Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (commonly known as Real Madrid or Madrid) is a Spanish sports club best known for its football team. It is the most successful team in the world and has even been named "The Best Club of the 20th Century" by FIFA in 2000, having won a record 31 La Liga titles, 17 Spanish Cups, a record 9 European Cups and 2 UEFA Cups. Founded in 1902, Real Madrid has since spent all of its history in the top flight of Spanish football. The club's home colours are their legendary all white and they play their home games at the 80,354-capacity Santiago Bernabéu football stadium. Unlike most European football clubs, Real Madrid's members (socios) have owned and operated the club since its inception.

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This post has been edited by zeronehza: Feb 13 2022, 08:43 PM

welcome madridistas

finally, gratz for new tered. last tered lasted for 2years+...let's see this one will last how long.

one point separated 3 teams on top. 9 games to go. any banana skin in the remaining league matches??

sevilla and sociedad away look tricky... last 6 games all winable... we could win the league without beating atletico or barca even once but who cares.... last season barca couldnt beat us n they still won the league

woot woot! new thread!!

let continue our unwavering support for Real Madrid

Hala madrid

Not a good way to start a new thread (with a defeat)

Anyway... We can't slip up anymore

sevilla v real madrid early tomorrow morning. sevilla could be tough. i dont know how sevilla play but it was always quite tough.
but i have seen real sociedad play, and i think real sociedad is a real unpredictable one.

both sevilla and sociedad are unpredictable teams... i watched sevilla play barca few weeks ago n first 20 minutes sevilla totaly dominated barca n should have been atleast 3-0 ahead.... we need to be patient and take our chances later in the game.. we cannt concede early goals

Another bad day.. No ramos, no di maria.. Our team became fragile against parking bus team.. What can i say.. We just lost hope for the title..

Ft : 1-2

terrible performance.... worst i have seen whole season... sevilla oni created two chances whole game and they scored... Ancelotti must b brave enough to make early subs... . missing jese in this sort of games... and why the hell bringing morata on 90th minute...

disappointing. sevilla continues their good run. RM were not good enough.

valdes out for 6 months.. hope barcelona defender not so good

i didnt watch the game but i have a feeling that having jese wont help much. isco will had he played from the start. amazing what a defeat against your arch rivals can do to your mentality. real madrid are suffering from it.

for me.. having alonso and illara playin together not the best tactics, they got same style, also, illara still in learning phase.. his reaction quite slow.. we need fast pace player like di maria to break the parking bus team

I really don't like when the team under pressure or when we left behind especially Ronaldo . . his selfishness , I must say really shine lor . . adoii . . rugi2 3 mata . . now hoping that atletico and barca will slip up and we must win all games . .

this lost means
la liga is over for RM.
they had peak in the middle of the season.
while barca seems to peak at this last quarter.

hoped that ATM won la liga. gave some freshness from the duopoly.
i somehow hate the current TV rights system as its damaging la liga
by RM and UEFALONA duopoly.

i kind of agree with the illara and alonso assessment. i thought they are too similar to play together. illara is a like for like replacement for xabi, and he's no shuttler like di maria. wonder if casemiro would be a better choice.

how do you comment on ronaldo? on one hand, his selfishness is the reason why real madrid are scoring. on the other, he is berated for trying too hard to score, do it all by himself most of the time. this all points to his average decision making. i get what you mean, i have seen him play and there are many times when he could play in someone for a better goal scoring opportunity but chose to go at it alone. thing is, i have seen that from bale, benzema and morata too. isco as well. maybe its a team thing. too anxious to be important for the club that team play suffers. sacrifice is needed, just like xabi. it has been a long time since he last scored.

situation right now reminds me of the juande ramos time in charge. won all until the classico, and then all came apart.

