Real Madrid (A) Post Match Thread

[hammocity]

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.

Well said, amateurs on here obviously know more than Pep, they’d have the Manager replaced every 6 months, who do they want? Rogers, Potter, Allardyce, ffs, be grateful what we have which is a brilliant club, Owner, players and most of all Manager.

 

[i8rags]

I know Erling scores Grealish chance

 

[TFC]

I had a hard time rationalizing last years final, but got over it (well one day I will) eventually. This one will forever stick in the craw. We should have buried them at the Etihad. It is and will forever be remembered as another huge missed opportunity. Mentality midgets ffs.

 

[city68]

So after a shit night's sleep my reflections.

Did Pep's subs have a positive effect on Madrid. He took off three penalty takers in KDB, Jesus and Mahrez obviously thinking it wouldn't go to penalties. But did he also have an eye on the league? Jesus in particular was having a good game and whilst I understood the need for fresh legs etc I am not sure they were the right subs.
Mentally I think the players thought it was won hence the lapse in concentration for the first goal. Look at when the cross came in, everyone bar Cancelo on the 18 yard line but he was so worried about Benzema he had stepped back into the box playing him on. Dias then isn't aware that Rodrygo is behind him and Ederson also doesn't see him as he thinks it's an easy take. Second goal a little unfortunate as the flick on the ball just takes it away from Laporte. We are talking fine margins here that in big games you need to have to get over the line.
The ref was shocking, three yellows for Casemiro not given (foul on KDB, pull back on Foden and the dive) which helped him play the way he did. Yellow for Laporte for having his throat grabbed, no foul on Sterling given on the edge of the box, foul by Foden when it was the other way around, the list goes on. Anyone also notice that once Madrid were ahead the ball boys who had been throwing the balls back almost before they crossed the line suddenly had a reluctance to even stand up from their seats. Not sure where six minutes came from at the end of the game but why only three at the end and then why blow up on 2.50. It's a minimum of three minutes to play not let's blow when I feel like it.
Lot's of positives though, the best being I don't have to fork out for three tickets, three flights and accommodation etc with money I was going to struggle to find.
Chins up lads and lasses, let's smash the Geordies and win the league. Fuck the media, refs and opposing fans. We're Man City we fight to the end.

So after a shit night's sleep my reflections.

Did Pep's subs have a positive effect on Madrid. He took off three penalty takers in KDB, Jesus and Mahrez obviously thinking it wouldn't go to penalties. But did he also have an eye on the league? Jesus in particular was having a good game and whilst I understood the need for fresh legs etc I am not sure they were the right subs.
Mentally I think the players thought it was won hence the lapse in concentration for the first goal. Look at when the cross came in, everyone bar Cancelo on the 18 yard line but he was so worried about Benzema he had stepped back into the box playing him on. Dias then isn't aware that Rodrygo is behind him and Ederson also doesn't see him as he thinks it's an easy take. Second goal a little unfortunate as the flick on the ball just takes it away from Laporte. We are talking fine margins here that in big games you need to have to get over the line.
The ref was shocking, three yellows for Casemiro not given (foul on KDB, pull back on Foden and the dive) which helped him play the way he did. Yellow for Laporte for having his throat grabbed, no foul on Sterling given on the edge of the box, foul by Foden when it was the other way around, the list goes on. Anyone also notice that once Madrid were ahead the ball boys who had been throwing the balls back almost before they crossed the line suddenly had a reluctance to even stand up from their seats. Not sure where six minutes came from at the end of the game but why only three at the end and then why blow up on 2.50. It's a minimum of three minutes to play not let's blow when I feel like it.
Lot's of positives though, the best being I don't have to fork out for three tickets, three flights and accommodation etc with money I was going to struggle to find.
Chins up lads and lasses, let's smash the Geordies and win the league. Fuck the media, refs and opposing fans. We're Man City we fight to the end.

Good post m8 . Pep makes some strange subs and why 2 players to take a corner Don't say for a short one .That last night was unbelievable..Stroll on Sunday

 

[ancoats]

Extra time non event ...we were done...just shouldn't have bottled it

If we did what they did in extra time and kill the game in the injury time ? Big lesson cheat fake injury roll about kill the game

 

[blueparrot]

88 seconds between Real Madrid’s first goal and their second. In any game that’s ridiculous but in a Champions League Semi final with minutes to go is just criminal. Why did we restart the game again so quickly and why the fuck was Ederson just booting back to Courtois. Just madness how we threw that game away. We didn’t need the goal! Why did we rush to restart the game. Ffs

We are very good at game management and keeping possesion to kill a game, one of the best. Last night we did it for the last 15 minutes .
Then they scored and we didn't, panic and nerves set in , it's that simple they are human , it has nothing to do with tactics or game management, plain simple human instinct at a time of stress, it happens.

 

[Tevez City]

Good morning blues

Still feeling sick

 

[hammocity]

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!

