Yet another player who plays unreal against us to bend over and look like a joke when playing Madrid.
Since there are 10s of teams and 10s of players who:
1. play awesome against Barca
2. and are incredibly sterile against Real
Then I think that there is a possibility in one of my theories that:
1. Barca has a perfect style for La Liga and against minor opponents.
We figured out how to beat and dominate smaller teams.
2. on the other hand, Real don't have a perfect tactics against smaller teams and are losing points way more often than us, which results in Barca winning La Liga over and over again.
3. on the other hand, in the last few years, RM seems to be way better in a CL knockout rounds against bigger teams, while we struggle against everyone (especially against defensive and physical teams like Juve, Psg, AM and similar, while those teams look like total newbs against RM).
On the other hand, again, we look way better against Getafe and Las Palmas and against teams like Celtic, Ajax, Porto etc.
My point: we should copy some things from RM against biggest CL teams.
Our possession based, small and technical players tactic seems to be awesome against smaller teams (the same as with all Pep's teams, Bayern in Bundesliga, City in a EPL), but we suck when we meet AM, Juve and similar teams (except under Valverde who employed some more defensive minded and a physical approach).
In short, I would like to see 2 plans for our teams:
1. 433, small and technical players against weaker La Liga teams
2. EV's&RM's approach against big boys in a CL knockout rounds
For example, in the opposite direction:
1. is there a big team whom we trash easily and who is causing insane problems for a RM? =no
2. is there a big player whom is a crap against our mighty defense and who is scoring goals out of fun against a RM? =no
So, basically, there aren't any big teams and big players (except Barca and Messi) who can score easily against RM.
But as said before, RM on the other hand is not as good as we are against bottomtable and midtable teams.