Match Thread | Real Madrid vs Man City (09/04/24)

[ali benarbia's studs]

Happy with the score, dominating possession 63pc.

Just giving away too easy, shape out in mid and vulnerable on counter attack with their speed and diving traits.

Lets do these pricks, erling and phil.

Come on Blues!

 

[sh249]

So slow and ponderous. Very little cohesion through midfield and attack. And obviously lacking creativity.

 

[bluemoon32]

Bring Haaland and Foden on 2nd half

 

[EdersonsSmiley]

That got worse as it went on.

Haaland and Foden very quiet. Rodri very sloppy. Bernardo and Kovacic not good enough.

Needs to be tighter. Think this is a game where we are missing Gundogan who used to stick it all together.

I knew it was gonna be bad when Rodri gave the ball away under no pressure twice in the first 5 minutes.

Do they all have this bloody illness because they are playing as if they do.

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

We never play well trying to manage our way through games and pep knows it. Hopefully we’ll up our game in the second half and try and get a couple……taking a two or three goal deficit to Etihad isn’t going to end well…..

 

[spacecadet]

Get Kev on. We are in dark shorts.

 

[skillman]

He must be absolutely blowing. Feel sorry for him. Gross negligence for the club to have gone this long without bringing in suitable cover for him.

On the performance itself, we've created fuck all. Just don't have that verve of last season.

To be fair, we created fuck all at their place last season and it took a screamer from Kev to get a draw. Our tactics for a few years under Pep away from home in the CL have been to protect a draw and get a team back to our place.

 

[Blu1]

He's out of form too.

At least he will run & move but I agree. Haaland does not work with our system sadly

 

[clarkie_ni]

If our players mouthed off and gestured as much as these cheating cunts we would finish the game with 2 players. These cuntbags really do get away with murder at the hands of corrupt uefa.

 

[ninjamonkey]

We are not playing bad by any means but this has gone how I feared it could so far. Playing to control as much as possible but we don't look like actually threatening to score whilst doing so, thats all fine if wete leading or even drawing and we dont lose it. Problem is, we're losing and were losing the ball way too much. then when we do inevitably lose control for a period, we look very vulnerable and at risk of conceding every single time.

We need more threat in attack, we'll get beat by a few more here if we carry on like this. Look how bad their keeper was for our opener, we haven't tested him since. Tchouameni hasn't had a single thing to do since getting booked inside a minute. Foden has been entirely anonymous, nowhere near good enough, two wingers currently offering no threat. Haaland hasn't been fed since they scored.