To be honest there are those Barca matches that people complain about the opponent playing and playing and Barca strike a goal out of nowhere. Truth is sometimes you have to win ugly. On one hand people fall to their knees for Ter Stegen and how he wins them points, on the other hand we're absolutely terrible when Courtois does so for us. Two different standards.
Most clean sheets in LaLiga so far this season:🇧🇪 Thibaut Courtois (9)🇪🇸 Unai Simón (9)🇸🇮 Jan Oblak (9)Courtois has played the fewest games. pic.twitter.com/i9AANcRK9V— Squawka (@Squawka) January 4, 2020
Football is a funny game, we played great football against Valencia for 65 min or so, dominated Barca and Bilbao, didn’t win a single one of those games; Today we play the worst football we have in a while and walk away with 3 goals and the 3 points. It was good to see Varane do his best Ramos impression, his physic is such that he should be doing this a lot more often.
Madrid now conceded just 1 goal in last 5 La Liga games - inc trips to Mestalla, Camp Nou and Coliseum.— Dermot Corrigan (@dermotmcorrigan) January 4, 2020 Clean sheet at Sevilla and Atletico as well. Defense has been pretty good this season. But scoring from attackers other than Benz a big issue. Home 0-0 draws against Betis and Bilbao.
Yup can’t have it both ways, TC did what he is paid to do today and played the biggest part in winning us 3 points, definitely getting back to his best, I’m not scared about every shot taken in his direction anymore, long may it last
We didn’t have Ramos or Varane start all these games either, show we have quality depth in defense. this team is nearly complete, add a couple of effective goal scorers and we run away with this league and win the CL, no hyperbole.
We only won the league 6 times in the last 2 decades. We only won it when we managed to win games when we didn't play well. Our problem this year was that we lost points when we played really well. If you can't counter that with winning when you don't have the best day in the office.
Espanyol are at the bottom of the table. I know it's a derby but I'd be shocked if Barca don't come out with all 3 points.
Casemiro is a gold mine. You can never get enough of his terrific performances. Some of his interceptions and 10/10 tackles in our own area i will never see another CDM be able to do that. If we dont win anything this season it will be a travesty, we are better than our rivals. We just have to find goals somewhere, Benz will go games where he won't score, what to do then? Bale is done in this team. He should just do a Pogba for his and our sake
The game is being played at Espanyol, right? Who knows, Barcelona have been pretty bad away from home, so I’m cautiously optimistic lol.
This team has so much potential with the GK, defence and midfield positions looking very strong now. Add a starting forward (as well as adding depth in midfield) and we’re good. We need to make a massive push for Mbappe this summer, meanwhile the Brazilians have time to stake a real claim.
You’re most likely right, I’d say 95% Barca take the 3 points but as I said they’ve been very shaky away from home so one can hope.
Only 12 goals conceded by Real Madrid in the first half of La Liga (19-games). It's Real's best defensive record since 1987/88. pic.twitter.com/XJyJDNZztR— Infinite Madrid (@InfiniteMadrid) January 4, 2020
funny when they said Liverpool’s right back Arnold was worth 100m the other day. Our back 4 is much better than theirs no doubt
It's a shame we are struggling to score so much. Team is pretty solid all around. Is Benzema showing signs of tiredness? That is what I feared the most. Vini Bale Jovic and Rodry all must improve.
Cucurella told Militao "Shut up f*cking mico".“Mico” means monkey the referees record does not reflect anything, we will see if Madrid will denounce it to the Competition Committee. [Carrusel] pic.twitter.com/lrNmuZbrHF— Real Madrid Info ³⁵ (@RMadridInfo) January 4, 2020
Bale can go and improve his golf for all i care as long as he’s not starting. Rodry has been meh last couple of games. Jovic needs decent game time. Vinicius let down is his finishing and final decision making.
This guy is an absolute clown, he's mentally unstable. He was literally pushing and shoving players nowhere near the ball, and then diving and holding his head at every little contact.