Real Madrid (A) Post Match Thread

[Blu1]

Having reviewed that last 5 mins all night in my mind. It stands out how much we missed a leader. Why on earth with a few minutes to go are we still trying to score.

crazy tactics. Madrid wasted 15 mins if not more killing the game we can’t do that for 1 minute. That’s why we are out.

lack of instruction from the bench & pitch. We even took throwings quickly in the last minutes at 2 up

 

[Bill]

terrible game management on and off the pitch . substitutions were ridiculous .
referee was a cheat (what did we expect )
we are too nice. rough it up City or we'll never win this .

 

[stonerblue]

Well fuck me that was a kick in the teeth.
Don't get me wrong, giving away 3 goals like that is piss poor but the bentness of the ref was on show for all to see.

 

[Gabriel]

I think Cancelo has been poor for weeks tbh. Near the end of the 90 mins last night I am sure he crossed a ball into the box where we only had 1 or 2 players instead of keeping possession.

With 4,262 minutes, Cancelo has played more than any other outfield player this season; Bernardo is next at 3,700. That’s more than six full games, and we don’t have easy games. Cancelo plays in arguably the hardest position in football, a task which has been made even harder by being asked to play on both sides, sometimes even within games. If he’s tired now and makes mistakes, I can understand and forgive him.

What I’ve got less patience for is for those that have left us in a situation where we have had no left-back in the first place.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

But all of our chances aren’t going to fall to him.

Many… maybe even most… of our chances will still fall to our group of poor finishers.

Granted. But they'll look for him. And we happen to have a midfield that's probably the best in the world at looking for and finding players who themselves know how to find space.
Talking of midfielders. I feel as bad for Bernie today as I do for myself. That man is a Titan.

 

[The perfect fumble]

I think that's very sharp. And I think that, since Sergio's demise (and that goes back a few years, if we're being honest, what with injuries), we have had a wonderful team, but no single player who takes the game by scruff of the neck when everybody else has clearly run out of ideas. A player who gives you something out of nothing, right against the run of play. 93:20 was the classic example, but in truth there were many 93:20s in his time with us. We have not had that player.
I also believe that Haaland will be that player. If we are in fact getting him. This may seem perverse, but the worst news this spring would not be not going to Paris at the end of the month. Or even not winning the league. That would hurt — like fuck — but it wouldn't be as devastating, to me, as not getting Erling Haaland.
Get this over the line, Mr Begiristain.

I remember under Pellers when Sergio single-handedly wrestled the game away from Pep's Bayern.

 

[selim]

Has CRap7 scored against any decent sides this season?

Do you think he would have wasted all those chances? I don't think so.

 

[Blue tiger]

If you're saying that's why we lost tonight, that's nonsense. I've said all along that we were the better side over the 2 legs and they didn't have a single shot on target tonight, Their second goal was a total fluke. Benzema bought the pen, then they just disrupted the rest of ET and I timed the stoppages at over 7 minutes - we weren't even given the full three. As someone else put it, 999 times of of 1000 we win that.

We didn't go out purely because of last night though so it's not nonsense. We could and perhaps should be 4 nil up after the 30 mins of the first leg. Mahrez has to pass, Phil drags a great chance wide. Benzema then scores a goal out of nothing and for the rest of the whole tie it swings one way and another. Is there any excuse for blowing it in the last few minutes like we did? No. But we take our chances and great chances at that when we get them, then we avoid putting ourselves in a position to be done.

 

[Bill]

Once we let them back in that ref wasn’t going to let them slip up again, not a chance.

this

 

[Bluemanc100]

So after a shit night's sleep my reflections.

