Real Madrid (A) Post Match Thread

Look we are never gonna be allowed to win this thing without heavy resistance from the cabal.
If we are gonna lose I'd rather it be under these circumstances than get shafted against the dippers.

The benefit of this lot going through is Liverpool won't get the helpful decisions they normally would.
 
The morning after the night before, and I'm still shell shocked.
We crumbled, we were mentally weak, we had to see the game out and failed miserably, our substitutions weakened us.
Certain players flatter to deceive but are exempt from any criticism. We seem to have taken all the pace out of the team, is the squad as strong as we think, players continuinly switching position for switching sake, our set pieces very rarely work.
All our eggs are now in the one basket, we can't afford any slip ups coz the victims aren't dropping any points, hope the team can pick themselves up after that result they must be demoralised.
Finally, that referee was a ****.
 
Cellarite said:
Championship finishing group? - we’ve scored 84 Premier League goals man.
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But when it matters we miss the big chances . If we had time he main strikers we need . Fucking hell we would have pissed everything I mean how many gilt edged chances do we miss every game and why when we were so short of strikers did we actually sell a guy who was touted as a striker in the making in January and not replace him . If we could finish this tie is done in the first leg and Liverpool would be adrift in the league .
 
mardon85 said:
Can someone explain to me why they don't just pause time when the ball goes out of play?
It'll stop all this time wasting shite.
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Try watching the women's league! Stewards acting as ball retrievers, one fuckin ball unless it gets booted out of the ground or 'hidden' among the terracing behind the goals, goalkeepers making sure that every goal kick sucks out as much time as possible, defenders making out to throw the ball into play but with little intention of doing so and tossing it to a team mate who is ambling some twenty yards away, and last night we saw a goalkeeper with a new variant - hold the ball and not until most players are astride the half way line release the ball into play. In the last five seasons, men and women, I bet I haven't seen two equal halves of 45 mins, or anywhere near where, notwithstanding the ball out of play, we get anything like the time we've paid for! And with a tiny number of exceptions it's our goalkeepers that get cautioned for timewasting! I thought that an email to the FA asking for an explanation as to why the FAWSL operates in such a manner, but then I thought I shouldn't add to the timewasting!
 
ancoats said:
Yep walker and KDB going off did change the game ?
We are short in both full backs and papering over the crack with cover players is not ideal

please, Manchester city give pep 22 players that in the team for the right reasons and not being asked to paper over the cracks ? 2 strikers, 2 left backs, 2 right backs, When you look at it that way, we are very short in the squad and the answer speaks for itself
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We don’t need extensive surgery but it would make sense to tinker with the squad to reflect that if Haaland comes in we might need slightly different wide players.
 
red 2 hats said:
The morning after the night before, and I'm still shell shocked.
We crumbled, we were mentally weak, we had to see the game out and failed miserably, our substitutions weakened us.
Certain players flatter to deceive but are exempt from any criticism. We seem to have taken all the pace out of the team, is the squad as strong as we think, players continuinly switching position for switching sake, our set pieces very rarely work.
All our eggs are now in the one basket, we can't afford any slip ups coz the victims aren't dropping any points, hope the team can pick themselves up after that result they must be demoralised.
Finally, that referee was a ****.
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Yet we have the highest conversion rate in the PL ?
 
cibaman said:
If they stopped the clock every time the ball went out of play games would last 2 hours, or they would have to cut the official time to 60 mins.
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True! I read somewhere that in cricket, the ball is only actually in play for something like 9 mins during a day's play!
Mind boggling.
 
red 2 hats said:
The morning after the night before, and I'm still shell shocked.
We crumbled, we were mentally weak, we had to see the game out and failed miserably, our substitutions weakened us.
Certain players flatter to deceive but are exempt from any criticism. We seem to have taken all the pace out of the team, is the squad as strong as we think, players continuinly switching position for switching sake, our set pieces very rarely work.
All our eggs are now in the one basket, we can't afford any slip ups coz the victims aren't dropping any points, hope the team can pick themselves up after that result they must be demoralised.
Finally, that referee was a ****.
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I have seen little and read little of the game other than having a wide grin on 82 mins when I got back in from the women's game and saw us two goals on aggregate to the good. I wonder how many teams get a pen in each leg of a CL semi-final, how we concede three goals in a five minute spell, and I thought, ah, it's Uefa's CL. But there again it might be more to do with what I thought after the Atleti game that we might have played our best tie in the quarters!
 
