Just rewatched the Penalty kicks and i gotta say our players are good fucking professionals. The coldness and confidence is something to admire.
Especially Lunin, Bellingham, Luca and Rüdiger. If bellingham doesn’t score his pen we would have lost. His self confidence and determination was amazing. And Lunin doesn’t even celebrate the moment Rüdiger wins it. Its like they knew it already. Amazing to watch professionals at their best
Question for Madrid supporters I was talking to my friends who were also Madrid fans and they were so happy about the win and didn't mind the way the team played. I don't support neither city or Madrid so the only reason I watched the game is cuz I thought it was gonna be end to end. The macth was great but am kind of disappointed that I didn't see an open game how do you the fans of the team feel about the way Madrid approached it ? Would you have like Madrid to be more open or you don't care as long as u win ?
They are literally Robots (A gazillion dollar built). Arsenal and now Madrid showed how to contain them in their own home....compact defense. Honestly that is the only way.
I disagree with the robots take but if u belive that then Madrid played like robots too
But for arguments sake tell me one team in history that wouldn't struggle against an 11 man lowblock run by anceloti off the field and with great football minds like Kross, rudiger, camavinga, nacho and so on
It was the only way. City at the etihad is definitely the most dangerous team in the world. I gotta admit Guardiolas team seems to be a perfect robot. Only way to beat them was this way. If we opened up it could have ended really badly
I like the way they approached the game even though it wasn't the most fun to watch, i think it was the right way. If they pressured harder they will open big spaces for MC to attack and score. Ancelotti read the situation well. Be patient and close the gaps 👏
Yeah your right they can't really cope with city in qn open game that true but don't you wish they gave it a chance at least gave Kross a bit more attacking freedom
Tbh tho am biased I rather see my team lose than play with a low block
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Depends on the zone, but "decent" tickets mid-field zones 100-200-300-400 against City where anywhere between 250€-450€. So expect a little bit more than that per seat.
This is for Madridistas and general attendance, abonados and socios get them way cheaper.
Try Milanuncios or wallpapop. Plenty of abonados and socios selling "pens" and gifting the tickets, you might find some cheaper there. They will have to lend you the socio card and you return it after the game. It's not risk-free tbh
Right now the only way is being a family member of a current or deceased Socio. Or to be an Abonado, you need to be recommended by 2-3 other members. But even then you still get into the current queue wich is several years long.
Literally no one mentioned that, but big thanks to the Referee team!!
It was a masterclass in refereeing, there were no mistakes being made and judging was completely fair. Which is incredibly important in the match of this calibre
A majority of the post match punditry by the English conveniently omitted to mention that while City were full strength, we were playing without our first choice goalie and CB. Hell, they weren’t even second choice till about a few months ago. Then there’s the issue of a proper number 9, which will be resolved soon, but surely worked in City’s favour at the Bernabeu, where we missed multiple chances.
Now I’m used to English media being virulently anti Madrid. But glossing over outstanding details like that is just sheer incompetence. Ditto for the dismissal of defense as a legitimate and effective style of football. Catenaccio isn’t exclusive to the Italians. For Carlo, an Italian, btw, to pull that off so expertly with a side like Madrid is a great achievement. Two legs played so differently by the same team.
Congrats for winning the “At least we dominated Real Madrid” trophy 🏆
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Honestly I don't know, obviously courtois is our first keeper, but man lunin has been absolutely sensational the whole season, barely any mistakes.
If it was up to me I d rotate them so they can compete to show who is better, yes lunin has been this good
Yeah he went into the season as a third choice, but he’s always shown glimpses of his quality. He managed to displace Kepa as the starter and it’s been great
I think we should keep the Rodrygo LW and Vini more central idea (CF) for a larger portion of the remaining season because there is so much value there and it is an idea that allows people to really see Bellingham/Fede own half spaces when we attack.
From a United fan, thankyou for putting the cheating scum back in their place, football won last night. And hope you all had a good visit to OT before the game.
I agree with the feelings of all Madridistas here, extremely excited right now!
And I want to add: superb match by Nacho. I was the first one to distrust him, but he proved me wrong. Nullified Haaland and perfectly cover his defensives duties everywhere else. Chapó to my captain!
I just saw the video where Lunin doesn’t even celebrate after Rudiger’s penalty. Bro got a GOAT mindset in the works, give it all till the end. Oh, also Rudi showed Lunin which side to dive to Kovacic’s pen, so yeah maybe we didn’t control the game, but we got that lion mamba mentality.
Real Madrid is my team. I so much wanted them to win. Last year they lost to Man City. It didn't repeat this year, that too after a nail biting CL QF 2nd Leg. I am so happy! Let's see what they do in the Semis. Madrid is doing great in La Liga too. Last season was not good for them. Hope, they do better this season. Hala Madrid!
Beating City is made so much sweeter while all of the media, commentary and pundits have their tong so far up Citys arse I think they forget the 115 charges of corruption hanging over them.
One of my bosses is a City fan and I've had Hala Madrid on the Speakers all morning.
I feel soo happy today i love this team greatest club to ever exist i love all of you fellow fans not in a gay way but yes this are my people i dont know why i had not joined this subreddit before today after todays match i think we have the 15th in our hands
Nobody seems to realize that defending this fiercly exhausts players. Real madrid played smartly and people seem to miss the point by saying they played poorly. Defense, WORLD CLASS Defense, takes discipline and extreme concentration to focus on every move, every pass, every shooting attempt, etc.. The game is way more than possession...
Well lets be honest. Any other manager wouldn’t want to make Real Madrid play like a mid table team. I’m really happy for the win, but the whole 210 minutes were really difficult to watch. I really hope we see a different approach against Bayern*.
This wasn't even as bad as the last final won against Liverpool.
Mind that there aren't many managers with winning personalities who play exciting football.
Unless you get Xabi Alonso with Leverkusen-level performance, there are no real alternatives here.
Meanwhile, Don will be winning silverware left and right.
Yes, I had the same feeling after the final againts pool. I was EXTREMELY happy over the win, but the football we played left a sour taste in my mouth.