Did Pep's subs have a positive effect on Madrid. He took off three penalty takers in KDB, Jesus and Mahrez obviously thinking it wouldn't go to penalties. But did he also have an eye on the league? Jesus in particular was having a good game and whilst I understood the need for fresh legs etc I am not sure they were the right subs.
Mentally I think the players thought it was won hence the lapse in concentration for the first goal. Look at when the cross came in, everyone bar Cancelo on the 18 yard line but he was so worried about Benzema he had stepped back into the box playing him on. Dias then isn't aware that Rodrygo is behind him and Ederson also doesn't see him as he thinks it's an easy take. Second goal a little unfortunate as the flick on the ball just takes it away from Laporte. We are talking fine margins here that in big games you need to have to get over the line.
The ref was shocking, three yellows for Casemiro not given (foul on KDB, pull back on Foden and the dive) which helped him play the way he did. Yellow for Laporte for having his throat grabbed, no foul on Sterling given on the edge of the box, foul by Foden when it was the other way around, the list goes on. Anyone also notice that once Madrid were ahead the ball boys who had been throwing the balls back almost before they crossed the line suddenly had a reluctance to even stand up from their seats. Not sure where six minutes came from at the end of the game but why only three at the end and then why blow up on 2.50. It's a minimum of three minutes to play not let's blow when I feel like it.
Lot's of positives though, the best being I don't have to fork out for three tickets, three flights and accommodation etc with money I was going to struggle to find.
Chins up lads and lasses, let's smash the Geordies and win the league. Fuck the media, refs and opposing fans. We're Man City we fight to the end.

Great post till the last sentence

 

[metalblue]

I know its just how i feel right now. Im sulking. Like never before

2-0 up with 2 mins to go!!!!

If we hadn’t turned around a 2-0 deficit against Gillingham in the last couple of minutes our history would be very different and we wouldn’t be talking about being disappointed about losing a CL semi against Real Madrid.

It’s football - that’s why we love it.

 

[come-on-barney]

Some are blanking out the media for a week, and worried about what others will say. Just think how Pep is feeling this morning, with ‘can’t win it without Messi’ ringing in his ears.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

We had a striker last season & he did quite well.

I don't really know why anybody would use "potentially" out scoring Liverpool as a positive after exiting the champions league. The reason we need a striker is because we EXITED the champions league.

Also last season was our time & Pep dropped a clanger of a selection in the final.

A striker who wasn't a striker.

Outscoring Liverpool without a striker to speak of, winning titles in the process, suggests the lack of a striker is marginal gains at best and revisionism when it's required.

We scored five goals against Real Madrid.

We needed to score six just to take it to penalties.

That would suggest a mentality and a defensive problem, not a lack of goals in the team!

 

[14aguero]

It is either the league or the quadruple for them. Yikes.

 

[bluemoon32]

Having reviewed that last 5 mins all night in my mind. It stands out how much we missed a leader. Why on earth with a few minutes to go are we still trying to score.

crazy tactics. Madrid wasted 15 mins if not more killing the game we can’t do that for 1 minute. That’s why we are out.

lack of instruction from the bench & pitch. We even took throwings quickly in the last minutes at 2 up

We used to be able to control games, just keep possession and see out games, now we keep trying to play beautiful football no matter what.
The players seem to lack a collective intelligence at times, sometimes i wonder if they are over coached

 

[Russian Hat]

Having reviewed that last 5 mins all night in my mind. It stands out how much we missed a leader. Why on earth with a few minutes to go are we still trying to score.

crazy tactics. Madrid wasted 15 mins if not more killing the game we can’t do that for 1 minute. That’s why we are out.

lack of instruction from the bench & pitch. We even took throwings quickly in the last minutes at 2 up

Yep correct. As soon as they got their first we should have kept the ball even gone down and stayed down, to concede 2 in two minutes is unprofessional but also unlucky.

 

[penalty spot]

Naive tactics, 2 goals up then some crazy subs. We didn't deserve to win.

 

[chaddblue]

It is either the league or the quadruple for them. Yikes.

Well it could end up the league for us and the carabou cup for them

 

[bluemoon32]

Some are blanking out the media for a week, and worried about what others will say. Just think how Pep is feeling this morning, with ‘can’t win it without Messi’ ringing in his ears.

It's a fair comment to make to be fair

 

[Tricky_Trev]

We need to bring in at least 2 more players than we let leave this summer. Squad is not big enough. We could have used the academy more to manage the game time of senior players and to bring them to this point so that they’re not running on empty, but we seemingly have no intention of doing that. So if we go into next season with only 17 outfield players yet again, the board, Pep, anyone else that decides these things, have all failed.