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We have a 7 point lead and only a few months to go, so we can afford to lose 2 games and draw 1 without going behind. 7 points doesn't sound like that much but it really is hard to cut down. Should be able to get LL this season given Madrid have been less than consistent too.

The same Transfermarkt that tells you Fede Valverde is worth 100m. Lol. Its ok if you know nothing about a team and just want a base level indicator of strength but beyond surface level it's useless. Especially if you're a dedicated fan of a team you should no way be using it to judge the...

Roberto already belonged in several elite squads. And belonged well at that. You can't really improve these type of guys for the bench because no great players come to be bench players. You are mostly just going to have B tier players for your bench, even getting players like Kessie or Raphinha...

The bench is fine, it could do with a couple more additions but in general we should work with what we already have and get the best out of it. After all, a guy like Ferran was a rotation player at City despite how supposedly terrible it is to have him on the bench. If he's good enough to...

'I may lose the Champions League, I may lose the Europa League, but I will never lose custody of my son' - IniestaGOAT x Xavi

Well, last summer we got : Kounde (50m) Christensen (free) Kessie (free) 2 world-class starters and one good squad player for 50m combined. 40m is still a lot of money. Just because EPL teams are dumb doesn't change the fact you can still get quality for that. Just need to look a bit harder...

You can bet Xavi will go with a similar defensive idea even if we have our players back. Madrid looked like had run out of ideas and clueless on how to create anything whilst gave up plenty on the counter - imagine Dembele and Pedri were there to counter. Could've scored 2 or 3.

Well that squad is only getting older and more stale. They need some big signings if they want to keep winning.

In general, dry dribbling someone who is faster and stronger than you as a winger is very difficult. You need on ball situations set up by teammates eg layoffs, one twos, fast break through balls where you can get the extra step and have more space, and also have the threat of shooting. Vini...

As long as we are looking to play positively most of the time it's fine. Our approach was conditioned by missing the good creative players we have, to be fair.

You don't deserve luck if you hardly create a single chance the entire game. Madrid created almost nothing. They had one good chance which was Alvaro header right at the end then a Carvajal half chance on the volley, but at the most, the best Madrid deserved is a draw. Needs to look at his own...

Maybe we should give benching him for an extended period of time a go. I remember how we got him unsuspended for that one game against Espanyol and we ended up drawing that one too. Even if we can't see it clearly ourselves he must be dragging down the team somehow because we only drop points...

Its the same for Bayern. Him leaving didn't really make them any worse even if Bundesliga might be a little closer. Beginning to think he's not even a positive force, just statpads for himself.

Need to play better than we have been in past games. That display of character and grit was fantastic, but when the other team score first instead it all goes to shit. We have to be creating and be on the front foot a bit more.

Alexandre Pati? Idk man. Its hard to have faith when he's looking this bad. It may not be down to him, the type of injury and subsequent treatment he had (meniscus removal) makes the knee really weak and unstable in the long term. Physically he is only going to get worse and worse. Injuries...

Regardless of how we won, 1-0 at the Bernabeu missing important players is a great result and anyone would've taken it before the game. Don't think anyone is complaining, it was best possible outcome.

Pretty much as soon as we started 2nd half vs United they started flooding numbers forward, pressing extremely high and shooting whenever they got space. Ten Hag realised what the plan was pretty much instantly after the first half. This time it seemed like Ancelotti never really woke up.

Being tough doesn't mean playing without your brain. He makes meaningless fouls all the time and gets booked for no reason. See the corner where he gave Vini a shove for literally no reason and got a card. He should look more towards Araujo, that is a football alpha male. Serenity and gets...

Have to say a lot of the blame for that loss goes to Ancelotti. He set them up badly, he should know by now we play a physical and intense game and he put them out there with Kroos and Modric instead of going with Tchou and Ceballos. I agree with you that if we faced a more intense and faster...

This match was different from a lot of our defensive 'masterclasses' this season where we have conceded a ton of chances and Ter Stegen has carried us. We actually conceded hardly anything today and they didn't really deserve a goal. So this type of performance can only be positive.