Real Madrid post match post mortem

coolcity said:
Bollocks. 38 goals or so, so far and that's shite? Get a grip. Why don't people understand that as other teams and players get used to how you play they find a way to combat it so it gets harder. Don't tell me you're one of those idiots who expected him to get 50 every single season?
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Come on mate.
I don't expect anything.
But he's been shit for months.
Take your blue blinkers off.
 
OntarioBlue said:
Even the TNT commentators couldn’t believe it was only 67% posession as we were so dominant. But to be honest the slow build up and constant square and backward passes has hurt us, and not for the first time this season. What has happenned to the team that used to hit opponents at speed ?
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Possession football that’s what. It allows teams to get organized in 2 banks. We need a new style that’s for sure but that requires different types of players.
 
argyle said:
All on Pep this.

Rubbish set up and rubbish subs.

Why play Foden out of position for the first half?

Then took Haaland and KDB off with pens looming.

Brings Kovacic on for pens who then takes an absolute shit pen.
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and he rushes walker in to prevent the exact same thing that happened on the first goal. Shite, but I am very proud of the team.
 
Best team lost. Poor penalties and a few odd decisions from Pep. Just need to get up for Saturday now. Lads weren’t at their best in either game for me but that’s maybe me judging us on how good we were last year.
 
Don Karleone said:
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I think most of there 33% possession was them taking goal kicks
 
So proud of our boys in blue, especially the five who stepped up to take the penalties.

We dominated them for much of the game, but unfortunately (as Pep is fond of saying) “these things can happen — it’s football”. We will get over this and be back. CTID.
 
Again. I don’t care about the actual game. We played really well. We had chances they had chances. They defended as well as we attacked. But the pens man.. Ederson has been with us for over 7 years. He’s a known quantity and it’s proven now he’s not someone you want to put money on as you man between the sticks for penalties. He doesn’t even dive fully most of the time, just kneels when the ball is shot the other way.
 
Fuckin Gutted!

I had a feeling of foreboding because of the way we started with an uncharateristic brand of old man walking football.

I thought we'd go at em from the opening whistle, & that allowed Real to score early & put us under pressure to respond. It must have been an instruction to take the sting out of the game by Pep, which subdued the crowd from the outset.

We dominated the game, but Real came with a game plan to defend deep & hit us on the counter & it worked.

Grealish was our best player by a mile & it shocked me when Pep pulled him off.

Foden started on the right, but was quiet all match, so when the subs were warming up, I honestly thought Phil might get pulled, but I suppose he poses more of a goal threat than Grealish, hence he stayed on & Jack got pulled.

From 70 mins on, you could see Real were playing for penalties & so it proved.

The pivotal moment was KDB missing an absolute sitter. If there was anyone you'd want a ball like that to fall to, it was King Kev, but he fluffed his lines at the crucial moment.

From then on my gut was telling me that was our chance of victory gone. KDB took his equaliser well, but in games like this it's all about small margins & his miss proved the ultimate difference in normal time.

In retrospect, we'd have been better pulling off Foden, moving Bernardo centrally & putting Doku on the right, with Grealish left, but hindsight's a wonderful thing.

Kudos to Walker who had a great game, alongside Akanji who was immense too.

Haaland was better tonight, but Rudiger proved yet again he's got Erling's number.

Real got the penalty shootout they wanted after our equaliser, & I just knew they'd get through if we got to that stage.

Bernardo went straight down the middle with his penalty which looks great when it comes off, but stupid when it doesn't.

Kovacic's penalty was a combination of a weak shot & well saved, but Real took their chances when it mattered most.

The more gutting aspect was that we went through extra time, rinsed ourselves dry, & now we face a buoyant Chelsea in 3 days time.

I'm still proud of our boys. The season's not over, but our main focus now must be the league over the FA Cup, & not repeating the transfer errors of last summer.

Now we better brace ourselves for the Bellingham wankathon! I seriously dislike the bastard!

Again... Fuckin GUTTED!!
 
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