Real Madrid (A) | Post Match Thread

Dirty Harry said:
Yep, only looked really dangerous when he started to take up the more central roles, the further away from Kyle the better for them, won’t be surprised to see Ancelotti use him more that way in the return if Kyle starts again.
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Their goal was a weird one. Bernie, Kyle and John all seemed to assume one of the others had it under control. But which one they couldn’t decide.
 
City Raider said:
We stood up to all the intimidation, the crowd, tackles, going a goal down. This team has grown up so much. I think we saw their best tonight. They’ve not seen ours.
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Yes I was particularly pleased with that aspect of our game.
We regrouped very well after their goal and didn't let them take over. Showed a maturity I thought. Eddy did very well. So proud of our players after all that intimidation from the players and the crowd.
I thought Pep got his tactics bang on.
 
PPT said:
What that shows you is the absolute utter contempt that both Humphrey's and BT has for us as fans and also as a football club. Would anything like that ever be shown if a goal was being scored against Liverpool or United in any game, never mind a Champions League semi-final against a non English club? Of course not.
Yet again the club will do nothing. They never do. Humphrey's should be told by the club that he is banned from the Etihad until he issues another tweet with a full blown apology. If he doesn't apologise, he doesn't get through the door. No compromises. Let's not forget that BT have some serious previous with City, where the coverage was so anti City at one point previously, that the club made a formal complaint to them. Nothing has changed. As we all keep saying: until the club reacts and refuses to accept such disrespect and blatant bias it will just continue.
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They can’t ban him, works for a licence holder
Same with Rob Harris the crooked prick, slagging us on our own pitch
We take their money. We have to suck it up
Fact remains that no other English club is covered in this way
BT keeping the Vinicius goal as their pinned tweet until well after kick off tonight
Gleefully posting the bitter celebration of a has-been drug cheat who cheated on his dying wife
And then posting that his celebration was “all of us” on their TikTok
So glad they are all being laid off by Discovery. Place must be more riddled with plastic redshirts than Media City
 
Looks like the winners of our semi will be playing Inter in the final.

I fear with Dzeko playing for them this has "Typical City" written all over it!
 
Dirty Harry said:
Yep, only looked really dangerous when he started to take up the more central roles, the further away from Kyle the better for them, won’t be surprised to see Ancelotti use him more that way in the return if Kyle starts again.
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We could always switch KW & JS if they did that permanently or for long periods, the confusion arises when he dovetails with Benzema, last night KW was handing him off to the CB’s & checking for runners, when he unleashed that unstoppable shot (he was very clever) before being engaged by Rueben or John
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Personally I thought Bernado should have fouled him. It was a great goal though
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Sometimes I think you have to accept teams like that will do something brilliant against you. Modrics ball, camavingas powerful run and Vinicius shot were all brilliant. Maybe we could have done something better, but it was top class play by them.
 
willipp said:
Sometimes I think you have to accept teams like that will do something brilliant against you. Modrics ball, camavingas powerful run and Vinicius shot were all brilliant. Maybe we could have done something better, but it was top class play by them.
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Yeah it was great play. That’s why I think the tie is still in the balance. They have some great players in that side as we do.
 
willipp said:
Sometimes I think you have to accept teams like that will do something brilliant against you. Modrics ball, camavingas powerful run and Vinicius shot were all brilliant. Maybe we could have done something better, but it was top class play by them.
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Yep. There was also a spell of play around the 45 minute mark where Benzema shot over the corner of the bar with his left which was breathtakingly good.
This tie is in no way over. City and our fans will need to be completely on it next Wednesday night.
I'm confident we can go through but only if we play as I know we can. On the front foot, attacking them.
 
willipp said:
Sometimes I think you have to accept teams like that will do something brilliant against you. Modrics ball, camavingas powerful run and Vinicius shot were all brilliant. Maybe we could have done something better, but it was top class play by them.
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I think you have to accept that, a fit and expert Fernandinho would not have let Camavinga run so far without clipping his heels. Bernardo should have done it - found his inner Fernandinho - and taken 1 for the team. Then, that goal doesn't happen.

I'm not complaining about anything, just saying what I thought at the time - Bernardo worked his socks off, and may have been conscious of the fact that he'd only just got away with dragging his boot down the back of a Real player's leg (Camavinga again?). The thing is, that wouldn't have stopped a player like Cavagal doing it; he got away with it - as a home player - all the way through the first half, in particular.

I really fancy us in the second leg, though I realise we'll have to beat them, the ref, and VAR.
 
Brendan110_0 said:
No complaints about the two corners they got following two shots that didn't touch a City player though.
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And completely ignored the assaults on Jack and Ilkay just before half time. Hope we give them a bloody nose next week by knocking them off their perch.

Just seen an article on ESPN explaining why the goal was legitimate - as had been posted a Madrid player touched the ball before Kevin scored - VAR doesn't go back beyond that incident. Also they do NOT have technology for sidelines. And if you look at the image the line drawn from the ball down to the line ends in the middle of the line, not the outer edge. And as I originally posted it seems to be a doctored image as the only person in the picture is a cameraman - where is Bernardo's body?
 
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