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If we did, and it works, who cares. That's on Madrid to solve it and they will be out of the cup whilst we basically have a free trophy vs Osasuna.

Ancelotti clearly has no clue how to break down our setup, spanning all the way back to 4-0 last season, so it's clear that we match him and Madrid very favourably. Even though we are missing a lot of players because of that I'm still expecting us to go through. If we can steal an early goal...

With dribbling attackers, especially ones like Messi where his athletic and physical level earlier in his career was absolutely astounding, the physical regression with age is going to hit them hard. With attackers the physical level is one of the most important things, the agility, the...

If Chelsea recently won a CL title, Madrid won one last year, Tottenham made a CL final a few years ago, how can it be impossible that we compete too? It's a cup, anything can happen. This year one of Napoli/Milan/Inter/Benfica are making the final and none of them were on anyone's lips...

Resting Balde at that time makes no sense. He was one of the least at risk being a young player who hadn't played that many minutes in the season. If resting was the idea why not rest actual overused players like Pedri/Lewa/De Jong.

How bad are some of these relegation teams in LL. Jeez. Madrid 4-0 up after 30 minutes vs Valladolid.

Ancelotti should be sacked on the spot if he loses to us when we're missing Dembele, Pedri, De Jong, Christensen...

The whole point of xG is you look at it independently to what goals were scored or not. Against Madrid we actually created more and allowed less but you are letting the final result cloud the view of the facts. Elche, in my opinion, were more threatening than Madrid. Their players suck so they...

This is what would happen unless the news about him pulling for a Messi return is true. However, it's not that we have stacks of liquid cash to burn and our only problem is the cap, either. We are operating largely on a loan and can't just burn that money paying Messi regardless of what the...

He is like current CR7.

Obviously their quality is a lot lower but they are doing what they can. They've had a couple 1v1s they could score from but both times their attacker fell over whilst running.

Honestly Elche weren't even that bad. We have just been very clinical. We created more against Madrid but we missed some chances.

I want to see Estanis mainly.

Rare game where we are actually being very clinical.

Elchemannnnnnnnn With that he may have just secured Pichichi.

Whisper it quietly but Elche are being more threatening than Madrid were.

This black magic is crazy :lol: :lol: :lol:

He has a lot of pressure on him... these are decisive moments in his career. Everyone hits bad patches and this is a roadblock he needs to surpass to prove he's capable of handling it at the highest level. Number 10, huge contract, big expectations, dad mouthing off, fanbase disappointed...

Not surprised, Elche suuuuuuck. We need to put 3 or 4 past them to give us our scoring edge back and a bit of confidence to likes of Ansu, though I'm reading he's been terrible so far somehow. If he can't do it against this opposition something is seriously wrong about him.

How are we doing just tuned in