Alphonso Davies

[draconifire]

Half of the CLs they recently won were done while in poor form in both league and the CL knockout stages. They just have an elite mentality on the big stage, and their star players come up big when they need to (except Ronaldo, lolz at Ramos doing his job for him). I hate Real Madrid and all the corruption and bias revolving around them, but their mentality is top notch and they never give up.

I love Barca, but I'm not going to shit talk Madrid when they've been 10× more successful than us the past decade. It just makes you look bitter and stupid 🤷‍♂️ As much as I want them to lose, I wouldn't bet my paycheck against them.

This is what saddens me.
Having the Best player of all time and ushered in the playing style that has now dominates football for almost a decade and a half.
Our main rival is perceived and feared more than us. When we know, we are better than them, 8/10 times.

 

[TheStig]

Real Madrid winning the CL with this football would be up there with the biggest miracles in that competition's history. Comparable to 04 Porto, 91 Zvezda, 86 Steaua and other campaigns of that kind.

Madrid 22 and 24 were on a completely different level. This Madrid has arguably the worst pair of fullbacks of all top teams in Europe right now. Out of four centrebacks only Rudiger is reliable (one is coming back from a long injury, other is an unexperienced kid who's not all that either, the third is literally a defensive midfielder who doesn't know how to play CB at all).

On top of that there is no signs of mentality bursts that used to bail them out most of the time. Several times this season it looked like they might be on the verge of turning it around yet absolutely nothing happened in the end. This alone is bigger than any problems of tactical or personnel structure because last two UCL wins were mostly fueled by this remontada and fluke wins scheme.

Their midfield has very little creativity to it and is filled with players of similar profiles. Their attack is realistically the only thing that could make it happen but then again it is consisted of 3 left wingers in Vini, Mbappe and Rodrygo and a guy who is borderline useless without the goalscoring role in Jude.

Completely different story if the football improves though. If somehow Carlo finds a solution to their defensive problems and fine tunes the attacking potential he has. But he has been trying that since start of the season and hasn't really moved so far.

You didn't watch CL in the last decade?