That game had a huge impact on our season for the worse.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

How the fuck does he add 6 minutes at the end of the 90 and only 3 at the end of extra time when I’d be surprised if the ball was in play for more than 5 minutes?! Bent as fuck.

Even so, so fucking embarrassing from the players to let that get away from them. And we never looked like getting anything back. It’s like there’s no fight when things aren’t going our way.

Absolutely wounded at that. Wounded.

I cannot see any single issue in the game that will ultimately drive me to the armchair I'm sitting in now than amount of two 45 minute halves that are swindled to ridiculous proportions. Refs do fuck all to remove timewasting from the game, in fact, their lack of a response just encourages teams. Has anyone been cautioned for timewasting in the first half, for doing exactly what they might be cautioned for on, say. 87 minutes. I've often thought of taking a stop watch to a game to see how much playing time is delivered. The reasons for the added time continue to remain a mystery to anyone sitting or standing on the terraces. We might be told that it accommodates goals, VAR checks, and subs - but a kid in primary school could do the maths and see that it never fits.

 

[ArdwickBlue_M12]

when we were 1-0 up we should have took the ball into the corner, start diving or just generally waste time. we need to be more ruthless in these kind of games. We pretty much should have done what we did against Atletico in the 2nd leg.

 

[ancoats]

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.

Let's not forget all the good work this season and if football was just about winning i would have given up a long time ago

 

[Big Swifty]

Last night I was reminded of Groucho Marx's famous put-down to his hos when leaving a ghastly party: "I've had a wonderful evening - - but tonight wasn't one of them"

 

[chickaroon]

His record since leaving Barcelona in the Champions League makes pretty bleak reading.whilst he was manager of Bayern i remember them getting a good pasting by Real Madrid in a semi-final at home. Bayern fans felt he didn't have what it takes to make them Kings of Europe.Many were happy he left.Clubs like Bayern demand the Trophy.

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He just seems to not be able to deal with high pressure one off later games in the Champions League very well.

He didn't do much wrong tonight other than substitute all our game changers thinking we had won the game. Meaning when we went behind, we literally didn't have a game changing player on the Pitch to change it for us.

Jack nearly did. Just bad luck his chances didn't go in. Mark my words we have a match winner in him. Next season, you will see.

 

[TheBlueDune]

Yep. If the boot had been on the other foot, RM would have fallen over at the slightest touch, physio on, surrounding the ref, etc. etc.
Naively trying to get a winner when one not needed.

 

[iwasthere1968]

Exactly. Here's one way to look at it this morning....

Gutted though we all are, at this precise moment would you rather you were a gutted blue boy/girl or a giddy little dipper?

For the avoidance of doubt, the correct answer to this is 'I would rather be lying half dead on the savannah with my tackle being chewed off by hyenas than be a dipper'

So we have to put our big boy pants on and get behind the team for those remaining 4 games which could see us win the league for the 4th time in 5 seasons.

This is the correct answer

 

[Claytop]

For such a great team our game management can be horrendous at times.

Leeds last season in the league we managed to throw away a point in stoppage time, thankfully didn’t end up costing us. Spurs this season, another point thrown away after equalising in stoppage time ourselves ffs, could still cost us.

Then last nights shit show, maybe we should have seen the warning signs in the A Madrid game when they finally gave it a go. Although at least we showed some shithousery to see it out, where was it last night?…

 

[Bill]

What a shit post, you obviously know nothing about football

and you know nothing about forums. the idea is you post your opinion on the topic being discussed , rather than on a fellow member . try it sometime .

 

[blue ranger]

Why have we started sending all kick offs back to Ederson for him to lump up field. Don't think that helps us at all.

 

[bobom]

I cannot see any single issue in the game that will ultimately drive me to the armchair I'm sitting in now than amount of two 45 minute halves that are swindled to ridiculous proportions. Refs do fuck all to remove timewasting from the game, in fact, their lack of a response just encourages teams. Has anyone been cautioned for timewasting in the first half, for doing exactly what they might be cautioned for on, say. 87 minutes. I've often thought of taking a stop watch to a game to see how much playing time is delivered. The reasons for the added time continue to remain a mystery to anyone sitting or standing on the terraces. We might be told that it accommodates goals, VAR checks, and subs - but a kid in primary school could do the maths and see that it never fits.

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

 

[willipp]

He's not required to make many shot stopping saves as such. I think he is unfortunate that a lot of the goals conceded are shots he really does not have much hope of saving and nor would most keepers.

Maybe we do need someone to pull off worldie saves more often and sacrifice some of our play from the back but I am not convinced that would be a good trade-off.

From my POV, he does not concede many at all where I think he should have saved that. I don't blame him for the goals last night. Perhaps he could have got out a little faster to the first; the second is past him before he can blink.

Yes i'm mostly in agreement, just feels at times he never really rescues us with a great save. For me we need a settled back 4 next season where we know our best 4. That doesn't include laporte and does include an actual LB. We need to get away from making do at the back and hopefully get Diaz back to his best which i feel he has been a long way off.