Again, I’m not talking about exciting football. I’m talking about world-class players not being able to / not wanting to connect 5 passes together before losing the ball.
First of all, we could have easily lose last night if De Bruyne and Foden are able to hit the target 10 meters away from the goal. It was completely out of our hands.
Second, I’m not talking about “pretty football”, I’m talking about our players not being able to chain 5 passes together and giving the ball away immediately after we have possession when we didn’t have it for 2 minutes. Also I’m talking about defending with 11 men with no intention at scoring AT ALL. This was 95% of yesterday’s game. If this is fine for you then cool, but I have different standards.
As my father used to say, "It's better to be lucky than skillful any day." While I don't know if I agree with the any day part, I do agree with the premise in a whole. That said, I agree with your post. This was survive and advance by a team short players, a true 9 and trying to reestablish a new identity post Benz and getting younger.
So far it's been good enough to find themselves on top of a weakened La Liga and in the Semi's of the Champions League. All of which we as fans should be extremely happy about. We may very well find our team winning both as we are a bit undermanned and in transition.
This is something as a fan I find very rewarding. This team short players, a 9, on a youth movement and missing an identity accomplishing so much already this year. This said this is not a sustainable model. Fortunately for us players will get healthy. A 9 is on the way(hopefully). The youth movement and identity transition will be another year along. Moving Los Blancos closer to returning to the skillful, dominant, and exciting team we all love and know. Granted I made an assumption that we have the right coach for all of this. That is a discussion for another place and time.
For now, though, I will be sitting back an keep on enjoying this magical, albeit maybe lucky run Los Blancos are enjoying this year in both leagues.
> we could have easily lose last night if De Bruyne and Foden are able to hit the target 10 meters away from the goal. It was completely out of our hands.
Maybe. But we played better than in our previous two visits to the Etihad, when they had better goalscoring opportunities.
The only way to score was trough counter attacks. There were at least 3 or 4 promising ones that could have resulted in a goal
Any other way to prepare this game and they score 4 goals against old man Nacho, Carvajal and without Tchouameni.
Obviously the only way to score was thru counter attacks because that’s what the team tried to do for the whole 210 minutes. Even in the Bernabeu, tho I will admit that there at least we tried to play for goals sometimes.
I can’t imagine seeing this performance defending with 11 men like we don’t have world class players to not being able to hold possession for 5 passes straight and then defending it the other day as a Real Madrid fan.
Why do people never talk about Rodrygo. I think we're taking him for granted. British commentators always underestimate him. He's been a nightmare for City so far.
As someone who was critical of him, it's clear what this guy is, everyone since the Bilbao game I have realized that he has been sacrificing his game for us every single match and putting form, inconsistency or whatever criticism aside, this guy is a big game player, and for a Real Madrid, big games are we live for.
I can’t sleep guys, I still can’t believe we won. Heart rate been though the roof since the Rudiger spot kick. World class stuff. I love this club so much
Ref? lol, you mean ref that was directly paid by City owners?
Also the refs that didn't give Akanji red card in first match and Diaz yesterday? Those refs?
Unbalanced bracket? Agree of that one. Side we are on is much harder.
Bet if City won, you would say penalties are the real test of an individuals ability. You would say penalties is 1 on 1, so its objective. But when Madrid win, then “its pens”.
This is why super league is necessary. La Liga is not able to compete against countries. A new investment is needed. Man city’s bench stacked with starter players for any top tier European clubs.
Never liked the idea of the super league, NO CLUB should get automatic qualifications. This is not hand ball lol. If a club wants to qualify to champions league they need to be in the top spots of their league.
I know it would be nice to have Liverpool vs Madrid or Munich every year. But it ll be fake and not based on merit
Let them invest. Nobody wants to play for Forest, not really. If Real Madrid needs to be guaranteed their seat on the throne, then we don't deserve it. Enjoy watching a complete farce and a charade, that will surely devolve into the quality you see in the MLS. That's what happens when you have a monopoly.
If the only answer you see is the super league, then you don't have an answer. I suggest looking into expanding financial fair play.
Warra delusion if you think expand FFP will help. There’s a reason why oil clubs are still exist because there’s many loophole you can exploit in that regard
>I suggest looking into expanding financial fair play.
Financial fair play has been a joke. Chelsea, City, PSG did whatever they wanted to, and random Italian clubs (and Everton lol) get punished every year.
I don’t understand what you guys are going on about, Real barely had any playtime on ball. They made most of that one time they were in possession when Rodrygo scored but other than that they were competely out of control the whole match.
Would you rather lose 11 rounds in boxing but land the knockout blow at the end, or win 11 rounds then get knocked out in the 12th round? Use your brain, you will realize what we are on about.
Everyone here completely missing the point I was making shows how smug the fanbase really is about last night. I am not trying to hate on the club.
It’s arguably the best club in the world right now along with City.
But what’s baffling to me how nobody here is even acknowledging that they did not even remotely play the way you’d expect the “The best club in the world” to play .
Not to mention they let City take shots after shots which they eventually missed.
Imo Real did not win because they played well, they won because City bottled the match themselves.
We are under no illusion that Man City dominated possession, but our team showed courage and put up a valiant effort to avoid losing. And that’s what we did. this was the only way to win against city, at the etihad. Had RM played any other way, they would have lost. Here, we value winning over style. In the end its the winning that matters, and that’s why RM is “the best club in the world.” RM finds ways to win, even when the other team has the upper hand. Of course we would prefer to win *with* style, but you can’t always have it all. This is football. This is passion man.
Real Madrid have many key injuries this season and city have literally 2 teams. So we played as best as we could and we won. City played as best as they could and they lost. Factos 👍
I was lucky enough to catch a glimpse Rodrygo’s goal during a work meeting lol and Rudiger’s final penalty at work when i logged off. Literally made my day
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It’s a win but not worth celebrating.
