CL R16 - Real Madrid - (A) 26/02 - (H) 17/03

[Stoned Rose]

Both attacking sides and not got a bus to park between them.

Both have the players to cause the other extreme grief on the counter.

We'll go through 5-4 or similar I reckon.

 

[mike1923]

Madrid are wank, but we can’t defend.

Should be a belter, not a good tie to be a goalkeeper!

 

[madridfan123]

Madrid are wank, but we can’t defend.

Should be a belter, not a good tie to be a goalkeeper!

how is Madrid “wank”? You could say that last season because the club was in a bad place but you can’t say that this season, unbeaten in the last 12 games in all competitions, playing close to best football again under Zidane and team looks motivated again. People just think the team is poor based on last season’s results, it’s lazy. I do agree with you that it should be two good games though, although don’t be surprised to see Zidane Park the bus which the team are comfortable to do and hit on counter attack, it’s been a successful tactics over the years and counter attack is city’s weakness.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Madrid are wank, but we can’t defend.

Should be a belter, not a good tie to be a goalkeeper!

Wont be a belter. The game at our place will alright but the one there will be a typical european cup pile of shit. Players diving, screaming when tackled, fake injuries whenever we have a good spell to break up the flow, all of our players booked, and the game will be over after 80 mins cos they will make 7 changes in one minute intervals.

 

[Elliot houghton]

Wont be a belter. The game at our place will alright but the one there will be a typical european cup pile of shit. Players diving, screaming when tackled, fake injuries whenever we have a good spell to break up the flow, all of our players booked, and the game will be over after 80 mins cos they will make 7 changes in one minute intervals.

The game we played against them in the 2012/13 season game was a great game don't understand why this can't be the same especially as we're probably closer to them in terms of Quality than we was then

 

[bballchinaski]

This is wrong. Are you forgetting about benzema? Along with lewandowski, he’s probably been the best striker in the world the last few seasons. His goalscoring record has been immense since Ronaldo left, and Hazard is still to come back, and Bale can score a goal out of nothing as he showed against Liverpool , Rodrygo scored a hattrick v galatasary too

and yet against top teams your team only scored two goals in 4 games. both in the same game, by the way. you only conceeded 5 but still, thats not impressive at all

 

[Carmelo]

Sorry for my offtopic, but i'm obsessed to witness Manchester City - Real Madrid game in Etihad Stadium:

Does anyone know around what date tickets for that game will be available to purchase?

I'm from Barcelona, i've became "Citizens Matchday" membership and i've already bought the flights to Manchester on March 17th ... and i just need a ticket haha.

 

[Parisian]

Don’t forget to throw in favouritism from refs and of course the fantastic VAR ..

Of course. Drawing Barça or Real, you know you are getting fucked by the referee one way or another.

I said if the team plays like the performance against psg at the bernabeu, one of the bests teams in the tournament. Keylour Navas had to put in an absolutely brilliant display to prevent the score being 5 or 6. It’s fair to say not every goalkeeper will play like Navas did in that game

PSG is not one of the best teams in the tournament.

PSG has been rather poor collectively this season but there is a little hope with Neymar coming back stonger and stronger from his injury.

 

[MAG]

Sorry for my offtopic, but i'm obsessed to witness Manchester City - Real Madrid game in Etihad Stadium:

Does anyone know around what date tickets for that game will be available to purchase?

I'm from Barcelona, i've became "Citizens Matchday" membership and i've already bought the flights to Manchester on March 17th ... and i just need a ticket haha.

If you’ve already bought the Cityzen Matchday membership you should be able to pick one easy before it gets to general sale ... unless they say previous history is required which for big games they sometimes do, so ideally should’ve waited for the criteria to come out ... as if that’s a condition put up, it won’t help having Cityzen membership even if goes on to general sale ...

DM me if you cannot buy a ticket on your own and I’d be happy to pick one for you, just let me know what stand/block you’d like :)

 

[Blue Mist]

The Madrid police have asked that, to ease identification of fans, we all wear yellow ribbons. Seems fair to me.

 

[MCBlueFan]

Madrid are wank, but we can’t defend.

Should be a belter, not a good tie to be a goalkeeper!

Real have a ton of talent - against PSG in their final match they looked amazing for most of the game - lucky that PSG were able to snatch a draw IMO.

