Real Madrid (A) | Post Match Thread

Looking forward to Wednesday, imo pep will drop gundogan and grealish for Mahrez and foden. Put Bernardo in midfield. Mahrez wide right Bernardo right side of midfield and walker right full. Madrid nullified .
 
citytill1die84 said:
Watched the game again does anybody have any idea why Kev was so emotional? Hope he's OK and it was just the pressure of the game.
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Someone on here said he was doing that pointing to the sky thing they do when someone has died.

I thought he was just pointing up at the away fans personally but who knows?
 
Stephen230 said:
Someone on here said he was doing that pointing to the sky thing they do when someone has died.

I thought he was just pointing up at the away fans personally but who knows?
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I think he wants this medal more than any other, for a majority of the players, This IS the title that means everything.
 
Got back yesterday afternoon after a great trip.Great performance by the team but also our fans who kept up the singing all day and throughout the match.Well done everyone and a big well done to the bloke getting off the Metro,I think it was at Ministeros who looked after a young blue having bother with a Senseless Madrid fan.
 
Just tried transferring/upgrading a ticket for this (from kid to adult) but it won't let me do it online. Anyone else had the same problem?
 
Finally getting round to watching the match (I know, I know, Scott didn't make it back from the South Pole…)
Of many, many “errors” of refereeing in Madrid's favour that I could pick up: Rodri's “foul” on Camavinga, minute 59. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with Rodri's challenge. He doesn't so much as touch his legs, not even a clip, he slightly shoulder charges him — allowed on the ball and all part of the game — and just calmly takes the ball away from him. Camavinga is annoyed by the ease with which he's been made to look like a little boy, makes a gesture, then (and only then) the ref concurs and blows his whistle. Ancelotti meanwhile is asking for a card! Can you credit it??
Disgraceful refereeing, from first to last. The effrontery of it! Yes, I can indeed see why Real are convinced that this competition is designed for them. It is. They're right. Like playing poker with marked cards, or having loaded dice.
Surely the refereeing can't be as blatant as this at the Etihad? Can it??

Coming to hate the Madrid teams, both of them, with a vengeance.

And by the way: I had got the distinct impression, listening to the radio commentary, that we had dominated the first half, them the second. Not so. Yes, they stepped up their game in the second half, and created some clever moments of danger (Benzema's chance over on the left is the result of quite brilliant one-touch triangular passing). Ed is not in any serious danger from any of their chances at this point, has not had to pull out any major save. If anything, Courtois pulls out a brilliant stop from the clearest chance, with De Bruyne clear through (yes, I know the flag finally went up: I'm sure VAR would have wanted to have a look at that, and I'm not at all sure it goes in their favour if the ball gets past Courtois). Haaland, it has to be said, was held well in check all night. He tends to have one match a bit off, then the next express-train on.
Bring on Wednesday evening. Blue specs off and in the glasses case: as last year, we're better than this Madrid team. They've got two or three brilliant players, but as a team we're superior. Oh — we've got two or three brilliant players too…
 
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Dodge said:
Just got home after a great trip, fantastic non-stop support in the stadium, great performance from the lads in oppressive heat, missed trains, missed flights and far too much Sangria.

Taken me hours to get through the thread and my piss has developed into an angry rolling boil.

Any TRUE blue who thinks that the result was anything but our best ever in the CL is fucking deluded. Controlled, mature, cold as ice efficiency. A performance that announced to the world that we're an elite team, the likes of which the PL has rarely produced. Reduced the famous Real Madrid to defending with low blocks and shithousery.

I doubt whether any of our newfound trolls and fanboys will remember Pellegrini's City and our pathetic surrender to RM in 2016, going out 0-0/0-1, shitting ourselves because we didn't really think we belonged.

Well, we fucking belong now, and Weds will confirm it to the footballing aristocracy, in spades.

Thanks for listening and UP THE FUCKING BLUES.
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It was not a pathetic surrender by Pellers. We done well to get to the SF that year and might have won it with a bit of luck and but for an injury to Merlin. I broadly agree with the rest of your post.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Rodri's “foul” on Camavinga, minute 59. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with Rodri's challenge. He doesn't so much as touch his legs, not even a clip, he slightly shoulder charges him — allowed on the ball and all part of the game — and just calmly takes the ball away from him…
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Now compare this 'foul' to the challenge which sent Grealish crashing into the hoarding and was deemed not to be a foul - the above decision becomes ever more ludicrous...
 
Kakhaber The Great said:
Now compare this 'foul' to the challenge which sent Grealish crashing into the hoarding and was deemed not to be a foul - the above decision becomes ever more ludicrous...
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That was staggering. Jack was taking knocks right through the first half, by the way. Rudiger was dishing them out as well (although not to Håland, I think even he is not stupid enough to try that).
 
Father Paul said:
It was not a pathetic surrender by Pellers. We done well to get to the SF that year and might have won it with a bit of luck and but for an injury to Merlin. I broadly agree with the rest of your post.
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We did do well getting to the semis. Maybe ‘pathetic’ is too strong a word. But it was a performance lacking in so much ambition, I don’t blame the guy for using that word.

We see it against us all the time. Forest the classic example. A team just happy to hold on for dear life and hope they are still in the game with 10 minutes to go.

But you at least give it a bit of a go then.

It’s genuinely the only cup game I’ve seen in my life where a team is only one goal up and their players could be seen laughing and joking amongst themselves because they knew there was zero chance the other side were going to even mount a serious attack, never mind actually score.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
That was staggering. Jack was taking knocks right through the first half, by the way. Rudiger was dishing them out as well (although not to Håland, I think even he is not stupid enough to try that).
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Yeah, that’s why his cowardly assault on Ilkay was so cuntish. Go through the man that’s smaller than you but don’t dare try to go in on the lad that could absolutely smash you with one blow.

Ilkay is actually a strong player, though, who rides questionable challenges every match. But he’s also famously a level-headed player, who plays with Rudiger at international level, so the Butcher of Berlin knew he would likely get away with the ‘De Bruyne Welcome’ on him, which is even more cuntish!

Hope Ilkay has a word with him at the next international break.
 
SebastianBlue said:
"The ball was off the pitch," Ancelotti said. "The technology said it. I don't understand why VAR didn't check it. The referee didn't pay attention to many things tonight."

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In between, a Real Madrid player, Camavinga, has gained full control of the ball. Then he lost it by giving a wrong pass.
So the build up play occurred AFTER that and after that everything were valid. That's what the VAR procedure is, checking the build up play of the attacking team. What had happened before Camavinga/Real M. had the ball is irrelevant. Perhaps they want to check previous 15 minutes also? This is not how it works. Real Madrid had the ball and lost it. So VAR does not check anything before that.

So I do not even understand what Ancelotti was saying or what morons on BT were saying.
 
Still feel like this was an excellent result. Tough place to go with the crowd whistling for everything, their players diving everywhere and the refs usually obliging.

Bring them back to our place for a one game playoff and treat the cunts in the same manner. Surely it's good the for the CL if the same team doesn't win it every year?!
 
ManCityGR! said:
In between, a Real Madrid player, Camavinga, has gained full control of the ball. Then he lost it by giving a wrong pass.
So the build up play occurred AFTER that and after that everything were valid. That's what the VAR procedure is, checking the build up play of the attacking team. What had happened before Camavinga/Real M. had the ball is irrelevant. Perhaps they want to check previous 15 minutes also? This is not how it works. Real Madrid had the ball and lost it. So VAR does not check anything before that.

So I do not even understand what Ancelotti was saying or what morons on BT were saying.
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Exactly what I have said throughout this and a few other related threads.
 
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