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

[super_city_si]

Might as well play a traffic cone upfront tonight

He’s in a terrible run of form and can’t even hold it up as a big man. No use to us without kev when in this form

 

[asgoodasitgets]

I’ve noticed in any 50/50 or a tackle, the fuckers will push the Coty player away with their elbow . Never noted .
And Bellingham ? What a whiny fucking cheat she is

 

[SWP's back]

Spanish teams are such a tough watch, cheating cunts they are it’s off the scale

Both dirty and diving in one.

Bellingham is a massive ****.

 

[I'm Blue]

Haaland, might as well have a 3 piece suite up front.

Waste of time having him this season.
He basically gets man marked by the two centre backs and we don’t offer him support.
Either get up there and help drag the defenders about or find the space.

 

[kanovic]

Might as well play a traffic cone upfront tonight

His first touch is pretty terrible and just tries to force stuff. A lot of it is not his fault as he is more or less a target man but it’s frustrating

 

[christened at st marks]

Haaland off Phil false 9 and prey Kev is ok for 2nd half and get Kova off he is noway near this level

 

[bert38]

Madrid nicking the ball in midfield then hammering us down the channels only a matter of time til these transitions murder us.

Not seen us lose so many balls in midfield due to a poor first touch-is it the pitch? Rodri looks like did against Palace first half-knackered.

 

[city warrior]

Honestly we played well mostly. After the goal, the team tried to go for the 2nd, and that was the mistake. If we would have played like we did in the last 30 min, this would still be 0-1. Now we are in a tricky situation. Do we risk going down two goals to get a draw?

 

[SebastianBlue]

I am confident he will improve in the second half, but Rodri has just topped Saturday for his worst half of the season. And this time our setup had nothing to do with it. He gave away the ball more in that half, often under little pressure, than he has all season.

That said, Bernie (goal aside), Kovacic, and Haaland were all pretty poor. Foden was barely involved. And the luck as left Ortega.

Wondering if Kev isn’t the only one unwell.

Trust Pep will make the necessary changes, tell a few they need to show us why they are reigning champions, and we come out far more solid and focused.

 

[Crooked_rain]

Get Alvarez on Haaland off

Not really sure that's the problem.... we can't seem to get the ball from midfield even into Foden, so I'm not sure we can get it to Alvarez either

I don't think the lineup is the problem, it's our midfielders playing very sloppily and our build-up play being too tentative