Real Madrid (A) | Post Match Thread

[SebastianBlue]

Still feel like this was an excellent result. Tough place to go with the crowd whistling for everything, their players diving everywhere and the refs usually obliging.

Bring them back to our place for a one game playoff and treat the cunts in the same manner. Surely it's good the for the CL if the same team doesn't win it every year?!

You don’t have to just feel that way, it has been empirically validated that it was an excellent result.

Especially when you considered how we have faired drawing away in the competition this year. ;-)

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

I think the control we exercised was very impressive indeed. That was the most impressive aspect of it all.
If you go back ten years, we are often not in control of anything very much. In the Dortmund game, it's Keystone Cops defending, with Joe having to pull off a Roy-of-the-Rovers performance of a lifetime. There were quite a few others like that. Barcelona comes to mind of course. We had some good results along the way — Rome, Seville, a group game against Bayern that ultimately didn't mean a lot, the two fine games against PSG that got us through to the previous final — but there's no doubt that we've become steadily better at dealing with this bloody competition! Dare I say it? We have become… European. Not “European royalty”. I hope to God nobody ever uses that foul and ridiculous phrase about us. Don't want it.
It took us more than ten years of apprenticeship to get to this level of canniness. Not to say that we can't lose on Wednesday. Of course we can. We had a couple of brief moments of inattention, both involving Benzema, and they could have both been goals. That's the way this competition works. But I now do genuinely believe that we are and have been the best team in the competition this year, and would be bitterly disappointed not to get to Istanbul. And win it.
I have said, many times, that for me the big one is the league. Hey, that's just me. But I do, very much, want the cup with big ears, as the French call it, this year.

 

[The perfect fumble]

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Please Pep make some substitutions when needed
ref was shit
Stones man of the match
A great result

All good then. No need to risk a drop in tempo with subs.

There wasn’t much tempo and tired players

I was close. ;)

 

[Badensbluemoon]

I am rewatching the game and that attack on Gundogan from Rutdiger, not even a yellow, unreal. We will have to be really careful at the Etihad, we will have to keep our heads cold. Madrid know the book of the dark arts. They will be diving every chance they get and going hard on our players.
And make no mistake, they will be protected by the referee. They can get away with lots of stuff in the champions.
Oh what a bunch of dirty fuckers, but really the worse one is Carvajal

 

[The Flying Goldfish]

I predicted (hoped) for a 1-1, the way they can defend so deep without a care in the world and yet be so good in the transitions of play. The 2nd half they started to be a bit more fluid with the ball, created chances but we hold our own. Then came the strike of our King Kev. I didn't like his play throughout the match, thought that he lost possession in places where we should have just passed it along. But that shot... He is the greatest midfielder in the world.

City 3-1 Madrid 2nd leg

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Easy people.

 

[walker_is_faster]

I am rewatching the game and that attack on Gundogan from Rutdiger, not even a yellow, unreal. We will have to be really careful at the Etihad, we will have to keep our heads cold. Madrid know the book of the dark arts. They will be diving every chance they get and going hard on our players.
And make no mistake, they will be protected by the referee. They can get away with lots of stuff in the champions.
Oh what a bunch of dirty fuckers, but really the worse one is Carvajal

He didn't even give a foul, he only stoped game because was head injury. But he was giving foul for Camavinga when he was diving, also Rodri and Vinicius the cleanest shoulder to shoulder and he gave foul to Madrid. They were getting everything from ref, when ever we got some right decision all Madrid bench were going after the ref.

 

[mjkismgs]

Exactly what I have said throughout this and a few other related threads.

You are of course right but fake controversy is a media staple. Having said that, the ESPN website had an excellent comment very shortly after the match finished which totally demolished all the arguments of those querying the validity of City's goal, including Wenger's nonsense about a chip in the ball (which has nothing whatsoever to do with determining whether the ball is in or out of play but was introduced to determine whether or not the ball had been touched by a player).

 

[warringtonblue]

That was staggering. Jack was taking knocks right through the first half, by the way. Rudiger was dishing them out as well (although not to Håland, I think even he is not stupid enough to try that).

I listened to the post match analysis and Ferdinand and Owen said they was watching Haaland and Rudiger when the ball was at the other end of the pitch. They both commented on how often Rudiger pulled his shirt and bumped into Haaland and said they did well not to react