Real Madrid (A) Post Match Thread

[Dial M 4 Mercer]

At this rate Newcastle Utd might win it before we do!

 

[brazilians hurt]

Can’t be arsed to read all the posts particularly the negative ones about our players, manager, finishing etc. let’s remember 2 crucial goal lines clearances one in the first leg and another last night which saved certain goals which probably would have put the match to bed. We had similar rub of the green with the John Stones clearance off the line against the dippers in 18/19 season.
As Pacino said in his inspirational speech in Any Given Sunday ‘life’s a game of inches, so is football’
Time for Pep and us supporters to channel our Al Pacino and get the boys over the line

 

[Beswick Prize Band]

On a side issue, it's a certainty that these two games will be shown on repeat as "a great advert" for football.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Sorry mate but I disagree.

A Harry Kane would have converted chances earlier in the game so the last minute brain fart would have been irrelevant.

As I keep banging on about, putting the ball in the net when we really need to is our biggest problem.

It's revisionism at best mate.

How many goals are enough?

One more than an opponent, every time, that's all it ever takes.

Scored six against Monaco, four against Spurs, five against Madrid...

Two games with Sergio.

A striker makes the difference when the games are tight, not when you are conceding five against Monaco, five against Liverpool, four against Spurs, six against Madrid.

It's a collective mental issue in the biggest moments.

Platt used to say Dzeko scored 'heavy goals' which is what I think people are trying to argue we don't have, but five goals across the two ties with Madrid hides the fact our defending was pathetic.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

What let us down is finishing. It's what let us down in other games this season. Top of the league but one of worst conversion rates in the prem that's appalling

I very much doubt you’d find anyone on this forum or at the ground who wouldn’t have snatched your arm off if you’d offered them City scoring 5 goals over those two games.

 

[mjkismgs]

There‘s maybe a couple of problems we have, one of which is just a by-product of the way we play. That one is about us not really knowing how to ‘chase‘ a game, as it’s something we very, very rarely have to do. It was noticeable that we didn’t lay a glove on Madrid after their penalty and it’s something we’re just not built to do which, given the amount of control we usually have, is perhaps understandable.

More worrying though is a tendency to concede more than one goal fairly rapidly and, even though I accept it doesn’t happen often, lose games that we have been winning.

In recent times we’ve lost the following games from leading 2-0.
Brighton, who scored 3 in 26 minutes and 2 in 4 minutes.
Wolves, who scored 3 in 35 minutes and 2 in 7 minutes.
Rags, who scored 3 in 16 minutes and 2 in 2 minutes.
Last night, obviously.

In the CL, we’ve conceded 2 in 3 minutes against Spuds and 2 in 8 against Monaco and 2 in 2 minutes last night.

Against Liverpool, we’ve conceded 2 in 15 minutes in the 2-2, two in 8 minutes in the FA Cup semi final, 2 in 7 minutes in 2019 (lost 3-1) and, in the CL 3-0, we conceded goals 1 and 2 in 9 minutes, goals 2 and 3 in 10 minutes and all 3 in 19 minutes.
It does suggest that, when we lose control, we’re somewhat all over the place and very open to conceding.

Just a minute, against Brighton and Wolves we had been reduced to 10 men and that told against us in the end, you can't really bracket the results in those two games with the others that you quote.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Talk of misery... I'm devastated, but next season we will maybe have the greatest striker on the planet in a blue shirt.

Rashford?

 

[AndyP68]

Very disappointing, but that's football and we go again. No point in slagging off the players or Pep. To me that was the final though. If we win the PL then we know we are better than the dippers regardless of if they win the CL.

 

[mjkismgs]

It's revisionism at best mate.

How many goals are enough?

One more than an opponent, every time, that's all it ever takes.

Scored six against Monaco, four against Spurs, five against Madrid...

Two games with Sergio.

A striker makes the difference when the games are tight, not when you are conceding five against Monaco, five against Liverpool, four against Spurs, six against Madrid.

It's a collective mental issue in the biggest moments.

Platt used to say Dzeko scored 'heavy goals which is what I think people are trying to argue we don't have, but five goals across the two ties with Madrid hides the fact our defending was pathetic.

We conceded six against Monaco not five.

 

[inbetween]

All true but Mahrez finished so well. It was some strike. Re nerves i think Pep really suffers with anxiety...understandable...but it does transmit...we looked like a kids team at 2 : 1 really loojed like rabbits in headlights

That's bound to happen though. We were comfortable, we had a 2 goal cushion and our best players like Kev had gone off because the game was won. For them to then score 2 goals right at the end meaning we'd have to score another was a big ask.

I still really think the crowd won them the game because once they eventually got their first they never stopped after that. Had this been the first leg and we'd been beaten by Madrid 3-1 then I'd bet my house that we'd go through because playing at home in the 2nd leg really does make a big difference.

I know a lot won't see it this way but having to both score and win playing away in Madrid is a massive ask. We saw that against Athletico where we rode our luck towards the end of that game as well. It is a mental thing but every team suffers from it when playing in these big matches against huge teams.