Real Madrid (A) Post Match Thread

[Manchester_lalala]

Don't cancel it until the very last minute and then they'll have to pay extortinate rates

That’s exactly what I’m doing. I’m going to cancel mine a day before.

 

[ID70]

It’s not so much the losing but more the manner in which seem to lose games these days which is more frustrating

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

We were guilty of time-wasting against Atletico. But it's legitimate shithousery when we do it and cheating when others do.

It's cheating when anyone does it! We might waste seconds in the odd game. Most games we don't need to waste time. I've seen teams turn up at the Etihad and The Academy and the time wasting starts from the first goal kick they have or the first throw-in! I think our first priority has always been to put the ball in the opposition net - that isn't achieved by wasting time.

 

[cptaidan88]

Tough one to take. Think Pep has been to blame in previous years but don't think its his fault on this one.

A little disappointed that we didn't slow it down more when they scored the first, bit of naivety. Would have liked Dias and Fernandinho to calm the rest of them down a bit more, but in reality that 2nd goal was such a fluke when you look back at it.

Sometimes the football gods don't favour you.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I don't buy this narrative. Since 2008, when Pep started coaching, only Zidane has won th CL more times. It's not a title managers win often in their careers.

Quite right, b, no guarantees in football. Too many ways in which the game is won or lost and having twenty two plus a whistling wanker on the pitch at the same time just multiplies the options that make rocket science a simple subject. I said to Mrs Ewing at half time in the women's game, 0-0 at the time, that packed defences have to be lucky every time, forwards don't (full time 6-0) and it's ever so easy, in the heat and tempo of a Uefa CL semi, to make an inadequate decision, let alone a wrong one!

 

[theres only one carlito]

Aguero, Spanish Dave, de Bruyne, won’t ever win this pot.

Milner, Henderson, will have won it twice.

its a weird world

 

[Grealish’s Shinpads]

Anyone else feel like the fans of other teams can’t help themselves today? Don’t think I’ve ever seen some people this giddy

 

[Cobwebcat]

Watching the game again if I had to sum up how we lost that game in one word it would be “Courtois”

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Massively the better team first leg. Better team tonight without being at our best. Never felt so low - worse than the relegations.

It's not though is it?

 

[Hung]

Sometimes it goes your way, sometimes it doesn't, last night it didn't, that's football it can be so cruel, we now need to bounce back and quickly, come on City.

..in this comp, I can’t recall it ever going our way when it matters.