Match Thread | Real Madrid vs. Man City (18/02/25)

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PragueBlue said:
Bit of a disaster that half. 1 down after 4 mins (looked to me a bit like Mbappe give Dias a little push which sent him under the ball and he couldn't recover) and then Stones off injured after 7 mins. Defence very slow to react for their 2nd.

Going forward we've just continually made poor decisions, bad passes and pointless dribbles, all of which have lead to us losing the ball before we ever really get anywhere. Our forward players are never really in forward positions to worry their back line and despite pushing our attackers forward when their defence has the ball, there is no press whatsoever. They just stand a few yards off the opposition and wait for him to pass it into midfield with all the time and space he could want. On top of that, there really is no width.

Get Gundogan and Bernardo off and put Doku and Kovacic in their places, play with width and actually try to press their defence. if they play the ball over the top and score, so what? Better than just meekly walking to our deaths.

It's going to take a monumental shift to change this around but stranger things have happened.
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Liverpool were three goals down - at half time - against a totally dominant Ancelotti team in UCL final, then came back to win.
Don't like mentioning Liv players, but do we have a Gerrard in our team? Now's the time to stand up
 
Right, i'm gonna slag the team off now, in the hopes that I get called out for being a flapper and a misery arse when City win this 6-5 on agg.

We're a load of POO!
 
Blu1 said:
let’s hope they don’t really hurt us it won’t be good going into Liverpool game for confidence
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Makes little difference with Taylor and Atwell being their 12th and 13th man and we wont get close to them anyhow with their pace and attack.
 
Brewster's millions said:
Absolute dogshit.

We look like a team playing their first season in the CL, just making up the numbers. We’re levels below where we need to be and I don’t think we’re buying the right quality of player either. Very disappointing.

We lack quality and if this is the best Guardiola can do in terms of formation and preparing the team then he’s a big part of the problem as well.
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Sad we’ve gone from Winners to Slovan Bratislava in two seasons
 
brummie blue said:
It should have started al least two seasons ago, at worst the season we let Gundog go.

We have guys that analyse every aspect of the game, but know one bothered to say KDB, Stones and Walker to name just three played less than 50% of games due to injury.

You can't continue to rely on players who are in decline. This year it's all caught up with us at once.

Our recruitment over the last three season hasn't compared to the players who left or are in decline.
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Yep this is what I meant with tall ask. You start to replace elite players at the peak of their powers at a steady pace. Let the new elite ones naturally play themselves into the starting 11. Wholesale changes aren’t realistic in this day and age unless you’re Chelsea and that doesn’t appear to be going to plan.
 
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