Messi983
Senior Member
Don't really care about that, it was expected. We didn't lose the league on Sunday anyway, so I won't blame Malaga for not even trying to win.
And while there were referee mistakes in their favour during the season RM won the title because they were a better team (their "B team" easily won games that our "B team" lost) and they have a smarter coach that knew how to get maximum out of his players. I think Zidane deserves a lot of credit for how he handled Ronaldo this season for his form to peak at the right moment but of course at the same time he also had a team that could win without Ronaldo when he was out of form and also with Benzema in poor form and Bale injured all the time.
Hopefully we'll get coaching advantage back with Valverde but with our transfer history it will take also a lot of luck to get overall squad quality - not just best XI - closer to their level (yeah, they'll sell Morata and James but they'll probably replace them with other good players and with Theo they already improved backup LB position which was probably their main weakness so now they could rest Marcelo sometimes). Hell, we needed Messi at his absolute best and MATS with some great saves to barely beat them in last seconds of El Clasico. That's how much they improved and probably even more how much worse we got in last 18 months since we easily won at Bernabeu with Messi starting on the bench.
And while there were referee mistakes in their favour during the season RM won the title because they were a better team (their "B team" easily won games that our "B team" lost) and they have a smarter coach that knew how to get maximum out of his players. I think Zidane deserves a lot of credit for how he handled Ronaldo this season for his form to peak at the right moment but of course at the same time he also had a team that could win without Ronaldo when he was out of form and also with Benzema in poor form and Bale injured all the time.
Hopefully we'll get coaching advantage back with Valverde but with our transfer history it will take also a lot of luck to get overall squad quality - not just best XI - closer to their level (yeah, they'll sell Morata and James but they'll probably replace them with other good players and with Theo they already improved backup LB position which was probably their main weakness so now they could rest Marcelo sometimes). Hell, we needed Messi at his absolute best and MATS with some great saves to barely beat them in last seconds of El Clasico. That's how much they improved and probably even more how much worse we got in last 18 months since we easily won at Bernabeu with Messi starting on the bench.
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