Real Madrid (A) Post Match Thread

[dublin-blue]

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.

 

[red 2 hats]

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 ****.

 

[Paul1970]

Championship finishing group? - we’ve scored 84 Premier League goals man.

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 .

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

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.

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!

 

[cibaman]

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

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.

 

[manimanc]

Just wasn't to be.
To get to the semis of the fa cup, the champions league and be top of the league with 4 games remaining without a recognised striker and a patched up defence from time to time shows how much pep has got out the team.

We deal with it, recover and move on.

No biggie.

 

[Citizen Mike]

we need rid of
Laporte
Sterling ( that hurts )
Zinc
Edison.

Jack gets one more season .

What a shit post, you obviously know nothing about football

 

[give it to gordon]

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 ****.

Yet we have the highest conversion rate in the PL ?

 

[Ghost of 76]

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.

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.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

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 ****.

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!