Real Madrid (A) | Post Match Thread

[madloaf]

You can tell tonight there's gonna be some disagreements between us all so can we all agree on the following:

Our fans were fucking awesome.
The ref is fucking carvajals auntie.
Walker did really well.
Eddie made some important saves.
Every single one of us muttered to ourselves that Kev was having a shitty game before he did what Kev does.

 

[Gesario]

Hopefully our players feel the same. We need to administer our own shithousery in some games, and this will be one of them.

They really are a bunch of horrible bastards Cmon city

 

[vmsuhail]

Referee improved a bit in the second half from the disgrace that preceded it.

 

[adr2.8i]

I think a mixture of the heat, conscious not too lose, playing slightly within ourselves to almost guarantee a good result going back to our gaff next week, and the fact that madrid are just built for this competition and have the skill and nowhow and the dirty tricks, are the reasons why we weren't quite our usual selves.
But come on, we've gone to the biggest most famous ground on planet earth and left with our heads held high and well in this tie still. I'm landed with the result.
Still in our hands. We'll done lads and we'll done to the travelling army. U did us proud again.

 

[handsofstone]

Any idea as to why pep didnt make a sub ?

Jack & Bernie were exhausted in the 2nd half. To the point Bernie was just giving silly free kicks away. Very risky.

Foden & Mahrez to start v Everton & im not sure Mahrez the right player at their ground.

Just don’t get peps lack of subs every week

Pep always does this, far and away my biggest pet peeve of his

Plenty of the guys were running on fumes

But this time we didn't get punished for it so you could argue it was the right thing to do

 

[psycho_paul]

Madrid (H) in La Liga: 11-4-1
Madrid (A) in La Liga: 10-1-6

Pep knows y’know.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

All the tourists that got the tickets for next week had better make it a bear pit.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

bad showing very passive in the second half almost like the occasion got the better of us kev came up again but madrid played with so much experience changed the gears when they wanted

It was redders in the ground. We were controlled away from home at the best team in Europe we could face. We didn’t want to be going too attacking and leaving gaps at the back with the best counter attacking oakier in world football.

 

[MaskedAguero10]

Also I don't know if it is just me but do you get that feeling that real madrid and everything surrounding it is just uncomfortable and high-pressure in a bad way. Stuck-up ingrate of fans. Why would a player want to play there? It's just uncomfortable and you can see it in their players. Backstabbing lying cheats with unpleasant behavior all round

 

[TueartsCossackSpray]

Considering the heat with little air flow, playing at the best European team of all time on their turf with a dick of a ref and that we are playing every 3/4 days with a critical game v Everton at weekend I thought it was excellent game management and we thoroughly deserved what we got.

 

[svennis pennis]

Great result all things considered. Hadn’t conceded at home in over 6 hours of champions league football and were setting up to shithouse the win in that second half.

KDB is the ultimate big game player, love the man.

It’s going to be tight next week but we have enough to over power them.

All in all a mature performance not to over commit at the end and take a result back to the Etihad.

 

[thegundogang]

I would have preferred bit more attacking in last 20. we really made no effort to make a shot or create anything, just rund down the clock.

lets hope we will not get into a situation where this 20 mins of not attacking comes back biting us in the arse if we end up chasing the tie at home.

other than that great result, Real dominated a lot in 2nd half, we lost here last season, a draw is much better.

Everton away will not be easy, imo lot of energy levels dropped today and this took out a lot. Gundo could not walk in the end, Bernardo could not hold onto the ball at all etc.

The way we approach Everton will be massively different to how we approached tonight. The objective tonight was just to not lose and we achieved it. Bernardo, granted, was below his standard and I don’t think Madrid really dominated as I can’t really think of a clear cut chance that they had.

 

[bennyboy]

Poor performance ffs give it a rest.
Great result against top quality opposition.

 

[TonyM]

I didnt think the ref was bad at all. He was fair. Missed some things but he's human.

 

[coolcity]

bad showing very passive in the second half almost like the occasion got the better of us kev came up again but madrid played with so much experience changed the gears when they wanted

Bollocks.

 

[ancoats]

not sure what some people watched but that was a perfect away performance staying in the tie at a world class side we wernt playing leeds

100%

we control most of the game and had the heart to fight back and get a result that suits us and not them,

 

[deafmanstevo]

Ref can get to fuck. Real madrid players can get to fuck. The bernabeu can get to fuck. BT can get to fuck. Spanish media and press can get to fuck.

But what about City ?

 

[Indaparkside]

We all would have taken 1-1 before the game we will finish this now in the home leg,won’t be back to hotel till after midnight but I don’t give a fuck I love you city well done blue boys

 

[solley attwell]

Controlled performance without much flair. We got what we came for. The tie is still alive and most would have taken 1 all before. Defence was really good tonight

 

[Chak19]

Both goals against the run of play, a draw was a fair result, and apolgies for Eddie for saying he never saves anything he shut me up in the second half.