Meh. We played well but not enough. Barca win on a Wednesday then league is over as far as I’m concerned. We don’t have the squad to go the distance
How many PKs? He's been a shadow of the player he was last year. We effectively played with 10 men tonight. Disgraceful is an understatement.
Once he did that I knew we were screwed. We need quickness of movement, ball moved quickly and forward progression. Carlo took all that out with Ceballos and Valverde. At this point it's just squad mismanagement.
League is over,we have been garbage for most of the season and Barca aee just winning and not conceding. It is disapointing wih this squad to lose to Pedri,Gavi,fraeking Dembele etc but it is what it is,the players gave their all last season. We still can do something in the CL but radical changes are needed.Mbappe,new midfilders,fullbacks,the team need new world class blood.
Disappointing final 15-20 mins. Forwarded had chances at their feet and couldn’t make it happen. This La Real team hasn’t really played that well today, didn’t feel they deserved a point. But oh well, you don’t score you don’t win.
Well, that’s that. It’s a shame we’re 5 points behind this Barcelona team. But it’s our own damn fault, Barcelona can grind out 1-0 wins in games like this and we simply can’t. We shat ourselves far too many times this season. It’s February basically and we’re 5 points behind. There’s still plenty of games but I’m not holding my breath. We don’t look like league champions.
League isn't over. We just need to manage our squad better. Honestly retirement of our older stars is the only way to stop Carlo or Zidane from being overly reliant on them.
This isn’t even controversial at this point, Rodrygo deserves the left wing spot right now over Vini. One is linking up with teammates and playing with substance. The other is out there playing by himself, only releasing the ball when there’s no other option.
Great effort today, a week ago these guys looked like they were ready to go on holiday. Today they put in a shift. If we can keep that intensity the next couple months will be much better.
FT We dropped 2 points in our best game of the season. Carlo screwed us in the final 15 minutes with his baffling changes. And Benzema? The guy is cooked. We chose to rely on him as our only striker. You reap what you sow.
Meh, not good enough, we didn't draw this game because of Carlo, we drew because we missed too many chances, we had clear cut chances, long before Fede and Dani went off, at least we know it's not Mendy's fault, next.
ridiculous and good at same time... Played well, a lot of chances, but.. Vini missed crucial chances. Apperantly he hasn't scored in LA liga since October! Camavingh showed how easier can it be with LB with skills.
Crack, help them log-off for some time. Nothing permanent of course, just a "time out". You know.. that thing they already do; just whenever we are winning.
Rodrygo needs to be playing centrally and sharing minutes with Fede on the right. Benz needs to be playing less, Jr is the least of our problems.
Regardless of squad management and subs, I think Vini needs to take a good hard look at himself at this point. He had a very energetic performance (one of his best this season), but this isn't the first time he's cost us an easy win with some of the most lackluster finishing I've seen. These are important 3 points that we didn't need to concede, particularly as the title race should be close. Not saying it's his fault of course, but he better step the fck up. Ceballos with another very good performance btw, what a nice player to have! And all in all, a fantastic performance by the team. This was really top class football at times and it's a damn shame we couldn't capitalize on this due to lackluster finishing. In the BBC era, this would have ended 7 or 8-1.