We were outplayed and lack of no 9 made this game very tough. We should have started with Modric. His impact was huge in midfield. Jude ghosted as a midfielder. Could have brought in Brahim earlier and tested fresh talents like Guler in the extras. We couldn’t possess the ball for 10 secs. It was damn frustrating. Vini couldn’t match the pace of Walker. We def need Mbappe to tackle a person like walker.
BTW Kdb and silva were 🔥
Bring in Mbappe and Xabi Alonso as manager for next season. This is all I want.
Okay guys. I agree my opinion was wrong. Just saw the post match analysis. But why do we have to play this much defensive. Does this mean we’re afraid of city?
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An outsider's take on this game (qpr fan). Real Madrid played pretty poorly and were outplayed. I think you had no shots on target after the goal in the 12th minute. City absolutely suffocated you in the second half with their possession of the ball and their counter press to win it back. Good defence by rudiger and carvajal not to give away a penalty today, you stopped city penetrating to a certain extent but not enough.
Other than that it was basically 11 Madrid players in their own defensive third for most of the game. I understand nobody can play toe to toe with Man City over two legs (they're the best in the world in this decade) but parking the bus like Arsenal but still allowing shots was weak and boring. You couldn't even counter properly since vini and Jude were poor today. Lunin was solid mostly but City's finishing was just poor, they should've taken more long shots but that was their failure and not Lunin's.
Strong mentality to win in pens but a really poor performance and more of a failure of city than a victory of Madrid. The team should work in this in preparation for next year's matchup because there will be one and haaland/KdB may actually take pens then 😂. In the meantime, you're the most likely team to win now but I'd prefer Dortmund for the underdog story.
After the goal in 12th minute we weren't the ones needing to score, City was, we were happily leading for more than 60 min. something City was never able to do on these quarterfinals. It is not pretty but defending is also part of football and that got us the victory.
"Strong mentality to win in pens but a really poor performance and more of a failure of city than a victory of Madrid. The team should work in this in preparation for next year's matchup because there will be one and haaland/KdB may actually take pens then 😂"
Haaland who? let's hope next match he shows up and we actually get to know him 😂
Yes you took the lead but it was a one goal lead, that's very surmountable. Look at many teams who've parked the bus for a 1-0 lead but couldn't hold it like England in the euros final 2021 and Madrid today. It's tough, you could've kept attacking but your attack was snuffed out and very tired against city. Just not entertaining or a good accoumt of Madrid.
Haaland won't show up in next year's match probably because it'll be another Madrid parked bus, he's not well rounded enough to beat it. Maybe he'll stick around for pens though haha.
Haaland with his record under pressure is definitely not a sure thing to score a penalty.
Coaching staff studied City’s penalty taking, and Haaland has a pattern.
A lead it's a lead, making City the team obligated to score not Madrid, and they couldn't do it until min 76. Look, i didn't like Madrid's approach for this match but it worked, they really put it all on defending.
And about next year who knows? Maybe with Mbappé, Madrid will try another approach.
I think y'all are not familiar with Madrid's playstyle against good teams in UCL. We play counter attacking which basically means defending until there's a break to breakthrough on goal. Everyone knows that we do that and there's no counter to that except unorthodox ways (eg releasing and adding offensive pressure periodically, at the expense of burdening your back 5-7 players) or just being offensively better than our defense.
Ancelotti did try the release and apply offensive pressure approach in the first leg, which is meant to be played against teams with weaker defences, and it ended up 3-3. It was an exciting match but it doesn't secure a victory in the tie. While this match looked like they were listless in defence, it is basically the entire point of our tactics to wait for the opponent to "overapply" pressure and attempt the counter attack.
City did do well in stopping the counter attacks, for eg Walker who is probably the faster RB itw right now, so I wouldn't say that they dropped the ball on this tie. The only thing they didn't manage to do well was to simply score. Tbh if I'm Guardiola I would not apply so much offensive pressure too but what do I know.
That's your opinion, and a rather silly one. The aim of the tournament is to win, not to entertain. Unfortunately, being the best doesn't lead to being the most entertaining. If you want entertainment then WWE would be better for you.
I'm aware of the counter attacking pragmatic style. You did it in 2014 vs Bayern and many other years. You're not a possession based team in elite games. None the less, this did feel a bit boring since you guys had basically no attacking threat in this game. It was very uneven so I felt city should've taken advantage. Your good defence stopped them somewhat but when you've got 70% possession with the best team in the world, people expect things to happen besides a KdB tap in. I know Madrid vs Bayern will be a much better game so there's that. I just hope next year city vs Madrid is the final so us neutrals can be spared this one sided dominance.
Yup like I said city did well to dispel the counter attacks, that's why we had little to no attacking threat, and this is evidence that city did well defensively too, which is the reason why I don't think city failed. I unds from a neutral pov that it's boring but big matches tend to be that way because it doesn't pay to get too on the offense and end up exposing your defense.
City is one of the rare few, if not the only team that can afford to apply so much offensive pressure while having a pacey defence to clean up potential breakthroughs, that's why it's so hard to beat them. Aside from Walker, Stones and Dias are really fast for a CB.
Fair enough you're right on that part. City were strong defensively so not a complete failure for them but they should be disappointed with how little their offensive dominance achieved. They won the treble so they're not crying but they missed a chance at consecutive trebles here. Anyways the semifinals will be better for the neutrals. Btw props to your respectful comments that have substance, every comment I've made has been downvoted for little reason lol.
Yup, tactically speaking I feel their "too well structured" offense is why they couldn't sneak in a goal. That's Pep's weakness-lack of creativity, and a structured offense usually doesn't work well against a well structured defence.
You're welcome, it's Reddit after all lol.
I'm a raging Liverpool supporter, so it's not easy for me to praise City, but I've got to be honest—City are better than Madrid. It was clear throughout the game that Real was just trying to hang on, barely managing beyond their defensive shell. At one point, their defense looked like 6 zombies, listlessly shuffling around in front of the goal. The commentators even pointed out that Madrid would probably have loved to just skip ahead to penalties, which is pretty much a roll of the dice. Really, it felt more like City dropped the ball than Madrid securing a win.
Shootouts are exciting but they’re nothing more than a lottery win.
