Why would he take Hazard out first when he was one of the players creating the most danger? how does that make any sense to you? Kroos came out because he was tired , simple.
Which they scored from. If you're pulling Kroos due to fatigue then fine but you can't virtually leave a hole in our midfield especially when Casemiro is turning in the performance he did today.
That goal didn't come due to Kroos' absence, it was down to two of our players ( Case, and Alaba) easily getting beaten by Boye. Carlo made similar subs midweek when he took Kroos out and we got two goals. I'm not even that enthusiastic about Carlo but these dropped points are on the players.
Frustrating game but you can’t win them all. We had our chances. The draw is very valuable given that thankfully Sevilla drew. Not a disaster. i just hope Benz will return soon. Thought Mendy had several brain farts today including on their second goal. I think we lost concentration at some key moments ...otherwise we had this. Ancelloti should have rotated more today I think. Hala Madrid
We deserved to lose here. what a shame, those players need hype in order to perform, 3 draws at the bernabeu against osasuna, cadiz and elche. shame
"we deserved to lose", "infuriating game to watch", "poor performance" Wtf? The shots were 23 to 3. Possession 65 to 35. We lost a penalty and also hit the crossbar. Yes we shouldn't have conceded 2 goals that easily but man are you guys exaggerating today. I loved the fight to come back from our players and the passion we showed. Even without our top scorer and leader in the attack we managed to score 2 and come back after being 0-2 down on a game that we should up 2-0. That must have been frustrating for the players but they showed character and we managed to come back.
there is no point to play the 3 old midfielders against small teams at home it doesnt fn works.....game after game it is the same......not only that but them + Mendy who is pretty bad going forward make it easy to defend for the oposition the amount of terrible crosses./dribbles by Mendy when we are chasing a goal is shocking
So, no Eden, No Luka, No Toni, No Case, No Ferland, let's see your starting lineup, and this is after the attack could not convert any of the what was it 23 i read chances that we created ?
How incredible is Vini though that his defender on the second goal had to respect that Vini might torch him along the 3-inches of space next to the byline, giving him enough space to make the more obvious play of a cross on his strong foot?
23 shots. That’s one every 3.5 minutes….. god we can’t win them all. The team showed heart coming back into it like that. Heard hazard might stay next season. I almost hope he does, reading you has turned from completely useless to now the silver lining in him being here. Keep cryin. Also mendy is just fine going forward. He isn’t top 5 lest lb out there but he’s top ten.
We have to push for haaland. This season is showing us benzema could easily become unreliable next season with injuries given his age.
two midfielders,Vinni and Rodrygo on the wings,Benzema and Jovic in attack . Game after game,season after season we struggle gainst small teams at the Bernabeu maybe chacge the line up and formation-4-3-3 with this mdifield doesnt work........
Didn't we ditch Casemiro to play these same guys just a few days ago, not sure that was better than what we saw today
So let me get it right, as far as this particular game goes it's a midfield problem that our three attackers could not put away even one of 23 chances created......... because in the end a midfielder and a defender scored the goals that saved us
Inconsistent decisions are irritating. https://t.co/j930bpcfis— MaadMad (@MaadMadrid) January 23, 2022
the best football we played in La Liga in the past 10 years was not with 4-3-3 and this midfield.....it was 4-4-2 with Carlo in 2015 and Zidanes B teams with Casemiro/Kovacic midifled ,James/Isco N 10,Asensio/Lucas on the wings and Morata ......just a prove that we need to play more attackign line ups against weaker teams,but we dont season after season game after game . The results speak for themselves,so many home games taht are hard to watch such a strugle and in teh end we just cross cross .....we didnt do that in 2015 or with Zidanes B team...we actially attacked and scored goals.....this 4-3-3 with this mdifield is not needed in this games
I only saw the second half and noticed this twice in the box, instead of shooting took a touch followed by a sideways pass. Then you got LV skying a left footed shot from the top of the box but least he had the balls to take it I guess? Idk but it’s less frustrating id the right option is to shoot and you miss instead of shying away from taking the chance.
Zero shots. Not on goal. In general. He was abysmal. How can you play in attack and shoot less than the central defenders?
Tremendous amounts of stupidity ITT. We should have been up 4-0 by halftime if not for Benzema missing a penalty and Elche's GK seemingly having perfect positioning at every shot. Can't win them all and we should effort and heart to fight back especially considering Benzema got injured.