Real Madrid (A) | Post Match Thread

TonyM said:
I didnt think the ref was bad at all. He was fair. Missed some things but he's human.
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Agreed, Bernardo’s was a nasty foul on Camavinga. No yellow thankfully. Rodri could have had a yellow for tug. Equally Kross could have had 2 yellows as well as a straight red.

Thought on the whole ref was looking at game with keeping max players on the pitch and game. Both Grealish and the Madrid wingback prick could have had yellows.

We have to take out chances at our place to knock them out. Let’s hope they don’t bring their Liverpool game to our place next Wednesday
 
They allowed us to play at walking pace, control the ball and not flog ourselves. Ideal and what we wanted. The bench will be fresh for Everton for 5 or 6 changes and key players will be fresh again for those cunts next Wednesday.
We've learned not to play transitional football against these and game manage much better. Seems some of our fans don't understand you're not going to boss these on their own turf for 90 minutes and not get caught overcommitting. Apparently that means we were poor which is utter horseshit.
We kept them to potshots and set pieces with not a lot of posession in their own back yard.
Our tempo will be a lot higher at home and it's advantage us. That's what that performance bought us tonight. Difficult to win it in 90 minutes but you can certainly lose it.
I'm delighted with that even though the performance was functional.
 
Ake was missing tonight and it showed in Jack's performance. Hopefully he's back for next week.
Two great goals from two great players.
Bring on next week's home leg.
We're almost there CTID
 
What a BRILLIANT performance away to Real! There wasn't the sparks & drama of last seasons' away game, but this time we've shown we've grown up. What a controlled display! I'm so so proud of our boys!

Walker handled Vini Jnr superbly, & it was telling their goal came from him having to drift inside, as he couldn't get past Rapido Walker! But what a fuckin goal that was! No one was stopping that & Vini Jnr is already a footballing Superstar at 22!

This was a high quality match of the highest order. It gets no better. We controlled the game in the first half, & as I predicted it was gonna take a worldy or two to make a difference, & Vini's rocket certainly did.

It's just what Real do. You can be dominating them, but they have the quality players who can produce moments of magic like that!

HOWEVER, City too have game changing Superstars & just as Real were controlling the narrative in the early to middle part of the second half, up steps the Ginger Ninja with a pile-driver of his own which left Courtois with ZERO chance!

Real stepped up the pressure trying to find a winner, but we went into game management mode & regained the possession initiative. Real became desperate, because they badly wanted an advantage to take with them to Manchester, but City held on to make it all square.

I thought Eddie, Gundog & Rodri had excellent games throughout & over all it was a classic team performance. We're at halftime & it all rests on next Wednesday when we have home advantage.

Roll on Sunday against a surprisingly resurgent Everton. It's not the kind of match I want in between a CL Semi against Real, but we've gotta be in it to win it, & it wasn't so long ago that we were on the outside looking in, & could only dream of high profile European matches like this.

I'd have loved the win, but if offered a draw at the beginning, I'd have taken it without hesitation. Finally, Rudiger is a fuckin twat with the strength of a Grizzly who I'd prefer to be on my side, rather than be playing against him.

It is what it is though. If we wanna win the most prestigious prizes in football, we've gotta get past the very best in the world, so coming away from Madrid with a draw is nothing to sniff at...

Come on City! We can do this! )(
 
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Fuck me! This is from the Guardian....

Both teams embrace each other warmly, though Carlo Ancelotti continues to lose his usual studied supercool with the referee. He’s arguing that a corner that never was led to Kevin De Bruyne’s spectacular equaliser midway through the second half … but that’s a bit of a stretch. As good as Vinicius Junior’s first-time strike was, Manchester City were the better team in the first half, then in control for most of a slightly more balanced second, and thoroughly deserved to come away with a draw at the very least. Given the pattern of the match, and with the second leg to come on home turf, they’ll be by far the happier side this evening. The reigning champions will have to put on a performance next week if they’re to keep hold of their crown; City will surely be confident of getting the job done at the Etihad and making it to Istanbul.

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Shaffer92 said:
Geez. Relax. I promise it's not that deep.

I wasn't calling Pep the person a coward- just questioning his game management and lack of subs that were clearly needed IMO.
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How many games have you managed?, I'm relaxed, but associating anything pep a manager who has his way to play was told it would never work, who stood up for us when we were being charged a coward is out of order, pep doesn't need the shit he gets from our media about our club ,he stuck 2 fingers up at them and took this team on to the verge of history ,if we don't win a thing this season he has still performed with everything he has.

One thing you can't level at pep is his bottle, 1-1 away to real madrid in the champions league semi final and your first words were cowardice, shocking
 
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