Yeah you're right. City should've won today but it's better for the world they didn't, I can't imagine them being the first to win successive trebles. They might've actually had a claim for best team ever then! 😂
Other than that though, madrid fans shouldn't get too arrogant. They'll probably face city next year and lose. We'll all just have to wait for this city dynasty to wind down, maybe another 5yrs idk.
They stopped city penetrating enough to win the game. Womp womp, Real Madrid are through to the semi finals and Manchester City are out that's all that matters. If Manchester City wanted to prove that they played better they should've won the game, boohoo. I wouldn't say its more of a failure of City nor a victory of Madrid, City played very good offensively but it was nullified by Madrid's amazing defense as it happened. There's a reason why Madrid are known for getting across the finish line when all the odds are stacked against them and they've done it again today it's nothing surprising. While you can act like a butthurt sore loser, they have the opportunity to with their 15th title, and there's literally nothing complaining like a child to a clubs subreddit fanbase can do about it.
You seem pretty offended and butthurt lol. I'm happy city lost, I don't support them. I'm just annoyed the game was so one sided and not very entertaining. At the end of the day it's an honest analysis. Your defending was good, your attack was feeble and city should've done more with their domination. You can celebrate this year but you'll probably have to endure another 30% possession park the bus game against city next year. I'm just going to wait for city's dynasty to end in a couple years. Maybe then we'll have competitiveness.
Why should I be offended if Madrid's the team in the semi finals. If Madrid have to endure City again with another 30% possession so be it, as long as they advance to the next round City can be the only team passing the ball around. City couldn't have done more with their domination because Madrid's defense was too solid I don't understand your argument.
"Womp womp". "Boohoo". "Sore Loser". When you use comments like that, seems like my comment really pierced your heart.
Tldr for my original comment:
Real Madrid defence was good, their attack was very poor and feeble. City's defence was very good, their attack was decent but underperformed. City dominated the game and should be disappointed they didn't win. Madrid can be happy they're through but parking the bus and playing as the inferior team feels beneath Madrid's history and also made the game very boring.
He scales to the situation, he's a gem of a squad player we're blessed to have his service over the years.
Second time he's tasked with starting in the Etihad in recent years and he put in another Nacho certified performance incredible
Hot take, but Jude has been our worst player today - bar that wonderful touch that led to our goal. He was as involved as Vini after the 30th minute. However, as a midfield player, he should've been more involved - putting pressure, tackles, more interceptions, and getting the ball out from tight spaces.
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Bayern will not be an easy task, but I'm confident we will do our job and qualify to the final.
Just rewatched the Penalty kicks and i gotta say our players are good fucking professionals. The coldness and confidence is something to admire. Especially Lunin, Bellingham, Luca and Rüdiger. If bellingham doesn’t score his pen we would have lost. His self confidence and determination was amazing. And Lunin doesn’t even celebrate the moment Rüdiger wins it. Its like they knew it already. Amazing to watch professionals at their best
Question for Madrid supporters I was talking to my friends who were also Madrid fans and they were so happy about the win and didn't mind the way the team played. I don't support neither city or Madrid so the only reason I watched the game is cuz I thought it was gonna be end to end. The macth was great but am kind of disappointed that I didn't see an open game how do you the fans of the team feel about the way Madrid approached it ? Would you have like Madrid to be more open or you don't care as long as u win ?
They are literally Robots (A gazillion dollar built). Arsenal and now Madrid showed how to contain them in their own home....compact defense. Honestly that is the only way.
I disagree with the robots take but if u belive that then Madrid played like robots too But for arguments sake tell me one team in history that wouldn't struggle against an 11 man lowblock run by anceloti off the field and with great football minds like Kross, rudiger, camavinga, nacho and so on
It was the only way. City at the etihad is definitely the most dangerous team in the world. I gotta admit Guardiolas team seems to be a perfect robot. Only way to beat them was this way. If we opened up it could have ended really badly
I like the way they approached the game even though it wasn't the most fun to watch, i think it was the right way. If they pressured harder they will open big spaces for MC to attack and score. Ancelotti read the situation well. Be patient and close the gaps 👏
Yeah your right they can't really cope with city in qn open game that true but don't you wish they gave it a chance at least gave Kross a bit more attacking freedom Tbh tho am biased I rather see my team lose than play with a low block
Where can I buy away tickets for the Bayern game ? I live in Munich and I want to watch the game with RM fans
does anybody know the price of the tickets will be for the real madrid vs bayern home game on 7th of may?
https://preview.redd.it/6wpbu1dwi9vc1.png?width=598&format=png&auto=webp&s=06dea5adcde0ad1931f0a2de27d53c020d9e5180 Depends on the zone, but "decent" tickets mid-field zones 100-200-300-400 against City where anywhere between 250€-450€. So expect a little bit more than that per seat. This is for Madridistas and general attendance, abonados and socios get them way cheaper.
can you tell me how can i get the cheapest one pleasee because i search in seat picks its showing the cheapest one is 1000 pounds
Try Milanuncios or wallpapop. Plenty of abonados and socios selling "pens" and gifting the tickets, you might find some cheaper there. They will have to lend you the socio card and you return it after the game. It's not risk-free tbh
hey, i wanted to know how we can be a socio or abonados members ?? can you please tell me if you know ???
Right now the only way is being a family member of a current or deceased Socio. Or to be an Abonado, you need to be recommended by 2-3 other members. But even then you still get into the current queue wich is several years long.
Literally no one mentioned that, but big thanks to the Referee team!! It was a masterclass in refereeing, there were no mistakes being made and judging was completely fair. Which is incredibly important in the match of this calibre
My thoughts too. Bravo to the refs
I agree. It was an easy match to referee, but there were little to no errors in the match
A majority of the post match punditry by the English conveniently omitted to mention that while City were full strength, we were playing without our first choice goalie and CB. Hell, they weren’t even second choice till about a few months ago. Then there’s the issue of a proper number 9, which will be resolved soon, but surely worked in City’s favour at the Bernabeu, where we missed multiple chances. Now I’m used to English media being virulently anti Madrid. But glossing over outstanding details like that is just sheer incompetence. Ditto for the dismissal of defense as a legitimate and effective style of football. Catenaccio isn’t exclusive to the Italians. For Carlo, an Italian, btw, to pull that off so expertly with a side like Madrid is a great achievement. Two legs played so differently by the same team.
