Real Madrid post match thread

HypnoticBlue said:
He’s not good enough or tall enough to play in my son’s U’11s team, let alone playing for City.
If he’s the future, maybe we’d be better off getting sent to the national league.
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Yes I was just thinking that, relegate us so we can start again …. the stress this season from this late capitulations will finish my dicky heart completely.
 
KDB was dead. Needs out ASAP. Bernardo, Kova, Gundo, Lewis, Ederson all need to go. Get Nunes out too. Then there's the can't stay healthy brigade. We're miles from getting back. Pep has completely lost the plot too...
This has become one of the FASTEST total collapses by a super power since the Berlin Wall went down.
 
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Architects of our own downfall...​

Fuckin gutted! It's the first time in months I've seen something approaching the real Manchester City. We had a rocky first 15 minutes where Real could've been two up, but we weathered the storm to take control of a compelling match up.

However, I never lost the sense that Real had it in their locker to score, so this match was always gonna rest on our defensive performance. Grealish looked up for the match, & I've never seen the Striking Viking run as much as he did tonight. And so it was that Grealish & Haaland combined with Gvardiol to open up Madrid to give us a just about deserved lead.

Grealish's chip is something we've been crying out for more of from him, & he found an on-rushing Gvardiol who chested the ball to Erling who sidefooted the ball past Courtois for the opener. 1-0 City going into the break on top.

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After the break we continued where we left off & put Real under more intense pressure, but after losing Grealish in the first half, & Akanji at half time, Real began to take a foothold in the game around the 65 minute mark, with City playing on the counter.

We were relatively comfortable, but with Lewis replacing Akanji, Real shifted Mbappé to their left to form a deadly double with Vini Jnr against Rico. I could see a goal coming, & Real got the lucky equaliser their efforts deserved.

After that, the game became really open & turned when Ceballos fouled Foden just inside the box for a penalty. Haaland stepped up & side-footed a clinical 2nd for himself & City to make it 49 goals in 49 CL matches for him.

We just needed to keep our composure & concentration, but I sensed tiredness creeping in to our returning players, & so it was when with 10 minutes to go, Ederson under no pressure kicked the ball to Real in our midfield. Madrid couldn't believe their luck!

They moved the ball to the right, fired in a shot which was well saved by Ederson, but it eventually fell to the returning Diaz to equalise for the visitors again. I thought the game would end up 2-2 before the kick-off, so I'd have been comfortable with starting the second leg on level terms.

Looking more & more fatigued (which was understandable), we gave the ball away again & succumbed to a late winner by Bellingham. We just didn't have the energy to keep the ball away from our danger areas & exhaustion contributed to several lapses of concentration.

We're down but definitely not out of the tie. On a positive note, there were signs that the City everyone knows & fears was in that performance somewhere. The real gutting thing was the groin injuries to Akanji & Grealish, as both were looking good up to the point they were substituted.

We can only hope neither injury is too serious, & that we take heart from the positives that were on show. Real's last two goals were our fault, which shows if we can cut out the individual errors, get more injured players back & match fit, regardless of what happens at the Bernabeu, we could have a strong finish to a dreadful season by City's standards.

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My MoTM was Johnny Boulders. He was brilliant filling in for Rodri & excellent when dropping back into central defence. We've got a series of tough & crucial season defining matches ahead of us, which will determine where we ultimately end up. It's now squeaky bum time for City.

Roll on the return in Madrid. We can still do this! CTID...
 
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ken tali said:
Kevin is a shadow of his former self, dont understand whats wrong.yeah ,you can loose some speed ,but his passis are off ,shots are off and most of his crosses aswell.
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I don’t think his legs work how they used to, injuries do that to you.
 
If Real Madrid had come here and lost this game by 3 goals, they could have justified it on the fact that they had zero defenders and a makeshift midfield.

Yet, they show up, suffer and sneak out with a win.

We keep pretending we've lost the world coz we don't have Rodri. They didn't have a single starting defender and they still smashed and grabbed.

We are a poor team with lots of poor players playing as if we are still a great team. Its quite sad to watch sometimes.

And all the adjustments are underwhelming it seems :(
 
Every keeper in the league bar one do the same thing when they collect a cross when ahead going into the last few minutes, I call it the wankers roll, where the launch forward and dive on the floor, wastes time and gives everyone a quick chance to get their bearings. One keeper doesn’t do that. Our keeper. Having said that putting Rico up against the world’s second best player was criminal. As is buying a right back and then not playing him. Didn’t Liverpool play a kid against us at Anfield at right back? Why can they do it and we can’t?

Pep looks done and so does his team.
 
mexico1970 said:
We are still in it, I saw some improvement from us and enough to suggest we can get something at theirs.

Call me a dreamer if you will but we are Manchester City and we do what we want.

Keep the faith chaps.
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Dreamer...

Seriously, admire your optimism mate but I still fancied Madrid to turn us over in Spain when we were 2-1 up so at 2-3 it's goodnight Vienna (or is it good morning Viana?)
 
chesterbells said:
The starting XI was fine, but Foden apart, those other substitutions killed us
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Totally agree…..we needed some control…..why not either bring another centre half (Kushanov) on to replace Ake….instead of switching the formation and taking Stones out of the middle or bring on Gonzales ….if he’s fit enough for the bench he’s surely ok for 15 mins.

We weren’t great but better than previously this season considering the opposition.

There is no defence (literally) for what was another capitulation….how many times have we used that word this season !

Realise there were individual errors……but it can’t be coincidence that these keep happening in the last quarter of the game.
 
Stoned Rose said:
3 ridiculous goals aside that’s the best we’ve looked for months.

Stones imperious in that role.

You simply cannot concede silly goals in any game in this competition, never mind 3 of the cunts.

Ederson ridiculous for the 2nd goal and the “pass” to Lewis for their 3rd was fucking criminal.

Result sums us up this season.

Madrid wise thought Valverde was immense.

The dippers and Arsenal are both better then them.
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The first goal is one of those, 'they happen' ones. Harsh to include that with the other 2 imo. Otherwise, agree with all that.
 
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