Real Madrid post match thread

[half & half derby scarf]

Don't get the optimism on here. Did I watch a different game? Should have ended about 7-2 to Madrid on chances and Madrid were awful.

 

[hertsblue]

Rmember the days when teams hardly had a shot v us. Last 4 games, 57 shots against us. Even Orient had 13.
All down to Pep trying to play his usual tactics with personal not good enough to play that way and him unable to adapt tactics

 

[Micky Blue]

We did better than I expected.
Shame Grealish got injured. Great ball in leading to the goal and he looked good.

Savinho is decent defensively, tries hard and is good running with the ball. But there’s no end product. I really hope he can improve that.

Kev was constantly chasing down courtois. He’s 34 and can’t run, having him do that job and keeping him on for that long seemed strange. He looked knackered after 40 minutes.

Kovacic is limited as a player. I don’t rate him. He was next to brahim for there second, but he was asleep to the danger and let him get a run on him and get a tap in.

We won’t overturn result. Not with this squad and not at the Bernabeau.
I hope Pep tries something different and gives Khusanov, Marmoush and Nico (if he’s fit) a start.
Let’s just get top 4 then consign this season to the annals of history.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Without doubt. But at least I’d get to tell them what they are before hand.

You’d wilt into nothing. Literally

I can’t fucking stand online twats like you. Go dnd support someone else. Coward.

 

[ScottSinclair]

With the fixtures coming up I can see us heading towards another period like the one before christmas

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

"Fanny wipe" top Blue posters incoming to tell us how entitled we are for being annoyed at giving up a 2-1 lead to a 2-3 defeat in the last 10 minutes.

Hey remember Alan Ball -yadda-yadda-yadda- we've come a long way.

2-1 up with 10 to go and losing when not really looking like we were under any real pressure needs calling out no matter what happened in and since 1995.

 

[jayblue]

An expected result really. If we'd have won 3-0 we'd concede 4 in Spain. We are pants.

 

[lee one pen]

We all want rico to do well. But he ain’t going to do it under Pep here

It’s a massive drop off. Think off the full backs we have had and he’s low on the list and I’m including the 80s and 90s.

 

[dom]

He looked very nervous when he came on

Lovely lad..great work rate...just nit defence savvy and too small not to be

 

[iwasthere1968]

Pep truly sees things that we mortals just don't.

 

[heslops barnet]

Rico has all the stature of a ball boy…………tries his best but his best ain’t good enough

 

[alexmcity]

A lot deeper than Rodri

Not really.

He would have helped us play much better.

Of course, some players are over the hill and Pep makes some strange decisions. But even with these aging players we would have looked much better with Rodri than now.

Rodri's the system. I think some haven't understood how good he was the last two seasons. Better player than KDB, David, etc.

 

[hertsblue]

Don't get the optimism on here. Did I watch a different game? Should have ended about 7-2 to Madrid on chances and Madrid were awful.

Yep, 3-2 hugely flattered us tonight. Would be no surprise to have another 5-1 thrashing next week

 

[Vester]

Dias and Stones looked good when boulders had to move back there.

Shame they were let down by others.

Looked good you say. It looked like we cant defend at all and we were lucky to only concede 3.

 

[Fordyboy46]

I wouldn't, at this particular time, like to think what might happen next week.

We have to beat Newcastle first, if we lose that then I really fear for us in Madrid

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Don't get the optimism on here. Did I watch a different game? Should have ended about 7-2 to Madrid on chances and Madrid were awful.

They had early chances but we dominated 20-85 for me

 

[burning blue soul]

We all want rico to do well. But he ain’t going to do it under Pep here

I just don't think he has the eye of the tiger in him.
And I don't think he knows how to get it.

 

[Goater101]

You’d wilt into nothing. Literally

I can’t fucking stand online twats like you. Go dnd support someone else. Coward.

Hahaha go to bed pal. Stop defending people who don’t give a fuck about you.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

We have to be the most unprofessional team in world football at the moment. United, Sporting, Brentford, Juventus, Brighton, PSG, Feyenoord, Arsenal, Madrid. That’s 26 second half goals conceded in just 9 games since the start of November, 7 of which games we were winning at some point, and 15 of which goals came in the last 15 minutes.
That tonight, given what happened against United and Feyenoord in particular, was absolutely shameful. Leading with 6 minutes left? Two banks of four, make it difficult, but no, there we are again with the defence shoved up on halfway and quick opposition forwards looking to run in behind.
I have no words for Ederson on either goal. He cost us the game. A showy horizontal volley goal kick carries a far greater risk than an up and under, so why fucking do it? And then the third, out on the edge of his area making himself piss easy to lob, when he should have started back-pedalling as soon as Rico Lewis was, predictably, worsted in the challenge for a bouncing ball. And Ruben Dias, stranded out on the right flank trying to win a header he was never going to make and didn’t need to make. Cretins.
The individual gaffes this season have beggared belief, but the lack of organisation and professionalism has been far worse.
I’m not going to dig Rico Lewis out, because he actually played reasonably well after coming on, but the substitution itself, reeked of recklessness, cos you know at some stage he will fail to make a crucial challenge and the ball will end up in our net. QED.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Bollocks.

And Dick Barton.