Russian Hat said:
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.
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Because we so rarely have to come from behind, and then desperately hang on, we looked naive at the death. No single reason for the result, though everyone looks for one. For me we were not cynical enough, plain and simple. The aftermath can go two ways, we either learn from it and get stronger, or pretend it didn't happen and rely on our "excellence" to see us through. The mantra that we are the best team in the world needs prefixing with "on our day".
The most successful teams in the past had a blend of magic and pragmatic on tap, we seem top heavy with flair not enough "simeone shit-house". Pep's pursuit of perfection means this will not be addressed. In fact not even seen as a problem. Last night had more mis-placed passes to suggest the pressure of not losing affected City, if so, let's hope we are stronger for it. Amen
 
88 seconds between Real Madrid’s first goal and their second. In any game that’s ridiculous but in a Champions League Semi final with minutes to go is just criminal. Why did we restart the game again so quickly and why the fuck was Ederson just booting back to Courtois. Just madness how we threw that game away. We didn’t need the goal! Why did we rush to restart the game. Ffs
 
Zin 'messiah' Zimmer said:
As much as we cry out for a striker, people should be conscious of the reduction of chances we create, hopefully a clinical striker negates that, but make no mistake, less dominance is inevitable in terms of creative opportunities..
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I’m not sure having a striker will reduce the number of chances as good strikers create chances of their own. Playing a striker definitely risks losing an element of control so the defenders will be under more pressure.
 
willipp said:
The one alarming problem with Ederson is the lack of saves he makes. No one better suits our style of play so i wouldn't replace him, but it does feel like he rarely makes many saves when hes actually needed to.
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He's not required to make many shot stopping saves as such. I think he is unfortunate that a lot of the goals conceded are shots he really does not have much hope of saving and nor would most keepers.

Maybe we do need someone to pull off worldie saves more often and sacrifice some of our play from the back but I am not convinced that would be a good trade-off.

From my POV, he does not concede many at all where I think he should have saved that. I don't blame him for the goals last night. Perhaps he could have got out a little faster to the first; the second is past him before he can blink.
 
hihosilva said:
For 89 minutes the game management was perfect with no Madrid shots on target. Also withstanding some shocking refereeing decisions. Loosing Walker & Debruyne was a big loss & once they got the goal the momentum was with Madrid, we just struggled to keep hold of the ball.
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Agree we were unlucky with Walker but jn terms of poor game management that is correct.Everything went well for 80 mins, we got the goal and that is when we should have started phase 2 of successful game management and started feigning injury, running the ball into the corners, tactical time wasting subs, etc. Guardiola should look at Madrid and how they managed the game in extra time. But if he is one of the so called greats surely he should know this by now ? Instead of running the ball into corners and time wasting we had the likes of Cancelo crossing the ball, which Courtois caught and they went straight up the other end and scored.Utterly abysmal game management ! These things are what make the difference and are part of the game.Our naivety has cost us yet again.
 
Its just time to get haaland over line ,an then we will have a compleatly diffrent threat,im shocked that happened last night still an keep running game over my head ,the reff was shockin ,an thats nothin new in that comp,i just hope the players can get there heads back in gear,cos thats going to take its toll that
 
give it to gordon said:
I dont see us as a team of bottles we beat the dippers by winning our last 14 games or so a few seasons ago.

This happens in football we have won the league with Aguerooooooooo now we are on the receiving end, that's football
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Exactly. Here's one way to look at it this morning....

Gutted though we all are, at this precise moment would you rather you were a gutted blue boy/girl or a giddy little dipper?

For the avoidance of doubt, the correct answer to this is 'I would rather be lying half dead on the savannah with my tackle being chewed off by hyenas than be a dipper'

So we have to put our big boy pants on and get behind the team for those remaining 4 games which could see us win the league for the 4th time in 5 seasons.
 
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