Real Madrid (A) Post Match Thread

I still can’t believe we are not in the final.

We throw away these opportunities time and time again.

Just imagine next year if it’s a better PSG or Bayern. Can’t explain why we keep wasting such great opportunities. It’s suicide every time.
 
Brightwell Bros. said:
I hope we win the league, but that's two game this season where we've let in last minute goals when we really, really should have managed the game out. Dunno if it's a ten year curse for QPR, but if we don't win anything this year I think you can say this team bottled it. 7 points clear in the league and 2 goals clear on 90 minutes should be enough to win it. Let's pray we can cling on. They have a big job to get back up for it on Sunday, and get us over the line.
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Pep will have them motivated for Sunday. If not then we have much bigger problems.
 
footballmanager said:
yup, i wrote after the first game vs madrid that it felt like a loss and got abused by a couple of morons in here. You go there two goals up and they either open up and are ripped to shreds or you get a game similar to this one. while going through
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The thing is we WERE two goals up with minutes to go and still lost
 
smallsteve said:
Perhaps a bit off-topic, but Liverpool have made good recent signings for modest sums and are the better for it, but we’ve made a big-money signing and at best we Are pretty much where we were. Perhaps that’s why they are in the final and we are not!
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Or perhaps it's because they got Benfica and Villareal.
 
sutty66 said:
what’s that old saying…. it’s all on the manager……. them subs killed us no two ways about it cos it’s there in black and white and pep and City out againnn
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I can’t even work out what you are trying to say there mate. Sorry.
 
footballmanager said:
yup, i wrote after the first game vs madrid that it felt like a loss and got abused by a couple of morons in here. You go there two goals up and they either open up and are ripped to shreds or you get a game similar to this one. while going through
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Irony is we did have a two goal lead but pissed it away

May have been better at 0-0 so we were constantly on edge
 
RiversideBlue said:
Not sure how popular an opinion this will be but I think Fernandinho is now too old and slow. It cost us in the first leg and I think bringing him on cost us tonight. Other than that, I think we played really well for 89mins tonight. We lost the tie at home when we only won by one goal when it should have been 2 or 3. We still have some learning to do in Europe. Now let's win the next four league matches and stop the Dippers winning all four or we'll never hear the end of it!.
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Agree with all that you say. Dont think the players will need any motivation to win the PL as its that or nothing now.
 
dozzie26 said:
Pep has dropped some fucking clangers but not tonight mate. We played the perfect game, we've just been on the end of one of those classic sucker punch knockout ties. It's so hard to comprehend.

Think we all need to sleep on it and give it a few days to settle.
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course pep fucked up tonight
Cellarite said:
Which stupid substitutions?

Walker had to go off so he brings on Zinchenko and switches Cancelo to the right.

Fernandinho comes on to shore things up and then Rodri makes way.

De Bruyne was shite so he brings on Gundogan and we instantly score.
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grealish…. that game because they were chasing was made for sterling or even jesus staying on but pep went defensive..
 
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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Counterpoint -

Our xG was significantly higher in the seasons we had Aguero upfront (17/18 and 18/19) than it has been in any season since we swapped to no strikers.

Shot Creating Actions - ie passes, dribbles, crosses that lead to a shot - were about 10% higher with no striker in 19/20, but have been lower than the seasons with a striker in 20/21 and 21/22.

So we were creating more and better chances to score goals with a striker than we are with an extra creator.
 
Ian Blake said:
It seems strange why we haven't been banging on about this before. Love eddy he really really tries for us...and tbf as a fan that goes a long way...but to really win stuff...just need next level man in nets
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ive said it for a couple of years but no idea who?
eddy is a top footballer we know that and can create goals but how many of these goals are winning goals compared to how many goals he doesnt save?
ive literally no idea who it should be but for me ederson is our weakest link.
 
Paul1970 said:
Wasn’t bad luck and and a corrupt ref it was a fucking disgrace and there should be an inquest into it . Laporte a major player in our demise . Cancelo is a defender who can’t defend . We have no striker and if bringing sterling on to save us is our play then we have problems . I now expect us to shit the bed and lose the title as Liverpools quadruple will happen .
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Demise is a bit of a strong word. It wasn't York away tonight. it was the second leg of the CL semi-final... And we're still top of the PL with 4 games to go.
 
Bluefen said:
They are one off games - we are not entitled to win every game… it’s where we finish after 38 games and generally this side has delivered in spades….

although I do agree I’m sick of us being naive or not getting the rub of the green in these one off games
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Spurs x 2
Southampton x 2
Crystal Palace x 2
The Dippers x 2
And then this abomination of the game tonight

And 'one off' + plural of a noun, come on mate........

Let me help you, I am going through the same process

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coolcity said:
Why do you all think it's that simple? Half the clubs in Europe are stuffed full of internationals, only one wins the CL.

People forget too easily what we have won and the records we've broken in the past decade or so. In that time only 5 teams have won the CL.
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I don't think it's simple but we managed the game against Atletico we should have been more than capable of doing so here. I'm not sure anyone here has forgotten any of our records, they aren't relevant to today's performance anyway.
 
blue whippet said:
I disagree about Ake though, he is good, and an international. We just haven't seen much of him. Zinchenko has been forced into his role which isn't his natural position.
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Aké is brilliant in the air and almost always wins the battle. The big issue I have with him is that he is painfully slow in a foot race and I think that is his is undoing. Also, he is uncomfortable driving forward and in this regard Zinchenko has the edge. Having said all of that, he is improving and hopefully will continue to do so.
 
goatinho said:
ive said it for a couple of years but no idea who?
eddy is a top footballer we know that and can create goals but how many of these goals are winning goals compared to how many goals he doesnt save?
ive literally no idea who it should be but for me ederson is our weakest link.
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He gets away with it as we often dominate most games so he's rarely called on. He does pull off the odd worldie but I look at some goals he lets in and think, how?
 
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