Real Madrid vs Atlético de Madrid | La Liga | Match day 7 | 09/28/13 | 22:00 (Local)

It's only the beginning of the season, so many people exaggerate losses.

 

What is this? Reverse trolling?

 

He is not thinking like a striker. He was so far behind the play in one move, I thought it was Khedira running with the ball from midfield. He's just not a good box player, and we need him to hold the ball high up the pitch and give the two centrebacks something to think about in games like this, where the Atletico game plan was to contain and counter.

Benzema is good at a lot of things, but he just didn't do anything useful. And when you don't do anything useful, and look like you're not working, you're going to be rightly criticised. Even Fat Ronaldo got that when he was here (rightly, I'm sure I stuck the boot in myself on occasions).

 

Spanish tv is showing that Pepe and Benzema had confrontation on the pitch during the match.

 

Motha********in' Slick Rick the Ruler reference. New found respect.

#GrandWizard #ThereIsNoCompetition

 

If Carlo is not willing to start with Morata, than we should try this formation

Carvajal--Ramos--Varane---Marcelo
-------------Illaramendi---------------
-------Modrić-----------Casemiro-----
----------------Isco-----------------
---------Bale----------Ronaldo------

I could be a total fiasco, but it can't be any worse than now.

 

He should have dropped deeper more often today, because the way Atleti defended there was no room upfront. But he did chase the ball and pressure defenders, so I wouldn't say he didn't work hard. Today's defeat has nothing to do with him, but with how good Atleti were and how bad as a team we played.

 

Um...yes, yes they are...This team made too many important changes. A manager is a major change. Bringing on Illara/Casemiro/Isco are major changes. Higuain gone is a major change. That said, these were all positive in the long run. Then, instead of focusing on defense, Perez and co gut the heart of this team in Ozil and bring in Bale. Forget about who is better --it's a massive change to this team. Ozil was the orchestrator in attack.

For all we know, this may turn positive in the long run and this team may be better. But for now it is obvious that they are not playing cohesively as a team, and the major reason to that are the changes involved, the largest of them all being Ozil for Bale.

 

benzema knows that he is the only big name striker in this team and he is bound to play every match. puts in zero effort. we should bench his sorry ass for morata. he needs a kick up his backside

 

Would you guys please stop claiming Ozil's transfer as a major contributor to sh*t we're in? He was here last season, how did that end? No trophies whatsoever. Ok, this is a stupid point, but a team like Real Madrid should not depend on one player. We sold Higuain and Ozil, we got Bale and Isco. For me, that's a step up individuals wise.

The problem is cohession between players. When we attack heavy defending teams, we hav 7 f*cking players running around the edge of their box. 7. Seven. Both wingers, both right and the left back, f*cking Benzema and Isco, and one of the CMFs. The remaining 3? CBs near the center and the second CMF slightly in front of them.
What the f*ck can we achieve that way?! You have 11 defenders and 7 attackers in a 700m^2 stripe. Seeing that Santiago Bernabeu is alnost 8 f*cking thousand square meters, that's a pretty small area with 18 players on it. And what happens? They all bump into each other, or the ball ends up in Benz's feet.
We don't get chances for long shots, we can't push the ball through the defence cause there's 36 god damn feet blocking its path.

Once we loose the ball, we take years to reorganise the defence from the chaos we made in offense. We suck, we suck in using the space. You know why we're a good counter attacking team? Cause we have enough f*cking space! Why in the world can't we stretch their defence towards our half, make more room for wingers to cut in, make more room for connecting a few passes that don't go horizontally with the goal or to the wings. Why have Ronaldo and Bale when all they're gonna do is cross the ball to that useless piece of timber we call Karim Benzema, or try to dribble past 5 defenders?!

I still vote for the false 9 with Isco, Bale and Ronaldo as wingers, and 3 CMF+DMF positions. We have many players in those positions anyway.

 

morata showed more urgency in his 10 minute cameo than benz showed in the whole match...

 

Perez put the pressure on himself by making 100 +100 milyon € transfers.
He made a statement towards the fans..... and its not have patience.

 

If it's likely to be a total fiasco, it's likely that Carlo has already got it high on his agenda

On a serious note, I think what we missed today was Xabi Alonso. I saw the second half, and it looked like Atleti played deep and closed down the spaces aggressively, double or triple-marked Ronaldo, waited for the change in possession and look to get it quickly to Costa and build from there. They defended well, but against sides which play that way you need to switch the play quickly.

When we had the ball with Ronaldo and his shadows on the left, it would take three or four passes to get it to the other side of the pitch, by which time Atleti had shuffled their team across. Wth Xabi, that would be one pass.

 

yes i guess he has to score 3 goals in 10 min to be the 1st striker

 

khedira shouldnt put on a real madrid shirt ever again.. i hate that guy

 

Alonso is set to start running next week if all goes well. I think we miss him more than anyone, if we could get him back before the end of the year that would be great imo.

 

You should reassess your life then, it's never quite this deep. Ever.