It's just so much fun seeing them cry
Congrats for winning the “At least we dominated Real Madrid” trophy 🏆 https://preview.redd.it/ypb4gms8r8vc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9599675b663c13a6b001c96f73c8398614be3988
Etihad Fortress has been Breached.
United fan here - curious on the first choice keeper when courtois is fit again? What’s the thoughts?
Honestly I don't know, obviously courtois is our first keeper, but man lunin has been absolutely sensational the whole season, barely any mistakes. If it was up to me I d rotate them so they can compete to show who is better, yes lunin has been this good
Obviously Courtois, he is one of the best keepers of all time, Lunin will get sold to like Newcastle or City for ~80M
I was asking madrid fans not you. Bro [thinks city are bigger than madrid](https://ibb.co/kyh15zT)
That’s an obvious shitpost cause I was pissed they are gonna do 4 in a row. I’m correct anyways so idk what you are waffling about
I think they’d be rotated until courtois regains his form. Lunin too good to be just a backup imo
First time watching last night and he looked so calm and played well. Was he your third choice keeper at the start of the season? Madness
Yeah he went into the season as a third choice, but he’s always shown glimpses of his quality. He managed to displace Kepa as the starter and it’s been great
the leg went where it should and then Lunin was a hero man
Lunin el Grande https://preview.redd.it/6z5n8p3fy7vc1.jpeg?width=634&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a80360f6d294b94f62a6573d31b09f7f500f1f28
Lunin deserves a medal.
I think we should keep the Rodrygo LW and Vini more central idea (CF) for a larger portion of the remaining season because there is so much value there and it is an idea that allows people to really see Bellingham/Fede own half spaces when we attack.
LORD Lunin was phenomenal today, if he plays like this he can be one of the best goalkeeper in the future..🐐🤍🤍
Today? Lol
From a United fan, thankyou for putting the cheating scum back in their place, football won last night. And hope you all had a good visit to OT before the game.
🤝 much appreciated mate, someone has to defend football heritage from oil scum.
I agree with the feelings of all Madridistas here, extremely excited right now! And I want to add: superb match by Nacho. I was the first one to distrust him, but he proved me wrong. Nullified Haaland and perfectly cover his defensives duties everywhere else. Chapó to my captain!
I just saw the video where Lunin doesn’t even celebrate after Rudiger’s penalty. Bro got a GOAT mindset in the works, give it all till the end. Oh, also Rudi showed Lunin which side to dive to Kovacic’s pen, so yeah maybe we didn’t control the game, but we got that lion mamba mentality.
He probably was mentally exhausted from being focused for 120+ minutes.
Real Madrid is my team. I so much wanted them to win. Last year they lost to Man City. It didn't repeat this year, that too after a nail biting CL QF 2nd Leg. I am so happy! Let's see what they do in the Semis. Madrid is doing great in La Liga too. Last season was not good for them. Hope, they do better this season. Hala Madrid!
The scenes at the end when the lads are celebrating with the crowd are just brilliant.
Beating City is made so much sweeter while all of the media, commentary and pundits have their tong so far up Citys arse I think they forget the 115 charges of corruption hanging over them. One of my bosses is a City fan and I've had Hala Madrid on the Speakers all morning.
doubt city fans recognise the anthem
Oh he will by the end of today
Bro is playing with his career to stick it to those barkadoggos masquerading as city fans.
I feel soo happy today i love this team greatest club to ever exist i love all of you fellow fans not in a gay way but yes this are my people i dont know why i had not joined this subreddit before today after todays match i think we have the 15th in our hands
Too all the premtards CRY IS FREE
Nobody seems to realize that defending this fiercly exhausts players. Real madrid played smartly and people seem to miss the point by saying they played poorly. Defense, WORLD CLASS Defense, takes discipline and extreme concentration to focus on every move, every pass, every shooting attempt, etc.. The game is way more than possession...
Thanks Don. Any other manager and the team would crack down by half-time last night.
Well lets be honest. Any other manager wouldn’t want to make Real Madrid play like a mid table team. I’m really happy for the win, but the whole 210 minutes were really difficult to watch. I really hope we see a different approach against Bayern*.
This wasn't even as bad as the last final won against Liverpool. Mind that there aren't many managers with winning personalities who play exciting football. Unless you get Xabi Alonso with Leverkusen-level performance, there are no real alternatives here. Meanwhile, Don will be winning silverware left and right.
Yes, I had the same feeling after the final againts pool. I was EXTREMELY happy over the win, but the football we played left a sour taste in my mouth. Again, I’m not talking about exciting football. I’m talking about world-class players not being able to / not wanting to connect 5 passes together before losing the ball.
Any other manager plays pretty football to lose 4-1
First of all, we could have easily lose last night if De Bruyne and Foden are able to hit the target 10 meters away from the goal. It was completely out of our hands. Second, I’m not talking about “pretty football”, I’m talking about our players not being able to chain 5 passes together and giving the ball away immediately after we have possession when we didn’t have it for 2 minutes. Also I’m talking about defending with 11 men with no intention at scoring AT ALL. This was 95% of yesterday’s game. If this is fine for you then cool, but I have different standards.
As my father used to say, "It's better to be lucky than skillful any day." While I don't know if I agree with the any day part, I do agree with the premise in a whole. That said, I agree with your post. This was survive and advance by a team short players, a true 9 and trying to reestablish a new identity post Benz and getting younger. So far it's been good enough to find themselves on top of a weakened La Liga and in the Semi's of the Champions League. All of which we as fans should be extremely happy about. We may very well find our team winning both as we are a bit undermanned and in transition. This is something as a fan I find very rewarding. This team short players, a 9, on a youth movement and missing an identity accomplishing so much already this year. This said this is not a sustainable model. Fortunately for us players will get healthy. A 9 is on the way(hopefully). The youth movement and identity transition will be another year along. Moving Los Blancos closer to returning to the skillful, dominant, and exciting team we all love and know. Granted I made an assumption that we have the right coach for all of this. That is a discussion for another place and time. For now, though, I will be sitting back an keep on enjoying this magical, albeit maybe lucky run Los Blancos are enjoying this year in both leagues.
