Real Madrid vs Juventus | UCL Semi Finals, 2nd Leg| 13.05.15| 20.45 CET

Meh, enjoy it while it lasts. Barca were lucky to get two of the world's best players in a short time span, It was a stroke of dumb luck which I don't see happening again for a long time, and if you actually think Neymar is as good as these guys you are delusional. Once Messi is done which shouldn't be long now, Barca will go back to being a punching bag again.

 

Why is there a guy that supports Benefica on this forum criticizing RM? How long has it been since Benefica has even been relevant? Maybe you should go hang out on the Nottingham Forest board, you'll make a lot of friends there.

 

Been reading a lot on here. I won't jump to any conclusions, but isn't it the same old story? We need 25 shots to score a goal in these big matches and the opposing team needs 5.

Buy a finisher. Give Van Nistelrooy robot leg implants. I don't know. Something along those lines. Just get me a finisher.

 

Getting a striker isn't going to solve the issue. There are three strikers better than Benzema right now: Suarez, Ibrahimovic and Aguero, and I don't think Madrid can get any one of them.

 

All opinion and not fact, fact is these players who are so much better, did not contribute enough to the team to win us trophies, whilst the supposed rubbish guys did just that and more than once already, no mysteries there, so, at this moment we didn't win anything with these changes, it's just a personal idea, no facts here.

 

Agree, yet we have the best finisher in the game ever on our team already, what could be the problem, maybe we need an identity as a team to make that work to our advantage, a collective effort rather than just relying on one guy to pull us out of the fire when things are tight, that just doesn't work against good teams, teams win trophies more so than individual brilliance

 

Agree with a lot of this

 

^ Yep, very well said - If player individuality counted so much towards team success, Barca and Real Madrid should have always been facing each other in the CL final since 2010 since they have the two best players in the world.
The only team during this span of time who has reached the CL final more than once is Bayern (3 times) and now Barca, and they don't have a superstar like Messi or Ronaldo on their squad nor a striker who scores 30 + goals per season

 

Ronaldo--Benzema--Bale
Isco--Kroos--James
Defense
​

This shit just doesn't work for a full 90 minutes. Isco, Kroos, and James are on the verge of collapsing by half time. This was evident today, the game against Barcelona, and any other relevant team we played this season. If we insist on playing with the BBC next season week in week out, I don't have much hope. And this has nothing to do with Ancelotti. In all his years of coaching, I have never seen Ancelotti lineup with such an aggressive and naive formation full of attacking players. This shit is all on Perez.

 

Good comment. The bolded is my issue with this club, board, and manager. We buy players not for needs on the field but mostly off. No real planning or strategizing how to get the best of everyone but trying to plug square blocks into circle holes and hoping for a moment of brilliance. And I'm not talking abut Bale only but dating back to galacticos 1.0.

 

Proud of our lads, they tried their best but it wasn't destined to be.


I can’t understand Ancelotti’s tactics!! Why using just one sub in a game like this? Why not go all out after they scored?

Same thing in the first game, waited till we were down 2-1 while he could have had locked it earlier.

 

Also via COPE:

Florentino has been the president of this club for 12 seasons. He has spent more many than any other club with only 7 titles of a possible 36 (League, Cup, CL).

LOL, what a joke.

 

Ronaldo and bale lose the ball all the time , does that also not make them balon dor candidates ? I don't have the stats but I'm sure Ronaldo loses the ball the most and he's won 3 balon dors .

 

He should've gone all out in the last 10-15 minutes at least. There was nothing to lose then, we needed a goal at all costs.

 

of course at the end of the day it's manager fault, heis responsible for the team, but.. lack of killer instinct is frustrating.. terrible. Yesterday, vs Valencia also, so many chances! i remember also matches vs Barca, Villarreal, so many .. and more or less BBC were terrible in front of goals. Of course James, Isco or defender can score sometimes, but lack of goals from trio up front cost us many valuable points, especially in those big matches.

 

The difference being that Pogba is supposed to be a player that gets you the ball back and/or keep it in the team, and players like Ronaldo and Bale have to do offensive actions which can very well lead to losing the ball.

He just came back from injury, so he has an excuse.

 

Carlo isn't that smart. Since we were crossing the ball to death he was probably praying for another ala Ramos UCL header miracle. I wonder why he didn't push him forward at least.

 

Just compare this intervention of Sturaro:

with this of Kroos:

We looked gassed and run to the ground. Presumably injuries played the biggest part in this, and the absence of two solid bench options for midfield. These fitness details count at this level. I don't have statistics at the end, but at half-time Juventus covered 3 kilometers more. At the end of the match, that would almost be a player less for us.

 

Without Benzema, unfortunately, we don't have a playmaker in the front three, so there's a reason why we crossed the ball so much. Look at the first half how infinitely better Ronaldo and Bale looked. He overloaded the flanks, his fast flicks kept Juventus defence on the brink, yet all those crosses in the second half were dealt with easily.

 

Was it a "disaster"? It went sour at the end but it was far from a disaster.

Our last La Liga title was under him we haven't one won since and we are talking years now.

 

And he managed to strengthen the team well without spending exhorbitant amounts of money. He planted the seeds for us competing for every trophy.

 

Totally.

I was surprised he took off Benz when we needed him the most. Chicho should've came on for Isco, with Benz and James play alongside and Kroos in the heart of our Midfield. If anything, James for Coentrao and stick Marcelo in Midfield. That is what I would've done. At the end of the day if we scored only one more, it might of not been enough. Which is why we needed our full force in attack after they had scored.

 

Varane I doubt was a signing you can attribute to him.