Real Madrid (A) | Post Match Thread

Superace said:
They had no gears to go too. You honestly think they were happy with a draw, our goal showed you how rattled they got.
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Of course they aren't happy with a draw, it's a much worse result for them than it is for us. I'd have been happier had we won though, which I think is well within our powers to have done, even if a draw is a "decent" result.
 
i♥city said:
For the game at the Etihad,I'll like to see Alvarez provide some support for Walker and also run up at Camavinga. He would open up a lot of spaces for Haaland. Bernie needs to go central alongside Rodri. Gundo to come from the bench.
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Bernie got caught dribbling and losing the ball an awful lot, and their speed on the counter exacerbated his lack of legs, esp defensively.
 
ninjamonkey said:
Yeah all of that's an extreme overreaction. Carvajal should have been booked, already said that and already stated he showed the same leniency towards our players second half for repeated fouls. Neither of the other two were red cards, not even arguable ones and I can absolutely guarantee you wouldn't be suggesting they were if it had been a city player commiting the foul.
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The Carvajal stuff you can argue is he gets a booking he doesn't do any of the other stuff, but it isn't certain.

Disagree about Kroos though. All day a straight red for me. Nowhere near the ball and with a fair degree of force. Pretty out of control.

Gets to this stage of competitions though and the refs don't want to make big decisions. Well, sometimes they should.


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mattcity5 said:
The Carvajal stuff you can argue is he gets a booking he doesn't do any of the other stuff, but it isn't certain.

Disagree about Kroos though. All day a straight red for me. Nowhere near the ball and with a fair degree of force. Pretty out of control.

Gets to this stage of competitions though and the refs don't want to make big decisions. Well, sometimes they should.


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Cannot argue with that.
 
Weird how when you fix the line on BEIN's own terrible grainy graphic it looks inconclusive...

The red line they've drawn intersects with the middle of the white line for.... reasons, it actually looks like it's been purposely manipulated in the middle of the line to make it look more out than it actually is.

You simply can't call this ball out with a shitty 3D model when there's no proper technology being used, Hawkeye needs about 8 cameras to be properly calibrated to get this level of accuracy, without that everything else is speculative nonsense. If it is out it's going to be down to the millimetre, not the kind of call a referee can easily make on the field.


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SkyBlueFlux said:
Weird how when you fix the line on BEIN's own terrible grainy graphic it looks inconclusive...

The red line they've drawn intersects with the middle of the white line for.... reasons, it actually looks like it's been purposely manipulated in the middle of the line to make it look more out than it actually is.

You simply can't call this ball out with a shitty 3D model when there's no proper technology being used, Hawkeye needs about 8 cameras to be properly calibrated to get this level of accuracy, without that everything else is speculative nonsense. If it is out it's going to be down to the millimetre, not the kind of call a referee can easily make on the field.


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It doesn’t matter, anyway.

They won the ball back between Bernardo keeping it in and Kev scoring his worldie.

They could have cleared it down field to reset, held on to it to render the incident inconsequential, or even kicked it out to remonstrate to the ref.

Instead, they almost immediately lost it, we played seven or eight more passes, and then Kev put the ball in the back of the net.

Ancelotti’s moaning, the CGI diagram, and the whole Spanish media flurry is just to try to create the narrative that they were hard done by ahead of the second leg, in the hopes they’ll get some sort of make up call from the officials.

Just more shitehousery from the bastard Kings of the “dark arts”.
 
I thought the ref had a stinker, just in general he had no control over the game. During the first 20mins when we were all over them, i know journalists were fawning over Real Madrid like they were "controlling" us and had us where they wanted us - bollocks. We were playing with them at times, the Real Madrid fans were booing them because they were nowhere near the ball. But the way Real Madrid countered that was with aggressive tackles (understandably) and some of them needed cards at that point. Get the cards in then, the game changes as they will be worried about getting reds. I thought the push on Grealish into the side boards was a disgrace, Kroos' tackle on Gundo, the tackle earlier that kept him on the floor needed a yellow, it was a really bad performance from the ref.
So I thought overall we played really well, we're quite clearly a better team than Real Madrid but they are brilliant at managing 'moments'. What i mean is they know they will get opportunities and they know they have the ability to take them, that's something we need to negotiate round better.
I was listening to The Guardian podcast just now and they were going on about how great Real Madrid are, how City were allowed to keep the ball and were not doing anything with it (forgetting we had 6 shots on target but OKAY). It's pretty clear how the media treat one of their own teams against a European team is only applicable for non-City teams because obviously we don't represent England, being Oil Money FC.
 
SebastianBlue said:
It doesn’t matter, anyway.

They won the ball back between Bernardo keeping it in and Kev scoring his worldie.

They could have cleared it down field to reset, held on to it to render the incident inconsequential, or even kicked it out to remonstrate to the ref.

Instead, they almost immediately lost it, we played seven or eight more passes, and then Kev put the ball in the back of the net.

Ancelotti’s moaning, the CGI diagram, and the whole Spanish media flurry is just to try to create the narrative that they were hard done by ahead of the second leg, in the hopes they’ll get some sort of make up call from the officials.

Just more shitehousery from the bastard Kings of the “dark arts”.
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I know it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things... another phase of play etc. I'm just a stickler for technical accuracy :)

Nothing worse than people trying to claim evidence using tools that are an order of magnitude too imprecise for the job. It's like a red rag to a bull for me.
 
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