This post has been edited by kevraul: Mar 27 2014, 11:11 AM

i think its time to bring iker back to the league games ... diego lopez sometimes i feel is very slow coming out to close down 1 v 1 situation..

yeay i know that . . sometimes i do feel pity for other teammate if they already have open space to score goal but still Ronaldo didn't pass the ball yet trying to score for himself . . haihh . . besides , there's also bonus for them if they score a goal . . memang berebut2 nak score goal lah . . haha

illara and xabi , both style of play is same . . contain the opposition , keep hold in the midfield area and spray passes to the strikers . .

well . . we still have champions league and copa del rey . . but let's do hope we manage to get treble this season . .

we should not lose hope at this moment. the liga title will be hard but real madrid must keep their winning mentality on. it was a poor game against sevilla. attack, midfield, defense and perhaps with the goalie there is a little problem. we must keep calm and get it fixed asap.

i am very sad coz we keep on losing like this..2 matches in a row..la liga title turn into pieces..athletico are stable and barca are getting stronger..wishing them to lose any match is too much to ask for.hmmm..get suarez sell benz..clearly selling ozil was a bad decision..really bad

This post has been edited by pandailako: Mar 29 2014, 01:12 PM

If Ancelotti keep playing 4-3-3 . . then no use keeping Ozil . . see Isco right now . . playing out of his usual position and looks like underperform lor . .

two consecutive defeats after leading the La Liga is a major blow to our title ambitions hope..

perhaps a 5-0 win over Rayo will ease the title pressure challenge..

after watching barca's game against espanyol , i have no doubt they will win the league... awfull officiating n uefalona at its best...

Real Madrid-Rayo Vallecano

Diego López, Pepe, Sergio Ramos, Fábio Coentrão, Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Gareth Bale, Xabi Alonso, Carvajal, Di María, Illarra.

BENCH: Iker Casillas, Varane, Marcelo, Casemiro, Nacho Fernández Iglesias, Alvaro Morata, Isco.

This post has been edited by zeronehza: Mar 30 2014, 04:43 AM

FT : 5-0

Cr
carvajal
balex2
morata

ronaldo being boo after final whistle ???
i really cant understand those madrid fan who goes to the stadium.
its been always like that since forever.
i remember zidane being boo`s.

If we can't win the league
I really really hope athletico will win it

that's normal.. maybe for his selfishness in scoring goals

atletico played 4 matches against barca and still no defeat ..surely Ancelotti got to learn something from them..

surely, you must want real madrid to play like barcelona or atletico? neither has beaten each other.

playing 4-3-3 against top teams is nt working... bale benzema n ronaldo are nt tracking back leaving our 3 midfielders overruned by opposition... againt barca, we must folow atletico's style n pack the midfield in a 4-4-2 formation which means one of the forward three players must b sacrified..

so a 442 will presumably pack the midfield and the midfield will not be overrun. first, there would be 2 banks of 4 and leaving 2 upfront which surely brings us to the point where there is not enough firepower when the goals do not come. secondly, there would be a lack of width, forcing the game to be played in the center midfield area. good teams will exploit whatever space they can find. that is assuming the midfield 4 are all central midfielders since its the midfield you are concerned with if 3 can be overrun. if you put 2 wingers in your midfield, probably jese and di maria, then that leaves you with only 2 midfielders centrally. it will be overrun all the same.

and for tonight . .

Dear Cristiano Ronaldo :

Please don't be jual ikan a.k.a selfish

i think 442 with with 3 midfielders plus di maria should b ok bt none of the three midfielders are goalscoring type... we need someone like koke in atletico who can defend n go frwrd scoring goals at the other hand...

di maria is out from tonite's game... combine with coentrao ter , i think ters no width at all from the left flank. isco or illara should replace him but both of them are diff kind of players isco starts....

This post has been edited by raj84: Apr 3 2014, 02:40 AM

And Bale skewers Dortmund before its even 5 mins. This is looking good.

FT : 3-0

Bale
isco
cr

great result but still need improvement in defence

revenge is sweet. just hope CR7 injury isn't serious.

that casillas save. world class.

Casillas saved us numbers of time.. would like to see him at the front seat again with that kind of performance..

I kept thinking the games were at 3:45 so only saw 2nd half.. I still think it would've been another4 game if lewandowski was playing. Defense is a problem.. I have a feeling that everyone's getting tired.

i think casillas is better than diego lopez in 1 v 1 situation.. he can sense the danger n comes out quickly to close the gap... lopez i tot was very slow in coming out during our loss to sevilla...

true true..I think both is good/bad. I like it when Casillas quickly rushes out for the saves.. but sometimes he comes out too early and gets caught out farely easy or gets sent off. I think Lopez is more comfortable staying between the sticks because of how tall he is.. but then again he needs to rush sometimes.

our defenders need some rest. especially pepe and carvajal. too many games right now.

i dont know, to me.. pepe is doing great (but, sometime he caught out of position)..
but my concern is ramos.. he is performing below par.. easily out of focus..

