Real Madrid (H) | Post Match Thread

[bluealf]

This should‘ve been City embarrassing Madrid, but.... frustrating

Never mind eh, you've always got Shrewsbury to fall back on

 

[nellyonthewing]

Sterling made an instant impact. Conceded 2 pointless fouls, an offside and a waft at a ball in the box. Should have left Jesus on.

 

[ilrm]

Prior to the game I thought City were slight favorites to go through after 2 legs.

City -
Pros -

• World's best team
• Still in the middle of their peak

Cons -

• Have a mentally and physically grueling battle with Liverpool which will affect their ability to fight at 100% in the second leg, especially if the game goes 120 minutes. Can't rest entire first XI between legs.
• Play away in the 2nd leg

Madrid -
Pros -

• 7 players know what its like to win the CL thrice. Have been in tough situations before.
• Need to only draw 1 game out of 5 to win La Liga. Can rest entire first team (esp Modric/Benz) for a week before each leg.
• At home in the final leg.

Cons -

• Weakness in defending collectively.
• Carlo is an inferior tactician to Pep.
• Weaker team man-for-man than City barring 1-2 players.

Nothing has changed my mind so far although going back with only a one goal deficit is a huge bonus.

 

[wolviedinho]

You got to give Madrid credit. You can never right them off. We need to outscore them to win.

 

[jim tolmies perm]

UEFA will see to it next week

 

[handsofstone]

Pretty poor based on balance of play, we tore then apart but lost our heads every time we got 2 goals ahead

but you'd take the score at the beginning of the game

Good thing away goals don't count anymore though

 

[OrigamiNinja]

this was like Man City in UCL in Guardiola first years...i thought Guardiola learned the lession, like last year, doing a better game management, with clinical subs, strenghtening the midfield...refreshing the players..and of course didnt help Laporte messing up again in this games..hope Stones return: Dias and Stones are more secure, composed and complete . Like we saw last year.

Yep can’t disagree there. It was like a flashback to all the bad things we thought we had eradicated from our game in CL games. We have won 4-3, which on the face of it, with away goals not counting it looks a fantastic result, but we all know we should have scored more and we have gifted them 3 goals.

We are winning but the tie should be all over, we have given them a chance their performance didn’t deserve.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

You got to give Madrid credit. You can never right them off. We need to outscore them to win.

No we don’t.

 

[Uwe's 80s mullet]

I thought we were fucking fantastic. Up there with the best I’ve seen us. Some of the defending was shoddy though

Fair play to Madrid. Two top teams going right at it. Beautiful stuff

 

[ancoats]

When you're facing 14 times winners of the Champions League and beat them with a patched up back 4 speaks volumes ? We are not fully there yet, but we still hold the upper hand, and we will score and get a result over there.
I will say lessons still need to be learnt in very big games in europe and we turn off for a second and you're punished in a flash ?

How do real madrid keep doing it ? We were in controlled and bang punished again and again
pep and city need a bit of luck when it comes to having a fully fit squad or the right players at left back and right back.

we can beat anybody home or away ? but until we have a left back and a world-class striker then we have to work bloody hard to kill games off against the big boys.

9/10 tonight and 100% every player given their all for the shirt and fans and not much you can ask from them