Real Madrid post match thread

[ysmsa]

"We need to see the game out with fresh legs boss"

"Gundogan"

"But it hasn't worked the last 453456 times we've done that. He can't run"

"........Gundogan."

What other options were there though,

3 going off injured fucked us.

Despite that their 2 late goals were down to errors from us, that's what is annoying.

 

[Haaland94]

Why we spending 30 million on centre backs to bring on Rico Lewis. I’m fucking sick of this shit decision making all season.

We spent more on Khusanov and Reis. Khusanov is one of the best U20 CBs in the world and doesn't get a game even if 2 of oir defenders go off. Rico Lewis plays no matter what. It's a joke.

 

[Cobwebcat]

Tough way to lose but they were better than us tonight. Signs of City improving. I thought Stones was great.

 

[Ashton Moss Messi]

Bringing on kovacic and gundogan is not what you need when you need fresh legs. Their legs haven't been fresh for five years.
Rico oh dear.
Ederson there's always a mistake ready to give a goal (or two).
Kdb should have been replaced after 65-70 minutes by Omar.

 

[Silvatoure21]

Now we need a minimum of 2 goals and not to concede to keep us in this competition. That’s not happening so we are out. Lewis, Kovacic, Ederson and Pep should be thinking about how to respond to the fans for that 2nd half disasterclass

Why? We can force extra time with a one goal win. There are no away goal rules anymore

 

[Benarbia’s Backheel]

Play Khusanov RB in every match for the rest of the season now. Let him learn the system and learn off Dias.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

I think Pep will leave after the club world cup, this season must be stressing him to fuck and there's still a lot more shit to come

We're gonna have to look beyond him at some point anyway. Dragging it out doesn't make sense if things stay the same. I would hope the club have some idea of what they want in a successor.

 

[OntarioBlue]

Pray tell, for which position is he staking a claim for, in the starting 11??

That’s an excellent question.

 

[eyalluvitt]

Ederson at their 2nd goal

 

[Sir Joe Aguero]

Not so much mentality as physicality -they were both moving like ninety year olds the last 10/15

Physicality (a lack of) is also a massive reason. Rico and Kovacic never had any, Gundo & Bernie’s has fallen off a cliff. Think we need at least another CB in summer.

Josko was superb I thought.

 

[Kippax Kidd]

We make fun of Utd blowing money

We wasted a quarter of billion pounds in January on players who aren't good enough to get into THIS team

Just think about that

 

[meltonblue]

I think pep lost the dressing room. This is shock

He quite clearly hasn’t, if he had it’d have been a full capitulation from the first minute rather than yet again two brain farts from individuals in the last ten minutes.

Instead we could and should have got a result against Madrid despite our confidence, form and squad all being poor at the mo.

 

[Vester]

Never ever will City have a better manager than Guardiola. Never.

But this season....what happened to him? With every substitution he made, City got weaker and weaker. Again.

How long before results in the past are no longer enough to go on?

Would rather change the entire squad before thinking about replacing the best manager in world football.

 

[Kinkys Left Foot]

Fucking inexcusable shitshow again.
Some players are not good enough and some need to take a long hard look at themselves in the mirror.
Another game winning in the 88th minute they managed to lose. Just fuckoff.

 

[MMA]

Think we have a huge problem with Pep.
He has not adapted to our situation and its killing us. Every team seems to have 20 odd shots v us due to his and the clubs failings.
We have 2 clowns battling for the keepers position, bow many times has Ederson cost us in the CL ( always grateful v Inter) no full backs and defenders who struggle to play 45 minutes. God knows what our medical staff with state of the art facilities are doing.
We spend a lot of money on 2 unproven defenders, 1 of which was on the bench tonight.
We have wingers who cannot score and a midfield with no pace, no energy, no creativity and no defensive abilities.
We played a Madrid team missing their back 4 and we went slow with our expensive pacy new player left on the bench.
3-2 was flattering for us tonight, could have been a real thumping on another night.
180 million spent in Jan and he is still bringing on a championship level Lewis and past it Mr Whippy.
No chance of going through, most of us expected that but i have never seen a team fuck up to conceed goals as much of us.
I dont think he can fix it, his style is now becoming outdated where teams are all about press, pace, energy and we just do not have it yet he is setting up every game as if we have it

Been saying it all season mate that the whole of Europe have been slowly building teams and tactics against our dominance past 8 years..

Everybody plays the same way and does well against us..

Teams and football have moved on but you'll get the happy clappers saying it's won us loads past years..

It's gone now.

Tactics and state of play have moved on.

 

[Rodri’s ACL]

The contrast between last half an hour and last ten minutes is absolutely insane.

 

[Tommy_Catons_Perm]

Ederson was brain dead to kick the ball straight to Real for the equaliser. It was so easy to just fall on the ground after he caught the ball. It should be automatic?

He could even have got cramp like Arsenal goalkeepers and wasted 3 minutes. But no. He stands up. He immediately smacks the ball with no control into midfield and invites pressure. Stupid.

 

[SWPISHOME]

I'm actually disappointed with the performance, I can see many on here are happy with what was produced by the players tonight nice to have positive posts.

Personally I think tonight was our chance to go to Madrid with an advantage especially with the players they are missing, We look so short of confidence and you can sense it from the crowd too even when the ball is being played around the back you could hear a pin drop. I don't think we've showed enough attacking threat tonight, We were looking for moments in the game without having any real sustained pressure on Real Madrid. We played ok in parts of the game but overall Real Madrid were the better side they look a step above us at this moment in time.

I loved Gvardiol performance tonight I thought he was absolutely quality, Ederson was incredible up until the 86th minute and then it all went pear shaped.

The goals we are conceding are absolutely comical, The first goal you've two players that don't react getting out and ball watching, The second Ederson having a shit kick out on top of that when Ederson saved the original effort from the rebound Kovacic decided to stop following Diaz run because he can't sense danger, The third goal was a comedy of errors from Rico, Eddie and Kovacic...

It summed up our season as it's been a constant theme, At 2-1 just sit deep and look for counter attacks, Just make sure you hold onto what you have worked for getting a lead...Truth be told, If I was Haaland I'd stick a head in the majority of them at the back, Everytime he gets us in the game or ahead in a game they have a brainfart at the back.

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

180 million spent in Jan and he is still bringing on a championship level Lewis and past it Mr Whippy.

I'm lost for words too. I need somebody to explain this to me.

 

[wattle]

Counts for nothing tho with that cock up at the end. To cheaply give the ball away in the closing minutes when we just needed to keep things tight is a disgrace.

Yeh counts for nothing that we could have been 1-4 down if it wasn’t for him