 4th official ffs

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Shithousery from Madrid as per, ref letting far to much go.

We need to be sharper in attack.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

We're miles better than them and just haven't attacked at full tilt for whatever reason. KDB and Bernardo MIA, Haaland not in the game.

Watching that half I think we came for a 0-0. Just to keep the ball for keeping the ball’s sake and keep them away from our goal. The ease at which we were doing that at first then made us switch off a bit, and since then we just haven’t played at all.

 

[TonyM]

We bored ourselves to sleep. We need to attack not threaten to attack.

 

[dnrock]

I'm very worried, I don't know if Guardiola is capable of doing something for us to win this game.

 

[nellyonthewing]

He's not in goal for his shot stopping. If u want that you get De Gea.

He's there to start attacks and keep the movement flowing.

When can we expect that tonight.?

 

[OrigamiNinja]

We were fantastic for 20 mins and then just stopped playing.

It’s clear what their tactics are and we have fallen for it hook, line and sinker.

The front 4 need to bring something to the party…

Bernie doesn’t seem sure which way we are kicking.

Grealish only wants to beat men when running towards our own goal.

KDB and Haaland have been anonymous.

 

[FantasyIreland]

We need to up our aggression and our intensity,its the same old story.....dominate with pretty but ultimately tame football and get caught on the counter.

Bernardo looking a bit lost,maybe time for Phil and Haaland has to rough up the defenders.....he is far too placid out there.

 

[Hayley Croppers chopper]

I thought England had won the world cup when they scored listening to Fletch

Give credit where it’s due, it was a super goal.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Our deepest two thirds of the pitch we've been excellent, rest of the pitch we've been awful. I get it's boiling but playing at walking pace suits them entirely, it is literally playing into their hands.

Where's the fucking intensity, someone go at a man, at least try and create a chance, posession cpunts for nothing when we dont even get a shot out of it.

Get grealish off at halftime, done absolutely nothing and isnt clever enough to keep a lid on it, will get himself sent off before he even gets Carvajal booked. Get foden on who will take him on and actually go past him.

 

[Rory Bluelow]

We have better players. We weren't miles better.

We spent most of the time passing around in non-dangerous positions. And they didn't bother wasting their energy chasing us. They conserved their energy for quick strike moments. So far, I'd saying they've won the battle of ideas.

Sadly I think you’ve called it right. Big halftime from Pep.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

We are actually playing well under the circumstances.

Only 1 down, away from home against 12 men is pretty good.

 

[Dax777]

I think a one goal defeat is ok to be honest. But two...

No defeat is okay.

 

[Zenmanc]

Just get to full time at 1-0 and batter them at our gaff. they way this ref is officiating a 1-0 will be a win. European royalty my fucking arse.

It's my own fault, I normally never watch this competition. So, it's off for me. Winding me up too much.

We're going to redouble our efforts... score 2 in the half and keep out anymore from them.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

We have better players. We weren't miles better.

We spent most of the time passing around in non-dangerous positions. And they didn't bother wasting their energy chasing us. They conserved their energy for quick strike moments. So far, is saying they've won the battle of ideas.

Tbh we were. More shots more possession. More invention. Yeah they scored.

 

[Shaffer92]

Our weakness has been down the right so bringing on Mahrez would exaggerate that more.

There's no chance Mahrez could be worse than Bernardo has been.