But we only have variance as the other recognized cb as cover though

Ancelotti likes playing Nacho anywhere tho.

must win game for us... just watched barca's game... the ref dying to give penalty for them.. messi scored like 6 penalties in 2 weeks

This post has been edited by raj84: Apr 6 2014, 01:55 AM

ht 1-0.. nt really a good game... but doesnt matter ... after this we only gt celta n valladolid away plus 4 home games... all winable...

2-0 up. But yeah agreed. Far from an assured performance. We need to be back to our absolute best for the home stretch.

FT : 0-4

Illara
Bale
Pepe
Morata

Game of 2 halves indeed. The two last goals were beauties....

morata took his chance well, cool finishing.
isco is a bit worrying. looks like he's an upgrade on ozil but looks too nonchalant. he is capable of moments of genius. players like him, if they are pressed to be more hardworking, they might lose what made them a genius in the first place.
now, we dont want our team to become like chelsea or the past real madrid, do we?

Mateu Lahoz will be the referee for next weeks cup final... he is one of the best around and normally let games flow rather than blowing for every foul... hopefully he wont be fooled by the diving's from neymar n co...

can we trash dortmund in their home ground tommorow ? lets hope we do it like we done to schalke.. Our team need to act play as 0-0 aggregate , not 3-0 advantages .. Hala Madrid !!

we just need one away goal.. the last time we failed to score away from home was when we lost 1-0 to lyon in 2010

48 goals in 22 away games from then onwards

awww.. di maria slipped

Down to 2-0.. As expected when playing just holding back the ball and feel comfort with 3 goals advantages. Hmmm

Really terrible performance
Succumb to pressure to easy

At this rate
We going out

illaramendi is losing too many balls in midfield... we need ronaldo n move back di maria into middle... no shot on target except the penalty

This post has been edited by raj84: Apr 9 2014, 03:42 AM

FT : 2-0 (agg 2-3)

A deserved defeat, frustrated game.. We just lucky not concede more than two

This post has been edited by zeronehza: Apr 9 2014, 04:39 AM

terrible performance..all the players had poor game..modric came alive in the second half.. illaramendi n alonso were too slow n easily brushed off.. no way both of them should play again together in UCL... nvr seen so many backwards passing

This post has been edited by raj84: Apr 9 2014, 05:01 AM

lucky break. I thought benzema and bale did ok considering BD pressing.
2 goals from error. need to fix it.

it was an escape. this kind of performance we might just get schooled in the semi finals

lousy performance.. we don't deserve to go thru from this kind of performance. Luck was on our side and 2nd half break came just on time as we really need it to regroup and lessen the mounting pressure.

like i said before.. imo having them playing together with same style play will make the gameplay boring.. also u cannot have 2 xavi or 2 iniesta in barca team, the player like fabregas will be wasted, illara need a time to be glue to the team, he's a perfect replacement for alonso, but still need time.. i think CA need to rotate isco and casemiro, illara just can replace as a sub for alonso.. btw.. i missed khedira

indeed xabi=illara. Somehow last night, he was way below par, maybe this is the 1st time he played with such a pressure. In fact, IMO master Xabi is currently performing under par. The only midfielder that is consistent is Modric.

I do believe if we have CR7 last night, we will be a diff team. So many chances wasted.

yup a deserved defeat , though it could have gone madrids way also.
dortmund keeper is superb last night.

ancelotti got it wrong i suppose. casemiro & isco should be in starting line up.
all the attackers seems selfish most of the times.

suweeeetttttttttttttttttt escape i must say . . or not very sweet ? ahaha

terrible performance . . terrible . . luckily we have San Iker for all the saves he made for the 2nd half . .

I have to say I'm not very pleased. I hate watching teams who seat back and defend, especially my team. We were lucky and unlucky at the same time.. keep slipping every time there was a goal chance, can laugh about it now tho and both goals were started by bad back passes.

i hope we play chelsea in SF... surely mourinho will say something stupid tat will make the players angry n want revenge.. like in preseason wer hw he called ronaldo the fake one n whole team fired up n responded in a very positive way..