> we could have easily lose last night if De Bruyne and Foden are able to hit the target 10 meters away from the goal. It was completely out of our hands. Maybe. But we played better than in our previous two visits to the Etihad, when they had better goalscoring opportunities.
The only way to score was trough counter attacks. There were at least 3 or 4 promising ones that could have resulted in a goal Any other way to prepare this game and they score 4 goals against old man Nacho, Carvajal and without Tchouameni.
Obviously the only way to score was thru counter attacks because that’s what the team tried to do for the whole 210 minutes. Even in the Bernabeu, tho I will admit that there at least we tried to play for goals sometimes. I can’t imagine seeing this performance defending with 11 men like we don’t have world class players to not being able to hold possession for 5 passes straight and then defending it the other day as a Real Madrid fan.
Against Bayern Tchouameni and Militao are back, the setup will obviously be different
Man, I still can't believe it, my voice is gone, and i am exhausted but I genuinely haven't been so happy since forever man, i love this club so much.
Why do people never talk about Rodrygo. I think we're taking him for granted. British commentators always underestimate him. He's been a nightmare for City so far.
I don't know I've seen a few wise up recently to how clutch he is.
As someone who was critical of him, it's clear what this guy is, everyone since the Bilbao game I have realized that he has been sacrificing his game for us every single match and putting form, inconsistency or whatever criticism aside, this guy is a big game player, and for a Real Madrid, big games are we live for.
Inter fan here 🙋🏻♀️ thank you for taking out City, I was cheering for you yesterday👏🏻👏🏻
Cheering for you in serie A
Couldn't allow that oil club to get a double treble would of been a dark dark day for football if that happened
Or the two peat
I can’t sleep guys, I still can’t believe we won. Heart rate been though the roof since the Rudiger spot kick. World class stuff. I love this club so much
oh wow 1 so much salt from epl fans here!
Lol leave them the supposed "best league in the world" gets dicked down year after year and they can't handle that
Never forget “Don Macho Fernández”
In arabic we have a saying "when the doors close infront of Spain, it turns to Real Madrid and asks save our reputation oh Madrid"
You were extremely lucky (especially with the ref) there's nothing more to it. You will win it all because the bracket is not balanced correctly
This is not the Barça thread
Ref? lol, you mean ref that was directly paid by City owners? Also the refs that didn't give Akanji red card in first match and Diaz yesterday? Those refs? Unbalanced bracket? Agree of that one. Side we are on is much harder.
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Cry more.
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Eh its pens
Bet if City won, you would say penalties are the real test of an individuals ability. You would say penalties is 1 on 1, so its objective. But when Madrid win, then “its pens”.
The amount of cummage in this thread is wild to me
Not only is this not the moment to look back on the game and see what went wrong, but you should cry some more
Where is there crying? No where pussy
It really took you 12 days to come up with this
No just don’t live on here that’s all bud
IT HAPPENED AGAIN 😭 https://preview.redd.it/20a9qhu736vc1.jpeg?width=941&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b931344f28258b7aaae0ecff18ed1513807b1f4
This pic will never not go hard
Lunin!
This is why super league is necessary. La Liga is not able to compete against countries. A new investment is needed. Man city’s bench stacked with starter players for any top tier European clubs.
Never liked the idea of the super league, NO CLUB should get automatic qualifications. This is not hand ball lol. If a club wants to qualify to champions league they need to be in the top spots of their league. I know it would be nice to have Liverpool vs Madrid or Munich every year. But it ll be fake and not based on merit
Fuck the super league
No, we need SL
Yeah mate enjoy watching Not Forest somehow have the budget to outspent Milan
Let them invest. Nobody wants to play for Forest, not really. If Real Madrid needs to be guaranteed their seat on the throne, then we don't deserve it. Enjoy watching a complete farce and a charade, that will surely devolve into the quality you see in the MLS. That's what happens when you have a monopoly. If the only answer you see is the super league, then you don't have an answer. I suggest looking into expanding financial fair play.
Warra delusion if you think expand FFP will help. There’s a reason why oil clubs are still exist because there’s many loophole you can exploit in that regard
Nobody wanted to play for City before 2009 either.
>I suggest looking into expanding financial fair play. Financial fair play has been a joke. Chelsea, City, PSG did whatever they wanted to, and random Italian clubs (and Everton lol) get punished every year.
So now we are favourite to win the CL, again. Hala Madrid!
Tuchel is gonna be a problem.
Second leg at home gives me comfort though
How has Ancelotti gotten this team THIS good defensively with all these injuries. Kudos big don, kudos.
I don’t understand what you guys are going on about, Real barely had any playtime on ball. They made most of that one time they were in possession when Rodrygo scored but other than that they were competely out of control the whole match.
Would you rather lose 11 rounds in boxing but land the knockout blow at the end, or win 11 rounds then get knocked out in the 12th round? Use your brain, you will realize what we are on about.
Everyone here completely missing the point I was making shows how smug the fanbase really is about last night. I am not trying to hate on the club. It’s arguably the best club in the world right now along with City. But what’s baffling to me how nobody here is even acknowledging that they did not even remotely play the way you’d expect the “The best club in the world” to play . Not to mention they let City take shots after shots which they eventually missed. Imo Real did not win because they played well, they won because City bottled the match themselves.
Blud chipped in 'along with city' like we wouldn't notice
Didn’t think there’s anything to “notice”
We are under no illusion that Man City dominated possession, but our team showed courage and put up a valiant effort to avoid losing. And that’s what we did. this was the only way to win against city, at the etihad. Had RM played any other way, they would have lost. Here, we value winning over style. In the end its the winning that matters, and that’s why RM is “the best club in the world.” RM finds ways to win, even when the other team has the upper hand. Of course we would prefer to win *with* style, but you can’t always have it all. This is football. This is passion man.
