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At this point the game at Camp Nou is going to be crucial. A lot of football ahead, but... Win that and we should be home and dry.

Doubtful. Always harder to keep it up in second half of the season with more games coming and fatigue + injuries, especially with a high pressing system like Xavi's. We will end up shipping a bunch of goals at some point.

Benzema not getting involved seems more like a tactical issue today, Sociedad were defending with 11 and he was getting crushed by 3 or 4 defenders surrounding him. Wasn't enough movement or attacking runs from midfield, Modric had one nice movement towards the end but not enough when facing a...

Madrid desperately need some midfield reinforcements. Modric looks so off it.

Incredible how the roles are reversed in LaLiga now. The voodoo has transferred from Madrid to Xavi.

Vinicius been poor for a while now. Not looking like an elite winger. Could be consequence of increased focus on him as Madrid don't have much going on on the other flank.

Madrid been better pretty much the whole game. I know there's a lot of hype around this Sociedad squad but tbh I'm not seeing it. Players just not good enough looks like. United lost to them tho...

Sorloth can't strike a ball. Missed that open net against us too.

EL itself isn't that important of a trophy but it's not a great advert to potential players joining if they see we get knocked out of even EL two straight times. It would also be nice to see the team make some progress on the European front and to show we can adapt to that kind of football.

I'm not sure how your conclusion makes sense. LaLiga is the 'worst of the top 5 leagues' because it is terrible other than Madrid or Barca (though I think it is 4th, not 5th). How does that mean United are better than Barca? I never stated that nor it is clear how you got there from what I said.

Think MATS and Araujo would probably be bigger losses if I'm honest even though I love Dembele. MATS been by far the best player so far this season and dropoff to him and Pena is big.

LaLiga is shite I agree, it's a two-team league, we are one of the two top teams. Saying Barcelona should accept to be knocked out of the Europa League is terrible. Why bring a 35 year old top striker and spend so much on prime age players if not trying to compete now, even in Europa League?

They're 4th in the league. Sure it's one of the hardest opponents to draw but we have it in us to beat the EPL 4th place over 2 legs right? A tie we have a great chance of winning. We can't continually make excuses for going out of Europe again and again because we draw some decent opponents...

Likely to get knocked out of Europa League? Seriously? How far have FC Barcelona fallen? The expectation has to be to win it.

Best case he could even be ready for Man U first leg, will probably be back by the second one.

Won't need him for those games anyway though as he always bottles against top teams, or so I hear from his haters on this thread.

Not true. Played a lot of games like this with him also, despite him obviously being a big improvement on Fati.

JamDav, question, do you reckon this approach will continue to work and bring LaLiga + other titles in the process?

Despite conceding more than a goal of xG again, we don't concede. Statistics are one thing but when the results on the field repeatedly disprove them it can mean two things : one, a huge amount of luck, or two, there is some other variable not being considered. But can it just be a huge amount...

Everyone will be happy for the title when it comes. It's just hard to believe that you can keep winning whilst repeatedly losing games on xG and playing negative football. You were the first one to criticise this sort of play in the past, stating we can't be a team like Madrid with no identity...