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Real Madrid (A) Post Match Thread
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Lavinda Past
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Fair comment, but I think we started with a half fit De Bruyne on Wednesday purely in the hope of catching them cold. KDB and Foden made little or no impact after the first ten minutes, and with Mahrez anchored to the touchline as usual, we may as well have been playing with 10 men.Mate, Wednesdays night defeat was not on Pep, last years final, Lyon the year before, you may have an argument.
Real's win was down to wasteful finishing in both games, poor individual defending and complacency, and lack of good fortune nothing more.
Cup competitions are not always won by the best teams, hence why I never got the love in for the English obsession with the FA Cup. Before the start of the Premier league, the winners of the FA Cup received more glory and accolades than the winners of the title, totally crazy!
Luck plays a huge part in winning cups, over the two Real Madrid ties we were stone cold out of luck.
I think we should have taken a more patient approach by playing Gundogan and using KDB later in the game.
As you say, we were bang out of luck in the first game and should have been home and dry before the second leg. That said, you make your own luck, but playing a half fit KDB isn't going to help.
All in the past now though. I just want to win the PL!
Half fit KDB , Gundo ,Walker and a good few of the others but what was the alternatives?Fair comment, but I think we started with a half fit De Bruyne on Wednesday purely in the hope of catching them cold. KDB and Foden made little or no impact after the first ten minutes, and with Mahrez anchored to the touchline as usual, we may as well have been playing with 10 men.
I think we should have taken a more patient approach by playing Gundogan and using KDB later in the game.
As you say, we were bang out of luck in the first game and should have been home and dry before the second leg. That said, you make your own luck, but playing a half fit KDB isn't going to help.
All in the past now though. I just want to win the PL!
We have a relatively small squad for the amount of games we play, and NO manager is going to throw young , inexperienced players into a game of that magnitude.
Bigga
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My wish is that he starts to motivate the players differently in this competition.
My opinion is and always was that he struggles with that in this tournament based on past games performance/results and at different clubs.
We weren’t eliminated because they didn’t play into a corner.
No, you're right, we're not eliminated cos we didn't play into a corner.
We're eliminated cos Real Madrid had a player on the pitch that shouldn't have been.
We're eliminated through Rodrigo miraculously heading a deflected ball into the top corner, he couldn't do in 500 attempts again, if he tried.
We're eliminated through the scraping a ball off the line from Grealish and we're eliminated by the minutest of touches off the studs of Courtois. But, also by an error in judgement for an unnecessary challenge from Dias.
Cheating and margins.
Nothing to do with motivation.
Lavinda Past
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Half fit KDB , Gundo ,Walker and a good few of the others but what was the alternatives?
We have a relatively small squad for the amount of games we play, and NO manager is going to throw young , inexperienced players into a game of that magnitude.
That's a problem we've had for too long, but as it was Pep who said he was happy with the squad earlier in the season, I think the buck stops firmly on his desk.
come-on-barney
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Wow, Lavinda, I’m far from a ‘happy clapper’ but you are going for it these last few days!That's a problem we've had for too long, but as it was Pep who said he was happy with the squad earlier in the season, I think the buck stops firmly on his desk.
GaudinoMotors
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I think the bonhomie of our decision makers, whilst with its positives, has seen us succeed, but has also left us disjointed and bereft squad wise in certain obvious areas, when we should have been kicking on.That's a problem we've had for too long, but as it was Pep who said he was happy with the squad earlier in the season, I think the buck stops firmly on his desk.
I'm sure it will come good, but we should have been making hay now.
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lazerblue
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Tough to revisit it, but this guy is always worth a watch....
i like this bloke, makes that rag twat tate look like an inmate of broadmore
despite the two days of "time to reflect", many posters are relying on "hindsight", imo. Obviously the players are in real-time, that is why experience is so important, the certainty that the wheels can fall off at any time, and how to prevent it. Well, i fkin 'ope so.
A happy clapper sees benefits in every situation, such as at least we don't have to mingle with the barbarians from down the east lancs, but for most, that is not enough...by about 40 miles
A happy clapper sees benefits in every situation, such as at least we don't have to mingle with the barbarians from down the east lancs, but for most, that is not enough...by about 40 miles
East Level 2
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Quite possibly, but that would imply the VAR clowns were as incompetent as the ref as they review all potential red card incidents.He should have been sent off for the first offence on KDB, it wasn’t just a yellow card.