Match Thread | Real Madrid vs. Manchester City (11/03/26)

[M Gaudino]

We've not replaced De Bruyne.
We've not replaced Gundogan.
We've not replaced Mahrez.

We replaced Fernandinho with Rodri who's unfortunately a shadow of his former self.

No wonder we are worse off.

you cant replace de bruyne but we’re attempting to with cherki, reijnders is supposed to be the gundogan replacement. savinho doku and semenyo all attempts to replace mahrez and grealish. rodri is better than fernandinho

 

[pbueno16]

Does anyone think we’ll shoot between now and the end of the match?

Yea but it’ll be Reijnders putting it in the second deck

 

[twosips]

Even @twosips ,the ultimate glass half full merchant (if you think I'm a happy clapper, I'm a novice by comparison!), will have his work cut out describing this as anything other than what it is.

Where do you get this impression from? Swear I've called us a shambles a billion times over the last couple of years when warranted

 

[5 Hit Gibbon]

Reijnders has had 12 touches

Half of them are probably corners where he didn't manage to beat the first man!

 

[fathellensbellend]

fucking expensive dead rubber next week, cunts had better give us cheap Liverpool tickets after this

 

[Shaggy]

Why can we not win a cup final?

In my opinion, we will not win anything this season, I hope I am wrong, serioulsy wrong, but I cannot see it happening.

 

[01cravend]

Trent done great? From what I saw it was valverde covering him..

Good management seen weakness and put your allrounder over there to patch it. Opposite of what Pep has done on that side the pitch

 

[IcriedwhenTueartleft]

such an insipid performance from us aside from the first 15 minutes

 

[decmancity]

The state of this last two mins, just smashing the ball around.

 

[mattyads]

I agree

I dont think many of our players are at that level to win trophies

Like I just said in another post:

We have potential in NOR, Khusonov and Cherki - but no one knows whether they will or wont be

We have Donarumma, Haaland and Rodri that are world class (not in this game) but overall throghout their time in the game

We have a lot of 6 and 7 (Semenyo, Dias and some others) out of 10's as you said and a few worse - the issue is none of this lot are goingto improve beyond that

the likes of Rejnders, Sav just need to be sold asap -

Yeah, there’s a lot of corrective work, it’s a sobering thought.

I’ve got to be honest, Cherki, whislt I like some of his work, unless he grows a lung, his lack of energy will always mean he’s a luxury and not a mainstay.

On the plus side, I think the squad is such, that we have players that mean we won’t drop to the depths of pool in the 90’s and United more recently…but that only lasts so long.

Lower prem teams can’t be our bread bin.

 

[Blu1]

We ain’t winning shit this season.

Far too many problems.

Can’t defend.

Don’t have a midfield.

Wingers run and fall over.

No press.

It’s just awful at the highest level.

Exposed for how poor we really are.

Like last season really

 

[HolisticJim]

Almost 85 bloody minutes though.

I struggle to see what Haaland actually offers anymore.

 

[WallyA]

Wisdom of hindsight but RAN and Cherki should have started.

Its out of fear, he plays defensively, which ironically made us worse.

Pep should have stuck to his principle of ballers to retain the ball.

Unfortunately I think he got burned by Cherki in some big games where he looks out of it but I think he needs to persist with the "theoretical" best players, and just make it work.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

Why can we not win a cup final?

Will depend on the team selection.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Matchday forum lol

just trying to inject a little positivity mate :-)

 

[B\connellblue]

give over, he's not the stand out - look at the bald bloke on the touchline for having a real shocker

Yes Guardiola stunk the place out but Guehi has been really poor

 

[eyalluvitt]

Arsenal are miles ahead of us.
Were winning nothing with this lot.

Terrible today but can still cheat their way to a last minute equalizer

 

[noseve]

So many things to be disappointed about, but the way that we went from slicing through them at will to being on the back foot as soon as we conceded one goal speaks volumes about our confidence.

Not too many teams collapse like that against us, do they?

 

[Longballutd]

Reijnders is nowhere near the level needed

 

[madloaf]

Even @twosips ,the ultimate glass half full merchant (if you think I'm a happy clapper, I'm a novice by comparison!), will have his work cut out describing this as anything other than what it is.

Typical match day thread comment. Get behind your team