HT 1-0 .. looks like we are stillb playing 4-3-3 ... James looks like lost ter...Kroos is just amazing

Cr7 scores the first two goals of the season. Hope he will stay injury free and much hungrier this season

Ronaldo again. What a combination

Kroos - Benzema - Ronaldo 2:0

only watched 60min. sleepy after ronaldo scored the 2nd.

i think rodriguez buy a bit pointless. im sure he's a great talent. but isco and de maria are not less and can do a similar job.

the foursome forward worked last night, but against a better teams, one of them should should be sacrifice for another cm.

good workout for a first game..

Congratulations!

This attack
7. C.Ronaldo
8. Kroos
9. Benzema
10. James
11. Bale
are sick! great!

hope ancelotti can improve the defense too

this 4-3-3 with xabi kroos modric is nt really working... we gt to take more risks...

ft 0-1... only player who tried something was James... Benzema n Bale were shocking.. Ronaldo is not match fit right now

This post has been edited by raj84: Aug 23 2014, 06:25 AM

penetrating the organized squad of simeone is really a headache for ancelotti. and the team really loses its structure in the second half. hope we can rectify the matter soon enough.

Sad news, if rumour about do maria going to Manchester united is true.last season ,he was always been our saviour in the big games,second or third best player after cr7 and ramos.don't understand the real Madrid logic of getting rid best player each year,and buy a new overpriced star player for the sake of commercial gain

thats not a club want to get rid the best player, but the players themselves want to leave, want new challenge, we already offer new deal to di maria, but he reject it. same thing happened to higuain.. player wanted to leave, what we can do to the players hearts not with the team anymore.. just let them go, although it will be a big loss..

well..this is not 1st time perez doing that thing...

Now hopefully with the absence of him, isco and James will prosper in the midfield roles. Btw are we done with our transfer, the falcon news stop already,abit worry with our striker position, only left benzema up front. Benzema is a good one, but not consistence enough, unless ancelotti want to use bale or Ronaldo in forward roles,

Benzema has gone 15 games without scoring.... we really need another striker right now... Falcao/Cavani will be good...

James shud be a striker

playing with a false 9? i'm not sure if james is up to the task right now. actually i think kroos is much better playing as a pivot rather than the go-man in midfield.

I dont know, to me.. bale is just a headless-overprice-player.. he has no special skill other than agility and speed - which compared to his price tag. Normally he is clueless on what he should do. He has clear chance during super cup but, shot the ball aimlessly. Damn.. to me he is not fit to be the white. James perfroming better than him IMO, but he subbed by CA.

I cringe when people claim that Di Maria is our 2nd or 3rd best player after Ronaldo (there are some who even say he's been our best player). It's as if these "fans" have memories of a goldfish. I would rate Modric's season far better than Di Maria for instance.

Let me dish out the truth here. Di Maria was absolute crap for the first half of last season. So crap that the Bernabeu whistled him which lead to that crotch-grabbing gesture when he was subbed out. At that point many fans were thinking that he should be sold in the summer. Now he's some godly saviour "engine of a Bentley" type of a player.

Now, I'm not putting down Di Maria here. I think he was very crucial for us after Khedira got injured and Ancelotti played him in midfield. He was crucial in the big games that mattered and I'm very appreciative of what he's done for us. But in no way is he an irreplaceable key player for us. We offered a renewal which he rejected because he's going to be paid alot more at Man Utd which is his every right. I would just thank him for his services and wish him good luck.

As a sidenote I have a story to share. Back when we bought Ronaldo for 80m pounds, a Man Utd fan ridiculed the transfer right in front of my face saying that no player is worth that amount of money and that RM were absolutely stupid to spend that kind of money. Now 5 years on, with the reported figures of 75m euros + 15m variables for Di Maria, I can't help but be amused at the irony. Ronaldo for 80M pounds? Worth. Every. F-ing. Cent.

i have said di maria was a better player than ozil and between the two of them, ozil should be the one shipped out and he was. i am appreciative of di maria's work rate and i would not go as far as to slate him as rubbish in the first half of the season.

but with the arrivals of kroos and james, he had to go. no player is irreplaceable. he wanted to go and his refusal of a contract offer from real madrid indicates this. 75m for him is a good business, even better than the ozil business. so by all means, i think he should go.

i am more perplexed and astounded by the sheer "comments for comments" sake arguments like falcao should be backup to benzema stuffs. absolutely amazing.