Mitchell1978
Senior Member
Bit of an ugly win but a win nonetheless.
We don't play like Barca with Mascherano in midfield. That's horrible.
And yet we win everytime he plays DM
Messi on the right wing did not work effectively because madrid players know they can't defend messi properly when he has the ball and space so they made sure he does not receive the ball there and even if he gets he is getting in difficult position and it is easy to take it away from him. That is how they neutralized and messi and playing masch at DM has the given us no control in midfield. By doing these things they stopped us from creating chances and they created plenty of them. This is all in the first half.
We don't play like Barca with Mascherano in midfield. That's horrible.
And yet we win everytime he plays DM
So? If anything, we win those games despite his presence in midfield. The game was truly under our control only when Busquets (and Xavi) came on.And yet we win everytime he plays DM
You can't beat Real Madrid 5-0 every time. Seems like that's the only time everyone has been happy after a Clasico here. Yes our team was bad in the first half but a lot of it was just brain farts. Easy passes not being completed and holding onto the ball too long. In my mind those are self inflicted and not because of the opponent which would be more worrying if Madrid were doing whatever they wanted and we had no answer.
In the 2nd half less mistakes were made and look what happened. Completely dominated after that Benzema chance at the 48th min. Real Madrid had no answer for us and that is why I'm happy with our team at the moment. When we are on our game nobody has an answer. I don't think Madrid could have played much better in the first half and barca weren't that far away from them while commuting all those silly mistakes.
dude we were awful until busquets came on, seriously our midfield was nonexistent