I think that we'll advance - but if Real can somehow play up to form, they're a very dangerous opponent.

 

[Carmelo]

If you’ve already bought the Cityzen Matchday membership you should be able to pick one easy before it gets to general sale ... unless they say previous history is required which for big games they sometimes do, so ideally should’ve waited for the criteria to come out ... as if that’s a condition put up, it won’t help having Cityzen membership even if goes on to general sale ...

DM me if you cannot buy a ticket on your own and I’d be happy to pick one for you, just let me know what stand/block you’d like :)

Hi Mag, i'm so grateful for your answer. People as kind as you make increase my flowering feelings for ManCity & it's Cityzens.

As soon as i've read the sentence "unless they say previous history is required"... i've mailed ManCity to ask this haha.
Nice to know this possibility, it's very useful for me to be aware of this kind of info to understand the scenario i'm stepping on. This makes me easier to anticipate what may happen and eventually look for other ways to get my precious treasure :)

As you say, i'll do my best to get a ticket from Barcelona, and if i'm not able i'll have to try throug charity haha.
Thank you again for your solidarity. If i finally must ask for help i'll be happy too to love back this kind gesture with one of our iberian treasures!

Spoiler

I would try to accompany this Iberian ham with glasses able to turn red colour into light blue :D

 

[Newman Noggs]

Just for once, I'd love us to have a full squad to pick from so we can give it our best shot.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Just for once, I'd love us to have a full squad to pick from so we can give it our best shot.

Your asking for a lot their NN

 

[bballchinaski]

i mean, for some reason zidane seems to be an european ties specialist and they've been solid at the back, sure. But madrid with mbappe and slim hazard are scary, with benzema and isco, not so much

 

[Carmelo]

i mean, for some reason zidane seems to be an european ties specialist and they've been solid at the back, sure. But madrid with mbappe and slim hazard are scary, with benzema and isco, not so much

when i read "for some reason" this came up to my mind...

Spoiler

 

[cptaidan88]

Looks like they're taking the roof off as part of the renovations, and they're starting with the bit above the away end. It never rains in Spain right?

 

[squirtyflower]

Looks like they're taking the roof off as part of the renovations, and they're starting with the bit above the away end. It never rains in Spain right?

If it does it will be on the plain

 

[edinburgh123]

Hi Mag, i'm so grateful for your answer. People as kind as you make increase my flowering feelings for ManCity & it's Cityzens.

As soon as i've read the sentence "unless they say previous history is required"... i've mailed ManCity to ask this haha.
Nice to know this possibility, it's very useful for me to be aware of this kind of info to understand the scenario i'm stepping on. This makes me easier to anticipate what may happen and eventually look for other ways to get my precious treasure :)

As you say, i'll do my best to get a ticket from Barcelona, and if i'm not able i'll have to try throug charity haha.
Thank you again for your solidarity. If i finally must ask for help i'll be happy too to love back this kind gesture with one of our iberian treasures!

Spoiler

I would try to accompany this Iberian ham with glasses able to turn red colour into light blue :D

Safest thing to do is buy a ticket now for Port Vale in the FA Cup. Only 10 or 15 quid - just buy the cheapest, that way you have a purchase history as once they accounts the ticket sales it will be too late. Although I would be surprised if they require purchase history as Madrid have hardly any travelling fans. Would make you know you will get one though and you can sleep easily

 

[Carmelo]

Safest thing to do is buy a ticket now for Port Vale in the FA Cup. Only 10 or 15 quid - just buy the cheapest, that way you have a purchase history as once they accounts the ticket sales it will be too late. Although I would be surprised if they require purchase history as Madrid have hardly any travelling fans. Would make you know you will get one though and you can sleep easily

Thanks for your advice!
i've found it clever and a good investment in order to reach my goal, so i've just bought a 10 pounds ticket and i already have 10 points.

Spoiler

It turns out that this season, when i wasn't Cityzens MatchDay member yet, i went to Manchester to witness the ManCity - Wolves game (bad day for a first time).
When i came back to Barcelona i wanted to see again Guardiola's bald spot, so i purchased a ticket for the last game of this season against Norwich (thinking that it might be a big day haha, I promise i will bring you luck that day :) .

So i'm going to write ManCity to ask them if they would be so kind to add that points in my account, although when i bought that tickets i wasn't member yet. Let's pray!