Real Madrid (A) | CL | Post Match Thread

The Future’s Blue! said:
Just heard Darren Lewis on the news saying that Real should now win because we give them a chance with our defence. Yet Arsenals result v BM was positive, even though they now have to win away from home.

The mental gymnastics of these fuckers to ignore everything sensible is fucking insane.
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Now let's just imagine if Liverpool had just got a 3 all draw at Real Madrid. I bet he wouldn't be saying that they were going to get beaten in the second leg. What an absolute tool.
 
The Future’s Blue! said:
Just heard Darren Lewis on the news saying that Real should now win because we give them a chance with our defence. Yet Arsenals result v BM was positive, even though they now have to win away from home.

The mental gymnastics of these fuckers to ignore everything sensible is fucking insane.
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Darren Lewis is stealing a living in football journalism. He is an indicator of how poor sports journalism has become. He is not very bright would be putting it mildly.
 
BlueindianNewcity said:
They created enough in the first half on the counter and could have scored at least one if not for poor decision making from Vinicius at 2-1. We survived and game them much less space in the second.
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We did a lot more than survive. From where I was stood the second half was wave after wave of City possession with Madrid playing on the counter. I don’t know if youve been to the Bernabau but it’s a huge intimidating stadium, very noisy despite them being plastics, and we bossed them in their own back yard, and there aren’t many teams who do that. It’s not as easy as fifa, what we achieved last night was gutsy and impressive. 62% possession at the Bernabau ffs
 
LesBleuMiserable said:
Darren Lewis is stealing a living in football journalism. He is an indicator of how poor sports journalism has become. He is not very bright would be putting it mildly.
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It came from nowhere as the host only asked about a wonderful European tie. Totally uncalled for and obviously thought he was pandering to the UK Red tops.
 
Just watched some stuff on Youtube giving post match reaction. How in God's name has Micah Richards got a job presenting. I've had to switch it off as he's just a loud imbecile. The amount of shouting he does must really piss people off. He's a Blue and a voice for us, but for goodness sake bring it down a bit.
 
City went toe v toe against Madrid.

I know the defence has been an issue with containing attacks but still we showed some balls last night.

Big boy shit total football against Madrid at home.

# what a club
 
A great result in fairness, happy with a draw and really happy to see some banging goals. Losing a lead is never fun, but coming from behind at the Bernabeu is pretty big. Trust me that Madrid will be fairly gutted they couldn't take a lead to Manchester .

Actually a mixed performance from our boys, particularly Silva, Haaland, Akanji and Rodri & Foden to a lesser extent. Haaland didn't occupy two centre halves, whatever people on here want to believe, but he did work hard and I've never questioned his work ethic like some. It's been a tough-ish few months on and off for him.

But what wasn't in doubt was the character, and in another guise City could have lost that game, by a couple.

I get that Bellingham frustrated folks with antics and lack of card, but I think he played pretty well in the middle disrupting.
 
Good performance, generally speaking. They probably deserved to be leading 2-1 at that time, but what we did afterwards in controlling the ball showed what is needed to completely nullify the threat of their individual talents. I said at half time that bringing Phil into the game more was key, and we did that. Great performances from Grealish and Gvardiol especially, and Stones and Rodri in the second half who took over the central midfield area. Their rolling around and constant sense of entitlement needed a strong referee, and he was as outstanding as Bellingham was poor.
 
Bernardo typified our performance last night. One minute he is doing awesome, next he is losing the ball way too easily, next he is fighting like a Trojan, next he is spoiling our attacks, next he looks a real threat.

It was similar with Foden, Kovacic, Rodri, Stones etc.

If we were only a touch more careful it would have been a phenomenal performance and we would probably have come away with a victory.

Against the best teams we are not at our very best which is frustrating. But imagine how good we could be if we just clicked this year like we have others. I'd love to see that in the final games.
 
The Future’s Blue! said:
Just heard Darren Lewis on the news saying that Real should now win because we give them a chance with our defence. Yet Arsenals result v BM was positive, even though they now have to win away from home.

The mental gymnastics of these fuckers to ignore everything sensible is fucking insane.
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Isn't he the sports editor at the Mirror now? Shows how far journalistic standards have fallen. I wouldn't trust him to edit a game of wordle.
 
malg said:
Just watched some stuff on Youtube giving post match reaction. How in God's name has Micah Richards got a job presenting. I've had to switch it off as he's just a loud imbecile. The amount of shouting he does must really piss people off. He's a Blue and a voice for us, but for goodness sake bring it down a bit.
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According to a few on here, he's a City legend.
 
They know we are better than them
They also know they struggle at the etihad
It’s perfect for us now next week, fast start, great atmosphere and put these to bed
 
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