2nd leg against bvb very 'sakit hati' indeed , even we thorugh to the semi
we are real madrid, playing style is not defensive or pass among defender only

real madrid emphasized on possession when ancelotti came in. whether its passing in the midfield or midfield to defence. that is to be expected since the front 3 are all tailored mostly for counter attacks with speed.

tell me, had real madrid gone attacking at BvB, and with BvB's superb transition play, would real madrid have survived this? that is, we still havent taken into account the defence, which is not the best among european teams. how real madrid paid the price for backpasses gone astray. had real madrid gone attacking like they did in bernabeu, reus, mikhtaryan and lewandowsky would feel like they are in disneyland.

carlo ancelotti knows best, even though his team suffered heavily in the first half. isco coming on gave real madrid a little more control i guess.

That's what we were missing to be honest. Good possession.
All we had was touches and back passes, but too many wasted passes. Counter attacking is one thing, but to sit back and absorb like Mou did in his time here waiting for a chance to strike back is just not going to work. There were lots of moments when all we had forward was 2 players with 4 people surrounding them. Aside from individual brilliance, that often doesn't give results tho.

when you have a 3-0 advantage, you'd want to hang on to that as much as you can. absorb and hit on the counter is a proper game plan for this match. BvB had to come out all guns blazing, and what better than to hit them on counter attacks while sitting back and protecting the goal. yes, real madrid aspires to play possession football, but they are not well oiled like barcelona on this part of the game. real madrid cannot yet play the patient passing game and 1-2 their way into opposition area. remember that they came from a mourinho era, where transition was their main game. its hard to shirk that off. BvB is good in hitting fast, pressing high and create space for themselves in tight situations. you have to give dortmund some credit. they are a really impressive side. we havent even mentioned their injury crisis yet.

my point is, there is really only so much real madrid can do.

This post has been edited by kevraul: Apr 9 2014, 03:04 PM

yup kinda agree with this . + its ancelotti 1st year in charge and most of the squad is inherited from mourinho system. though i kinda hate it when their counter attacking is not as good as mourinho times.
last nite Ancelotti got it wrong by placing illara . its game likes this that we need a solid DM like khedira who can steadily cover the back four. and he shouldve put casamero as 1st lineup , that kid is good real good.

last nite was not so bad , its just jitters and 3 stupid mistake by illara , pepe and di maria.
if the penalty was on it couldve been a different story.

+ dortmund played like it was their final full credit to them and madrid thought it was against a team a la real sociedad . I have a funny feeling before the game and yup it happen again we falter again with games like this where you play by your heart . Though this could be a very good lesson before their real test on the semi`s and copa del rey final.

though i dont see Rm winning anything this year. hope im totally wrong.

That's what I said. Absorbing is usually the idea, but the problem is that defending usually = more chances on goal for the attacking team, which more often than not (agaisnt bigger teams) = goals conceeded. Dortmund played a good pressing game it's just that we were lacking defensively. The problem we had yesterday was just being too scared to do anything, especially the first half. I believe even Ancelotti said it on the post matcher. You can tell that a team like RM who always stretches play out on the wings getting forced to play a much narrow game. IMO Dortmund was just lucky to hit their stride yesterday and we made it kinda easy for them too.. their season wasn't as impressive as yesterday's game showed.

i agree that fear played a part in the loss. maybe the penalty miss got to the players but i think what they feared the most was the speed at how dortmund hit them in the opening minutes.
to defend in a narrow shape is normal. that is how you close space and force the opponents to go to the flanks, where damage can be limited. the defenders would have more chances defending crosses. that said, BvB still found their way through (mikhtaryan miss) and that shows you how good BvB is. we made it easy for them because of the 2 mistakes, lapse in concentration. reus is a quite underrated player. to finish by going between the legs of ramos is no easy thing.

contrary to what you believe, BvB did exceptionally well in their season considering the injury blight that they have. their game has a philosophy, much like Everton under roberto martinez. philosophy is what is eluding real madrid right now, for the time being. caught between mourinho's team and possession game they want and aspire to.

the general reception of the fans, they prefer solid defending high pressing counter attack of mourinho or possession game, quick pass and counter attack of don carlo?