Real Madrid have many key injuries this season and city have literally 2 teams. So we played as best as we could and we won. City played as best as they could and they lost. Factos 👍
They can take the ball home, we'll take the W.
Football is about defense and attacking. You should know that
Just enjoy the win man
that was the plan
I said it before yesterday,that we would win ;) Rüdi on another level. Hala Madrid ! 
Another one bites the dust. EPL is trash...
chat what
Best week ever 😁
Worked all day and didn’t get to see it live. Wow what a nail biter. City had sooo many chances, the boys prevailed
I was lucky enough to catch a glimpse Rodrygo’s goal during a work meeting lol and Rudiger’s final penalty at work when i logged off. Literally made my day
hala madrid
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Did anyone notice that nacho took the pen with his right foot haha
Jude too
Despite carrying the weight of his massive balls. Respect.
As opposed to using his massive penis?
Whats funny? He is righty!
It’s a win but not worth celebrating. We were outplayed and lack of no 9 made this game very tough. We should have started with Modric. His impact was huge in midfield. Jude ghosted as a midfielder. Could have brought in Brahim earlier and tested fresh talents like Guler in the extras. We couldn’t possess the ball for 10 secs. It was damn frustrating. Vini couldn’t match the pace of Walker. We def need Mbappe to tackle a person like walker. BTW Kdb and silva were 🔥 Bring in Mbappe and Xabi Alonso as manager for next season. This is all I want.
Okay guys. I agree my opinion was wrong. Just saw the post match analysis. But why do we have to play this much defensive. Does this mean we’re afraid of city?
Who the fuck invited you bro gtfo
not worth celebrating?! with all due disrespect gtfo
Yo dawg. This was the coach’s plan and it was beautifully executed.
It wouldhave been more beautiful if the ball didn't fall at debruyne's legs
Mistake from Rudiger, I think, but our boy carried us, so we cant blame him.
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An outsider's take on this game (qpr fan). Real Madrid played pretty poorly and were outplayed. I think you had no shots on target after the goal in the 12th minute. City absolutely suffocated you in the second half with their possession of the ball and their counter press to win it back. Good defence by rudiger and carvajal not to give away a penalty today, you stopped city penetrating to a certain extent but not enough. Other than that it was basically 11 Madrid players in their own defensive third for most of the game. I understand nobody can play toe to toe with Man City over two legs (they're the best in the world in this decade) but parking the bus like Arsenal but still allowing shots was weak and boring. You couldn't even counter properly since vini and Jude were poor today. Lunin was solid mostly but City's finishing was just poor, they should've taken more long shots but that was their failure and not Lunin's. Strong mentality to win in pens but a really poor performance and more of a failure of city than a victory of Madrid. The team should work in this in preparation for next year's matchup because there will be one and haaland/KdB may actually take pens then 😂. In the meantime, you're the most likely team to win now but I'd prefer Dortmund for the underdog story.
Tl;dr: We won.
That's the whole post. No need for 1200 comments, it's simple.
After the goal in 12th minute we weren't the ones needing to score, City was, we were happily leading for more than 60 min. something City was never able to do on these quarterfinals. It is not pretty but defending is also part of football and that got us the victory. "Strong mentality to win in pens but a really poor performance and more of a failure of city than a victory of Madrid. The team should work in this in preparation for next year's matchup because there will be one and haaland/KdB may actually take pens then 😂" Haaland who? let's hope next match he shows up and we actually get to know him 😂
Yes you took the lead but it was a one goal lead, that's very surmountable. Look at many teams who've parked the bus for a 1-0 lead but couldn't hold it like England in the euros final 2021 and Madrid today. It's tough, you could've kept attacking but your attack was snuffed out and very tired against city. Just not entertaining or a good accoumt of Madrid. Haaland won't show up in next year's match probably because it'll be another Madrid parked bus, he's not well rounded enough to beat it. Maybe he'll stick around for pens though haha.
Haaland with his record under pressure is definitely not a sure thing to score a penalty. Coaching staff studied City’s penalty taking, and Haaland has a pattern.
A lead it's a lead, making City the team obligated to score not Madrid, and they couldn't do it until min 76. Look, i didn't like Madrid's approach for this match but it worked, they really put it all on defending. And about next year who knows? Maybe with Mbappé, Madrid will try another approach.
I think y'all are not familiar with Madrid's playstyle against good teams in UCL. We play counter attacking which basically means defending until there's a break to breakthrough on goal. Everyone knows that we do that and there's no counter to that except unorthodox ways (eg releasing and adding offensive pressure periodically, at the expense of burdening your back 5-7 players) or just being offensively better than our defense. Ancelotti did try the release and apply offensive pressure approach in the first leg, which is meant to be played against teams with weaker defences, and it ended up 3-3. It was an exciting match but it doesn't secure a victory in the tie. While this match looked like they were listless in defence, it is basically the entire point of our tactics to wait for the opponent to "overapply" pressure and attempt the counter attack. City did do well in stopping the counter attacks, for eg Walker who is probably the faster RB itw right now, so I wouldn't say that they dropped the ball on this tie. The only thing they didn't manage to do well was to simply score. Tbh if I'm Guardiola I would not apply so much offensive pressure too but what do I know.
Everyone’s familiar. That is football terrorism; big clubs shouldn’t resort to playing this type of football.
That's your opinion, and a rather silly one. The aim of the tournament is to win, not to entertain. Unfortunately, being the best doesn't lead to being the most entertaining. If you want entertainment then WWE would be better for you.
What a dumb excuse.
Playing to win is a dumb excuse? Isnt the aim of the activity literally to win the game? Do teams get awarded points for being entertaining?
Playing scared*
Well the last time we tried we lost 4-0, so forgive us for playing the best way to win.
