8 matches remaining are trials for the summer. Ironically it will warrant substantial changes in the summer. Yet again it was proven that we need rebuild in every line. OUT: Kroos, Bale, Marcelo, Isco, Nacho, Mariano. LOAN: Asensio, Vallejo, Ceballos, Valverde IN: Hazard, Jović, Winger, Eriksen, Pogba, Lo Celso, CB, LB Also, i would strongly evaluate Modrić and Varane.
We have a couple LBs on Lian too. We won't have Hakimi as an option for 12 months but my guess is the club would look at possibly trying to get another year out of Marcelo if the fitness issues can be managed. I'm not what the answer is but I'm sure that is factoring into Zidane selection right now.
Those three have Valencia 11 points behind one of the worst Madrid sides in recent memory. Let's not kid ourselves.
And they are not RM quality now either. But this Forum is full of people making reactions from one game. "Hey we Lost all their players are better than our lets swap our first XI with theirs." Or dont understand pretty much anything about workings of football. Requilon thing is beyond funny. He doesnt have The talent to play for us Week in Week out. Only a mad man wouldnt play and test Marcelo whos one of The best LBs ever. Requilon is another Miguel Torres and not of The required level as a player.
I am lucky I am at work and didn't have a chance to log in and stream this. I am telling you, I get Parejo every single season and he proves amazing in-game. IDK why but some of these former players are ********ing fantastic against us.
Not only recent memory. One of the worst ever. Ive Been a fan since 2001 and I cant recall a much worse season, worse teams yes, but thats a different story.
So what do people think of ZZ’s words after the game, “ Marcelo is Marcelo and I like how he plays”, nothing to complain about as far as the team is concerned they, “played well” and “ worked hard” just couldn’t score, mere platitudes as he is just having a look and knows he is making changes in the summer or words of worry
Zidane is not mourinho. You won't hear any player bashing from him, and we should be thankful for that. The flip side of this is that zidane is not a Mourinho and you will see Marcelo, kroos, modric and benzema playing and in the same formation.
That was the worst petformance by Luca Modric I have ever seen sadly Kroos was acceptable Vasquez offers nothing. Our game often revolved on the CBs passing the ball to each other until invariably LV gets it and screws up Benzema is at his best when coming in from the left wing but that requires someone to occupy his position. Asensio is terrible Ramos was at his consistent best. Marcelo played better than the Huesca match, was more involved and dangerous. His misses stick out like a sore thumb but he was trying and that's not his job.
I won't read too much into those types of statements since we don't know who we're planning to offload in the summer and it probably wouldn't be wise for their value to throw players under the bus even with the performances on the field. At this rate, the only objective is to maintain a CL spot and raise the value of as many players as possible by summer.
I love Luka but, terrible terrible game, just flat and so many mistakes, contributed literally nothing, worse player on the pitch for me
We let this happen by not investing wisely over the last 2-3 transfer windows, now it's going to take time to rebuild. I wouldn't expect next season to be a full on revival, this will take more than 1 season for Zizou and Perez to sort out.
It's really sad seeing the team now. It makes you question their motivation, their heart. As fans, we at least expect to see our players giving it their all and we are not seeing that much. These guys dont deserve to wear the shirt right now.
But Lucas, Marcelo, Kroos and Modric will start the next game..... Must be so demoralising to be a Real Madrid squad player.
Other than Reguillon and Vinicius the subs have perfectly followed in the footsteps of the starters this season.
Not really, it's just that he's heading into his final contract year and we might not want to give him up for free next season after he plays a 600 minute season like many others.
This season does it really matter starters or subs to be honest?, has there been drastic improvements in the “team” play no matter who is actually on the pitch, scoring is a problem, defending is a problem, keeping is a bit of a problem, midfield is a problem, intensity is a problem, squad player, starter, same old same old for me , i’m sure they are individuals that are doing marginally better than others but the “team play” as a whole is a problem , the only one I give a pass to is Vin jr True, but the top of the penalty box that we are attacking is always full with....... Benzema with his dropping deep trick so we’d probably need a midfielder to be running past him on a regular basis rather than trying to be effective in that space, the space is “in” the box mostly
So much for "Winning all remaining matches". We stumbled on the 3rd.. Ah well. Hope next season will be better.
I looked at Valencia giving up 70% of the ball for large parts of the game. I personally thought they were terrible, this is the kind of team we immediately saw the effect of having Vinicius on. Teams that let us have the ball and we have Vinicius beating one player, two players before finding an open guy to slide it over to.
I disagree. When Vinicius had his breakthrough he changed the entire team dynamic. If you make this change consistent over two times in the starting lineup and manage to get 2 high impact substitutions on the menu, one of them being Vinicius, the team plays and performs differently.
Valencia away (even home) has usually proved to be a very difficult game (remember that 2-2 in Bernabeu which cost us La Liga - Carlo's season, I can name a couple more games..), I'm not too worried. This season is really over, whether we play out of this world (which is impossible I guess) or continue on like this (much more probable). No need to get worked up anymore!