i think the fans in this thread prefer the latter. actually i think the fans want it all. press high, quick passes, the 1-2s, solid defending and the lightning fast counter attacks like in previous seasons. those counter attacks were really a thing of beauty. very quick and precise. but there is only so much a team can do during a transition year.

in my opinion, there is 1 obstacle for real madrid to be playing possession game. i think the players they bought emphasized that they want to play possession game. players like isco and illaramendi came in and they play their passes neat, from what i saw in the under 21 games. modric seems suited to the style.

real madrid performed much better when xabi alonso returned from his injury. he is the player who thrives on the longer passes which kicks off the counter attacks from the front 3. the recent decline in real madrid's performance is due to his fatigue. but at the same time, i think real madrid should slowly phase him out because i thought he is slightly hampering madrid in possession play. i think he is rather slow and a little clumsy but his reading of the game more than made up for his weaknesses. personally, i would like to see ancelotti try playing illaramendi by himself in the base of the midfield trio. it might not work out well, but i think you will see more controlled passing in the midfield. you dont quite often see illaramendi going into tackles but he snaps at those with the ball in his zone, if you know what i mean.

another is the front 3. they are playing so high up, except for crucial games where they need to put in a shift to defend, that their mindset is ready anytime to pounce on counters. slight exception to benzema who could move quite well off the ball. what this creates is a very big and empty area in between the front 3 and middle 3. there is something like a disconnect there to be playing possession football. that is where isco could come in, in place of benzema. ancelotti has mentioned of isco playing the false 9 before.

and then, when real madrid is doing all these maybe one day, the club would then be accused of playing like barcelona, the arch nemesis, and become unhappy as well. pun intended.

This post has been edited by kevraul: Apr 10 2014, 11:50 AM

because high pressing game and possession game cancel out each other..it also required different players to do it..and yes..the way Madrid buy players look like that they want to change to possession game..with Isco and Illara..but after that they bought Bale which more like a player for past paced counter attack..so that is why i'm not sure about how Real want to play..because possession game need time to open up space and will slow down the attack..agree with you that thats why Xabi Alonso is the catalyst for the counter attack play..he can cannon shot to the wide area and let the wingers do it.

me.. personally I prefer fast paced counter attack type of play.

i dont think high presses cancel out possession game. pressing high means you can win balls further up the pitch, which limits the opponents to track back and hence more space to work. see barca, they press high and still play possession game. there is a risk as well to this high press, where good teams can just bypass your pressing players and hit the defenders straight. BvB does it well, as well as real sociedad.

yes, bale is very efficient on the fast paced counter attacks. he is very direct in the sense that he's made up his mind whether to run or pass or shoot. no showboating and that makes his game efficient. with showboating like what ronaldo does, his mind cannot be opened to the players making good runs into spaces. its a love hate thing i guess.

This post has been edited by kevraul: Apr 10 2014, 12:14 PM

Let's leave the formation talk and tactics to Ancelotti, he'll know what to do.

So how do you guys think the Semis will pan out? I have an irking feeling we'll draw Bayern

I have a feeling we will meet our neighbor.. no way UEFA will allow 2 Spanish team in the final.

chelsea without hazard n ivanovic looks ok for me.. they dont have strikers tat can trouble pepe n ramos.. we havent played them in ucl for a long time ..... we can play atletico n bayern in the final... two legged ties against them are just tiring

Athletico won their tie might turn out to be a bad thing for them
It give advantage to barca in the league

If..if we can't win la liga
I rather have our neighbor winning it than barca

But now they don't have Champ league distraction as opposed to us and athletico

we need Barca to drop points this weekend against Granada.... if not, surely they must b favourites for league with no UCL...if we cannt win the league, i hope atletico wins it..

bayern for us.... hmm 3 German teams back to back...

Dejavuuuuuuu

I called it!

wtf schalke - dortmund - b.munich. talk about luck.

i guess this is the worst german curse madrid have had in their entire football history. if we do managed to win this, i really believe la decima will be ours

well , if we win . . you guys hope for Madrid Derby or Reunion our Ex-Manager ?

i prefer a madrid derby because that would be like the first time in european football history right? a derby final

barca lost... no way we should finish behind them in the league ..

Superb younglings. Illara impressive at the base. Isco did very well and superb goal from morata.

still got chance!!

we can only try to win all our remaining league matches now and hope the other team to slip up.