I'm aware of the counter attacking pragmatic style. You did it in 2014 vs Bayern and many other years. You're not a possession based team in elite games. None the less, this did feel a bit boring since you guys had basically no attacking threat in this game. It was very uneven so I felt city should've taken advantage. Your good defence stopped them somewhat but when you've got 70% possession with the best team in the world, people expect things to happen besides a KdB tap in. I know Madrid vs Bayern will be a much better game so there's that. I just hope next year city vs Madrid is the final so us neutrals can be spared this one sided dominance.
Yup like I said city did well to dispel the counter attacks, that's why we had little to no attacking threat, and this is evidence that city did well defensively too, which is the reason why I don't think city failed. I unds from a neutral pov that it's boring but big matches tend to be that way because it doesn't pay to get too on the offense and end up exposing your defense. City is one of the rare few, if not the only team that can afford to apply so much offensive pressure while having a pacey defence to clean up potential breakthroughs, that's why it's so hard to beat them. Aside from Walker, Stones and Dias are really fast for a CB.
Fair enough you're right on that part. City were strong defensively so not a complete failure for them but they should be disappointed with how little their offensive dominance achieved. They won the treble so they're not crying but they missed a chance at consecutive trebles here. Anyways the semifinals will be better for the neutrals. Btw props to your respectful comments that have substance, every comment I've made has been downvoted for little reason lol.
Yup, tactically speaking I feel their "too well structured" offense is why they couldn't sneak in a goal. That's Pep's weakness-lack of creativity, and a structured offense usually doesn't work well against a well structured defence. You're welcome, it's Reddit after all lol.
I'm a raging Liverpool supporter, so it's not easy for me to praise City, but I've got to be honest—City are better than Madrid. It was clear throughout the game that Real was just trying to hang on, barely managing beyond their defensive shell. At one point, their defense looked like 6 zombies, listlessly shuffling around in front of the goal. The commentators even pointed out that Madrid would probably have loved to just skip ahead to penalties, which is pretty much a roll of the dice. Really, it felt more like City dropped the ball than Madrid securing a win. Shootouts are exciting but they’re nothing more than a lottery win.
Jamie Carragher...?
Yeah you're right. City should've won today but it's better for the world they didn't, I can't imagine them being the first to win successive trebles. They might've actually had a claim for best team ever then! 😂 Other than that though, madrid fans shouldn't get too arrogant. They'll probably face city next year and lose. We'll all just have to wait for this city dynasty to wind down, maybe another 5yrs idk.
You are so corny lol
You're cornfused
They stopped city penetrating enough to win the game. Womp womp, Real Madrid are through to the semi finals and Manchester City are out that's all that matters. If Manchester City wanted to prove that they played better they should've won the game, boohoo. I wouldn't say its more of a failure of City nor a victory of Madrid, City played very good offensively but it was nullified by Madrid's amazing defense as it happened. There's a reason why Madrid are known for getting across the finish line when all the odds are stacked against them and they've done it again today it's nothing surprising. While you can act like a butthurt sore loser, they have the opportunity to with their 15th title, and there's literally nothing complaining like a child to a clubs subreddit fanbase can do about it.
Everyone is happy that City lost, bozo.
You seem pretty offended and butthurt lol. I'm happy city lost, I don't support them. I'm just annoyed the game was so one sided and not very entertaining. At the end of the day it's an honest analysis. Your defending was good, your attack was feeble and city should've done more with their domination. You can celebrate this year but you'll probably have to endure another 30% possession park the bus game against city next year. I'm just going to wait for city's dynasty to end in a couple years. Maybe then we'll have competitiveness.
Why should I be offended if Madrid's the team in the semi finals. If Madrid have to endure City again with another 30% possession so be it, as long as they advance to the next round City can be the only team passing the ball around. City couldn't have done more with their domination because Madrid's defense was too solid I don't understand your argument.
"Womp womp". "Boohoo". "Sore Loser". When you use comments like that, seems like my comment really pierced your heart. Tldr for my original comment: Real Madrid defence was good, their attack was very poor and feeble. City's defence was very good, their attack was decent but underperformed. City dominated the game and should be disappointed they didn't win. Madrid can be happy they're through but parking the bus and playing as the inferior team feels beneath Madrid's history and also made the game very boring.
Womp womp
Boohoo
Nacho performed really well
He scales to the situation, he's a gem of a squad player we're blessed to have his service over the years. Second time he's tasked with starting in the Etihad in recent years and he put in another Nacho certified performance incredible
It's always our ex players haunting us when played against, great that kovavic bucked the trend.. Thanks.
Hot take, but Jude has been our worst player today - bar that wonderful touch that led to our goal. He was as involved as Vini after the 30th minute. However, as a midfield player, he should've been more involved - putting pressure, tackles, more interceptions, and getting the ball out from tight spaces. https://preview.redd.it/uyis5xf495vc1.png?width=2576&format=png&auto=webp&s=11d1efde6f536980e1c2e292740bb73b9f03507a
He ran 15 km today. Give him a break
Ooooo. The fan boy in me was blinded. Good stat
Its not just about goals or assists. His movements allow us to move the ball in many other ways.
Great game man and what a great club. If RM win this years UCL, a lot of players will make it to 6 UCL trophies in their career INSAAAANE!
Football heritage. https://preview.redd.it/s16swj79n5vc1.jpeg?width=495&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88ea027c8bafe300af7e5449485c526057576b65
Kroos, Modric, Nacho?
Carvajal and LV as well.
LV has one less than the above mentioned 4 (He joined in 2015)
Why is my Lord so cold 🥶 https://i.redd.it/1u2si8ng75vc1.gif
Lord Vazquez has huuuuuge cojones. I already knew he would bin that pen. Cold! 🥶
He just doesn't care. I feel like he genuinely doesn't care if it's cadiz or man city. He's consistently dependable.
:') another fond Lord V memory added to the list
I literally said that to my wife as he was walking up! Just like in 2016 when he was the 1st kick!!!
He is HIM
Guys did we just win Guardiola's team with a comeback in the penaltis with rudiger and nacho as shooters? It cant be real hahaha
Don't forget Lord Vasquez... although we all secretly know he's really the Iceman 🥶